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Emily Salva was seven (yep, seven) years old when she made her short animation “Odysseus and the Cyclops”. She drew the drawings, and her dad, animator Mike Salva, brought them to life.

WARNING: The following interview is super cute. Read at your own risk.

Channel Frederator: What was your favorite part about making “Odysseus and the Cyclops”?

Emily Salva: I liked making fart sounds into the microphone but my Daddy told me to stop. Also, I liked doing the drawings.

CF: The film was for a class project - did you get a good grade?

ES: I got an A and I did better than all the other kids in the class. The kids were worried that I was going to do another video the next time we did a report.

CF: What do you want to be when you grow up?

ES: A drawing artist or a clay artist.

CF: How would you escape the Cyclops?

ES: I would hide behind a [Read more…]

Harry Partridge, creator of the pitch-perfect parody “Saturday Morning Watchman” (up to 1,932,841 views on YouTube, as of this moment!) has posted his new reel. Harry is still in college and surely has quite a career ahead of him. He not only writes and animates his shorts; he also records all the voices solo and scores his own music.

The main Harry Partridge YouTube page is here. And his website is here.

Check out “Saturday Morning Watchman”, if you haven’t seen it. Or watch it again. Let’s push this puppy up past TWO MILLION VIEWS!

—Anne D. Bernstein

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!!!

In this episode, watch which Bunnies duked it out and prevailed in a battle of Epic Bad ASS Bunny-ness!!!

Also, meet Animator Stephen M. Levinson, winner of Channel Frederator’s Youngest Filmmaker Award, and watch his cartoon, Ace & Aqua!
You’ll forget that this 17 year old animation whiz kid is barely out of diapers.

Watch all the nominees at channelfrederator.com

-Jeaux Janovsky