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Congratulations to submitter Allan Dye! His cartoon, A.D.D. Jane, featured in Channel Frederator Episode 107, is December’s Cartoon of the Month! Allan will be the lucky recipient of a $100 prize pack of awesome Channel Frederator goodies. Be sure to send us some action shots of you and your goodies Allan, and congratulations. As for you viewers and voters, keep on clicking those stars for your favorite cartoons! Voting ends for next month’s Cartoon of the Month in only 29 days!

We are Nuts about Grant Garvin’s Nuts, here at the Channel Frederator camp. Some of you probably thought we were Nuts for running Nuts, but then again some of you probably thought we were Nuts long before that.
Channel Frederator got a chance to ask Grant a few Nutty Questions.
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We had a full boat of folks show up this weekend over here at RAW…
Alex Dron

Check out all the cool styles and characters…

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Here is the newest trailer for the Fox/Blue Sky film “Horton Hears a Who”. The trailer hints at more of the story, and shows us a few more characters from the film.

“Horton Hears a Who” will be released on March 14th, 2008.

-Floyd Bishop

It’d be bad form if we let this day slip by without a tip of the hat to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. Their studio’s first TV show, Ruff and Reddy, premiered fifty years ago today, December 14, 1957. The only R&R episodes I remember seeing are the munimula ones, so it sure would be a kick to watch some others. Some day. Sheesh, if I had a dime for every cartoon I’ve watched from that studio…. In any event, thanks, Bill & Joe.

– Eric

1) To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik
$47.25 (info from Amazon)
The holy grail of animation success. This is a great book written about the rise of the powerhouse animation studio, and what it took to get there.

2) The Cintiq 12wx
$999.99 (info from Wacom)
The newest, latest and greatest from WACOM. Basically an Intous tablet with an LCD screen that allows you the portability that the larger Cintiq models lack.
This bad boy is high ticket item, but well worth it @ $999

3) iStopMotion
$49.00 Starting (info from Boinx)
This cool app. allows you to preview your work without having to render the video. Giving you more time to create those awesome shorts.

4) Ratatouille DVD
$14.99 (info from Amazon)
Beautiful animation, great score from the kings of animation Disney and Pixar!

5) iPod Nano
$149 Starting (info from Apple)
Because there is nothing better (well I guess you could argue the iPod Touch [Read more…]

Animation seems to be all the rage round the NNN offices these days.
Supreme Indy Mogulist Erik Beck puts his own unique spin on stop motion animation and Steve “I’m Steve Nelson” Nelson of Indy Mogul’s Weekend Extra gives us an insightful interview with Animator Javan Ivey, who happened to be featured back on Channel Frederator Episode 105!!!

Paging Doctor Bammington, cause the Indy Mogul-mation is pure BAM. Word.
respect knuckles,
-Jeaux Janovsky

Hey, remember when, like, a million years ago, Channel Frederator would honor a cartoon every month by bestowing it with the title “Cartoon of the Month“? Well if you don’t remember, we did. And we’re doing it again!
Every month you have the chance to help elect your favorite Cartoon of the Month. Simply visit us at ChannelFrederator.com and vote. December’s cartoon of the month includes Channel Frederator cartoons that ran from November 1st, 2007 thru to November 30th 2007 (that would be Episodes 105, 106, 107 and 108). Make sure you visit each episode page (you can just click on the links for each of the episodes above) and simply give your favorites (or not-so-favorites) a star rating.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here on RAW.

Fabian Dores Pais

Plus other fun smiling faces…

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via Beatlefans.com
Before being animated in “The Yellow Submarine”, the Beatles had their own cartoon series. The series premiered on ABC on Saturday, September 25, 1965 at 10:30 am. Each show was a half-hour long and consisted of two “adventures” and two sing-a-long songs. Lyrics were flashed on the screen so that viewers could join in. The show was an instant success.

The show was produced by King Features Productions. The voices of the Beatles cartoon characters were supplied by voice actors Lance Percival (Paul and Ringo), and Paul Frees (John and George). Animation was done overseas at TVC of London and Astransa, an Australian company. TVC is also the company that produced the animated movie “Yellow Submarine”. The scripts were relatively easy to develop, as the episodes were based on popular Beatles songs.

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