Tartakovsky and McCracken

[mateo]

Any word on what these guys have been up to.

[Gorgonzola]

I coulda sworn Tartakovsky is working on a Samurai Jack movie...but heck, it could just be the rumor mill churning...

Last thing I actually saw him do was those commercials for the nico-gum,

[Asyouwish]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460907/

Tartakovsky is doing the Dark Crystal II. How do you not know that by now? What's wrong with this world?

[Gorgonzola]

Ah, I fall out of the loop on these things real easy. I usually have to wait for folks that keep on this better to slap me with the news.

[xander13]

I know Craigs been working on the 10th anniversary PowerPuff Girls movie but in my blog travels I recently saw someone talking about Craigs new secret project at CN!! God only knows what it is... come on God, be a pal... let us know!!!

[mateo]

O'K., how about his (Genndy) small studio he's got going, I don't know what the name is, didn't he take a few artist from Cartoon Network with him, I recall him giving a small tour in the special features of Clone Wars. Any word about what those guys are up to.

[Nightwing]

http://www.theorphanage.com/ i think, but the site doesn't have that much info...either that or i cant find it

[HellboyOne]

The Orphanage was started by ex-ILM guys back in the day. There's some irony in Genndy going over there to form their animation studio, if that's actually the case.

[Toonimator]

McCracken's also helming a new shorts program at CN, but I thought I'd heard about a new series, too.

[philly]

I randomly ran into Lynee Naylor at a holloween party last year and asked her about that place,and she said she hardly worked there.Just freelance Genndy needed done,Sounded more like a space for Genndy and Ruddish to work out of!

[Gibson89]

Isn't Genndy supposed to do that Power Man comic for Marvel? I don't know animation wise though.

[monkeyfeather]

Genndy was sort of working at the Orphanage. He directed a couple of Nicoderm ads that were done there. He was supposed to be involved, if not supervising their new feature animated film "division" as well as directing their first film, but I think they've had trouble with funding (usually the problem with independent animation.) Not sure what he's up to now.

I also thought I had read that The Power of the Dark Crystal was shelved, but you can't always believe the internet.

What happened to his Luke Cage comic? I thought it was supposed to be released this year.

[monkeyfeather]

Jon Favreau in a recent interview on aintitcool.com mentioned that Genndy has been working with him a bit on the next Iron Man. Here's what he said...

"Jon Favreau: I had Genndy Tartakovsky. I?ve always liked SAMURAI JACK and I loved his CLONE WARS vignettes that he did. I?ve always liked his work, a lot. And I had met with him, we had lunch together just because I enjoy his stuff and I wanted to meet him. I really dig his sense of humor and his sense of rhythm, and the way that he acknowledges the same cinematic masters that I really love the work of, like (Akira) Kurosawa and (Sergio) Leone. And he finds a way to pastiche it without ever undermining the stakes or the reality of the tension that?s created in his action sequences.
Now clearly his stuff is a bit broad for a live action film but I love his rhythm and his attention to detail. It has a real comic booky feel but yet it feels cinematic and not gimmicky and even his cartoons feel? there?s an elegance to them.

So in this process as we?re storyboarding and designing sequences he and his team have come in and I?m working with them and they?re working on collaborating with us on the project and that?s a new wrinkle and it allows me? I feel like I?m really learning a lot from collaborating with this guy.

And then he has the original IRON MAN film to draw from and he also has a pretty deep knowledge of Marvel. So, he is transitioning into live-action features, which I have no doubt in collaborating with him that he will. There?s a transition that he?s making that hopefully I could be helpful with and at the same time as I move from dialogue and character and story-driven filmmaking I?m able to understand the way to approach action in an interesting and elegant way. So, it?s been a very, very fun collaboration so far."

[HellboyOne]

I just read that seconds ago. Pretty cool!

[drugmassacre]

i was JUST coming here to post that ahaha

it's a great interview so far, just getting to the end of part 1 - makes up for a lot of the shit that gets put up on AICN