The Nicktoons Animation Festival (also known as the Nicktoons Network Film Festival) is an annual event that was created by producer Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert

Frederick "Fred" Seibert is a television and film producer and entertainment entrepreneur who owns Frederator Studios, and who has held leading positions with MTV Networks, Hanna-Barbera, and Next New Networks; he owns Frederator Studios...

 and produced for its first three years by his Frederator Studios

Frederator Studios

Frederator Studios is an independent American production company founded by Fred Seibert in 1997, with its first series launching in 1998. The studio focuses primarily on artists who write their own shorts, series, and movies...

. Founded in 2004 to showcase the diversity of worldwide animation filmmaking, it is the largest multiplatform animation festival in North America. The festival features a selection of animated shorts (10 minutes and under) from around the globe. Shorts selected for the festival have the chance to be aired on Nicktoons Network, online and to be showcased at the live event in Los Angeles in October. Several prizes are awarded each year. Animators under 18 years old are eligible to enter the Greater Creator Contest. New to the festival in 2008 is the “I Got Game” Contest in partnership with AddictingGames, and a contest for Lego filmmakers, sponsored by Lego

Lego

Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

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2005 winners

• Grand Prize: La Révolution des Crabes by Arthur DePins
• Producers' Choice: The Naive Man from Lolliland by J.G. Quintel
• Student Animator: The Naive Man from Lolliland by J. G. Quintel
• Viewers' Choice: Farm Force by Project Firefly

2006 winners

• Grand Prize: The Ballad of Sheep 13 by Kyle McQueen
• Producers' Choice: Super Scout by Amy Poeler
• Student Animator: Animation Test Pilot by Brad Kinley
• Viewers' Choice: "Sinking Margot" by Julie Bergman

2007 winners

• Grand Prize: Zoologic by Nicole Mitchell
• Grand Jury: Zoologic by Nicole Mitchell
• Producers' Choice: St. Laleeloo by Jiwook Kim
• Diversity Award: Feb. 18, 2005 by Javier Barboza
• Student Animator: Bare by Andy Lyon
• Viewers' Choice: After Oz by Percy Kiyabu

Season 1 (Short Films By Short People Film Festival)

1. Foil Man (Stop-frame)
2. Sam Digital in the 21st century (Stop-frame, digital cut-outs)
3. Attack of the Giant Vulture (Puppets)
4. Hervic in Cloudland (Pixelation)
5. The Great Switcheroo (Cut-outs)
6. Nothing Weird (Hand-drawn animation)

Season 2 (The Toons from Planet Orange)

1. Agent Green (Traditional 2D)
2. Snout (Animo software)
3. Helmmut and the Killer Nose
4. Ego from Mars (Traditional 2D)
5. Spider & Fly (Clay animation)
6. La Hora de Hombre Cacto
7. Vida De Sapos
8. Hector the Get Over Cat

Season 3 (The Nicktoons Film Festival 2004)

• (81 short films in 12 episodes)

