When I started doing the Batman Animated style, I did look at lot of his model sheets from Hanna-Barbera, and they weren’t 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. They’ve got so many subtleties to them. He didn’t exaggerate. His animation models really aren’t 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 there’s a whole lot of subtleties in those shapes. Space Ghost’s head is a tricky shape to draw. It’s not a straight-against-curve, it’s a whole lot of curves that intersect, and if you get one of them off, he doesn’t look like Space Ghost. So I don’t 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 wasn’t 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 don’t.
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