The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival

Philosophies of life are debated between a mental ward psychiatrist and his insane patient. Whose point of view is right? This film was made by computer animation students Florian Bestel, Guillaume Roux, Xavier Aliot, and Nicholas Chombart.

ESMA, the school who submitted this short, had many many other high quality submissions to the festival this year. You should definitely check out their website.

“Exit” premiers on Episode 5 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

Melissa

After graduating from school and doing community service, Andreas Gashka stayed in Mainz, Germany and enrolled in the media design program at the University of Applied Sciences. As a student, he started experimenting with various analog and digital techniques, including stop-motion, 3D animation, video, illustration and street art.

Andreas just finished half of his studies, and is about to start his internship at BUCK-LA.

“Zeitsprung Timetravels” premiers on Episode 5 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

Melissa

An encaged circus bear dreams of his liberation. Trapped by his fear, his wishes to escape are visualised through a ghost twin.

Ljubisa Djukic studied at the Animation School Hamburg, and is the Art Director and founder of the dyrdee media company located in Berlin, Germany.

I had the pleasure of seeing this film screened at the Ottawa Film Festival last year, and in my opinion, it was one of the most memorable ones at the festival. The expressions that Ljubisa is able to achieve on his characters makes for a very heartfelt short.

“Manege Frei” premiers on Episode 5 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

Melissa

In a war ravaged, futuristic city, a robot roams the streets, and finds light in the arms of a dying girl.

Ming Chang completed this film while studying at Vancouver Film School.

“The Sunshine” premiers on Episode 5 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

Melissa

“Eggs! Get your eggs here!” This colorful, playful ode to eggs will surely get stuck in your head, and have you tapping your toes.

Currently, D & H Inc. is working on producing a series of 10 new flash animations for exclusive broadcast on a Japanese animation-only channel.

“Egg Song” premiers on Episode 5 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

Melissa

A little girl finds her lost cat in the forest. When she tries to cross the bridge to go back to her village, a hungry troll awaits.

Bert Youn attends CalArts, and is a senior in their Character Animation program.

“I Love You Kitty” premiers on Episode 5 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

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With his M shaped hat and pointy chin, The M Man embarks on a mission packed with paper mache, barbeques, and crop dusting equipment. Who is the missing scientist, and can The M Man save the day?

British animation pranksters Greg and Myles McLeod have been writing and directing animations for the last seven years. Their work has appeared on UK Network TV, US Cable, Atomfilms, and nokiashorts They are represented by Aardman Animations as commericial directors.

The Brothers McLeod have also been featured on Channel Frederator Episode 15, and provided us with a very nice picture of themselves.

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Bob’s having a bad day and to top it off, now he has to lay waste to his new sales manager who’s eating other employees. Just another long day at the office…

Ed Skudder is a sophomore at the University of Southern California studying film. He’s been drawing since childhood and took up animation in middle school, having been a long-time fan of cartoons. “Freelance animation is paying the bills these days and when I’m not making movies I’m trying to play the guitar.”

I first saw this short featured on Cold Hard Flash, and started cracking up as soon as I heard one of the characters say, “He put herbivore on his resume, Bob, what was I supposed to think?”. I was so impressed, I tracked down Ed on Newgrounds. Check out another one of his music videos for Ben Folds Five.

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An epic deep sea adventure filled with psychedelic, synchronized fish-swimming patterns and muscle-bound heroics. All to the sweet sound of Herva.

As of this writing, Vance Reeser “is working from his apartment in Arkansas, freelancing animation and digital art projects for various clients around the US to pay the bills.” He also continues to chase after the dream of making his own stories and ideas come to life on the screen as he picks away at his longtime independent animated adventure film, Junk Forest set for release sometime this century! Vance can sense weather changes in his sinuses and makes a mean cuppa joe.

“Deep Six” premiers on Episode 4 of the Nicktoons Newtork Animation Festival, Monday August 28 2006 at 10PM EST/7PM PST.

Melissa

Says filmmaker Lindsay Kovnat, “The song is an abstract narrative. A girl and guy are in love. The guy happens to be a really uncivilized woodland guy. The girl is a sophisticated lady and her father is a very rich egg-man who resides in a Barbie Dream House. There is a stop motion giant who threads the scenes together in a Fee Fi Fo Fum kind of way.”

Engrish Bwudd was a 9 month process using stop motion 2D drawn animation, and pixelation techniques. It was put together in co-creator Kent Beorsma’s basement and both Kovnat and Beorsma make an appearance in the piece.

“Engrish Bwudd” will premier on Episode 3 of the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, August 27th, at 10PM EST/ 7PM PST.

Melissa