Comments on: Howard Stern and Seth MacFarlane Trash Flash

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:42:10 +0000

“There’s something so sanitized when they do it with Flash. There’s still no machine that can substitute for hand drawn. Some people like it. I have the same visceral reaction that you do. It just feels very cold.”

He must be delusional .

The Flash animation of “Up Late with Stewie and Brian” looks exactly as cold and bland as the animation any regular episode of Family Guy.

By: Joshua H. Metz

Joshua H. Metz — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:35:22 +0000

Dave and Gene, I thank you for taking time to tell this thread what really went down. Without your help, we wouldn’t really know any of that stuff.

I personally think the the Up Late with Stewie and Brian was just as good looking as ANY Family Guy episode I’ve ever seen. It is not the medium, but the man behind the medium. Sometimes there is a middle man, but there is usually one mastermind behind it all. I like to consider myself a mastermind who is still getting behind his medium… LOL

By: Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:56:21 +0000

They’re just not saying what they mean correctly is all. We smashed Up Late with stewie and brian out of the fucking park and Dave’s right, we did it in record time. It looked great.

It’s all artist, not the medium that makes the show look great. It’s the creative ideas behind the show, the producer, director, writing team that makes the show. I can’t say I watch alot of Family guy anymore or Listen to Howard as much as I used to. But, they have millions of fans, and millions of revenues. They have a massive audience because they know the path to the audience, or they made one.

Some paths grow over though, that’s where we come in.

By: Dave Rigley

Dave Rigley — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:44:41 +0000

Just a heads up there sebastian. The team that did the anim for the Family Guy Flash dealio was 4 people and we had 1 work week to do it. The rest of the work(backgrounds, character art and rigging, post video and audio) was crammed into roughly a week and a half.

So, if the quality ain’t up to snuff to 1 million dollars and 9 months for a single episode…Well… Sorry. We’ll try harder next time!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:17:25 +0000

Oh, that’s cute, Flash is ’sanitized’. As opposed to Family Guy, which is just ‘bad’. I’m constantly surprised by the levels of suck that Family Guy can reach. The first two seasons were funny, but ever since then it’s just a long, poorly animated series of 80’s references.

By: Joe Corrao

Joe Corrao — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:57:19 +0000

wow this thread has hit a nerve!…Lets break out the pitchforks and torches boys and girls!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:06:40 +0000

Seth MacFarlane can write? Get out of town. A computer could write better animated comedy than him. It’d actually be a pretty simple algorithm.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:50:07 +0000

What I found interesting: that Flash animated Family Bit piece has worse animation than the regular Family Guy. So our boy Seth did have a point.

By: Fonce Falooda

Fonce Falooda — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:50:14 +0000

A little side note. When Seth was at Hanna Barbera, he got taken OFF drawing duty because he couldn’t cut it. Luckily, he can write, but I don’t know if we should really value the critique of a guy who got transferred OUT of the art department.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:13:58 +0000

Wow…those were stupid remarks on both Stern and MacFarlane’s part.
Stern fails to realize that it’s not the animation style that makes or breaks the show, it’s the producer. If Stern thinks his project didn’t look good in Flash, then what makes him think it would better traditionally? No wonder his show didn’t make it…
And MacFarlane totally self-contradicted himself. He says Flash animation “feels cold”, and 2 years earlier, he made Up Late with Stewie and Brian in Flash! What’s up with that? Also, there’s a bit of irony in his statement: MacFarlane feels that Flash animation looks bad, yet Family Guy looks like it was made in Flash, and it’s traditionally animated! If anything, THAT animation feels “cold and sanatized”.

Like I said before, it’s not the animation method that makes or breaks the project, it’s the producer. I like Flash, and it can be used to create beautifully animated projects like Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Superjail, Happy Tree Friends.
Stern and Macfarlane really DON’T know what they’re talking about.