We want you to help us throw down for our 4 year anniversary with a slew of fantastic films for one big, bad episode! We’re looking for 4 second animations of what you think the Fredbot would do to celebrate his Happy 4th!
Upload your film to the submissions page. Please type “4 SECOND FREDBOT BY (your name)” in the title box. Best file size and type is 640×360 .mov Done and done!
Deadline is October 12th!
If you have other films you’d like featured on Channel Frederator, check out this article! We can’t wait to show your work, and in addition to interviews and hype for you - with our new format there’s cash available to anyone that gets their work shown!
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:
I admit to being a bit late to the waffle party, but I just discovered the wonderful world of cartoon waffle testimonials. It all started with the above video, made by Nathan Mazur to go along with the song “Do You Like Waffles?” by Parry Gripp of the band Nerf Herder. (The song is from his solo album For Those About To Shop, We Salute You.) This is the “official” animated video for the delicious ode to round morning goodness.
But then fans started making their own videos, starring famous cartoon characters. After the jump, links to a whole bunch of manic breakfast lovers including Sonic, Pucca, and Naruto.
And please don’t be tempted to drown me in maple syrup (the real stuff!) if you dream about this song.
Here’s some of the loot I got from the great Mocca Art Festival this year in NYC.
First off, here’s the cover to the mini I printed up to hand out to people. I guess I was inspired by Stephen Levinson’sgun-toting, wise ass Skunk, Prikk. The comic was called, Box Assassin Hitman: Box of Danger!!!
People seemed delighted to be given a free mini about a cardboard robot who can transform into a box and is a deadly hitman assassin. [Read more…]
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.
Not all fan videos are created equal. Youtube has no shortage of bad videos of animated content set to random songs. This video from YouTube user Poopydough is one of the good ones though. He combined the Cake cover of the Black Sabbath song “War Pigs”, with visuals from the Cartoon Network series “Clone Wars”. He matched up key lyrics with visuals that correspond, and the results are pretty nice.
I still prefer the way Black Sabbath does the song though.
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