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.

He is best-known for creating the Emmy-winning animated series The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for Cartoon Network as well writing and storyboarding for Dexter's Laboratory. He began producing The Powerpuff Girls which premiered as a short in 1995 on studio president Fred Seibert's animation incubator What a Cartoon! and full half-hour episodes in 1998. He has been married to fellow animator Lauren Faust since 2004.

Craig McCracken (born March 31 1971) is an American animator director and producer. He has been married to fellow animator Lauren Faust since 2004.