1. Charlie & Chunk (Stop-frame, Clay animation)
2. Timmy's Lessons in Nature (Traditional 2D)
3. It Could Be Worse (Traditional 2D)
4. Childhood Trauma #17 (CG animation, created in Softimage: XSI)
5. Lucky Penny (Traditional 2D)
6. The Manly Bee (Animated in Flash)
7. Day Off the Dead (CG animation)
8. April (Traditional 2D)
9. The Thing With No Head (Traditional 2D)
10. Rotting Hills: Clark's New Home (Animated in Flash)
11. Jack & Jill (CG, animated in Alias' Maya Software)
12. Attack of the Note Sheep (Traditional 2D, composited with live-action footage)
13. At Wit's Vend (CG animation, completed in Alias' Maya software)
14. The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps: Serenity Now (Animated in Flash)
15. Boing Boing (CG using Alias' Maya software)
16. Scout Says (Traditional 2D with digital color)
17. Magnetism (Animated in Alias' Maya software with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects)
18. Atomic Love (Traditional 2D with 3D elements)
19. Birdon (CG animation)
20. Ape Escape, Part I (CG animation)
21. Winged Devices (CG animation)
22. Miracle Koala: Belt for Punishment (Animated in Flash)
23. Sucker (3D created in Alias' Maya software)
24. Monkey Fuss (2D using Adobe Premier, Photoshop, and After Effects)
25. Bert (CG with 2D textures)
26. Heads, You Lose! (CG animation)
27. Manbird (Animated from Flash to QuickTime)
28. Monstories: Fine Diners (2D & 3D Mix)
29. Interrogating Ernie (Stop-frame & CG animation)
30. Hairy Affairs (CG animation)
31. Lou & Costa: Burglar Welcome Mat (2D animation)
32. Roy & Dog (CG animation)
33. Thirsty (Pencil on Mark & Paper)
34. Dia de Los Muertos (Stop-frame & CG animation)
35. Skippy (Traditional 2D)
36. The Not So Heroic Adventures of Sidekick: Dooms Day Dog (Animated in Flash)
37. (CG created in Hash Animation Master)
38. A Rhinocervs (2D animation)
39. Tell Me Not To Worry (CG, 2D, and Stop-frame)
40. Happy Mania (Adobe PhotoShop and After Effects)
41. Welcome to My Life (Hand-drawn 2D)
42. Kactus Kid (Animated in Flash and Traditional 2D)
43. Robot Family: The Slick Salesman (Digital 2D)
44. Wingnut (CG animation)
45. Medusa: Pilot (Stop-frame animation)
46. Martini and Meatballs: Avery's Game (Animated in Flash)
47. Gruesomenstein's Monsters: Freddie and the Yeti (Animated in Flash)
48. PGi-13 (CG with 2D sequences)
49. Hero: 108 (Animated in Flash)
50. Josh W. Eats A Bug (Traditional animation)
51. Zoya the Zebra (2D animation)
52. Doggie Door (Traditional animation)
53. Bottom of the 9th (CG animation created in Alias' Maya software)
54. The Turn-Off (2D cut-out animation with a 3D character)
55. It's My Turn (Animated in Pencil)
56. Kenya (Animated in Flash)
57. Coolman: Deep Sea Blues (Animated in Flash)
58. Haina: A Concert (2D animation)
59. Gumbusters (2D animation)
60. Ape Escape, Part II (CG animation)
61. The Wild Wild Circus Company: Fishy Memories (2D animation with 3D textures)
62. Loco Melones (3D animated in SoftImage XSI)
63. Playing Cricket (3D animated in Hash's Animation Master)
64. Beach Booty (2D, edited in Adobe Premiere and After Effects)
65. Fool Throttle (Animated in Flash)
66. Monkey, Monkey (2D animation)
67. Rustbuckets: The Last Rainforest (CG animation)
68. Six Snails Snoring (Animated in Flash)
69. Pigly (3D animation completed with Alias' Maya software)
70. Much Ado About Ice Cream (2D animation)
71. Shlub (2D animation)
72. Polygon Family II (3D animation completed with Alias' Maya software)
73. The Appointment (2D animation with digital color)
74. Magical Trevor (2D animation)
75. Nagymamma (Traditional animation)
76. Rockfish (3D animation completed with Discreet's 3dsmax)
77. The Tribe (Flash 2D animation)
78. Bath Time (3D animation)
79. Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme: Ledger Boy Liquidation (Animated in Flash)
80. Minue (2D animation)
81. Ape Escape, Part III (CG animation)

Season 4 (NEXTOONS: The Nicktoons Film Festival 2005)

