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Craig McCracken

Craig Douglas McCracken (born March 31, 1971) is an American animator, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for creating the Emmy-winning animated series The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder as well as writing and storyboarding for Dexter's Laboratory for Cartoon Network. He has been married to fellow animator Lauren Faust since 2004.

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Theres a lot you can do without words.

Can Do, Words

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Artist, Comic, Long, Strip, Teens

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Cartooning, Missing, Portfolios, Seems

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

Artist, Artists, Come, Drawing, Family

Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

Based, Board, Boards, Rooms, Wigs

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

Artist, Job, Jobs, Pacing, Write, Writing

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

Drive, Film, Mouths, People, Seeing

Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.

Aspect, Aspects, Basicly, Creative, Shows

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Cartoon, Cartoons, Differences, Grew, Mean, People

The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

Format, Keep, Mind, Moving, Trying

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexters Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.

Dexters, Dog, Girl, Ones, Stupid, Things

Im always thinking about what I might want to do next, but theres still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.

Awhile, Might, Things, Thinking, Want

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

Dog, Dogs, Stupid, Working

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

Approved, Point, Screen, Screens, See

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Dialogue, Gives, Giving, Needs, Talking

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

Character, Characters, Geek, Toys, Unbelievably