With that out of the way, I’d like to begin celebrating the DVD’s release, along with the team at Six Point Harness Studios, who produced the DVD right here in Hollywood. They took the Comedy Central series that was animated traditionally in South Korea, and re-imagined it as a Flash production, easily mimicking the production values, and often going above and beyond.

In this behind-the-scenes video below, you’ll learn that the pilot was actually produced in Flash, and this feature-length production is sort of a “make good” on that clunky effort. You’ll hear from series creators/writers Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein who offer high praise to 6PH, and then there’s some lengthy discussion with director Greg Franklin, animation producer Andy Fiedler and editor Tony Christopherson. Huge congrats to the whole team at Six Point – looks great and I’ll see you tonight at the premiere.

and here’s the Red Band Trailer (NSFW):

So…. we move on to The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, which will release direct-to-DVD in April 2010. Six Point Harness recently put the finishing touches on the project, which was animated in Flash right here in Hollywood. The TV episodes were never about the animation, so we’re not talking about recreating The Lion King here, but nevertheless there will likely be discussion about how the move to Flash has somehow soured the visuals. I personally think it looks great, and I’d argue that the production values have gone up a notch. More importantly, what do you think?

The DVD is shipping with a handful of featurettes and a bonus short titled A Really, Really Brief History of Donkey Kong, which you can see below. It was written by I Am 8-bit’s Jon Gibson and directed by Flash-pioneer Gabe Swarr, a Spumco vet with heaps of TV animation experience at Warner Bros. Animation, Disney and Nickelodeon.

The VO was provided by El Tigre voice actor Eric Bauza and the character design was led by Swarr and Steve Lambe. Tony Mora (another Spumco vet) provided the animation and the After Effects artistry was handled by Matt Gadbois.

All of Dave’s work is produced with Flash 4 (he prefers the smoothness of the old brush tool), and he’s gone into extreme detail on his production process over on his blog, and he’s released an excellent Behind the Scenes short. Below is a 4-minute episode in which Frank Mueller accidentally locks his boss in a port-a-john.

Family Pants: Toilet Turmoil!

Family Pants has been written up in great detail over on Thinking Animation and Cartoon Brew.

The Fast Food Nation DVD was released last week, and included on the disc are several shorts created by Free Range Studios, including The Backwards Hamburger Flash Animation Short (see below), The Meatrix and two follow-ups.