Talk to the Snail

Part IV of my salacious re-cap of my trip to the Ottawa International Animation Festival last week.

It’s Jerrytime!: The Brute

This category, New Media Competition, absorbs the category of Animation Short Made for the Internet. In fact, the terms ‘New Media’ and ‘Internet’ were both used in describing the fourteen films.

Even though these cartoons were made for the Internet, most were new to me, and, after doing cursory googling, I could dig up few on the web (even images were hard to find). Our Friends of Frederator© Tom Kyzivat and Zee Risek had their films, “Prey” and “The Z-Files”, included (Zee – why was this version of your film longer than the version we screened in last year’s Nicktoons Network Animation Festival?). The JibJab boys were represented, too.

Two Things Human Beings Really Love to Do

I enjoyed “Two Things Human Beings Really Love to Do” by Italy’s Luca Frattini and “Perestroika: Mushy Room” by Ryosuke Aoike. I guess I would’ve gone with the jury in choosing “It’s Jerrytime!: The Brute”, one of two Jerrytime! films by Jerry and Orrin Zucker here, as my favorite short of the competition. You can see their Jerrytime! cartoons over on their video blog (or subscribe to their podcast). Congratulations, everyone.