This was also the year that Luke met with Yasushi Nirasawa, the third member to come onboard Renga, and he went on to design the angel characters for 1998's low-budget half-an-hour Archangel Thunderbird, which was stop-motion and live-action.
[2][3] There was very little time for Renga Media to re-build their character models and adjust textures, so they would look better on a large screen, and much of the original, more-serious premise was altered in favour of a more comedic tone.
New character designs were made and revealed in late 2004, and a booklet for a new sequel movie, "Dominator And The Cradle Of Death" was released in 2004 which featured new artwork and Renga Media profiles.
The projected sequel movie, "Dominator and the Cradle Of Death" was scrapped, and Tony Luke revealed in his production diaries for 3D World magazine that Renga decided against an immediate sequel to the 2003 film as all concerned felt that there wasn't much to add story-wise to what they'd done earlier; thus, after obtaining funding for a much bigger production, it was decided to restart/ reimagine the Dominator mythos from scratch to reach a larger audience, and create a framework which could be expanded on in further films and other media.
The result of this rejigging is the currently-in-production "Dominator X", which presents a very different version of the character, now voiced by "Lord of the Rings" actor Billy Boyd alongside regulars Doug Bradley, Tara Harley and Patrick Bergin, who had played the part of Dark Tyler for the 2005 "Heavy Metal vs..." crossover.
Up until this point, Tony had steered the Renga ship with Doug Bradley alone, and asked "Mirrormask" producer Simon Moorhead to come on board in 2005 to oversee the expanding company.