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CalArts graduate Daron Nefcy’s “The Terror From Mars” is here just in time for Halloween! Below, she answers very important questions pertaining to candy and imaginary creature fights.

What was the most useful thing you learned about animation when you were in school?

To understand what you’re going to do before you do it. Learning to act out the movement beforehand, creating thumbnails, and then keeping the key frames rough so that you don’t waste time doing things over and over. School was a series of looming deadlines, so getting things close enough to the way I wanted them as accurately and as quickly as possible was great preparation for me.

Any cool stories/accidents/explosions involved in the making of “The Terror From Mars”?

Hmm… I’m not sure I can remember any. There were always happy accidents, but this film went from an idea to completed product in 5 months. I don’t remember much aside from [Read more…]

This week Carl tackles the annual, all important question, “What will you be for Halloween this year?” Channel Frederator’s answer? “Awesome. We will be awesome this year.”

And our featured film is…

“The Terror From Mars” by Daron Nefcy - An alien with hunger pangs lands on Earth for a snack. Whaddya know - I get my snacks from Earth too! Wild.

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WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. Man, candy corn is so *bleepin’* delicious! 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

Waste not, Channel Frederator Fans! This week, we’re all about recycling, be it bunnies or refrigerators! I’ll let you decide which of those two is a beloved pet…

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“The Dragon’s Claw”, by Robert Bruce – Animation Block Party ’09 winner for Best Music Video! Watch as our hero stops animals from becoming appliances!

“Tom’s Fridge”, by Clive McFarland – Man’s best friend isn’t quite what you’d imagine in this quirky paper cutout stop mo animation.

WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. Recycling is so *bleepin’* helpful! Oops. Sorry. Some content on CF is pretty [Read more…]

Greetings Gentle Ghouls and Ghostly Girls! We’ve been carving up pumpkins with our lazer eyes in anticipation of Halloween!
In fact, we couldn’t wait til the “actual” Halloween… so we created our own 9 days early, which I’ve dubbed Fred-O-Ween!

(Insert Maniacal Laughter HERE)

(a Thunder clap sound effect would add a nice touch if you also imagined that happening too.)

—Mina and the Count in “The Ghoul’s Tribunal”, submitted by Rob Renzetti
Mina and everyone’s favorite sucker (of blood), the Count, star in another great Oh Yeah! Frederator Era Cartoon by My Life as a Teenage Robot creator Rob “Candy Corn” Renzetti, and it is spooky awesome.

—Happy Pumpkin, submitted by Floyd Bishop
Floyd “BOO Boy” Bishop carves us up a cute and very happy pumpkin. He is gosh darn cute. Turn up your volume on this one.

—Slaughterween, submitted by Rory Cooke
Slaughterween by “Gory” Rory Cooke tells the tale of a lonely and misunderstood schoolboy who [Read more…]