Channel Frederator Blog

Jayne Vidheecharoen is a top-notch animator by nature and by trade. She recently animated the music video for “When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade” by UK band, The Boy Least Likely To.

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation?

Jayne Vidheecharoen: I’ve been doing stop motion and flip-book animation for fun since I was little and always loved drawing and animation. But I couldn’t imagine having to draw the same things over and over again all day long.

So I went to the University of Washington for Visual Communication Design. About halfway through school I discovered motion design, which seemed like a good hybrid of design, illustration, and animation. After graduating I got a job at Digital Kitchen where I’ve been able to learn the most about animation from coworkers. I actually got to work on the Lemonade video at DK as a personal project, which was great. I don’t think it would [Read more…]

O. M. G. Everyone is sweating in their everyparts.

It’s officially summer and it is hecka hot outside, folks (yeah, spellcheck, I know “hecka” and “everyparts” aren’t real words… wait… it says “spellcheck” isn’t one either… hm).

Tired of your swimmies already? Beat the heat and chill out with our ‘toons. Stroll down our boardwalk of fun films and see if you don’t cool off a degree… or ten.

Ahhhh….

“When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade”, submitted by Jof Owen – Ultra cute music video for UK band Boy Least Likely To, directed by Jayne Vidheecharoen.

“Boris”, submitted by Daniel Lundquist – Strange hand drawn tale of a boy who majorly hearts drumming.

“Krishna’s Garden”, submitted by Miriam Nagi – I never thought of clouds as cute, but they are. Especially when they cry. Trust me.

WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. Change is good. You know what hasn’t changed? The quality of our content. Some of this stuff is pretty [Read more…]