Attack of the Showzen
filed Under: Interview
Aaron Augenblick, who was recently interviewed here 
at Cold, Hard Flash, recently appeared on G4’s ‘Attack of the Show.’ He was interviewed by host Kevin Pereira, with topics ranging from MTV2’s ‘Wonder Showzen,’ to Richie Rich and 3D animation. But the topic of Flash animation seemed to dominate the conversation. Lucky us! You can watch a Quicktime of the interview here, and I’ve typed up a few snippets from interview for your pleasure:
KEVIN PEREIRA: You went from traditional animation into the world of Flash. Now why make that jump? Isn’t that sacrilidgeous?
AARON AUGENBLICK: A lot of people were pretty critical of the fact that we were doing stuff in Flash, especially in its infancy when we were first doing it. I mean, there was so much crap being made in Flash…. What I like about Flash, that’s sort of good and bad, is that anyone, like a housewife in Nebraska, can make a cartoon. And animators hate that, because animators like to be able to have their own proprietary system.
KEVIN: But you’re not concerned with traditional animators losing their jobs over the Flash animation revolution. You still think it takes a tradtional animator to make good Flash.
AARON: Absolutely. I always look for traditional people. I don’t necessarily gravitate towards people who have only ever done Flash. Because personally, the stuff I like is traditional classic animation.
Tags: Augenblick, G4, Wonder Showzen
