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Seth Kearsley, one of the Executive Producers of ABC Family’s Slacker Cats, has offered up a behind-the-scenes look at his character designs for the series. In these web-exclusive clips created for the website (created by Animax Entertainment), you see how various characters evolved during development. In this clip below, you see Tabitha, easily my favorite character in the show (voiced by Kiersten Warren), transform from a crack baby into her current design.


Seth, who has directed multiple Family Guy episodes, is also working on a new project that we hinted at back in September. Below is the final vlog clip for Adam, one of the leads. Soon he’ll be releasing another Flash-animated clip from the Eve character. Keep your eyes here for further info.

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Sep
11
2007

Fox Reporter Gets Animated in a Flash

posted by aaron, 5.40 PM

FOX’s Los Angeles-based KCOP news recently reported on 2D Animation Making a Comeback in a 3D World. In this clip below, reporter Hal Eisner takes a trip to Film Roman to take a look behind the scenes of The Simpsons Movie, which has now tallied up nearly a half billion dollars worldwide. Along the way he bumps into Slacker Cats artist Seth Kearsley, who whips together a quick Flash-animated animated scene staring Eisner (starts at 1:55).


And here’s the animatic Seth Kearsley created for the animation above.

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Seth Kearsley, who directed several episodes of Family Guy in the past few years, has posted a Flash-animated, rough, pose test for a new project. Kearsley was also the director of Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights and more recently, several episodes of Slacker Cats. I’d bet a Family Guy DVD that the voice in this test is Greg Pitts (”show my O-face”) of Office Space fame.

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Aug
9
2007

Another Slacker Cats Promo Clip

posted by aaron, 5.46 PM

Last week, the first promo clip from ABC Family’s new show Slacker Cats was posted here at CHF. In recent nights, a second promo of this Flash-animated series has been airing on ABC, which you can view below:


The Slacker Cats website (still a work in progress) was built by Animax Entertainment. And to handle the back-end stuff for the website they teamed with Almer/Blank – who also host the LA Flash User Group.

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Aug
1
2007

Slacker Cats Mark Territory on ABC Family

posted by aaron, 6.15 PM

Slacker Cats, a new Flash-animated comedy series, is set to premiere on ABC Family on August 13th 10/9c. The series was created by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, and the voice cast includes Dave Foley, Harland Williams, Sinbad and Emo Philips. The project is being produced out of Film Roman, and then outsourced to a variety of Flash studios. Here’s a promo that’s been airing on ABC:

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