Channel Frederator Blog

Computer animation is an expensive art form… or is it? Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

If you’ve never used Blender, you may be surprised at just how much stuff is in there.

Softbody Dynamics? Yep.

A node based compositor? Yep.

A paint based sculpting tool? Yep.

Whether you are looking to get into computer animation, or have been doing computer animation for a while in another package, take a look at Blender. With a powerful tool set and an extended community of support, it’s a software package that is quickly becoming a powerhouse.
-Floyd Bishop

Channel Frederator & The Meth Minute 39 were mentioned in the New York Times Today!!! Yea!!!
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In the 8th episode of “The Meth Minute 39″ cartoon series, Pink Floyd’s legendary singer Syd Barrett goes from taking a trip TO the accountant’s office to having a trip AT the accountant’s office.

It’s a Flash-animated flashback that will change the way you think about doing taxes.

Features original music by Dan Meth and William Rahilly in the spirit of Syd.

For more Meth Minute 39 visit http://www.methinute.com
-jx!

Premiere has posted their list of 20 benchmark films in computer animation.

While some selections are spot on (who can argue that “Tron” is not a benchmark of CG), some leave you scratching your head as to why they were listed instead of other films. For example, they list “Radioland Murders” but not “Toy Story”. Also, three of the films on the list haven’t been released yet. Huh?

Here’s their full list:

-Floyd Bishop

Super-intern James Sugrue has been coming in for a few weeks and doing some fantastic animation work on “The Meth Minute 39″ series. He’s an old-school character animator who worships Bob Clampbett and you can see his real understanding of wackiness in his work.

Take a look at more of his work here on his blog.

-Dan

I’d like to give a hearty Frederator Welcome to my pal, Saxton Moore.
I’ve brought Sax onto the Fred Blogs as a new blogger and contributor, and think his style and spirit will blast your animation lovin’socks off atomically.
You can read his 1st post about the MadBalls Revamp, here:
MadBalls Revamp!!!
He’ll be kickin’ it Old Skool and educating us on Animation Nostalgia every Thursday with his own brand of Throwback Thursdays.
I’m sincerely looking forward to this, and know you all will too.
Welcome Aboard Saxton!
yes, I OWN that Chilly Willy Sax shirt. Jealous?
-Jeaux Janovsky
Don’t forget to join Sax’s Throwback Thursdays Group on Channel Frederator Raw!!!

FRIENDS! Many thanks to all of you who wrote in with kind comments and well wishes for getting better. I have indeed bounced back. Better, Faster, & slightly stronger.
We have a great goal for the month of November, here at the Frederator camp.
We would like 10,000 subscribers on Youtube.
Currently, we’ve got 7,717 subscribers! And that’s pretty cool.
But 10,000 would be cooler.
You can help us be cooler. Tell your friends, family, neighbors, pets, those senior citizens at the old folks home.
If you have a Youtube account, take the time to click that subscribe button.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ChannelFrederator
Help us spread the Frederator word.

— Boxhead & Roundhead - The Power of Flight, submitted by Elliot Cowan
Frederator Fan Favorite, Elliot Cowan returns with another installment of Boxhead and Roundhead! In this episode Boxhead learns to fly. Reminds me of when I was a kid. I would dream of becoming a bird, because the ability to fly is [Read more…]

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Directed by Peter Lepeniotis at Dan Krech Productions, “Surly Squirrel” premiered in 2005. The short features a squirrel, his rat side kick, and their plot to get food and outwit a raccoon. Things get out of hand rather quickly.

-Floyd Bishop

In this edition of Channel Frederator Rewind, we go back to episode 101: Same Fred, New Scent and talk to Mark Taplin.
Imagine if Big Daddy Roth invented Speed Racer and had Rob Zombie on storyboards. You’d probably get this awesome music video for DoesItOffendYou,Yea by Mark Taplin of Taplabs.
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