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The Channel Frederator Awards are Here!!! It was a hot, feverish, and fierce competition!!!

Find out if your favorite cartoons claimed the Big, Red, Hunk of Burning Fred!!!

Watch which film took home a Freddie for Best Flash Video! Was your pick even close? Our favorite Flash film Flashes so bright, you just might need some Frederator Branded shades!

Kiwi fruit is good. But Kiwi animators are better. Find out which animating New Zealanders won in our Kiwi Award!

And finally, our Cartoonist of the Year Award went to Marjane Satrapi for her work and her film, Persepolis! She is Awesome. We wholeheartedly think you will all agree!!!

Watch all the nominees at channelfrederator.com
-Jeaux Janovsky

This looks really great. Pencil is an open source, 2D animation program, allowing users to create hand drawn animation in either bitmap or vector format. While it’s not a replacement for Flash, it does allow you to manage your animated frames with a timeline and some simple tools.

Have a look at their gallery section to see what’s possible.

-Floyd Bishop

Greetings Gentle Ghouls and Ghostly Girls! We’ve been carving up pumpkins with our lazer eyes in anticipation of Halloween!
In fact, we couldn’t wait til the “actual” Halloween… so we created our own 9 days early, which I’ve dubbed Fred-O-Ween!

(Insert Maniacal Laughter HERE)

(a Thunder clap sound effect would add a nice touch if you also imagined that happening too.)

—Mina and the Count in “The Ghoul’s Tribunal”, submitted by Rob Renzetti
Mina and everyone’s favorite sucker (of blood), the Count, star in another great Oh Yeah! Frederator Era Cartoon by My Life as a Teenage Robot creator Rob “Candy Corn” Renzetti, and it is spooky awesome.

—Happy Pumpkin, submitted by Floyd Bishop
Floyd “BOO Boy” Bishop carves us up a cute and very happy pumpkin. He is gosh darn cute. Turn up your volume on this one.

—Slaughterween, submitted by Rory Cooke
Slaughterween by “Gory” Rory Cooke tells the tale of a lonely and misunderstood schoolboy who [Read more…]