Oct
19
2009
Six Point Responsible for McBrayer Animation
If you tuned in to NBC’s season premiere of 30 Rock last week, you may have spotted a 1-minute animated short. The Temp is one of five submissions from NBC to the Liberty Mutual Responsibility Project, which promotes responsibility in our daily lives. The 1-minute, Flash-animated story was directed by Jack McBrayer, who plays the country rube Kenneth on 30 Rock. He teamed up with Hollywood’s Six Point Harness to create the short, which was led by James Krenzke on the animation end:
October 19th, 2009 at 8:48 am
This was produced in FLASH??!
Sadly, I heard that episode didn’t do well in ratings.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Was that script written in 1950? I don’t think it can be considered comedy.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Wow, you can hardly tell that it was made in Flash.
That’s a sign that it’s good.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Six Point really does some amazing work.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Oke, the ending was a liiiiitle corny, but the animation was well done and I kinda’ felt for the guy…
October 19th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
That was excellent. Very cool.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Lovely characters, though sure a bit old fashioned. I think it works though, being only a single minute in length.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I liked this short. I thought the character designs where pretty good. There is a behind the scenes video on NBC somewhere in the 30 Rock page, where you can see it was done in Flash!
October 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
This is a very nice short. Alex, do you have a link to this behind the scenes video you wrote about? If so, please share the link with us. Thank you in advance.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:39 am
OK…this is kinda complicated… For the behind-the-scenes footage, go to http://www.nbc.com/responsibility/ and look for Jack McBrayer’s image below the video screen. If you hover the cursor over his icon, two options will pop up. The left one is the animated short and the right one is the behind-the-scenes video.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
That was really well done!! great job 6ph
October 20th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
From watching that behind the scenes footage, I assume the cartoon was animated frame by frame?
I wish I was half as good as this.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Wonderful! Go James and the team.
This could make for a great Swine Flu commercial.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
This is NO Flash animation, maybe have been cleaned up with flash or illustrator, but this is pure traditional frame by frame animation, you shouldn’t call this flash animation, flash is much more stiff and limited, I don’t mean that is good or bad, just different than this great traditional animation.
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 am
Ed my man, you are confused. This is flash animation. Flash is the name of the program used (evidently from the storyboard stage on), not the type of animation you see. I assure you there is plently of traditional flash animation out there, you probably just didn’t realize it. In fact, the very first flash animation job I ever had was traditional.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Awesome work 6PH! Excellent fluid animation, top notch character designs and backgrounds. You guys have used a combination of traditional animation and flash to create this masterpiece! This much animation entertainment in one minute is the stuff that dreams are made of. Long live 2D! Long live Flash!
November 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Was wondering who did this short, awesome job on all levels! Keep up the good work, comrades!