The Annie Awards have all been handed out. Congratulations to Guy Moon for the big win in the Music in a Television Production category for Wishology.
It’s really nice to see how the awards were spread around - Pixar, Disney, Fox, Nick, Dreamworks, Laika, and others were rewarded. All well deserved, if you ask me. Hats off to all the winners.
Next year? Let’s all hope Fanboy and Adventure Time will dominate the proceedings.
– Eric
P.S. ASIFA, you need to bring back Steve Marmel or Tom Kenny as host.
Friends of Frederator Chogrin (whose work is above) and Jeaux Jaovsky and Cristina Paulos as well as dozens of other artists are presenting their spins on He-Man, with the opening reception tonight at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. For most of the evening, you’ll be able to find me across the street at Pink’s, waiting for the showroom’s lines to go down.
Can you believe it? Finally, Nicktoons Network will show the last three un-aired Random! Cartoons — “Squirly Town”, “Fanboy”, and “Handycat” — we produced with Nick so many, many years ago (Winsor McCay was a layout artist on four of the shorts). What took so long, you ask? Well, a bunch of reasons, but for this last delay, you can blame Eric Robles. Once Fanboy and Chum Chum, the series, went into production, the network decided not to air the original “Fanboy” short before the series premiered and became as beloved by generations as it is today. While Eric’s been busy on his show, poor Doug TenNapel and G. Brian Reynolds and Russ Harris, whose shorts were completed in February 2007 and September 2006, will just now see their work on the teevee. Congratulations, guys, and sorry about the wait.
“Fanboy” airs Saturday at noon in the east, 9:00 a.m. in the west, as the [Read more…]
“Fanboy” Random! Cartoons
Created by Eric Robles
Directed by Shaun Cashman
Premieres Saturday, December 19, at 12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST on Nicktoons Network
Frederator Postcards Series 7.32, mailed December 15, 2009
“Squirly Town” Random! Cartoons
Created by Doug TenNapel
Directed by Doug TenNapel and Mike Dietz
Premieres Sunday, December 20, at 11:00 a.m. EST / 8:00 a.m. PST on Nicktoons Network
Frederator Postcards Series 7.31, mailed December 14, 2009
“Handycat” Random! Cartoons
Created by G. Brian Reynolds and Russ Harris
Directed by G. Brian Reynolds and Russ Harris
Premieres Sunday, December 20, at 11:00 a.m. EST / 8:00 a.m. PST on Nicktoons Network
Frederator Postcards Series 7.33, mailed December 10, 2009
….. From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 600 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard! www.frederator.com
“Handycat”, created by G. Brian Reynolds and Russ Harris
Handycat, along with his dog, Drillbit, are totally at your service! They’re available for anything! General Contracting! Pest Removal! Baby Sitting! Space Shuttle Repair! If a job needs to be done, Handycat can do it! (Just make sure the insurance policies are paid up!)
Most might think heading a successful, small animation studio would be enough, but G. Brian Reynolds secretly longed to be something else — a handyman. Russ Harris, his creative partner, always wanted to be a dog. Together this misbegotten and silly creative team brings you “Handycat”!
The new adventure of Mukpuddy’s first character - Dirk Banzai!
***CHECK OUT our blog for more info: http://mukpuddy.blogspot.com/2009/10/hes-not-cat.html
Hats off to our pals in New Zealand, Mukpuddy Animation, for a job well-done. They’ve just blogged a four-and-a-half minute pilot for Nick International based on their very first character, Dirk Banzai (created back when Dame Jenny Shipley was Prime Minister!). Watch it above, then go to the MukBlog to let them how much you enjoyed it.
Images from Jean-Christophe Lie’s “L’Homme a la Gordini”
I’m back from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Hats off to Chris Robinson, Kelly Neall, and the team behind the screens for organizing another fine festival. Also, thanks to Dave Levy who invited me to sit on a development panel along with Linda Simensky, Fran Krause, and Heather Kenyon. It went well, and I used two different dating analogies in answering questions.
It was a strong crop of shorts this year, I think. However, even though I took advantage of the screenings-on-demand, I still fell short of seeing all the animation I would’ve liked to have seen. Favorite films? Again, I didn’t see nearly everything (I missed the Student Screening, for example), but I’d give the blue ribbon to “L’Homme a la Gordini”, the first short film by Jean-Christophe Lie, and a cartoon I wished would’ve gone on longer. I also enjoyed pretty well Adam [Read more…]
To promote tomorrow’s release of the Wubb Idol DVD, Wubbzy rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The Dow is up 10.96 to 9875.90 as of 2:20 p.m. ET. Pork bellies are down, doodleberry pies are up in late trading.
Hey, remember that anthology we produced 700 years ago called Random! Cartoons? Well, one of those thirty-nine shorts - “Call Me Bessie!” - is being screened in this year’s New York Television Festival, “the industry’s first recognized independent television festival, providing a platform to elevate the work of artists creating for the small screen”. As part of of the festival’s family block, Bessie and Al can be seen this Friday (9/25) at 6:00 p.m., then again on Saturday (9/26) at 1:15 p.m. Both screenings will be at New World Stages located at 340 West 50th Street.
A big hats off to creators Diane Kredensor and Dana Galin along with their cast and crew on jobs well done. If I were in Manhattan, I’d be there with (cow)bells on.
