July 2005
17 posts
Lotsa blogs.
Some days I’m not even sure why we’re doing all these blogs, but right now we’ve already got five of the new ones up, on our way to 39; one for each of the new shorts we’re doing as part of the new season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons. (OK, so far only three of them are directly from our new creators [Kyle Carrozza, Andrew Dickman, and Adam Henry], plus our development colleague...
Congratulations Adam! Oh Yeah!
Number 3! Step right up!
Adam Henry has joined up with the Frederator team for Oh Yeah! Cartoons with his cartoon (and our third short) Krunch & the Kid. Adam’s been in the business for a number of years (after growing up in my home town, New York City), and most recently was the supervising director on a series for PBS, as well as serving as an animator on the cult classic Iron...
Manny Galan & Alan Goodman. Oh Yeah!
Dateline: New York City. Frederator is seeing cartoon pitches for Oh Yeah! Cartoons from coast to coast. Today, Manny Galan and Alan Goodman showed us their idea for Bones (starring Bronk [C.], Bongo[L.], and Gerald Generic[C.]). Manny’s the Nickelodeon in-house Director of Animation On-Air, where he’s created dozens -hundreds!- of network IDs, characters, and fun stuff. Alan and I...
Amid Amidi. Cartoon Brew.
From the July 22 Cartoon Brew post: “Oh Yeah! Blogs “Posted by AMID at 02:27 PM “Anybody can start one blog. Been there, done that. But it takes some fortitude to launch thirty-nine blogs. That’s right, thirty-nine blogs. That’s exactly what animation producer Fred Seibert is doing for the fourth season of OH YEAH! CARTOONS, the series that he’s exec...
Oh Yeah! Mike Gray & Eric Knutson.
From Melissa in our West Coast studio: “I’ve never seen Kevin laugh so hard during a pitch. ”The Infinite Goliath was created by Mike Gray. Mike is an illustrator/writer/stand-up comedian/Flash animator. Currently he produces Flash animation for an online gaming company in the Bay Area. He developed this idea with his brother Eric, an animator at Renegade Studios in Southern...
Oh Yeah! Cartoons??????????
I have no idea what this post from ReadMe!Girls!??? says. Hopefully, it’s nice. (David, you have any idea?) Frederator???????????????????????????????????? ?1??????2???????????????????????? ??????????????????Planet Kate?????? ??????????????????????????3??????????2????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????My Neighbor is a Teenage...
They're back. Postcards, Series 5.
If I’m reading our own blog archives correctly, we haven’t made a postcard entry in about six weeks. So, for those who’ve just joined us: Frederator Studios has been sending out promotional postcards since sometime in 1998. We began with the first season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, creating individual cards for each of the original 30+ cartoons we made that year.
Each card in our...
Congratulations Andrew! Oh Yeah!
We’re off to the races. The second short for this season has begun, as well as the second creator blog. Andrew Dickman’s Ivan the Unbearable seemed to create a lot of unwarranted controversy when we first mentioned his cartoon (though for the life of me I can’t understand why; we’ve mentioned virtually nothing about any pitch other than the creator(s) name(s) and one...
Barry Yourgrau.
Today I had a wonderful lunch with writer and performer Barry Yourgrau. Several years ago I’d produced a performance art series for HA! The TV Comedy Network (now Comedy Central) and I fell in love with Barry’s skewed voice. Our mutual friend Jim Halpern thought it might be nice for us to reconnect; he rightly thought I might be interested in an off-center look at stories for Oh Yeah!...
Buddy Bolton & Chris Siemasko. Oh Yeah!
Oh Yeah! Cartoons is lucky to have talent like Buddy Bolton & Chris Siemasko come in to show us their cartoon ideas like Lonesome Duck. They were introduced to Frederator by our friends over at Nickelodeon. Buddy is a writer, producer, and stand-up comedian. Chris is an animator currently working in New York at Cartoon Pizza. Thanks to Buddy & Chris for kind permission to post one of...
Oh Yeah! Jim Mortensen.
Jim Mortensen and I met last spring during a session of director (and ASIFA East President) Dave Levy’s senior animation class at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. This afternoon he gave us an early look at his cartoon Ginger & Mary.
Thanks Jim, for kind permission to post one of your storyboard frames.
Congratulations Kyle! Oh Yeah!
It’s official. The production of the new season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons starts today. The series will air on our great partner Nickelodeon sometime in 2006 (we’ll give you the details when we have them). Our first filmmaker? Kyle Carrozza, creator of Moo Beard, The Cow Pirate. Moo Beard is his first ever commercial cartoon, but I’ll let Kyle tell you more about himself and his...
Oh Yeah! Penn Ward.
I think Nickelodeon (our exclusive network partner) is pretty happy with the storyboards we’ve been seeing for the upcoming season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons. It might be because the next generation of talents have been very present. Like Penn Ward. Penn is a recent graduate of Cal Arts in Valencia, California, specializing in character animation. He also plays a mean guitar. His very original...
Greg Eagles & David (dahveed) Kolodny-Agy. Oh...
Greg Eagles and David (dahveed) Kolodny-Agy came over to Frederator Studios to show us their unique cartoon Teapot, for possible production in the fourth season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Greg’s a writer and voice over artist (we’ve worked together before on Buy One, Get One Free for What A Cartoon! Right now, Greg’s famous for the voice of Grim on The Grim Adventures of Billy and...
Michelle & Eric Bryan.
I am not very smart. Or rather, I’m pretty careless. In the post from June 28, in my rush to a mea culpa, I neglected to mention Michelle Bryan, who with her husband Eric, created a wonderful Oh Yeah! cartoon for our 3rd season: Skippy Spankerton, Nickelodeon’s Hottest New Filmmaker. At the time (1999) Michele was a member of the Oh Yeah! production staff and Eric was an animation...
Ryan Sias. Oh Yeah!
We met artist Ryan Sias through our friends at Silver Lining Productions. Ryan came over to our New York office to show us his storyboard for Courageous Critters for Oh Yeah! Cartoons.
Thanks to Ryan for his kind permission to post a frame from his storyboard.
Grrrl Power!
It’s been an incredible 13 years to be in animation. After 99 shorts (48 What A Cartoon!s and 51 Oh Yeah!s), countless sequels, and hit series, there’s one thing I can tell you for sure. With great humiliation, I confess: We haven’t made one short with a woman creator. And, believe me, not for lack of trying. We pushed, we prodded, we begged, but out of the more than...
