The Nicktoons Film Festival (also known as the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival) was an annual event that was created by producer Fred Seibert and produced for its first three years by his Frederator Studios. The festival featured a selection of animated shorts (10 minutes and under) from around the world. Shorts selected for the festival had the chance to be aired on

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, online and to be showcased at a live event in Los Angeles in October. Several prizes were awarded each year. Animators under 18 years old were eligible to enter the Greater Creator Contest. 2009 was the final season of the festival.

Winners

2004 winners

* Grand Prize: ''Timmy's Lessons In Nature'' by Mark Simon and Travis Blaise

2005 winners

* Grand Prize: ''La Révolution des Crabes'' by Arthur DePins * Producers' Choice: ''The Naive Man from Lolliland'' by

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(basis for ''

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'') * 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 Poehler (basis for '' The Mighty B!'') * 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

Episodes

Season 1 (The Nicktoons Film Festival 2004)

* (81 short films in 12 episodes) # ''Charlie & Chunk'' (Stop-frame, Clay animation) # ''Timmy's Lessons in Nature'' (Traditional 2D) # ''It Could Be Worse'' (Traditional 2D) # ''Childhood Trauma #17'' (CG animation, created in Softimage: XSI) # ''Lucky Penny'' (Traditional 2D) # ''The Manly Bee'' (Traditional 2D) # ''Day Off the Dead'' (CG animation) # ''April'' (Traditional 2D) # ''The Thing with No Head'' (Traditional 2D) # ''Rotting Hills: Clark's New Home'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Jack & Jill'' (CG, animated in Alias' Maya Software) # ''Attack of the Note Sheep'' (Traditional 2D, composited with live-action footage) # ''At Wit's Vend'' (CG animation, completed in Alias' Maya software) # ''The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps: Serenity Now'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Boing Boing'' (CG using Alias' Maya software) # ''Scout Says'' (Traditional 2D with digital color) # ''Magnetism'' (Animated in Alias' Maya software with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects) # ''Atomic Love'' (Traditional 2D with 3D elements) # ''Birdon'' (CG animation) # '' Ape Escape, Part I'' (CG animation) # ''Winged Devices'' (CG animation) # ''Miracle Koala: Belt for Punishment'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Sucker'' (3D created in Alias' Maya software) # ''Monkey Fuss'' (2D using Adobe Premier, Photoshop, and After Effects) # ''Bert'' (CG with 2D textures) # ''Heads, You Lose!'' (CG animation) # ''Manbird'' (Animated from Flash to QuickTime) # ''Monstories: Fine Diners'' (2D & 3D Mix) # ''Interrogating Ernie'' (Stop-frame & CG animation) # ''Hairy Affairs'' (CG animation) # ''Lou & Costa: Burglar Welcome Mat'' (2D animation) # ''Roy & Dog'' (CG animation) # ''Thirsty'' (Pencil on Mark & Paper) # ''Dia de Los Muertos'' (Stop-frame & CG animation) # ''Skippy'' (Traditional 2D) # ''The Not So Heroic Adventures of Sidekick: Dooms Day Dog'' (Animated in Flash) # '''' (CG created in Hash Animation Master) # ''A Rhinocervs'' (2D animation) # ''Tell Me Not to Worry'' (CG, 2D, and Stop-frame) # ''Happy Mania'' (Adobe PhotoShop and After Effects) # '' Welcome To My Life (Pilot)'' (Hand-drawn 2D; remade as a pilot for

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in 2015) # ''Kactus Kid'' (Animated in Flash and Traditional 2D) # ''Robot Family: The Slick Salesman'' (Digital 2D) # ''Wingnut'' (CG animation) # ''Medusa: Pilot'' (Stop-frame animation) # ''Martini and Meatballs: Avery's Game'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Gruesomenstein's Monsters: Freddie and the Yeti'' (Animated in Flash) # ''PGi-13'' (CG with 2D sequences) # ''Hero: 108'' (Animated in Flash; basis for the series on Cartoon Network) # ''Josh W. Eats a Bug'' (Traditional animation) # ''Zoya the Zebra'' (2D animation) # ''Doggie Door'' (Traditional animation) # ''Bottom of the 9th'' (CG animation created in Alias' Maya software) # ''The Turn-Off'' (2D cut-out animation with a 3D character) # ''It's My Turn'' (Animated in Pencil) # '' Kenya'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Coolman: Deep Sea Blues'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Haina: A Concert'' (2D animation) # ''Gumbusters'' (2D animation) # '' Ape Escape, Part II'' (CG animation) # ''The Wild Wild Circus Company: Fishy Memories'' (2D animation with 3D textures) # ''Loco Melones'' (3D animated in SoftImage XSI) # ''Playing Cricket'' (3D animated in Hash's Animation Master) # ''Beach Booty'' (2D, edited in Adobe Premiere and After Effects) # ''Fool Throttle'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Monkey, Monkey'' (2D animation) # ''Rustbuckets: The Last Rainforest'' (CG animation) # ''Six Snails Snoring'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Pigly'' (3D animation completed with Alias' Maya software) # ''Much Ado About Ice Cream'' (2D animation) # ''Shlub'' (2D animation) # ''Polygon Family II'' (3D animation completed with Alias' Maya software) # ''The Appointment'' (2D animation with digital color) # ''

