#paul stec

[mikyapixie]

𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓘𝓼 𝓐𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓑𝓪𝓫𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓓𝓪𝔂!!

[seeksstaronmewni]

The last four designs here, from Power-Noia, look beautiful... and very cinematic! (tweet about that here) Some of the clouds look like the art direction of Scott Wills (Samurai Jack, Quest for Camelot, The Ren & Stimpy Show).

I have no idea who did the art direction for the first 3 Powerpuff Girls episodes after The Powerpuff Girls Movie (Art Direction by Mike Moon) and before episodes with art direction by Paul Stec, but these backgrounds are absolutely beautiful!

As if the character design by Carey Yost, Anna Chambers and @chrisbattleart wasn’t already wonderful, the episodes Keen on Keane, Not So Awesome Blossom and Power-noia have great, stylized location designs by Dave Dunnet, @shinypinkbottle and Paul Stec.

The Powerpuff Girls’  art direction was in transition during the movie. Pokey Oaks Kindergarten in Keen on Keane still looked like the long, pink building from the past episodes, while in the movie Pokey Oaks looked like it did in the Paul Stec years.

In Power-Noia, Pokey Oaks Kindergarten appeared differently with a new location and sign, while keeping the pink color, similar to Paul Stec’s art direction.

The designs overall in Power-Noia look very cinematic, namely the following pan from Townsville to the PPGs’ home. The color designs (Amie A. Hawes) and effects (including Digital Background EFX by Stephen Jennings) are also cinematic in tone.

Of course, The Powerpuff Girls Season 5 opened up not with an actual portrait of Townsville.

Someone should get @shinypinkbottle and/or David A. Dunnet to do background design on The Powerpuff Girls again! I’d also recommend the talents of Peter Emmerich, Chris Tsirgiotis, Larry Murphy, Joshua & Justin Parpan (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Wander Over Yonder, Harvey Street Kids); Stephen DeStefano and Amanda Qian Li (Samurai Jack) to contribute.

[animationtreasury]

The first 3D animation of a Skelanimal (shown here) was created by Paul Stec. The cute animation features Jack The Rabbit. Mr. Stec uploaded the short movie to his channel on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2IxNrp3WN0fQBcYvXweBGQ) and placed his story of making the movie in the description.

"I met the owners of Skelanimals and was invited to create an audition piece for them. They were looking for a company who could write, direct and produce a new 20 episode "Flash" micro series for the web. In my creative meeting with them, I realized what they really wanted was to ultimately see their characters in 3D. So instead of producing it in Flash, I went for it and surprised them with a 3D test... It worked they were blown away! although I did get chosed to produce the micro series contract details got in the way and things just didn't work out... The fun part of this story is now, the 3D "stop motion style:" lighting, shaders, depth of field, animation on 2's and 4's, flat painted on details, etc... that I designed in my audition has been used in an up coming Target commercial that was premiered at the Skelanimals booth at Comic-Con."