Recently, yesterday (08/20/2020 AD), I found this fantastically animated PC game, John & Ted Mathot’s Creature Crunch (1996), which features amazing artists like...
Dave Wasson (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, The Thing Which Lurked in the Tub, Beany & Cecil)
Carey Yost (The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa)
Charlie Bean (The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, The Amazing World of Gumball)
Caesar Martinez (Sym-Bionic Titan)
Chris Savino (Samurai Jack, Grim & Evil/The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Johnny Test, Dexter’s Laboratory)
@henshincyborg (The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Powerpuff Girls)
Sherm Cohen (Suburban Daredevil, SpongeBob)
Marc Perry (Johnny Test, The Ren & Stimpy Show)
the late Tuck Tucker AKA Billy Bob Tucker (2 Stupid Dogs, SpongeBob, Drawn Together)
Shane Glines (Spümcø Comic Book, Batman: The Animated Series)
...you get the picture!
Timing Directors feature Don Judge, Tom Yasumi and Michel Lyman. The digital animation has some limits, but it’s much better than the animation that Cartoon Network Studios projects use these days (you know... tightly-animated “beanmouth” cartoons animated overseas in specifically Korea).
I found this from a now-deleted tweet by Justin M. Morgan from August 19, 2020 (shared in a quote tweet by one of my former mutual followers on Twitter/X). I can’t believe that I never knew about this game! I played Lamb Chops Loves Music, Jump Start Preschool/Kindergarten and The Worlds of Billy as a little kid, but this one never came into my sight until August 20th, 2020. The IMDb page for the game was in need of crediting the artists, so I updated that page--I was born to do it, and I did exactly that: I brought these great artists from my Cartoon Network childhood to the attention of people who love great animation/design and games, including obscure ones such as this.
Here’re the closing credits featuring a super talented, Western American/Canadian animation team for the T-rated 1996 point-and-click PC game.
Tweet version here (Carey Yost liked it!).
Watch the game here (unless you don’t want to spoil it)
