Variety Touts Topical Toon Technology
Variety’s Ellen Wolff has penned a new article that discusses the power of Flash animation. Animax Entertainment’s new series Popzilla is featured, pointing out how the software helps the team knock out 22-minute episodes in less than 3 weeks.
Flash-animated toons that lampoon topics ripped from the headlines are common on the web, but not so on TV. Thomas observes, “This show uses Flash the way it should be used, as opposed to using Flash to try and do cel animation. This is a digital tool that allows animators to build libraries of movement and reuse them, and this show utilizes that well.”
Animax also proved the production model for the pilot:
Brent Haynes, MTV senior VP of series development says that when Thomas pitched the show to him, he gave them three weeks to deliver a 6-minute test tape.
August 5th, 2009 at 3:06 am
“This show uses Flash the way it should be used” –I might suggest that Anton Bogaty for example shows how flash should be used. That said, Britney does move around pretty dang well on that Popzilla clip.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
“This show uses Flash the way it should be used, as opposed to using Flash to try and do cel animation. This is a digital tool that allows animators to build libraries of movement and reuse them, and this show utilizes that well.”
While I agree with the 2nd statement, I don’t (entirely) agree with the 1st. There’s nothing wrong with using Flash for traditional aniamation; Superjail proved that. Flash is a tool, so it can be used a multitude of ways, but it’s ultamitely the artist.
Though I gotta say, those Popzilla clips ARE animated pretty well…