Charlie Wen has recently been named as Concept Artist for the upcoming ThunderCats movie.  Wen is a very talented artist who has worked on several video games and movies.  Amongst Wen’s recent achievements is his work as Visual Development Director for the popular series God of War and upcoming God of War 2.  Up until recently Wen worked at Imagi Studios as a character designer for Gatchaman, a movie remake of G-Force.

This is what Wen had to say about his departure from the Gatchaman project and his involvement in the upcoming ThunderCats movie:

“The vision’s changed since I first joined and seems to be going towards a younger Power Rangers audience - I wanted to see a Gatchaman that I would love to see and didn’t want to see it go this direction, so I departed from Imagi and took an Art Directing/Character Designing gig on ThunderCats.

ThunderCats is another old cartoon that’s making it’s way to film…hoooooooo!  Hehe - sorry, couldn’t help myself.  The show also made an impression on me as a kid, maybe not quite the way Gatchaman did, but none the less, it took a good chunk of my after school hours.  Currently, this is keeping me busy, along with some other projects on the side, which I can’t mention yet.”

I can’t wait to see Wen’s work on the new ThunderCats movie, it’s all very hush hush at the moment but I bet it will be worth the wait!  Watch this space…

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