Rick & Morty Turn out to be Batman in New Grownup Swim Bumper

The cartoon duo of Rick & Morty certain do get round. Over the past decade, the multiversal duo have grow to be extraordinarily fashionable, thanks partly to popping up in movies, live-action, video video games, and different forms of animation. The subsequent universe they’ve jumped to? None aside from the DC Animated Universe, kind of.

Lately, Grownup Swim launched a TV bumper that includes Rick and Morty within the type of the intro for Batman: The Animated Series. And it seems…fairly good, truly? From begin to end, it actually commits to the bit as a lot as it could possibly in below a minute. Seeing Rick & Morty characters in a cleaner artwork type positively makes the present look extra distinct and crowd pleasing, ditto its theme when accomplished in Danny Elfman type.

The bumper was directed and govt produced by Aron Fromm (who already works for Grownup Swim as an editor on Smiling Mates) and animation studio Open the Portal. In an interview with Animation World Network, Fromm and OTP artistic director David Braun defined they’d met key BTAS author Paul Dini final 12 months at a screening of Fleischer cartoons. When Grownup Swim contracted them for a Rick & Morty promo, the duo went with the traditional present partly as a result of it was “one of many greatest influences on our work,” stated Braun. “Many a person has tried and did not recapture the magic of the unique sequence, and we love a problem.”

Regardless of the way it could seem, the pair harassed this bumper is at present only a one-off and never some herald of one other Rick & Morty spinoff. Nonetheless, Fromm admitted he can simply think about an “elaborate and gothic” trailer for a hypothetical sequence, which he thinks may final not less than 40 episodes. Stranger issues have occurred, significantly on Batman’s finish, so possibly don’t rule it out simply but.

You possibly can learn AWN’s full interview with Fromm and Braun, which additionally goes into nailing the bumper’s design and the evolution of animation, here.

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