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Guess what! It’s time to award September’s Cartoon of the Month prize! As a reminder, the Cartoon of the Month prize goes to the highest viewer-rated film. This means that you, our viewers, choose your favorite films. The winner of the Cartoon of the Month prize gets a $100 extra-special pack of Channel Frederator goodies.

This month, episodes 139, 140, 141 and 142 were eligible. The winner is A Little Sunshine, submitted by Jason Jones, from episode 139.

I’m so excited that A Little Sunshine is our winner. I have such a soft spot in my heart for happy little pencil animations, and this one was particularly cute. I took the time to ask Jason a few questions about his film. Check out his answers below! [Read more…]

I can feel it from here, you guys are EXCITED about the cartoon of the month. Particularly exciting is the fact that, because of the Channel Frederator Awards, we have only ONE episode of new content that aired in June! That means only three cartoons - stiff competition.
Episode 135 aired on Channel Frederator on June 3rd and had three awfully creative cartoons, so voting was SUPER close! Lenny Boudreau, our tireless Drinking & Drawing Boston host brought us the latest in drunken cartoon tomfoolery. From filmmaker, Tomagibo, comes Save the Princess. This creative and hysterical claymation will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Last, but certainly not least, Paul Shih brings us Rainbow Monster - our winner!! This super-cute cartoon has two lessons: 1) You are what you eat. 2) How to poop rainbows. A long-time resident of New Zealand, Paul is famous for his cute characters and his very cool paper cutouts [Read more…]

Also announced in today’s Channel Frederator Awards episode was the winner of our Vanguard Award, Dan Meth. This award is juried by the programming team at Channel Frederator and is designed to honor someone that’s doing something very new for animation. We decided that Dan Meth was an excellent candidate. Not only is he working in a completely modern style - all digital and able to do every aspect on his own, but he is doing it successfully. Below is an essay written by Herb Scannell in recognition of Dan’s award: [Read more…]

Today’s episode of the Channel Frederator Awards features the nominees and winning film of the Best CG Award (as well as the very special Vanguard Award, but more on that later…). Our nominees were greatly varied and all much deserving - Mark Shirra’s hilarious “A Great Big Giant Robot From Outer Space”, “Cocotte Minute,” a colorful, non-stop race of CG fun from Sylvain Marc, and of course, “Kiwi” by Dony Permedi.
“Kiwi” snatched up this prize, along with the many others that Dony has collected over the past year and a half since releasing his student film. In an interview with Channel Frederator, Dony said:

“The goal for my thesis was to use animation to create empathy with my character and the audience. The story was just a means to that end. I had laid out and known for months what I wanted to do with my animation first, and then brainstormed [Read more…]

It’s no secret making awesome Flash cartoons will develop your physique like nobody’s business, as filmmaker Joel Trussell proves in this photo. Go, Joel! Here he is with two Channel Frederator certificates for jobs well done, for “Float (My Electric Stargirl)” and “War Photographer” (we owe him a third for “Paris is On”). The latter won Best Music Video and Producers’ Choice prizes at the first-ever Channel Frederator Awards. Thank for the picture, Joel. A pair athletic socks is in the mail.

– Eric

There are a few things you may or may not know about cartoonist Mike Hollingsworth.

1. He created Baby Bird Comics.

2. Mike’s been slapped around by a female dj on at least one occasion.

3. He’s Spiderman!

Here he is above, holding his two Channel Frederator Certificates for jobs well done. You can see The Mustache Contest [sic] and The Superlative World of Abbreviation in Channel Frederator episodes 48 and 17. If you act quickly, you can be Mike Hollingsworth friend #560 on his MySpace page.

– Eric

Next Tuesday, June 10, is the day we announce the winners of the 2008 Channel Frederator Awards. Just like in 2007 it was an embarrassment of riches, and I’m sure when you voted, just like all of us, it was hard making a decision in every category. We’re all lucky to have the greatest filmmakers in the world allowing us to share their cartoons on Channel Frederator.

A big disappointment this year is we’re not going to be able to meet as many of you in person as we’d like and hand out the Freddies in person. Logistical issues bolixed us up and we’re concentrating on delivering a great online event rather than a live party.

Please join us starting June 10 for the round up and announcement of all our great winners. We’ll start that day, and then two special episodes a week for the next four weeks, highlighting the winners [Read more…]

Watch the New Episode Here! 

We bet some of you are still partying while the rest of us are at work suffering through post BBQ hangovers.

Us? Way too much root beer and a HUGE hot dog/hamburger/ketchup/mustard food-fight.

Luckily, we (and you) have this episode of Channel Fred to get you over the post-Memorial Day blues.

And lots of aspirin.

—Boxhead and Roundhead - Safari, submitted by Elliot Cowan
Our favorite Black and White Duo go on a safari! Watch them stare Nature and Death right in the face! Another death defying adventure from Friend of Frederator, Elliot Cowan.

—Str33t, submitted by leBeat
Skateboarding is NOT a crime, but killing cute cartoon creatures while doing so is. In some states at least.

—Hold On, Hold On - Thief, submitted by Catherine Richardson
Animated music video for the band Thief by Catherine Richardson, featuring a cast of furry animal people who discover a magical diamond in the rough.

—The Idiotic Adventures of [Read more…]

Artwork by Joanna Davidovich

Essay by Amid Amidi

Why Cartoons?

Tex Avery. Chuck Jones. Bob Clampett. John Hubley. Bobe Cannon. Frank Tashlin. Friz Freleng. Bob McKimson. Emile Cohl. Winsor McCay. Ward Kimball. Jack Kinney. Hugh Harman. Rudolf Ising. Max Fleischer. Lotte Reiniger. Bill Hanna. Joe Barbera. Willis O’Brien. Otto Messmer. Walt Disney. Ray Harryhausen. Ub Iwerks.

Why Cartoons?

Karel Zeman. Bretislav Pojar. Jiri Trnka. George Pal. Walerian Borowczyk. Osamu Tezuka. Bob Godfrey. George Dunning. Alexandre Alexeieff. Claire Parker. Stan Brakhage. John Whitney. Jan Lenica. Witold Giersz. Terry Gilliam. Vladimir Kristl. Lou Bunin. Dusan Vukotic. Boris Kolar. Fyodor Khitruk. Peter Sachs. Richard Williams. Yoji Kuri. Stan VanDerBeek. Ralph Bakshi. Gene Deitch. Len Glasser. Luzzati & Gianini. Norman McLaren. John Korty. Kihachiro Kawamoto. Ladislas Starewicz. Ryan Larkin. Ernest Pintoff. Fred Crippen. Jan Svankmajer. Len Lye. Hy Hirsh. Frederick Back. Oskar Fischinger. Jay Ward. Peter Foldes.

Why Cartoons?

Bruce Bickford. Brad Bird. Trey Parker. Matt Stone. John Lasseter. Smith & [Read more…]

I wanted to start off this section of Art and Essays from teammates from Team Frederator, with my art piece for the Awards Booklet. Kicking things off, so to speak. -Jeaux

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