Behind Netflix’s Cuphead With the Original Creators: “It’s Like Watching Your Children Grow Up”
For Cuphead creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, seeing their characters come alive on television is beyond just exciting — it's an out-of-body experience.
"There's almost no words for it… it blows our minds," Chad tells IGN. "I can't quite tell you what it's like because when I watch it, it almost feels like I'm watching it but I'm outside my body watching it... It's crazy, we can't even conceive that this first indie game we created is now this super high-quality, fun Netflix show."
The Moldenhauer brothers' dreams of creating a television show reminiscent of the golden age of animation dates back years — well before Netflix approached them with the idea to adapt the Cuphead video game into a cartoon show, and even before development of Cuphead started over a decade ago. The dream goes back to when they were just two kids parked in front of the television watching cartoons.
While many of us grew up on contemporary cartoons, the Moldenhauers grew up on the true classics from the 1930s. We're talking characters like Betty Boop, Bimbo, Popeye, and countless others from the era. It was from this inspiration that the Moldenhauers created Cuphead: the 2017 run-and-gun video that looks and sounds just like those classic shows. Now, their characters have made the jump to Netflix with The Cuphead Show.
The Cuphead Show is a product made in 2022, but it feels like it's been plucked straight out of the 1930s and modernized with color and new animation technology. The upcoming Netflix show based on the video game serves as both an homage to the characters and concepts from the Cuphead game as well as spiritual successor to many of the earliest and most influential cartoon shows ever created.
The new show follows the misadventures of
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