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Winx Club?
This was 2002/2003, Winx Club came out in 2004 and had nothing to do with Nickelodeon(at least in the US) until earlier this year, so no.
Okay, I didn't know you lived in the USA. What did it's eyes look like?
I can't really remember what the character or pictures from the show looked like, but I can picture the different version that they didn't use, that version had the classic alien eyes(don't know if there is a trope for that). The finished fairy version looked nothing like that and might have had long red hair.
What did the man look like?
I really don't remember, it could have been anyone, what animators stand out?
All of them.
I just honestly don't remember what the animator in this ad looked like.
I think they were called 'Oh yeah! Cartoons'
I'm a different flavor of crazy-sause.
That's not what I said at all, I said there would be a behind the scenes look at different shows during commercials, one of the segments that would play a lot would have an animator talking about the development behind this character.
The closest thing I can imagine would be Wanda (a pink-haired fairy) from the Fairly Odd Parents, but somehow I don't this is it.
It's not because I wasn't familiar at all with whatever they were showing, and I remember the character who I can't picture looking more like something from an action or anime show.
Is the character Elastika from Zevo-3?
Sshe is not a fairy, but she has tentacle-like pink hair that spins around and helps her fly.
The wikipedia article says that the characters had a different design when they first appeared in commercials, but were later changed when they got their own show.
The show is a nicktoon, too.
http://zevo-3.com/
http://nicktoons.nick.com/shows/zevo-3/
You can see their pitch here: (WARNING: CONTAINS A LOT OF PICTURES, PDF TAKES A WHILE TO LOAD)
http://www.moonscoop.com/files/FREE/Zevo-3_PitchBible_LowRes_EmailableVersion_09-29-09_FINAL.pdf
I'm sorry but that came out last year and the commercials didn't come out until like 2005, I'm sorry but that is very far off.
Oh, sorry.
I'm looking through Wikipedia's list of Nicktoons, but I can't find anything that sounds like that from that era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicktoons
Not that Wikipedia is the most exact and reliable source out there, but it's something to go by.
I wonder if whatever this is was even an official Nick Toon, but they didn't have many non Nicktoons on the channel at the time. Also Zevo-3 doesn't count either.
I looked at cartoons airing at the time,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Nicktoons
but none of them sound like that. Or at least, the character you are talking about doesn't sound like a main character, or a character I have heard of being in those shows.
I'm pretty sure I remember this! I'm not exactly positive since it's been so long, but I think it was for a cartoon that didn't make production (and the animator even said so in the short). I think it was for a Crash Nebula spinoff. If it wasn't this one, then it was another of these shorts, but I'm pretty sure it was this one.
Okay here's a real long shot:
Around 2002 or 2003 on Nicktoons I would see a lot of things in-between shows that were a behind the scenes look at different shows, it was like the ones they have now called Inside Nicktoons but it may or may not have been called that, my question is about some show they featured on it that I would see a lot in this segment, it showed an animator explaining how they created some character from a show I don't know about, the character was a female fairy, the animator explained how an early version of her was like a purple alien with somewhat tentacle like hair, he said they liked the face but not the outfit(they showed a picture) the final version was a fairy that looked nothing like that. What show was he talking about?