Comments on: Powerpuff Girls 10th Anniversary Interview With Creator Craig McCracken

By: Animação Flash: um pouco de história

Animação Flash: um pouco de história — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:27:23 +0000

[...] Mas o seu sucesso é tal que ganhou uma dimensão tão ampla e inclusivamente vemos surgir os primeiros casos de animações que da internet saltaram de volta para a televisão, quando os estúdios tradicionais tentam tirar partido das suas capacidades de organização, manipulação e reutilização de objectos. McCracken made a few changes to the production pipeline – namely producing the entire half-hour in Flash. Powerpuff Girls 10th Anniversary Interview With Creator Craig McCracken [...]

By: The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! Produced in Flash | Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:39:47 +0000

[...] when the Cartoon Network team produced new Powerpuff Girls animation in Flash? Inevitably, the discussion veered towards whether the software ruined the [...]

By: Mini

Mini — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:54:13 +0000

Just stumbled in ! Great interview.
Wow 10th anniversary … it seem like just yesterday I was watching the first Powerpuff Girls cartoon on Cartoon Network. Ahhh… the good times . Thanks for the great cartoons.

By: Foster’s Leaves Home | Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:35:08 +0000

[...] more on the topic, check out our interview with series creator Craig McCracken and animation director Eric Pringle. Tags: Cartoon Network, [...]

By: Eric Pringle

Eric Pringle — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:25:15 +0000

To put it simply, every version of Flash after MX 2004 is broken.

To put it geekly, in Flash 8 and on:
-You cannot copy Flash artwork and paste it into Illustrator.
-Customized hotkeys get scrambled.
-Syncing a layer during a tween will also sync the ease properties.

There are other bugs that hinder our production style that I forget, because I stay away from the later versions. If the old version works, and there’s no new features that we need, why upgrade?

Post was done in After Effects.

By: Dave Redl

Dave Redl — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:07:42 +0000

Can’t wait to see the episode! (Perhaps even watching it frame by frame!)

And why the old version, Flash MX 2004? What did you do the post production in?

By: Eric Pringle

Eric Pringle — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:09:22 +0000

Flash mx 2004

By: Gary Doodles

Gary Doodles — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:30:54 +0000

Awesome interview! Love all the details, especially how Pringle broke down the character builds.. It made sense to me and it’s just refreshing to hear the technical side of production especially on such a large IP like PPG.

Anyone know what version of Flash they used?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:02:46 +0000

I didn’t like the special. It didn’t feel at all like the older episodes: everybody was talking really, REALLY fast, Prof. Utonium seemed completely different (like he suddenly developed a bad case of ADHD), and the gestures seemed very odd. For example, I wish I had counted the number of times anybody stuck out their tongue. It was very out of place. Also, why was there so much butt shaking and pelvic thrusting? That seemed like something I’d see on Chowder or Flapjack, not the action-heavy PPG. Finally, some of the references seemed a little too random, such as the dramatic gopher turn, and switching from Wacky Racers to Speed Racer to Mario Kart in about a second. Like Tori mentioned, this should have been extended to an hour slot to, at the very least, slow everybody down.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:21:54 +0000

As a flash artist, I kinda wish it was never publicized that TPPGR was animated completely in flash. Though it is quite an accomplishment and looks amazing, reading what viewers on Toonzone.net had to say about it being in flash reassures me that flash still has a bad bad stigma. Makes me wonder, what’s the point of trying to continue to push the boundaries.