Channel Frederator Blog

Peter Griffin (Family Guy) by mataleoneBR

Worth1000 is a company that creates web-based internet applications for artists. But what’s really fun about the company is that they’ve decided to generate buzz by hosting a series of Photoshop image manipulation contests. The resulting entries can be astoundingly strange.

The Reality Cartoon Contest asked contestants to “make a photorealistic image which depicts what a cartoon character would look like if they came to life.” See the deeply disconcerting results by clicking on these links:

Reality Cartoons 1

Reality Cartoons 2

Beavis by mataleoneBR

Another contest after the jump…
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Channel Frederator is giving away a Cintiq for its Cartoon of the Quarter prize - submit your animation to channelfrederator.com get the most viewer votes and you could win your own Cintiq!

In this video animator Gabe Swarr demonstrates how to use a Wacom Cintiq with 21 inch LCD screen. Gabe Swarr is one of the many animators who submitted to Channel Frederator and recently won our Cartoon of the Month prize. You can check out his work at dummcomics.com and at iam8bit.net

Video by Dave Seger.
Thanks guys!

-Jeaux Janovsky

Reposted from Indy Mogul!

Not to sound too much like a shameless plug, but our friend Rob Schrab (who recently put together an episode of the 4-minute Film School) is encouraging fans to recreate the energy of his popular comic book series “SCUD: The Disposable Assassin” by means of a fan film contest. Rob co-created Channel 101, so he knows how valuable deadlines and obstructions can be to creating something.

If you’re a fan of Scud, or just like making stuff, check out all the information on his site. You can make whatever you want about SCUD, make it three minutes or less in length, and send him a link by July 31st.