1. La Révolution des Crabes (2D & 3D combo)
2. Hobbies: Model Bus Collector (CG animation)
3. Runaway Bathtub (Paper cut-out & stop-frame)
4. Unmarked (3D animation)
5. Those Scurvy Rascals (3D animation)
6. Her Teddy Bear (Classic 2D animation)
7. Blue Dress (CG animation)
8. Man's First Friend (CG animation)
9. Terrance Eats Knowledge (Hand-drawn & 2D digital animation)
10. Up, Up & Away (CG animation)
11. Like Pandas (Flash animation)
12. Pen vs. Pencil (CG animation)
13. Plumber (CG animation)
14. Anthem (CG animation)
15. Peeves: Toilet Water (Flash animation)
16. Short Circuit (Hand-drawn animation)
17. Soup (Stop-motion)
18. A Sixty Second Tragedy (CG animation)
19. The Naive Man from Lolliland (Hand-drawn, digitally composited)
20. Tricks for a Treat (Hand-drawn animation)
21. Prey (Hand-drawn animation)
22. Chris Walker's Unfortunate Alphabet (Hand-drawn & CG-mixed)
23. The Mouschist (Hand-drawn animation)
24. First Kiss (Hand-drawn, digitally composited)
25. Maestro (CG animation)
26. The Gross Hunger (Hand-drawn animation)
27. Getting Ice Cream (CG animation)
28. Out of Beat (Paper cut-outs and digital animation)
29. Mig Said... (Flash animation)
30. Help! (CG animation)
31. The Z-Files (Flash animation)
32. The Monster Within (CG animation)
33. To A Man With A Big Nose (2D and CG combo)
34. Mille (CG animation)
35. Over the Moon (Hand-drawn & CG combo)
36. Anaka (CG animation)
37. Oh, Dear! (Hand-drawn animation)
38. A Short Visit to Toy Town (CG animation)
39. Love Affair (Hand-drawn animation)
40. Five Informercials for Dentists (Hand-drawn animation)
41. Defective (CG animation)
42. Betty (CG animation)
43. Nulbur (Flash animation)
44. In-Out (CG animation)
45. The Laws of Gravity (Flash animation)
46. The Life of a Mime (CG animation)
47. Fee Fi Fo Fum (Digital cut-out)
48. Sing-a-Long with Roosevelt (CG animation)
49. Un-Doo (stop-motion)
50. Egghunt (CG animation)
51. Farm Force: Send in the Clones (2D animation)

The 2006 Nicktoons Network Animation Festival aired on Nicktoons Saturday, August 26, 2006– Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Winners were announced on Thursday, August 31, 2006.

Season 5 (The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival 2006)

1. A Great Big Robot From Outer Space Ate My Homework (CGI animation)
2. The Tale of How (2D CGI, Flash, Cutout)
3. Great Apespectations (Traditional 2D)
4. Handshake (Traditional animation)
5. Bip Bip (Cutout)
6. Dog Worries (Computer 2D)
7. The Ballad of Sheep 13 (Classical 2D)
8. Late Night Comedy (CGI animation)
9. La Tete Dans les Nuages (The Head in the Clouds) (CGI animation)
10. Libraryhead (Traditional 2D)
11. Penguin Day Spa Commercial (CGI animation)
12. Doodle of Doom (Hand-Drawn, Flash)
13. Juxtaposer (Traditional animation)
14. Animation Test Pilot (CG)
15. Engrish Bwudd (Stopmotion, 2D drawn, Pixelation)
16. Abstract (Flash)
17. Breakfast with The King (CG)
18. The Mad Scientist Show: The Transporter (Flash)
19. Giant's Kitchen (Traditional 2D)
20. Crocodile Journals (Stopmotion)
21. La Mia Migliore Amica (Flash)
22. A Choreography with White-Fronted Geese, Horses, and a Locomotive (3D animation)
23. Deep Six (Digital Flash)
24. Eureka! (3D animation)
25. Gorilla (Pencil on Paper)
26. The New Guy (Flash)
27. The M Man (Hand-Drawn)
28. I Love You Kitty (Traditional 2D)
29. The Sunshine (CG)
30. Manege Frei (Flash)
31. Egg Song (Flash)
32. Zeitsprung Timetravels (3D)
33. Exit (3D)
34. Small and Deep, Love Stories (2D digital cutout and Hand-Drawn)
35. The Passenger (3D)
36. Sinking Margot (3D)
37. The Moustache Contest (Flash)
38. Snout (CG)
39. Polka (Pencil on Paper)

Season 6 (2007)

