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Ki Hyun Ryu's Scrapped Designs For A Nightwing And Bat-Family Animated Series

Ki Hyun Ryu's Scrapped Designs For A Nightwing And Bat-Family Animated Series

Artist and Animation Director KiHyun Ryu (Avatar:The Legend of Korra) apparently produced some concept art for a solo Nightwing show and an animated show centering on members of the Bat-family.

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By DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012
Scrapped designs by Kihyun Ryu for Nightwing series done before Cartoon Network greenlit Young Justice. Seems that they carried some things from this concept over to Nightwingin Young Justice: Invasion.



As a Nightwing fan, I'm really sad that went with Young Justice (Even though I love the show.) instead of this. And here's some concept art from Ryu for a Batman show.

Source: Ki Hyun Ryu
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DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 9:19 AM
Link:http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?421783-Scrapped-animated-series
Supes17 - 8/2/2012, 9:36 AM
Oh cool, it's Firelord Zuko
BruceLeroy - 8/2/2012, 9:37 AM
What the hell? I would've preferred this over another Batman series.
Supes17 - 8/2/2012, 9:38 AM
@Just1Superguy:
They could simply create their own villains...
Harley Quinn started out in Batman: TAS and now is a major Batman villain along with the Joker
Supes17 - 8/2/2012, 9:38 AM
@BruceLeroy: Agreed
Minotauro - 8/2/2012, 9:40 AM
Damn, [frick]ing DC. Why don't you ever go through with your promises.
DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 9:48 AM
@Just1superguy He could fight Teen Titans villains like Deathstroke
DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 9:49 AM
If they made a Nightwing Animated series..he should be voiced by Dante Basco
AlSimmons - 8/2/2012, 9:55 AM
Oh hey, it's Spike from Cowboy Bebop!
DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 10:01 AM
@AlSimmons I still think Dick Grayson has a cool design
Supes17 - 8/2/2012, 10:10 AM


Yep, its Zuko lol
DanteSparda - 8/2/2012, 10:19 AM
Too bad, this looks a lot better than Beware the Batman, maybe in the future? Or if Beware the Batman fails...
2Challa - 8/2/2012, 10:20 AM
What!!! Why???? This looks more promising than that Beware the Batman fiasco.

@Justonesuperguy do you hate everything not Superman or what?
GoILL - 8/2/2012, 10:23 AM
These designs look better than Beware the Batman does.
Deadpool101 - 8/2/2012, 10:24 AM
damn that looks sick
BIGBMH - 8/2/2012, 10:27 AM
I'd love a Batman family show. I don't think that has ever been done very well in animation.
tazmaniak - 8/2/2012, 10:29 AM
That art from the scrapped Batman series wasn't from Ryu, it was from Coran Stone.

http://kizer180.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Knights-253715796?q=boost%3Apopular%20meta%3Aall%20max_age%3A8h&qo=15
DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 10:30 AM
..My mistake
DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 10:31 AM
I didn't know about that..thanks for telling me
breakUbatman - 8/2/2012, 10:34 AM
tazmaniak good looking out was about to post that
xXkryptoniteXx - 8/2/2012, 10:34 AM
Looks cool, I haven't watched young justice yet. I'm just waiting for the Blu ray or DVD season one collection.
bfprimetime - 8/2/2012, 11:04 AM
The season 1 DVD is already out for Young Justice
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 8/2/2012, 11:05 AM
Instead of this we get Beware the shit show.
Daniellantern - 8/2/2012, 11:05 AM
Yeah! Lord Zuko is Nightwing! Cool design, BTW!
skidz - 8/2/2012, 11:06 AM
Wow, I'm disappointed that this got scrapped. It's been a while since Dick Grayson's had a part in a Batman story. We missed out him actually being the central character this time.
Moakynubs - 8/2/2012, 11:30 AM
The "He has now villains" thing is a pathetic excuse. He has plenty of villains from the Dixon Nightwing series. ...You just don't know them. Also.

Batman Beyond. There's a guy that had a ton of villains before his cartoon!
Dedpool - 8/2/2012, 11:44 AM
I like the art for the Nightwing show. The Batman Family is cool too but the colors seem off for Robin. Love batgirl's look though. Gotta be Cassandra Cain!
hope420 - 8/2/2012, 11:50 AM
The Nightwing comic used to be good. I liked it when he became a cop in Bludhaven. And he had his own villains to fight not just Batmans enemies.
Boyle360 - 8/2/2012, 12:06 PM
Would not want to see an anime Batman. Look what they did to Wolverine.
inky - 8/2/2012, 12:12 PM
not good realy looks poor anime realy sorry.
StarSpangledBruce - 8/2/2012, 12:14 PM


