When I started doing the Batman Animated style, I did look at lot of his model sheets from Hanna-Barbera, and they werenβt very helpful to me. When I really started looking at them I realized that even in his simplified animation drawings some of the characters would be really stylized and cartoony, but his human being figures are just like his comic book figures. Theyβve got so many subtleties to them. He didnβt exaggerate. His animation models really arenβt made for animation. Everybody may think they are, and he may have thought so, and animation historians may look back with fond memories on the Alex Toth-designed Hanna-Barbera shows, but thereβs a whole lot of subtleties in those shapes. Space Ghostβs head is a tricky shape to draw. Itβs not a straight-against-curve, itβs a whole lot of curves that intersect, and if you get one of them off, he doesnβt look like Space Ghost. So I donβt consider Toth a huge influence in that respect. Obviously, the overall feel of my Batman kind of has some of that Space Ghost type of feel, but it wasnβt like I had Space Ghost designs out when I did it. It was kind of like me remembering what Space Ghost felt like. I would be a better artist if I were more influenced by Alex Toth. I wish I had one-tenth of his knowledge and talent, but I donβt.
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