wait? they’re chickens? huh, I’d never made that connection, which I’m ok with for the most part but it just doesn’t seem necessary for them to be some kind of animal at this point they could just be whatever. I’m sure they mention they’re chickens in the show, but the two times it was on I wasn’t listening to what they were saying.

I have to say this they look like fish not chickens !!!!!

Those are chickens? …okay.

I saw an ad for this somewhere last spring, and just thought they were just weirdly stylized little people, especially since I’ve never heard the word “chooks” before. I assumed it was a brand name for a new line of toys or something. (I take it it’s actually a Britishism for poultry?)

I guess the guy on the left still retains a little bit of chickenosity, with the comb and feet, but you’ve lost me on the other two.

Lets not forget Hong Kong Phooey, The Karate Kid the animated series, Chuck Norris Kommandos animated series, TMNT, Afro Samurai and the great Samurai Champloo. I remember seeing Skunk Fu on the internet around 2006.

I caught this show on Cartoon Network- s’allright, but does anybody else feel like the title is somehow vaguely racist-sounding?

To be honest I’ve seen these shows but haven’t really cared about them. Camp Lazlo, Fosters, Chowder, and Flap Jack have been far more entertaining. In all honesty I can’t stand Skunk Fu! The art style is almost like a bad knock off of Samurai Jack.

Jason McIntosh - “Chooks” is a word we Australians use for “chickens”.
I imagine our brethren across the seas in New Zealand use the word also.
It seems like a peculiar term to adopt for this show which I am not sure is related to Australia whatsoever.

The heavy lifting (ie. actual production) for the show thus far has been done in Toronto at both STARZ and now C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures.

They look absolutely NOTHING like chickens! But does that matter?

Elliot…

Although it’s more commonly used in Australia and NZ, it’s actually old English. Shakespeare used it first and it’s still used in some parts of England. Including Bristol perhaps since that’s where Aardman’s based.

And if animals weren’t enough, what’s happening in produce?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvwYTQgmYDg

“Camp Lazlo” is the worst piece of TV toon detritus on record. Awful character design, unpleasant characters, shitty animation. Writing’s putrid too. But “Chooks” is stomach-turning. It should be chopped into McNuggets. Hiii-yahh!

The fact that the chickens look more like alien “greys” is the least of Chop Socky Chooks’ woes. It’s biggest problem is that it’s just another predictable and blandly-written animated television series that’s about as interesting as watching paint dry.

What about the taekwondodos in ICE AGE? I always kinda gave them credit for creating the recent surge in martial animated arts…

I really can’t get into any series where I can’t recognize what they’re supposed to be. The Chooks look like, fish maybe? And Catscratch … um, demons?

But Camp Lazlo is great! Unfortunately not as good as Joe Murray’s previous big series Rocko’s Modern Life but still pretty funny, and I like the designs.

Britain has even more crappy CGI series than we do: I’d rather force myself to watch Back to the Barnyard than Butt-Ugly Martians.

I saw a poster promoting “Chooks” as kids-meal toys at Jack-in-th-Box, but I had no idea what they were until now.

I watched one clip, “Oops, we ran out of roof”, and the backgrounds appeared to be in red-blue 3D. I put on some red-blue glasses and yes, there was some depth there. Odd.

I preffered the Lucha Libre craze. At least they have fun masks.

That Carrotty Kid short is kinda cool. Sounds like they got Jess Harnell to do the Cobb guy at the end.

You know the design is bad when my four-year-old daughter says “what are those, mommy, balloon people?” The few minutes I’ve seen haven’t convinced me to watch any more.

I believe all these martial arts shows are playing off the popularity of Avatar, the Last Airbender, which has a martial arts master as a storyboard consultant and uses four specific types of martial arts styles, depending on which ‘tribe’ the person is from. Avatar started early 2005 on Nick, and now three years later, hoo boy, more martial arts toons! Oh well. The Avatar rules ‘em all. I’m sad it’s over!

SKUNK FU actually isn’t half bad, ( and I HATE most flash animation )

But CHOP SOCKY CHOOKS makes me ill to look at.

Give Me Disney Afternoon anytime !!!!

The half of SKUNK FU that IS bad more than makes up for the other half.

I worked on Chop Socky Chooks at IDT back in 2007 in the Layout Department and it seemed like it was going to be a great series, but sadly the project ran into financial problems and IDT was being taken over by Starz at the time. I think Starz felt we couldn’t continue working on the project after going through the numbers, and the contract was broken. It ended up going to CORE Digital after we had only completed 9 episodes. I haven’t seen any of the episodes done at CORE, but the stuff done at IDT was excellent…….except maybe the “Would You Like Thighs With That?” episode. Aardman Animation wanted ‘feature’ quality effects on a ’series’ budget and schedule. It was asking a lot.
I ended up getting laid off along with quite a few other people.

We’re doing a kung fu show at Fatkat too.

http://www.threedelivery.com

This reminds me of the highly derivative trend in mainstream comic books back in the mid-eighties in which armies of ninjas appeared virtually everywhere. It seemed to me that every other person in Japan was secretly a ninja. Considering the time and training it takes to actually produce a ninja and the legendary combat skills they are said to possess, they never seemed to do very well against the heroes. They typically fell like black-robed bowling pins, as I recall, in one comic after another. Either that, or shurikins and nunchucks aren’t made as well as they used to be. Oh well, this too will pass…

I honestly think that my favorite shows of 2007-2008 are Chowder, Flapjack, and Skunk Fu! In my opinion, it’s pretty darned awesome and looks absolutely amazing (especially for Flash)!