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What a WEEK we have planned for you, Channel Frederator friends! Chickens! Robots! Dinosaurs! ALL IN ONE WEEK. Can you handle it?! Yes. Yes you can, and you will love every second of it. Cluck Cluck, wizz clank, ROOOAAARRR!

MONDAY Channel Frederator - “Chicken Cowboy” by Stephen Neary : A humble chicken learns to be brave in the face of bullies, bullets, and toast.

WEDNESDAY Fredbits - “Robot Dance Wars” by Toby Dale: Because the best way to settle a score is to just dance it out.

FRIDAY Cartoon Hangover - “Dino Rider” by Mikkel Siercke: A boy uses a dinosaur to exact revenge on his enemies (in lieu of dancing out his anger, it would seem).

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Woo! Happy Friday, cartoon friends. Cartoon Hangover features Drinking and Drawing Miami: 2 this week - sponsored by Frederator and the Miami World Cinema Center. It’s produced by Patrick De Bokay and Spence Morin. Here, Spence gives us a little insight into how it all went down and when it’s coming up next.

The event has actually inspired a lot of venues to approach me to do D and Ds at their event, but in allegiance to Fred and the venue (the News Lounge) I’ve stayed put with it. I have been generating other riffs off of the idea such as stop-mo go which would essentially be animation of people in front of a green screen acting crazy via a live capture technique. Here’s the link to the one we did for the Borscht Film Festival, a festival I co-founded and a project that the Miami World Cinema Center funds and [Read more…]

Mountain from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Here’s a little diddy by Channel Frederator favorite, Kirsten Lepore! Check out Kirsten’s previous CF episode and interviews!

-Bailee DesRocher

‘Sup nerds?! It’s finally here! December 10th is go time for Cartoon Hangover, a new show from Channel Frederator that is grown-ups only animation. If you have a dirty ‘toon lyin’ around, submit that sh*t! Also, it’s hosted by yours truly, so if anything you know it’ll be super hot with fabulous hair. It’s already your favorite show. No big deal.

BTW, Cartoon Hangover is NSFW.

See you on December 10th, you sexy bunch of animation nerds!

-Bailee DesRocher

I don’t want you to see this week’s episode! It’s too good! I want it all for myself! You can’t have it! YOU CAN’T HAVE IT!!! You will have to pry it from my cold dead laptop!

Well… ’tis the season of making a show of being nice… so I guess I’ll share.

“Sharing” by Kris Anka: A little boy and giant robot mutually learn about sharing. Also, they fly sometimes.

Keep your eyes peeled for our new show, Cartoon Hangover , launching December 10th! It features the silliest, dirtiest animation on the web. For your beer-goggled, grown-up eyes only!

Animators whose work is shown on regular episodes of Channel Frederator will receive cash! Learn more about the changes we’ve made here.

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WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. Man, turkey is so *bleepin’* delicious! Oops. Sorry. Some content on CF is pretty grown up. If you’re under 18, [Read more…]

Being a kid is radical. You already know this - as an animation nerd/connoisseur you are more than likely a giant, fun-loving child. Nobody captures the essence of what it means to enjoy being a kid better than this week’s featured animator, Tom DesLongchamp, in his goofy and sweet short “Kid Show”. Look out for his awesome interview with Channel Frederator later this week!

“Kid Show”, by Tom DesLongchamp - An animated homage to the wonders of being a kid.

Keep your eyes peeled for our new show, Cartoon Hangover, featuring the silliest, smuttiest animation on the web. For your beer-goggled, grown-up eyes only! Yes, you’re a kid a heart, but for serious, this will melt your face off.

Animators whose work is shown on regular episodes of Channel Frederator will receive cash! Learn more about the changes we’ve made here.

Leave lots of comments and follow us on Twitter!

WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. Man, [Read more…]

This week, Fredbot explores Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Erebuni Gallery for the 4th Annual Too Art for TV exhibit! Visit http://bunnycutlet.com/2A4TV for more info. The exhibit closes October 17th! Go, go, go!

Don’t forget – we’re switching our format to one ‘toon per episode with cash to animators who participate! Learn more about the awesome changes we’re making here.

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“Follow”, by Edmond Hawkins – Ambidextrous animator Edmond Hawkins’ latest film! Angels! Planes! Giants!

“Forest”, by Eric Leiser – Stop motion animal skeletons and eyeball trees! Creepy and ethereal.

WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. All this art is so *bleepin’* beautiful! Oops. Sorry. Some content on CF is pretty grown up. If you’re under 18, get your parent’s permission prior to viewing.

-Bailee DesRocher

We hear you, already! You like your pigs sneaky, your animators drunk, and your counties full of ghosts.

So we delivered!

And I don’t mean to brag, but this week’s episode is probably the best episode of all the episodes. Well, until next week’s episode. But for now, it’s the best.

“The Mystery of Pig City!”, submitted by Garth Jones - Featured at the International Children’s Film Festival, where the creators were asked thought provoking questions about the film from an audience of little kids like “What colors are the best?” and “What are sausages made of?”

“Drinking & Drawing NYC 2.0”, submitted by Drinking & Drawing - Over 100 animators + enough booze to waste over 100 animators = this film! Good times! From April *hiccup* 2008. Next one coming up in NYC on June 24th! Theme: Bikini Zombies.

“County Ghost #4”, submitted by Mike Geiger - The fourth installment in Mike [Read more…]

NYC based studio //kneeon! is responsible for the cool creative music video for “The Gold” by John Brown’s Body. The video was directed by Kelly Goeller and Mike Healey and over a dozen animators contributed to the film. They have asked to collectively go by the name //kneeon!

Channel Frederator: Where did you get your animation education?

//kneeon!: We are animation students at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. We have been working together on animated projects for about 4 years now, which led us to co-found //kneeon! , a production company specializing in both animation and live action.

CF: Who or what has influenced your work the most?

K!: Our influences range from Michel Gondry’s music videos to Norman McLaren, Vik Muniz to Rachel Ray, and from gradients to comic sans.

CF: How did you develop the concept for this film? Where did you find all of the animators who contributed their work?

K!: //kneeon! was approached by Seth [Read more…]

Lately, I’ve been trying to find themes for each of Channel Frederator’s episodes. This week I choose “awesome” as my tie in. ‘Cause these films are awesome! You might be asking yourself, ‘Self, what kind of stuff falls into the category of ‘awesome’?’

Yourself might answer:

Cupcakes = awesome
Doggies = awesome
These films = awesome

Hope that helps. Have an awesome time watching this week’s awesome episode.

John Brown’s Body - “The Gold”, submitted by Mike Healey & Kelly Goeller - This cool collaborative music video from //kneeon! is out of this world.

“Walter’s Bed”, submitted by Eben Zboch – A young film student inspired by Oren Lavie takes stop-motion-on-a-bed a step further with this fun film.

Black & White, Episode 44: “Bearly Worth Watching”, submitted by Jon Izen – Quick and quirky describe this one of many random, hilarious shorts in the “Black & White” series.

“Stories form the Neighbourhood”, submitted by Jon Humphreys – An awesome promotional video for UK [Read more…]