Channel Frederator Awards

I’ll tell you what, folks, this is a nail-biter! Every day I come in and check our votes at the Channel Frederator Awards site, and I’ve got to be honest with you, it is intense! So many of our categories are running neck and neck for a winner. This morning, two films vying for a top spot were holding onto the exact same percentage of votes. That’s how close it is!
So remember that your vote really does count.
This is our last week of voting, so filmmakers and fans, get the word out! With every category running neck and neck, those five friends that you send to www.ChannelFrederatorAwards.com can really make a difference. Voting ends on Sunday 5/4 at 3pm Eastern Time, so vote daily and get us some winners! - Carrie

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our seventh Category is Funniest Film.

Fellas.
We all know the way to score with the ladies is to make them laugh.

Seriously.

Get them so hysterical they’re snorting milk from their noses and they’ll be like Silly Putty in your hands – stretchable, bouncable, and able to make perfect transfers of the Sunday funnies.

And, if you’re clueless when it comes to comedy, you might want to begin with these three funny nominees.

You’ll thank us later. [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our sixth Category is Best Design.

So, what rocks your world when it comes to looks?
The basic shapes?
The curves and angles?
The thick and thin lines?
Whatever it may be, we’re sure you’ll dig the three nominees in the design category. Sita, Max, and Carlos – what lookers!
Woo-Woo!!!

Sita Sings the Blues Trailer Submitted by Nina Paley
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our fifth Category is Best Traditional Film.

You may know that Webster’s Dictionary defines “traditional” as “of or pertaining to tradition.”
What you may not know is the word “Webster” is a generic and copyright-free term that anyone may legally apply to his own dictionary.
For example, we could publish our own Channel Frederator-Webster’s Dictionary, if we were so inclined, and there’s nothing you, Uncle Sam, or those suckas at Merriam-Webster can do about it!

Sub! Submitted by Jesse Schmal
An Italian plaza waits for a soccer match. Scooter guys try to be smooth. A fuzzy little dog meets a fuzzy little [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our second Category is Best CGI Film.

A Great Big Robot From Outer Space Ate My Homework Submitted by Mark Shirra
If the dog didn’t do it, who did? Bertie is late with his homework … again!
He better have a good excuse, because Miss Spleen, his embittered teacher from the depths of Hades, is waiting impatiently in the shadows.

Cocotte Minute submitted by Sylvain Marc at Gobelins.
In a restaurant kitchen, a chicken dreams of escape and freedom while trying to survive a poultry race organized by the team of cooks.

Kiwi Submitted by Dony Permedi
Dony Permedi shows us that no matter how [Read more…]

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Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our second Category is Best Music Video.

Betcha didn’t know that Fred wanted to be a scientist before he became a bonafide cartoon hit-maker!
He had us all in labcoats conducting a bunch of scientific research, tests and experiments to discover the DNA that makes up the “perfect” music video.

The prognosis looks good.

Here are our findings:
A) If it’s got a song, you can’t go wrong.
B) Go take a chance, cause folks love to dance.
C) You don’t need to cut to the beat to make the film a bona fide treat.
D) Give it a tune, the major record labels will [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our second Category is Best Foreign Film.

Cartoons can come from anywhere!
From the tiny country with guys in the hats to that hot place in the pictures they always show in that one magazine!
This award is for your favorite international cartoon.
Consider it one big ladle of love to our animating brothers and sisters across the globe.

Cocotte Minute submitted by Sylvain Marc at Gobelins.
In a restaurant kitchen, a chicken dreams of escape and freedom while trying to survive a poultry race organized by the team of cooks.

Page d’Ecriture submitted by Filippo Giacomelli, Fabio Tonetto, and Juan Francisco Correa Diaz
Page d’ecriture follows [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our first Category is Best Flash Film.

The nominees for that are:
Make Mine Shoebox submitted by Maura Cluthe
do you ever wonder what goes on in the world of the Greeting Card making industry? Did you ever wonder who makes the art for those things? (Bet you didn’t know it’s rabbits.)

The M man submitted by The Bros. McLeod
The M Man is a pointy chinned, M shaped hat wearing superhero on a mission packed to the brim with crop dusting equipment and papier mache bbq’s.

Trapped in The Drive-thru submitted by Doogtoons
TITD an 11 minute animated music video for the one and only Weird Al, animated by our good [Read more…]

Vote here for the 2008 Channel Frederator Awards.

Our official Press Release is out:

“Voting Begins Online Today; Channel Frederator Awards Honor Excellence, Creativity and Coolness in Online Animated Content

NEW YORK, NY – April 16, 2008 –
Channel Frederator, the largest Internet cartoon network in the world and one of the founding networks of Next New Networks, today announced the nominations for its second annual Channel Frederator Awards.
The voting pages go live today at: www.channelfrederator.com.
Winners will be honored at an awards party in New York City that will air online June 10, 2008. The Channel Frederator Awards honor a wide array of achievements seen throughout the year on weekly Channel Frederator episodes. Films submitted to Channel Frederator range from traditional pen and ink, to stop motion, to paper collage and a variety of mixed media.


“The Channel Frederator cartoon community has uncovered some of the greatest undiscovered talent in the world,” says Channel [Read more…]