Channel Frederator Blog

This entry features the rest of the Top Four Films on this week’s Channel Frederator Episode.

MY LITTLE OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE FRIEND
Stephen MacLeod

I went to the 2005 Producer’s Show at CalArts last year with Eric Homan, and was immediately taken by this student film by Steven MacLeod. Completely hand drawn, it’s one of those refreshing films that reinforces my belief that you don’t need a Shrek budget to produce some truly stunning character animation. This film has been in the Munich Film Festival, and recently the Philadelphia Film Festival.

Here’s what our viewers had to say:

jimmynock: I Love this. A gutsy move to show rough pencil animation.
Joshy_C: It must take ages to draw all that rice! Expertly drawn. Loved it.
4g0ttn1: aw man…that was one of the best cartoons so far in the history of channel frederator.

ROCKFISH
Blur Studio

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For the Fourth of July Weekend, we have selected 4 films that have snuck their way up to the top of the Channel Frederator list based on your votes. The first up is “Bendito Machine”.

There is something completely captivating about “Bendito Machine” by zumbakamera. Be it the detailed, clean designs, the intricate story telling, or the overall message: be careful what you destroy–it could come back to haunt you…I was enthralled from beginning to end.

Says frequent commentor tuomime on our Channel Frederator Blog “This was positively and utterly delightful. It merited a 5 completely where as normally I grade things on here compared to others in the episode. There’s only been about 4 other toons on here that I’ve liked as much.”

Jossie, filmmaker behind Bendito Machine says, “I have read the comments on Frederator about the film and they are really great. The people like the film and in consequence I’m [Read more…]

Introducing, FredEX.

What is it?

An EXperiment.

Frederator Studios is looking for Animators to be a part of a never before attempted Animation Collaboration. We are compiling a list of who would be interested in partaking in this glorious experiment.

Details to follow. If you are interested please email:

leer@frederator.kz