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'' (2D animation) # ''Nagymamma'' (Traditional animation) # ''Rockfish'' (3D animation completed with Discreet's 3dsmax) # ''The Tribe'' (Flash 2D animation) # ''Bath Time'' (3D animation) # ''Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme: Ledger Boy Liquidation'' (Animated in Flash) # ''Minue'' (2D animation) # '' Ape Escape, Part III'' (CG animation)

Season 2 (The NEXTOONS: The Nicktoons Film Festival 2005)

# ''La Révolution des Crabes'' (2D & 3D combo) # ''Hobbies: Model Bus Collector'' (CG animation) # ''Runaway Bathtub'' (Paper cut-out & stop-frame) # ''Unmarked'' (3D animation) # ''Those Scurvy Rascals'' (3D animation) # ''Her Teddy Bear'' (Classic 2D animation) # ''Blue Dress'' (CG animation) # ''Man's First Friend'' (CG animation) # ''Terrance Eats Knowledge'' (Hand-drawn & 2D digital animation) # ''Up, Up & Away'' (CG animation) # ''Like Pandas'' (Flash animation) # ''Pen vs. Pencil'' (CG animation) # ''Plumber'' (CG animation) # ''Anthem'' (CG animation) # ''Peeves: Toilet Water'' (Flash animation) # ''Short Circuit'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''Soup'' (Stop-motion) # ''A Sixty Second Tragedy'' (CG animation) # ''The Naive Man from Lolliland'' (Hand-drawn, digitally composited; adapted into ''

'') # ''Tricks for a Treat'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''Prey'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''Chris Walker's Unfortunate Alphabet'' (Hand-drawn & CG-mixed) # '' The Mousochist'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''First Kiss'' (Hand-drawn, digitally composited) # ''Maestro'' (CG animation) # ''The Gross Hunger'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''Getting Ice Cream'' (CG animation) # ''Out of Beat'' (Paper cut-outs and digital animation) # ''Mig Said...'' (Flash animation) # ''Help!'' (CG animation) # ''The Z-Files'' (Flash animation) # ''The Monster Within'' (CG animation) # '' To a Man with a Big Nose'' (2D and CG combo) # ''Mille'' (CG animation) # ''Over the Moon'' (Hand-drawn & CG combo) # ''Anaka'' (CG animation) # ''Oh, Dear!'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''A Short Visit to Toy Town'' (CG animation) # ''Love Affair'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''Five Informercials for Dentists'' (Hand-drawn animation) # ''Defective'' (CG animation) # ''Betty'' (CG animation) # ''Nulbur'' (Flash animation) # ''In-Out'' (CG animation) # ''The Laws of Gravity'' (Flash animation) # ''The Life of a Mime'' (CG animation) # ''Fee Fi Fo Fum'' (Digital cut-out) # ''Sing-a-Long with Roosevelt'' (CG animation) # ''Un-Doo'' (stop-motion) # ''Egghunt'' (CG animation) # ''Farm Force'' (2D animation) Project Firefly, created by Ethan Long and produced by Robin Cowie; aired on August 27, 2005

Season 3 (The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival 2006)

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Season 4 (2007)

# ''L’amie De Zoe'' (3D) # ''Zoologic'' (3D animation) # ''Saalis'' (cut-outs) # ''Soñadora'' (stop motion) # ''Bare'' (pencil on paper, watercolor) # ''Striped'' (Classical animation, colored in Photoshop, composited in After Effects) # ''Hedgehug'' (2D computer, Flash) # ''Hominid'' (Trad. 2D rush and ink, digital ink and paint # ''

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'' (3D animation) # ''Carried Away'' (3D computer) # ''Monster on the Moon'' (Stop Motion, Cut-outs) # ''José y Maria'' (Traditional animation and-drawn # ''Angst'' (Mixed technique: pencil drawings/video/photo/3DFX) # ''A Peach for the Teach'' (Traditional hand-drawn animation, colored on computer) # ''Freewheel'' (Hand-drawn, water-colored, After Effects; music video for "Freewheel" by