1. L’amie De Zoe (3D)
2. Zoologic (3D animation)
3. Saalis (cut-outs)
4. Soñadora (stop motion)
5. Bare (pencil on paper, watercolor)
6. Striped (Classical animation, colored in Photoshop, composited in After Effects)
7. Hedgehug (2D computer, Flash)
8. Hominid (Trad. 2D [brush and ink, digital ink and paint])
9. Kiwi! (3D animation)
10. Carried Away (3D computer)
11. Monster on the Moon (Stop Motion, Cut-outs)
12. José y Maria (Traditional animation [Hand-drawn])
13. Angst (Mixed technique: pencil drawings/video/photo/3DFX)
14. A Peach for the Teach (Traditional hand-drawn animation, colored on computer)
15. Freewheel (Hand-drawn, water-colored, After Effects)
16. Cranks (3D computer)
17. Feb-18-05 (drawing)
18. Mortimer Pigmun and his Time Traveling Chums (stop motion)
19. St. Laleeloo (2D traditional)
20. Barfy the Pig in A Day in the Park (3D)
21. Process Enacted (pixilation/stop-motion)
22. Old Chestnut (2D animation, Adobe After Effects)
23. Puppet (Hand-drawn, color/composite digitally)
24. Zoologic (Hand-drawn animation or Traditional animation)
25. After Oz (3D)
26. The Little Dictator (2D computer)
27. Think Like a Frog (Flash)
28. Art's Desire (2D with 3D backgrounds)
29. Loose Change (Computer animation)
30. Insomnia (pastels on paper)

Season 7 (Nicktoons Network Animation Festival: 5th Year Animation Matters 2008)

1. Alien Abduction (3-D Animation)
2. Once Upon a Tyme (3-D animation)
3. Lilium Urbanus (3-D Animation)
4. Red & Blue (3-D animation)
5. Paper Cut (2-D Animation)
6. Theatrum Comicum of Insects (2-D Animation)
7. Boogie and Diggie (2-D Animation)
8. The Adventures of Jane (2-D Flash Animation)
9. Dive (3-D Animation)
10. Mock and Boy'd: Get Out Of My Tree (2-D Animation)
11. Getting Suspended (Sketching)
12. Kid Show (Drawing Animation)
13. Hal Mang (2-D Animation)
14. The Matchbook (3-D Animation)
15. La Lune (3-D animation)
16. The Space Burger (2-D Animation)
17. Galactic Adventure Quest in Space (2-D Animation)
18. Henshin (3-D Animation)
19. Sheep (Stop-Motion)
20. Come Back Sweetheart (3-D Animation)
21. Monster Movie (2-D Animation)
22. El Mono (3-D Animation)
23. Solar (3-D animation)
24. Bathtime In Clerkenwell (2-D Animation)
25. A Faery's Tale (3-D animation)
26. Sticky the Stick (series) (2-D Flash Animation)
27. Go Nuts Animation (2-D Animation)
28. Pea on the Screws (Hand-Drawn 2-D animation)
29. Pajama Gladiator (3-D Animation)

Season 8: Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009

1. Insert Coin
2. Kina Sky
3. Magic Theater
4. Mariza
5. No Quarter
6. Oakley and Bud in 'Rogue UFO
7. Otis v. Monster
8. Pencilmation #7: Malice in Wonderland
9. Popped
10. Shiny!
11. So Close to the Sun
12. Some Facts About Owls
13. Squeak
14. Tang
15. The History of an Animation
16. The History of Man Part 2
17. The Switch
18. Tickle Me Silly
19. Ultra Super Sudden Death
20. Value Blind
21. Vampirofaga
22. At Deaths Door
23. Barfy the Pig: Episode 6
24. Best Present Ever
25. Cricket
26. Deadline
27. Divers
28. Flying Boy
29. Hubo
30. Do Not Feed the Alligators

See also

• Cartoon Sushi
  Cartoon Sushi
  Cartoon Sushi was an animation showcase program that aired on MTV from 1997 to 1998. It was produced by Nick Litwinko. As a collection of animation shorts, Cartoon Sushi was a spiritual successor to MTV's Liquid Television...
  
  
• Liquid Television
  Liquid Television
  Liquid Television is an Emmy Award–winning 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. The first season of Liquid Television also aired on BBC Two in co-production with MTV. Ultimately, MTV commissioned three seasons of the show, which was produced by Colossal Pictures...
  
  
• Exposure (TV series)
  Exposure (TV series)
  Exposure is a short-film oriented science-fiction anthology series that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel between the years of 2000 and 2002. The series showcased the short sci-fi films of both unknown and known filmmakers, giving rise to the channel's own Exposure Studios...
  
  
• Eye Drops
  Eye Drops
  Eye Drops was a television program on TechTV that showcased short computer animation movies and clips made using off the shelf 3D animation software. The show claimed to showcase all different types of animation, but only a very small number of shorts featured non-CG animation...
  
  

External links

• Nicktoons Festival Blog
• Nicktoons Network Animation Festival