Channel Frederator Blog

THROWBACK THURSDAYS CONTEST PAGE!!!

If you haven’t gotten them in yet, GIJOE throwback illustrations are due today. We have a pretty solid turnout this year. Thanks to everyone who has entered and have joined the Frederator RAW community. Below is a photo of the what the grand prize winner will get once chosen. An Original framed Madball illustration by James Groman,2 new signed madballs and one GIJOE 25th anniversary figure.

And here’s a prize for the runner up…..
[Read more…]

Emmett Goodman recently asked “How does one send in this raw art stuff?”

For Emmett and everyone else, here’s how:

Step One: Sign up for Channel Frederator RAW.

Step Two: Once you’re all signed up and ready to go, click on the “Artwork” tab near the top of the page.

Step Three: Click on the “Add Artwork” link in the left column. This will take you to a page where you can insert up to 8 images at a time. Each picture may be up to 10MB in size, but smaller pictures will upload more quickly!

You can also add images by phone or email. You can also add images from your Flickr account.

Once you’re all set up, be sure to add me as your friend, since I hooked you up with the step by step and all.

Thanks for the question, Emmett. See you on RAW!

-Floyd Bishop

What marks out a truly great 3D movie? The knowledge that it pioneered techniques that became standards within the industry, as “Flight of the Navigator” did with reflection mapping? Or that it raised the bar on the volume of effects work possible in a movie, as with “Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace”? Or simply that it told a memorable story? That was the question we posed in our recent poll to determine the most influential 3D movies of all time, organised in conjunction with 3D World magazine, the industry’s leading community portal.

Check out this article from CGSociety and 3D World, featuring the top 100 3D movies.

-Floyd Bishop

Animation Art Conservation has posted a great article online that outlines how “Ratatouille” was made. The article features three full length interviews: one with the film’s director and writer Brad Bird, production designer Harley Jessup and director of photography/lighting Sharon Calahan.

The article and interviews include exclusive art from Disney/Pixar that include the storyboards from the famous fixing the soup scene and concept art from Michel Gagné.

-Floyd Bishop

RAW Art Today — Stand for Change.

Dan Pinto

[Read more…]

One of my daily blog checks is to Craftzine. Craftzine is full of crafty, and even artsy-geeksy goodness. Today they posted about Sketchy Coworker. Now if there’s one thing I know a lot about, it’s sketchy coworkers. To my delight, it turns out that Blogger X (no info can be found on the site about who it is and what they do) posts all of the sketches he does while in office meetings. This is definitely one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of-this moments. I’d love to see more blogs of this sort, and I imagine there are more out there. Does anyone know of more? Jeaux Janvosky, this has your name alllllll over it… - Carrie

I was talking about the recent Transformers film with a few friends the other day, and it was suggested that the designs of the characters from the 1980’s cartoon would not translate well into 3D.

Soundwave is here to prove them wrong. Here he is as he appeared in the cartoon series from the 1980’s:

And here is the movie trailer from the recent film:

So the question is: could the film have been done with the same designs seen in the cartoon, or were the revisions necessary for the believability of the movie? What do you think?

-Floyd Bishop

So with Channel Frederator showcasing Alex Kirwan’s Oh Yeah! Cartoon, “Magic Trixie”, last week, and on the heels of Jeaux’s interview with the creator, Alex lent me these two original backgrounds to scan and post. Most of the short’s bgs are scattered to the far winds, but these two were relatively handy. Emmy Award-winning Dan Krall handled the bg designing while Emmy Award-winning Seonna Hong painted the keys (these production bgs were created by someone in Korea of whose Emmy Award-winning record I’m unaware). It was Seonna’s first credited animation work. In this pair, the purple and beige colors are on the backgrounds; the Zeroxed line art on cell overlays.

[Read more…]

Animation Paper, Wacom Tablets, Bears!?!? Oh My!
It’s Bear-Ly Tuesday here on Channel Frederator and it’s a weird thing to be surrounded by bears in the office today.

I feel like they’re all ravenous Yogis and I’m the lone Pic-a-nic basket.

Want a quick tip to survive a bear attack in the wilderness?
Make sure you bring your Ipod so you can stop them in their tracks… by hypnotizing them with the newest episode of Channel Frederator!!!
Subscribe to us today any way you can.

Your life could depend upon it.

— Freewheel, submitted by Eve Weinberg and Ryan Suffern
Animal Conciertos and great animation. That’s really all I need. Oh and Bears with Ferris Wheels.

— Crouque-Monsieur, submitted by Alex Toon
Crouque-Monsieur was a funny short. And will make me check twice before using the restroom. Er, rather check the toilet before using the restroom. You’ve heard the urban tale of crocodiles in the sewers? That’s all I’m sayin’.

— Pirate Beargade, [Read more…]

This is how we do it, on RAW Art Today.

John Fountain

[Read more…]