The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie

With the Paramount logo, even.

Or maybe Comedy Central really wants to promote the hell outta this, but if it does get to theatres, I'll see it.
 
That's weird...the series was animated traditionally at Rough Draft Studios. Any idea why they would animate it in flash for the film? Besides to cut down on costs?

I'm a little concerned to be honest. Drawn Together had some pretty nifty full animation for the kind of series it was.
 
That might explain it. If this movie were to do well and Comedy Central wanted to take the show back, this would be a good way to solve what caused it to be cancelled in the first place.
 
You know what's really weird and a bit ironic?
In the show, Spanky Ham is supposed to be a parody of Flash animation, yet this entire movie is going to be animated in Flash.

I don't know what to think of that. :confused:
 
Well, Spanky Ham was a parody of Newgrounds style Flash back when Flash animation was still primitive and first becoming popular and people were creating crude internet toons.

We've seen how amazing some flash can look (Superjail), the flash in this appears to be pretty high quality flash though, so maybe it won't be a big difference, but it's extremely noticeable in the last scene of the trailer with Princess Clara, I must say. I knew something was a little 'different' but I couldn't but my finger on it.
 
Not just the end, I saw the teaser again, andmost of teh senes do look like it's animated in Flash.

At first I thought it was old clips, but notice how the characters move.
 
Ah, so that's how they got CC to fund it. Of course, if it does well, then they might bring it back, just animated in Flash.

It is disappointing, though. The hand-drawn animation made it easier to separate the differing styles of the characters, not to mention looking GREAT. Hopefully the quality won't suffer. Since when does a feature-length adaptation of an animated show wind up with lesser animation?
 
You would think if Comedy Central was able to fund 36 episodes over the course of three seasons in traditional hand drawn animation, they'd be able to fund a 90 minute Direct to DVD movie.

I guess this was the "deal breaker" to get the film made and I would rather see it in flash than not see it all.
 
Part of the whole reason Drawn Together was canceled was due to CC not wanting to continue paying for the animation budget. And I remember the creators saying on one of the season 3 commentaries that there was going to be a lower budget for the movie, and how they may not afford to keep some of the VAs (that may have been a joke, though). If this is true, it could mean that they had a lower budget for the animation for the sake of keeping the VAs and getting CC to let them really make the movie.
 
The cancellation of this series still boggles my mind, I understand the series was very expensive for a cable network like CC to afford, but they made a mere 14 episodes a season at the most and it didn't really seem like CC really wanted the show towards the end of its run. The creators tried working with CC and offered to cut down costs and tone down content (Advertisters were starting to get concerned about the show's mature content and CC was annoyed). The series was the second highest rated show behind South Park on the network, it's weird that such a popular series that attracted such high ratings would be shot down so early.
 
I'm fairly certain that that is the answer right there.

And I'm just checking out some of SPH's work, their work actually looks pretty good.

Though I'd like Rough Draft better.
 
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