Nice.
DrStrangeFan - 8/2/2012, 12:20 PM
@Deathmetelbrain The concept art design is different from Nightwing's Young Justice:Invasion design
DCfan89 - 8/2/2012, 12:46 PM
THIS LOOKS BETTER THAN THAT BEWARE THE BATMAN GARBAGE
lapress - 8/2/2012, 12:49 PM
looks pretty cool
BlackFlash - 8/2/2012, 12:58 PM
Im glade it got scrapped DC need to concentrate on there other heroes in a decade with had so much surrounding batman e.g. Video Games, Movies, Animated Movies, Cartoons, now I know this is Nightwing but he's still apart of the Batman franchise. Stop with Batman and focus on other characters give people a chance to actually miss seeing the Caped Crusader, and then bring him back.
jtown904 - 8/2/2012, 1:52 PM
looked sweet to me. Look the art work of Night Wing!
Intothepoop - 8/2/2012, 2:06 PM
Nightwing would be sweet.

BUT i imagine they thought it would be doubling up too much with Young Justice still on the air.
FlixMentallo21 - 8/2/2012, 2:16 PM
VOICE IDEAS AHOY!!!

For the Nightwing series, I would've cast Brandon Routh as the voice of the titular character. I do plan to use Routh as the voice of Dick Grayson in an upcoming fancast...

For the Bat-Family series:
-Timothy Hutton as the voice of Batman/Bruce Wayne
-Sam Lerner as the voice of Robin/Tim Drake
-Will Friedle as the voice of Nightwing/Dick Grayson
-Brenda Song as the voice of Batgirl/Cassandra Cain
-Vanessa Marshall as the voice of Catwoman/Selena Kyle
MidNightWind - 8/2/2012, 2:29 PM
Nightwing has a ton a enemies like the Minh family, blockbuster, tad, tarantula, torque, those acrobatic twins, lady vic, deathstroke, two face, I'm pretty sure they can work with a few tweaks to torque's origin.
DoomXfactor - 8/2/2012, 3:09 PM
Damn that's [frick]ed up. The drawings look really GOOD. It's a damn shame this wasnt produced.
PeterParker1991 - 8/2/2012, 3:27 PM
Should have done a Nightwing spinoff after Batman Animated Series ended. But this over Young Justice? Don't think so. This over Beware the Batman. Definitely.
ThatOneDude - 8/2/2012, 3:37 PM
Well at least Nightwing is a badass in the new YJ series...
laughterman26 - 8/2/2012, 4:27 PM
apart from the character having BASICALLY NO VILLAINS thats a bad ass character design
RSDhillon - 8/2/2012, 5:22 PM
I think a DC Universe series in general would be awesome. Like Young Justice, but without 100% focus on the YJ team. Do some crossovers, solo adventures. Might work better as shorts?
Bandrews1 - 8/2/2012, 6:03 PM
As much as I love Young Justice, I think I would have preferred seeing this, since I'm a huge Nightwing fan.
RedHood13 - 8/2/2012, 6:11 PM
Would have been much better than Beware the Batman.
Ceejay - 8/2/2012, 6:17 PM
NIGHTWING's Villains he delt with in his own comic, for those who don't read so have no idea..

Black Mask, Blockbuster II, Bride and Groom, Brutale, Copperhead, Deathstroke (has history way back to the Teen Titans days), Double Dare, Electrocutioner III, Firefly, Hella, KGBeast, Lady Vic, Leather, Mister Fun, Raptor I, Raptor II, Scarecrow, Shrike IV (goes way back to his Robin days), Stallion, Tarantula III (he actually [frick]ed her too!), Torque, Two-Face, Ventriloquist.
YoungJedi - 8/2/2012, 6:46 PM
I would this show to air! DC doesnt realize what a great character Nightwing is.
mgeoff88 - 8/2/2012, 7:12 PM
Huh, that's an interesting idea. Nightwing's design reminds of Raiden from the MGS video game series.
KidsWB - 8/2/2012, 8:51 PM
This was a project developed and produced for pitching at WB in 2009 by then WB producer Joaquim DosSantos, who's now the Co-Exectuive Producer/Director for The Legend of Korra. This was pitched to CARTOON NETWORK and CN turned it down. Joaquim produced a bulk of the concept artwork ( which also featured CYBORG) and Ryu was only brought on board to make a pass at the main characters which you see in these model sheets here This was not RYU's idea or pitch. Just some design assists.

After CN turned this down, development for Young Justice started. CN greenlit that project ad the rest is history. The Coran drawing was just fan art and not related to the Nightwing project at all. Because he wasn't hired at WB at the time.
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