Design by Caesar Martinez, color by Chad Woods. From episode #122, “Fangboy”. (Click through to larger images on the Flickr page.)

– Eric (Homan)

RAW Art Friday!

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Illustrated for Channel Frederator by Jeaux Janovsky

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Niko Anesti

Daisy

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-angie

This is a real project.

When supervillain Tan-Gu invites the world’s most notorious bad guys to his island fortress to compete in an Olympic-style tournament of evil, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. For the Anti-Evil Task Force there’s only one man who can stop Tan-Gu and save mankind: Kung Fu Magoo!

This feature length film stars the beloved Mr. Magoo and his 12 year-old nephew Justin as they dodge giant robotic spiders, ninjas on jet skis, and Tan-Gu’s mutant “Beasteens” (half animal, half teenage girl!) — and that’s before the Evil-lympics even begin! With competitions like the 100-meter Destructive Rampage, Laser Cage Wrestling, and the Evil Egg and Spoon Race, Justin must work double-time to help his uncle stay in the competition and avoid danger at every turn.

I haven’t seen the film, but I can’t imagine Mr Magoo doing Kung Fu. It sounds like someone put Mr Magoo, Kung Fu Panda, X Men, and “Scooby’s All Star Laff-A-Lympics” in a blender.

-Floyd Bishop

Long before he wished that he had Jessie’s girl, Rick Springfield was the star of his own cartoon, called “Mission:Magic”. The show was produced by Filmation, and was supposed to cement Rick’s place as a teen idol.

The cartoon was a strange premise: a teacher uses a cat sculpture and a magic chalkboard to transport her and her students to another dimension, where they meet Rick Springfield travel through time and space, solving mysteries along the way.

The show aired  in the US from 1973 through 1975, even though there were only 16 episodes created.

-Floyd Bishop

For no other reason than folks love leaving comments on the Frederator blogs for Thurop Van Orman’s non-Frederator Flapjack show over on Cartoon Network…

– Eric

http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/hollywood/last-night-neil-gaiman-intervi/
 
I just wanted to pass along this exclusive interview w/ Neil Gaiman a friend of mine did for LA Weekly!
  
Turns out he has a cool book (out, and or coming soon?) called The Graveyard Book, which is sort of like a “re-imagined version Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which tells the story of Nobody “Bod” Owens, who wanders into a graveyard following the murder of his family and is raised by a community of ghosts that teaches him the way of the dead.” 
 

I am mos def picking up a copy.
  

In other Gaiman News, I am for sure excited to see Coraline.

And if you can’t wait too, check out these clips, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes. This looks like it’s gonna be pretty much amazing.
  

Please take some time to check out Liz’s article and help spread the word.
  

I’m very proud of her.
-Jeaux Janovsky

 
“Fred4Change” by Jeaux Janovsky, from Channel Frederator, Episode #147

Everyone who watches Channel Frederator regularly is familiar some of Jeaux Janovsky’s great art. Now, New Yorkers will get a chance to see some of his art next week. Meet Jeaux in person(!) as part of the ART+ACTION=OBAMA 08 show at Toy Tokyo in the East Village, Thursday, October 17, 7-11pm. Be there and be square.

–Fred

ART+ACTION=OBAMA 08
Toy Tokyo
121 2nd Avenue, New York City
Phone: 212.673.5424
Thursday, October 17, 2008
7-11pm

Floyd Bishop posted the other day about Dustin McLean’s recent parody of one of the most famous animated video of all time: A-Ha’s “Take On Me”. Who can forget its sketchy rotoscope stylings and corny comic book love story?

(You can go to Dustfilms to find out more about the parody creator, btw.)

This made me curious about the folks who worked on the animated portion of the original video. I found some additional info:

The animation was done by married couple Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger. Patterson studied experimental animation with Jules Engel at Cal Arts and worked for many years at Rhythm and Hues. You can see his award-winning student film Commuter (1981) here–this is where he developed the techniques he put to good use in “Take On Me” (1985).

Patterson and Reckinger were also responsible for the animated portion of Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract” video, which was inspired by the Gene Kelly/Jerry the Mouse dance sequence from the film Anchors Aweigh.

Then I was delighted to find a side-by-side comparison of the man/mouse number from Anchors Aweigh with a recent parody from Family Guy where Jerry is replace by Stewie! (Watch it at the top of this post.)

—Anne D. Bernstein

From episode #111, “Precious Pig”.

– Eric (Homan)

It’s been a long time coming.

Rob Renzetti’s beloved “My Life as a Teenage Robot” played the last episode of its 2nd season a couple of years ago, and by the infinite wisdom of corporations the until now unseen 3rd season sat on the shelf until this week. Go figure.

Well no! Go watch! Every Saturday on the Nicktoons Animation Network.

The team came up with some great stuff, beautiful as ever. It’s a great way to catch up with Jenny.

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Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008