"Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think."
Cats Dont Dance: Animator, in her days starting out in the business. She was given parts of Danny to animate on what the other animators didn't finish, and she later did a few scenes with Sawyer.
Powerpuff Girls: Storyboard artist, writer, director of several episodes, as well as supervising director for the show. She also was a writer for The Movie.
The Iron Giant: Animator. Lauren's crew handled mostly Hogarth and Annie, but got to do a little work on Dean as well.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Writer, developer, story editor, storyboard artist and character designer; she also wrote/co-wrote the made-for-TV specials Good Wilt Hunting and Destination Imagination, the latter of which won an Emmy in 2009. The design and personality of FrankieFoster is confirmed to have been based somewhat on Lauren.
Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls: An original concept featuring girls named after planets and other celestial objects, a la Sailor Moon. She is trying to develop this into a show of her own someday. Faust is holding stuffed dolls of the characters in the page pic. The web site is here.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Series developer, executive producer, storyboard artist and creative director for the first season of the show, and consulting producer for the second season of the show. It is often considered as a Spiritual Successor to The Powerpuff Girls.
Expy: She says its mostly unintentional, and there are differences between characters, but there are some recurring character archetypes in her works such as a goofy Genki Girl (Mars, Pinkie Pie, Batgirl), a hotheaded tomboy (Pluto, Rainbow Dash, Supergirl), and so on.
Fanservice: She made a series of drawings labeled "Halloween cheesecake", featuring sexy monsters.
Girls Need Role Models: Lauren takes this one rather seriously. She wants animation to have stronger leads for females that are outside the box on what a female role has, such as the sex symbol, a love interest, etc. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is proof of what you can do with good female leads and storytelling.
Real Women Never Wear Dresses: She is 100% opposed to this mentality, stating that most girl-centered cartoons fail due to bad writing/directing and not because of any inherent "girliness".
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