“But we wanted to take that backbone of exploration and innovation and see how we could deliver that spirit in CG.
“I originally had some reservations about going CG because the original show was so graphic, flat and joyous in 2D,” he admits.
Smith says the creative team knew from the beginning that they didn’t want to change any of the characters or concepts, but they thought it would be interesting to reimagine the design and see how they could update the show in CG. We were also very lucky to have Kevin Dart as art director for this special, who helped us with the show’s wonderful, new graphic look.” “There were a couple of us who had worked on the show during its original run, and we knew the show backwards and forwards, so it was a real thrill to be asked to participate.
“Cartoon Network’s Rob Sorcher and Brian Miller had this great idea to do a Powerpuff Girls special and were kind enough to ask me to participate,” says the project’s director Dave Smith, who was part of the series’ original production team. Jackson as Mojo Jojo, Tom Kane as The Professor and Tom Kenny as The Mayor. The half-hour features Catherine Cavadini as Blossom, Tara Strong as Bubbles, E.G. The special, which is called Dance Pantsed, finds the girls trying to solve the mystery of why Mojo Jojo is kidnapping a mathematician, an opera singer and a badger (to steal Chemical X and take over Townsville!). This month, the cabler is paying homage to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup in a shiny, new CG-animated special, which reunites the original voice-over stars and also packs in a special guest appearance by none other than Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. It’s tough to believe that it’s been 15 years since Craig McCracken’s popular animated heroines, the Powerpuff Girls, debuted on Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network serves up a CG-animated special featuring the beloved, saucer-eyed crimebusters known as the Powerpuff Girls.