Michael, on the featurette that's included on the DVD, you admit that, of the three of you, you were the least familiar with animation going into the show. READ MORE: Watch: The Trailer for Adult Swim's Animated Spin-off of 'Black Dynamite' takes a little more understanding of the human anatomy and a lot of artists aren't trained to do that. It's not like "Family Guy" or "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" where the design is more cartoony and stylized. Unlike a lot of other animated shows made in the United States, the characters in "Black Dynamite" are real people. We were underequipped to produce the show at the level it needed to be, trying to make sure we tell stories as cinematically as possible and that the characters are drawn really well. There was a lot of experimenting in the first season, partly because we were still trying to find the right animation studio to handle the style of the show. We were pretty happy with everything we did in Season 1, we just want to aim higher this year.
Jones: It's more of an evolution both seasons are one body that's just evolving. We hit some high marks in Season 1 and we're endeavoring to hit some high marks in Season 2. When you look back at Season 1, are there things that - knowing what you know about the process now - that you wish you had done differently? And did that impact the way you approached the second year?īyron Minns: I don't feel that way. We had generated some ideas for Season 2 episodes when we were working on Season 1, but there was a small gap between seasons just for our sanity. Making each season is about a year-and-a-half process altogether, so it's pretty intense. We have one episode that's ready for delivery and we've got five that our fully animated and are in post. There, they spoke with Indiewire about animating a character who was already something of a cartoon and how they plan to raise their game for Season 2.Ĭarl Jones: We're still in production, so most of the episodes are in various stages. With Season 1 arriving on Blu-ray and DVD July 15, White and his collaborators on the show, including co-creator and co-writer Byron Minns (who also voices Black Dynamite's sidekick Bullhorn) and executive producer/director Carl Jones, paid a visit to New York. Premiering on Adult Swim in the summer of 2012, the animated "Black Dynamite" - which features the co-writer/star Michael Jai White of the 2009 cult favorite voicing the titular hero, whose libido is almost as strong as his roundhouse kick - performed well enough to get a second season pick-up, with a new batch of episodes scheduled to debut in October. His live-action incarnation may only have scored one big-screen outing, but blaxploitation badass Black Dynamite is still going strong on the small screen in cartoon form.