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) # ''Cranks'' (3D computer) # ''Feb-18-05'' (drawing) # ''Mortimer Pigmun and His Time Traveling Chums'' (stop motion) # ''St. Laleeloo'' (2D traditional) # ''Barfy the Pig in a Day in the Park'' (3D) # ''Process Enacted'' (pixilation/stop-motion) # ''Old Chestnut'' (2D animation, Adobe After Effects) # ''Puppet'' (Hand-drawn, color/composite digitally) # ''Zoologic'' (Hand-drawn animation or Traditional animation) # ''After Oz'' (3D) # ''The Little Dictator'' (2D computer) # ''Think Like a Frog'' (Flash) # ''Art's Desire'' (2D with 3D backgrounds) # ''Loose Change'' (Computer animation) # ''Insomnia'' (pastels on paper)

Season 5 (2008)

Nicktoons Network Animation Festival: 5th Year Animation Matters # ''Alien Abduction'' (3-D Animation) # ''Once Upon a Tyme'' (3-D animation) # ''Lilium Urbanus'' (3-D Animation) # ''Red & Blue'' (3-D animation) # ''Paper Cut'' (2-D Animation) # ''Theatrum Comicum of Insects'' (2-D Animation) # ''Boogie and Diggie'' (2-D Animation) # ''The Adventures of Jane'' (2-D Flash Animation) # ''Dive'' (3-D Animation) # ''Mock and Boy'd: Get Out Of My Tree'' (2-D Animation) # ''Getting Suspended'' (Sketching) # ''Kid Show'' (Drawing Animation) # ''Hal Mang'' (2-D Animation) # ''The Matchbook'' (3-D Animation) # ''La Lune'' (3-D animation) # ''The Space Burger'' (2-D Animation) # ''Galactic Adventure Quest in Space'' (2-D Animation) # ''Henshin'' (3-D Animation) # ''Sheep'' (Stop-Motion) # ''Come Back Sweetheart'' (3-D Animation) # ''Monster Movie'' (2-D Animation) # ''El Mono'' (3-D Animation) # ''Solar'' (3-D animation) # ''

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'' (2-D Animation) # ''A Faery's Tale'' (3-D animation) # ''Sticky the Stick (series)'' (2-D Flash Animation) # ''Go Nuts Animation'' (2-D Animation) # ''Pea on the Screws'' (Hand-Drawn 2-D animation) # ''Pajama Gladiator'' (3-D Animation)

Season 6: Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009

# ''Insert Coin'' # ''Kina Sky'' # ''Magic Theater'' # ''Mariza'' # ''No Quarter'' # ''Oakley and Bud in 'Rogue UFO # ''Otis v. Monster'' # ''Pencilmation #7: Malice in Wonderland'' # ''Popped'' # ''Shiny!'' # ''So Close to the Sun'' # ''Some Facts About Owls'' # ''Squeak'' # ''Tang'' # ''The History of an Animation'' # ''The History of Man Part 2'' # ''The Switch'' # ''Tickle Me Silly'' # ''Ultra Super Sudden Death'' # ''Value Blind'' # ''Vampirofaga'' # ''At Deaths Door'' # ''Barfy the Pig: Episode 6'' # ''Best Present Ever'' # ''Cricket'' # ''Deadline'' # ''Divers'' # ''Flying Boy'' # ''Hubo'' # ''Do Not Feed the Alligators'' 2009 was the final season of the festival.

Legacy

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'', the '' Ape Escape'' trilogy of shorts, ''The Naive from Loli Land'', ''Charlie & Chunk'', ''The Mouschist'', ''Prey'', ''Bert'', ''Engrish Bwudd'', ''Pigly'', ''Libraryhead'', ''Over the Moon'', ''Feb-18-05'', ''Late Night Comedy'', ''Loco Melones'', ''Rockfish'', ''Super Scout'', and ''Welcome to My Life''. Certain shorts featured here were also shown on YTV's ''Funpak''. '' To a Man with a Big Nose'' was selected for the 2006 Fargo Film Festival in addition to being a Nicktoons Film Festival Entry, ''

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'' and '' Samurai Jack'', has worked on the ''Nicktoons Film Festival'' (or ''Nicktoons Network Animation Festival'') at one point as part of the Grand Jury with Patrick Warburton and

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. Eric Fogel, who created '' Celebrity Deathmatch'' for MTV, also created ''Charlie & Chunk'' for the show. Simultaneously, Frederator has produced 250 original short cartoon films with several cartoon shorts "incubators," including (as of 2016): '' What A Cartoon!'' (

, 1995), ''The Meth Minute 39'' ( Channel Frederator, 2008), '' Random! Cartoons'' ( Nickelodeon/ Nicktoons, 2008), ''

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''), '' Kenny and the Chimp'' (which was the basis for '' Codename: Kids Next Door''), '' The Fairly OddParents'', '' My Life as a Teenage Robot'', ''

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'', ''Nite Fite'', '' Fanboy & Chum Chum'', '' Adventure Time'', '' Bravest Warriors'', ''Rocket Dog'', and '' Bee and PuppyCat''.

References

External links

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