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Bryan Brinkman’s Channel Frederator Featured short, The Coffeebird, is bittersweet while still showing us the humorous and touching sides of friendship and life…
Even if it is a beautiful friendship between an old person and his fine feathered friend. I wanted to do something different for this interview, so rather than dish out my usual Channel Frederator Featured Film Interviews, so I opted to interview Bryan Brinkman’s character in his film!
So without further ado, here’s some answers from Coffee Person (Barrista?) Henry Stevens.

1) Your story, has touched millions, and has been made into an animated feature by Director Bryan Brinkman. How was it working with him and has success changed you Henry?
Well Bryan’s tough to work with, aside from his pompous attitude and dangerous drug habits, he’s just plain unprofessional. Also he tends to break the rules of editing and what he comes up with is just sloppy. Not very professional. For [Read more…]

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While most people can name the Flintstones pretty easily, there are some really strange characters who are tied to the series who may not be so easily remembered.

The Great Gazoo first appeared on the show on October 29, 1965. He is a small, green, alien character who was voiced by Harvey Korman. The Great Gazoo, or Gazoo for short, appeared in front of Fred and Barney at seemingly random times. Even when he attempts to help Fred and Barney out, he usually ends up causing more trouble. The only people who are able to see him are Fred, Barney, and the children (because they believe in him).

Gazoo’s backstory is that he was exiled to Earth from his home planet Botox as punishment for having invented a doomsday machine, a weapon of immense destructive power, and was discovered by Fred and Barney when his flying saucer crashed. His invention was a [Read more…]

HALO 3 came out this week. The release was prefaced with a ton of marketing, including television commercials, internet ads, and even a cross promotion with Mountain Dew to create a beverage called Game Fuel.

The marketing did its job. HALO 3 made over $170 million dollars in the first 24 hours of its release! That’s a lot of money. It is the single best opening of an entertainment product ever.

As someone who works in the game industry, it is great to see a game generate so much attention and open so well. Videogames are much more than the time wasters and brain rotters that they are so often made out to be in the press. Congratulations to Bungie and Microsoft for such a successful launch!
-Floyd Bishop

We actually wanted to show this short the other day, but for some reason the file didn’t work for us. I should’ve realized something was whack with the cosmic beehive when I was on the subway, on my way to work, and noticed the Freelancer’s Union poster had a beehive on it with a swarm of bees flying around. I hopped on my 2nd transfer subway car and noticed a poster for the new show, Pushing Daisies. It had a gigantic bee on the flower in that ad. I looked down to my Mister Rogers cardigan sweater I was wearing and noticed the cute little bee patch my girlfriend stitched on for me, emblazoned on my chest. I knew it was gonna be one of those off days.
David Seezen shows off how cute and terrifying bees are in his short, Bees, Lots of Bees.
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There is a great new game called “Team Fortress 2″. It’s part of The Orange Box by Valve.

While the gameplay is impressive, perhaps even more impressive are the character videos that were created to help promote the game.

It’s hard to stand out in the videogame industry, and the first person shooter type game is probably the most crowded. Valve has taken a potentially stale genre and reinvented it, cramming a ton of style and quality into what for many game developers would be just another shooter.

Watching these videos, you really get a feel for the characters and what they are like. Valve has raised the bar for videogames.
-Floyd Bishop

This episode, #99, Channel Frederator takes your young, fragile, impressionable mind and sits you down to chat with you all about the Birds, the Bees, and a little something called Immanculate Conception.
Let me tell you, from firsthand experience: It ain’t that pretty.
You got bees, stingers, their knees, beaks and wings flying all over the place until BAM! A small magical elf baby appears.
And as you cradle it close, it opens it’s honey covered eyes to stare at you for the very first time, it’s pointy magical elf ears perk up and it giggles at you condescendingly.

It’s a beautiful, yet terrifying, thing people.

—The Coffee Bird, submitted by Bryan Brinkman
Fan Favorite Bryan Brinkman returns to Channel Frederator and teaches us about the Birds. Not in an Alfred Hitchcockian sense, but more like a subtle, quiet mid 1960s breezy Byrds tune.

—14th Dimension ER - Immanculate Conception, Part I, submitted by The Nursery
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Has anyone else gotten My Space friend requests from the characters from “Bee Movie”?

I’ve never seen an animated film marketed in such a way. I guess it’s a neat thing, but I’ve denied two of these so far (sorry Mooseblood). I already have enough fake friends.

Thoughts?
-Floyd Bishop

Fred Moore is credited as the person who redesigned Mickey. He was also one of the principal animators on some of Mickey’s most memorable short films. Unfortunately, the story about him that doesn’t seem to go away is the one about how he died.

There are far too many rumors about the man, as the Blackwing Diaries and other sites will tell you. Just today, I read a post on another forum where someone mentioned Fred Moore’s drunk driving accident where he lost his life. The post was made in such a matter of fact way, that it only helped to further the myth.

Fred Moore was not killed while driving under the influence.

Why is this such a big deal? Well, it’s been put out there so many times for various reasons, that it’s almost seen as fact. It’s a story that is so sensational, it makes the rounds like wildfire.

Luckily, Jenny [Read more…]

Flies. I don’t like em. They’re grubby, stinky, and annoying. Plus they eat poo for dinner. Bryan Brinkman shows us how “fly” these flys can be though, and in Stop Motion no less! Cool!
I asked Bryan to put together a few thoughts about his process of creating his hilarious stop motion short, A Fly Film.
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Hillbillies have bugs around them, don’t they? Lice, pet flies, fleas, roaches. At least I’d imagine.
Matt Torode takes us on a music video roadtrip with a couple of animated hillbillies… (and a mad scientist… 3 boobied nurse… some scottish alcoholic aliens… and a few chickens in space helmets.)
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