The official Star Wars site has just posted the first trailer to the upcoming CGI version of the Clone Wars animated series. From what I can tell the character designs seem to be based on Genndy Tartakovsky’s original designs from the original Clone Wars animated series even though he will not be involved in the production. Dave Filoni, who has worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, is the supervising director of the series.

The series set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, during the same time period as the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series. Each episode will have a running time of 22 minutes, to fill a half-hour timeslot. I’m not a big fan of the whole 3d animated look so it’s not that appealing to me but from what I saw the series has a lot of promise. So head on over to the official Star Wars web site for more info on the series or check out the trailer here