He composed and recorded a number of leitmotifs for each of the main characters, vehicles and locations as well as for certain situations. The music for Thundercats was scored by American composer, Bernard Hoffer. After the animation was done, the completed episode would be sent back to America to be broadcast. The script writing and voice recordings were done in America and these would then be sent to PAC to be animated. Since the show was targetted at an American audience, special attention was given to make sure that the look of the show did not resemble "Anime", which was very popular in Japanese animation.
Thundercats was animated using the traiditional "2D cel animation" technique. The head of PAC was Masaki Iizuka, who supervised the production of Thundercats. Like most of the animated shows produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, the animation of Thundercats was done in Japan by the company Pacific Animation Corporation (PAC). Peter Lawrence served as script consultant while Lee Dannacher acted as the supervising producer. He is the man responsible for creating the iconic Thundercats logo which consists of a black lion head inside n a red circle. Mike Germakian of LCI provided the artwork as well as designing the characters and vehicles. and Jules Bass, the founders of Rankin/Bass Productions, approved it and production immediately began on "Thundercats".Īcclaimed comic book writer Leonard Starr was hired as the head writer to develop the characters, stories and world of the ThunderCats. Impressed with Wolf's concept, Arthur Rankin Jr. (LCI), presented the proposal to Rankin/Bass, who were a reputed animation company, known for their animated season television specials. During the early 1980s, he and his friend Stan Weston (then President of Leisure Concepts Inc. Ted Wolf had an idea about creating an animated show based on humanoid cats.
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