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Animator/creator Jon Izen’s “Black & White Episode 44: Bearly Worth Watching” is some of the fastest, funniest animation around.

Channel Frederator: Where did you get your animation education?

Jon Izen: University of Manitoba and Vancouver Film School

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

JI: Two things -

1. People that push themselves to create fantastic and unique work . To name a few - Marv Newland, Danny Antonucci, Scotty Underwood, Todd Ramsay, Alex Dron, Hobo Divine, and the killer talented Mike Geiger.

2. The desire to produce work and make a living, that is fueled by nothing more than the ability to express myself in any way I choose…

CF: “Black & White” is so random! How did you come up with it?

JI: I thought they made sense…I”ll have to get back to you on that.

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

JI: I am not sure if I can leak [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…]