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Director/animator Anton Bogaty returns to Channel Frederator in this week’s episode with “Take Me”, a cool retro music video for the Portland based band, Weight of Atlas. Anton talks to CF about his process for creating the video and who he’d knock out if given the chance.

Channel Frederator: How did you develop the concept for this music video?

Anton Bogaty: To be honest, I didn’t have much time to pull this one together so the thought of a small boxing match with two characters against a mostly black background became appealing. The main boxer was originally just going to have flashbacks of his recently deceased wife throughout the match as opposed to having her spirit actually appear. The idea of the mob buying him off was a much larger element but got stripped out more and more and replaced by the boxer running around after the yellow light.

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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

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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

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