Channel Frederator Blog

French animator Ghislain Avrillon’s short film “Galileo” is a bonifide hit with Channel Frederator Fans! Here is a quick interview with the filmmaker about his work.

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation?

Ghislain Avrillon: I learned animation and art at the Pivaut School in Nantes (France). My studies lasted 4 years, but only the last two were animation.
Galileo is the result of the last year. Six months of hard personal work.

CF: What gave you the idea for “Galileo”?

GA: I love poetry and the idea of freedom. This mentality orientated my choices for the scenario and graphic world. I heard a beautiful comment about Galileo : “A Modern Icarus”. Icarus has ever been a beautiful dream to me.

CF: What influences your style the most?

GA: Hmmm… I’m very interested in illustrator’s digital work. I want to approach a traditional result with digital tools.

CF: Are you working on anything new you can tell us about?

GA: I’m working on many personal [Read more…]

30 Days of shooting v.2 (the linear edit) from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

I was messing around this week’s featured filmmaker’s tumblr and found this great production vlog from Kirsten about her cupcake film.

–Fred

It only just now occurred to me that after nine months I’ve never properly introduced our Channel Frederator bloggers. Shame on me.

A little background might be in order. We started Channel Frederator and its blog in November 2005. At first, it was a hype for the great surprise of our successful launch and I figured it would be a natural addition to the cartoon community blog we’d set up for our production company, Frederator Studios. Soon it settled into a useful, but predictable pattern of one awesome post (by former Frederator development exec and creator Melissa Wolfe) for each weekly cartoon we featured. Not only we were bored, but you let us know you wanted more from Channel Frederator than merely an amazing weekly cartoon show from the best filmmakers in the world.

What to do? We were already swamped just putting together the show and making our own cartoons. So we turned to you, our [Read more…]