The Extreme Connection! Avengers! Batman! Ben 10!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Extreme Studios launched in 1992 and quickly became home to the most exciting artists of an age! The young talent developed at Extreme Studios would go on to contribute to the biggest, brightest and most successful pillars of today’s Pop Culture, including the biggest movie of all time! The Batman! Ben 10! Fantastic Four! Black Panther! Avengers:Endgame! Hear why Extreme Studios was a launch pad like no other!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Rob Observations.
0:07.6	Robeservations with Rob Leifeld is where we take a walk down comic books, animation, movies,
0:16.4	streaming television, television, pop culture, all the ways everything connects.
0:20.2	It all started with me and comic books.
0:22.4	And now comic books are everywhere and we chat up all of it every time.
0:28.3	Comic books, comic book artists.
0:31.4	Look, comic books are all about visuals without the pictures.
0:34.9	We're talking about books at the bookstore.
0:37.4	Novels.
0:38.2	That doesn't mean there's not great comic book writers.
0:41.0	Done some great stuff.
0:42.6	I love artists.
0:44.8	It's what gets my extra gear in shift.
0:49.1	And once upon a time, I started a studio of my own, which eventually got to 65 on-site artists making comic
1:01.6	books at one time. This was a studio called Extreme Studios. I opened it shortly after I launched X-Force with Marvel in 1991 and today we're going to walk through a couple of those names that went on ironically some of these guys who I gave their very first shot in comic books would go on to entertain my family, my kids, because comic books were not big enough to hold their talents.
1:31.1	And they went on to give you the Batman cartoons.
1:37.1	They gave you Ben 10 cartoons.
1:39.8	They storyboarded movies.
1:41.8	They directed Hot Wheels and all sorts of different entertainment up
1:47.6	and two uh one of the the the the most amazing uh young talents at extreme became a guy who
1:57.4	has become the chief uh head art direction, art department, visual arts. I'll get the
2:06.4	actual credits to get it right later in this podcast of all the Marvel films that you love.
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