The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival

Nicole Mitchell receiving the first of her two awards

Thanks to everyone who showed up for the big Nicktoons Network Animation Festival party here at the Nick Studio in Burbank Friday night. More than 300 people attended, and a good time was had by all.

Hal Sparks was on hand to announce the winners of this year’s festival, and these were the results:

– Nick Development Award - “Zoologic”, Nicole Mitchell
– Grand Jury Prize - “Zoologic”, Nicole Mitchell
– Producers’ Choice Award - “St Laleeloo”, Jiwook Kim
– Student Award - “Bare”, Andy Lyon
– Diversity Award - “Feb-18-05″, Javier Barboza

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Here’s the scoop on the Viewers’ Choice voting for this year’s Nicktoons Network Animation Festival.

First a note from Nicktoons Network, the ones running the voting:

“The festival takes over the month of August on-air and online! Starting August 1st, one short will be showcased every night at 10p where viewers can go online or text their vote if the short “Rocks or Rots” and enter into the “Rocks or Rots” sweepstakes, all leading up to the final one hour “Best Of” special on August 31st at 10pm, announcing the award winners including the Grand Jury Prize ($10,000), the Nick Development Award, and the Viewer’s Choice (“Rots or Rocks”) Award.”

First of all, that’s 10:00 p.m., EDT, or New York City time.

You can go to the Nicktoons Network website and click on “Rocks or Rots” sweepstakes.

Voting online for each film will last 24 hours. Each short will be up from 10:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. [Read more…]