Comments on: Resurrecting The Flintstones?

By: the flintstones on the rocks

the flintstones on the rocks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:55:37 +0000

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By: Lance Uppercut

Lance Uppercut — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I got to get my hands on a copy of “Flinstones on the Rocks”!

Someone needs to post it on YouTube or something . . . people need to see it in order to create fresh interest in the characters.

By: Chris Battle

Chris Battle — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hell, if you can just transfer my screener tape to DVD here at the office, that’d do it for me

By: SACKS10

SACKS10 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Holy SH**! You mean they started doing a new redux Quickdraw McGraw cartoon!?! I would LOVE to see some of that art. If only I could hear the unharmonious sound of the El KaBong guitar once again. Fred, If you could make that Flintstone on the Rocks DVD thing happen, would you be interested in a trade (cough Cough CASH Cough) of some sort for a copy? lol.

By: Robert Alvarez

Robert Alvarez — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Fred, I was lucky enough to be the animation director for Flinstones on the Rocks. It was a lot of fun and presented some of the toughest directing work I have ever done. There are a couple of sequences that are directed to music and it took Dave Smith pitching them to me with the music several times. Speaking of Dave, not many know but this special is greatly responsible for his getting the job he has at Dreamworks. Dave used the opening sequence which he boarded to pitch as an audition. That sold them on Dave. He is a tremendously funny guy.

I would love to work with Dave and Chris again on a project. That was a great time. Oh by the way I have a clean DVD copy of the show.

By: SACKS10

SACKS10 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

GREAT POST! I recorded this on TV when it aired on Cartoon Network. Unfortunately, it was on VHS and I no longer have a player. Any chance it will ever show up on DVD?

By: Chris Battle

Chris Battle — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll always treasure my Emmy screener video of F:OTR (…and Sax, considering how much the powers-that-be HATED it, it will most likely never see a DVD release.) A great special by the Dexter/PPG crew… and it was actually done with cels, even though studio had gone over to digital ink & paint by that time.

The saddest thing is that the Quickdraw McGraw Special by the same crew had it’s plug pulled in mid-production after the execs’ reation to OTR, and Craig’s (and everyone else’s) work there remains largely unseen.

By: Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

OK Chris, now you’ve got my contrarian going. I’m going to get an official copy and then we’ll see what we can convince the PTB to do with it.

By: jeaux Janovsky

jeaux Janovsky — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

holy cr@p fred. I think you just made my spidey design sense blow a gasket with awesomeness.
thanks for sharing.
-jx

By: alex kirwan

alex kirwan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for posting these Fred, I’ve always been nuts about these drawings. Craig’s style guide was great, not just because it rediscovered the charm of Ed’s classic designs, but also because they brought something new and slightly contemporary to them as well, while perfectly retaing the personalities. I’ve always felt cartoon characters have to visually evolve a little if they’re going to survive the decades, but as you mentioned the only thing the Flintstones (as well as most classic characters from the world of animation) had done since the late 60’s was stagnate.