Channel Frederator Blog

So much great art is going up on Channel Frederator RAW, I thought I’d try and get us to showcase it as it’s posted. So…

Today’s cool stuff nine pieces by Saxton Moore and 15 pieces by spacesick.

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George Pfromm is an animator and illustrator in Boston. He also teaches animation and character design 2 days out of the week, which George claims is just an excuse for him to leave the house.

If you ask me, I think that’s a pretty cool reason.
This week George’s music video Georgette Plays A Goth for the group, Tullycraft, was featured on Channel Frederator.

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If you’ve been thinking about getting a Cintiq, but have been waiting for a lower price, wait no longer. Well, wait a bit longer (depending up-on location), as it is available from December 2007 in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Thailand. For specfic pricing and availability information, contact local Wacom offices or distributors..

The Cintiq 12WX features

- Premium wide-format 12.1-inch display with WXGA (1280 x 800) resolution.
- Wide viewing angle of 170 degrees to easily share work with others.
- Patented professional pen technology with 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity and 5,080 lines of resolution for the best experience.
- DVI, VGA, and USB connectivity.
- Single integrated cable keeps your desktop clean and uncluttered.
- External video control unit provides standard video, USB, and power connection for maximum system compatibility while reducing weight.

While it’s not the highest end setup, it’s no slouch, either.
-Floyd Bishop

Andrew Huang directed this video for the group Minipop. It’s hard to peg down what it reminds me of. It’s kind of like Edward Gorey combined with Monty Python, but cool in it’s own light.
-Floyd Bishop

We’re slowly trying to get our technical house in order here (blogs next! I promise) and one of those things is integrating all our various Frankenstein sites. Our search button in the upper right column of the Frederatorblogs page is now a Google search that allow you to search the whole Frederator universe. So, from there, you can find anything from Channel Frederator, RAW, whatever. We’ll add the box to the other sides forthwith.

For your information, the sites searched will be:

www.channelfrederator.com
www.raw.channelfrederator.com
www.frederatorblogs.com
www.frederator.com
www.frederator.kz
www.newtoons.frederator.com
www.refrederator.com
www.wubbcast.com
The Wubblog (http://wubby.typepad.com)
The Teenage Roblog (www.teenageroblog.blogspot.com)

Try it, you’ll like it.

–Fred

So I finally saw “Beowulf”. There has been so much chatter among the animation community about this film that I wanted to see the film with as open a mind as possible, without the distraction of an opening day crowd. In my opinion, it was a pretty good film.

I have read several posts all over the web, in blogs, forums, and news sites that come at the film in a negative way, due to it’s heavy use of motion capture. For the most part, I think this is because most people don’t know what you get from motion capture, and what a team of artists do with that to create the film on the screen. This film felt more like the “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride at Disneyland than it did the Disney film “Pinocchio”.

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YO JOE! I’m back on the throwbacks with a vengance. As a kid I collected G.I.Joe figures and indulged in the 80’s cartoon. One of the most remembered characters for me was Destro. Looking back now as an adult, he looks kinda pimpish, so I had to throw the Barroness in this pic. For the backdrop, I tried to replicate the toy packaging. I drew the characters on animation paper, scanned them in, then colored it all in photoshop.

http://www.youtube.com/v/5YjfGex5JHY&rel
NOW IT”S YOUR TURN TO DRAW YOUR FAVORITE JOE! BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE YEAR, DRAW YOUR VERSION OF YOUR FAVORITE JOE ( or Joes) AND SUBMIT IT ON FREDERATOR RAW FOR PRIZES! CONTEST DETAILS WILL BE POSTED SOON. START SKETCHING NOW BECAUSE “KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!”
JOIN HERE!!!

Jon Burgerman is one of my favorite artists out there right now, filling the world up with his own smile inducing brand of frenzied doodles.
He’s shown in galleries across the globe in cities like New York, London, LA, Hong Kong, Paris, Melbourne & Derby.
Jon has worked on a variety of projects for MTV, the BBC, Snickers, Pepsi, Gortex, Puma, Sony PSP & Virgin Atlantic (Sick Bags! Hee Hee). He also received an A&AD Silver Award Nomination for his work for Levis.
His work has also graced the Guardian, Creative Review, Pictoplasma, Computer Arts (along with their sister title: Computer Arts Projects) & Stick ‘Em Up.
His Unique Animation has been played in numerous festivals (V festivals, Isles of Wight) and concerts (The Streets, Pop Idol USA, Destiny’s Child).
Jon took the time to answer a few Channel Frederator Questions, at least until the sun caught his eye. [Read more…]

via Animation Magazine
It’s official. The most-watched telecast in Cartoon Network history is a live-action movie. The 90-minute telepic premiered in prime-time on Wednesday night and drew in nearly 4 million viewers ages two and up, out-performing the network’s 2002 presentation of Dragon Ball Z, which previously held the record.

Citing Nielsen ratings data, Cartoon Network says Race Against Time was also the top telecast of the day on all television—both cable and broadcast—with boys 6-11 and boys 2-11. The show also led the Network to post its most-watched day ever in total day delivery with kids 6-11 (785,000), kids 2-11 (1,101,000), boys 6-11 (615,000) and boys 2-11 (840,000).

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While, this Episode is titled Leftovers, it by no means explains the quality of Awesomeness that this episode is.
That said, load up on your 23rd Turkey Leftover Sandwich with us and watch the newest episode of Channel Frederator.

By the way, Parental, Mature and Explicit Warning with this Episode.
(animated penises and breasts shown in this one.)

— Georgette Plays a Goth, submitted by George Pfromm II
Let’s hear it for the Goths! Yay! Warning: this song will get stuck in your head. The visuals are so cool that they will burn into your retinas.

— Countdown, submitted by Louis Hudson
Short and sweet. Like Sesame Street… if Hunter S. Thompson made animated spots for them.

— First Time Out, submitted by Temple Dog
This would make a cool video game. It also makes me want to break out my old robotech toys and rent Robot Jox.

— Dominate Wax, submitted by Flux Animation Studio
Wow. This makes me blush. Parental, [Read more…]