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It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between YouTube cartoons dreamt up by teens in their bedrooms and big-budget TV studio productions created by professionally-trained artists. Today, Disney Television Animation announced the beginning of production on "Pickle & Peanut," a "buddy comedy series about two unlikely friends—an emotional pickle and a freewheeling peanut...two underdogs who dream up plans to be anything but ordinary."
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Derek Iversen, a writer on SpongeBob SquarePants, writes with some news:
Today Nickelodeon released Carrot & Stick, a short that I created with Miles Hindman last year. Marc Ceccarelli did the storyboard and Joel Trussell directed, and we couldn’t be happier with the result!
The two-minute pilot short can be seen on Nickelodeon’s website. It was recently selected for competition in the Annecy animation festival’s TV Specials category.
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The winners of the 2012 Ottawa International Animation Festival were announced earlier tonight at the National Arts Center in Ottawa. The top prize for short film went to Dutch filmmaker Hisko Hulsing for his short Junkyard. The animated feature prize went to the Spanish feature Arrugas (Wrinkles) directed by Ignacio Ferreras. It’s Such a Beautiful Day by Don Hertzfeldt picked up the audience prize.
I Am Tom Moody by Ainslie Henderson picked up two awards, including the grand prize for best student animation. Two films in this year’s Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival were also recognized: Kyle Mowat’s Ballpit won best graduate animation and Noam Sussman’s Gum won the Canadian student animation award.
The complete list of winners is below:
Nelvana GRAND PRIZE for Best Independent Short Animation
Junkyard directed by Hisko Hulsing, Netherlands
GRAND PRIZE for Best Animated Feature
Arrugas (Wrinkles) directed by Ignacio Ferreras, Spain
Walt Disney GRAND PRIZE for Best Student Animation
I Am Tom Moody directed by Ainslie Henderson, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
GRAND PRIZE for Best Commissioned Animation
Primus “Lee Van Cleef” by Chris Smith, USA
Best Animation School Showreel
Supinfocom (France)
BEST Narrative Short
A Morning Stroll by Grant Orchard, STUDIO AKA, USA
BEST Experimental/Abstract Animation
Rivière au Tonnerre directed by Pierre Hébert, Canada
Adobe Prize for BEST High School Animation
The Bean by Hae Jin Jung, Gyeonggi Art High School, South Korea
Honourable Mention:
La Soif Du Monde (Thirsty Frog) by a Collective: 12 Children, Camera-etc, Belgium
BEST Undergraduate Animation
Reizwäsche by Jelena Walf & Viktor Stickel, Germany
BEST Graduate Animation
Ballpit directed by Kyle Mowat, Sheridan College, Canada
BEST Promotional Animation
Red Bull ‘Music Academy World Tour’ by Pete Candeland, Passion Pictures, UK
BEST Music Video
The First Time I Ran Away by Joel Trussell, USA
BEST Television Animation for Adults
Portlandia: “Zero Rats” by Rob Shaw, USA
BEST Short Animation Made for Children
Beethoven’s Wig directed by Alex Hawley & Denny Silverthorne, Canada
Honourable Mentions:
Au Coeur de L’Hiver directed by Isabelle Favez, Switzerland
Why do we Put up with Them? directed by David Chai, USA
BEST Television Animation Made for Children
Regular Show: “Eggscellent” by JC Quintel, Cartoon Network
Honourable Mention:
Adventure Time: “Jake vs. Me-Mow” by Pendleton Ward, Cartoon Network, USA
The National Film Board of Canada PUBLIC PRIZE
It’s Such a Beautiful Day directed by Don Hertzfeldt, USA
Canadian Film Institute Award for BEST Canadian Animation
Nightingales in December directed by Theodore Ushev, Canada
Honourable Mentions
Ballpit directed by Kyle Mowat, Sheridan College, Canada
MacPherson directed by Martine Chartrand, National Film Board of Canada, Canada
BEST Canadian Student Animation Award
Gum by Noam Sussman, Sheridan College, Canadaa
Honourable Mentions
Ballpit by Kyle Mowat, Sheridan College, Canada
Tengri by Alisi Telengut, Concordia University, Canada
The Ottawa Media Jury Award
For the best short competition film, as deemed by the local Ottawa Media, consisting of:
-Peter Simpson (Ottawa Citizen)
-Sandra Abma (CBC)
-Fateema Sayani (Ottawa Magazine)
-Denis Armstrong (Ottawa Sun)
I Am Tom Moody by Ainslie Henderson, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
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He’s lived in Knoxville, Seattle and Los Angeles, but animator Joel Trussell recently moved to a town you won’t find on any map — Electric City. Electric City is the name of the new animated series spearheaded by actor/director Tom Hanks, and it’s one of the first major animation productions specifically designed for online viewing. Premiering today on Yahoo’s video site Yahoo! Screen with ten five- to seven-minute episodes, Electric City is a co-production by Hanks’ Playtone shingle and Los Angeles animation studio Six Point Harness, who tapped Trussell to direct this unique animated series.
Trussell’s career has seen a steady uphill trajectory since graduating from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1998, doing animated music videos to commercials and even segments of television shows like Yo Gabba Gabba. Cartoon Brew has followed Trussell’s career for years, beginning with 2005’s War Photographer music video . After doing a prodigious amount of work out of his Knoxville home far removed from the traditional animation hubs, Trussell moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to pursue opportunities for larger projects. In no short time, Trussell connected with Six Point Harness to do commercials which segued quickly into the opportunity to helm Electric City.
Chris Arrant: Electric City is the biggest project you’ve ever done – 20 episodes, 5 to 7 minutes each. How’d you get involved and did you have any concerns about such a large scale project?
Joel Trussell: For several years I directed animated many music videos (Jason Forrest’s War Photographer, M. Ward’s The First Time I Ran Away) commercials (Esurance, Nicorette) and TV/film segments (Yo Gabba Gabba, The Animation Show) while living in Knoxville, Tenne
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Oh goodness, yes! Animator Joel Trussell hits another music video home-run with this video for The Gossip’s Love Long Distance
(via Joel’s Twitter)
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I know that this is a little late, but Drawn! favorite Joel Trussell had an open reception for his Culture Jam Jelly show this past Thursday night at the Grassy Knoll Gallery in Portland, OR. The show is a stunner, with plenty of colorful bearded characters. Joel promised beforehand that not all of the show would consist of vikings, but honestly? I wouldn’t mind. As long as they have that unmistakable JT touch, I’m there. Oh, and just so you know, there are girls in the mix, too. Sans beards. One interesting feature of the show that can’t be missed: a wall covered with faux fur.
To view the show online, as well as to purchase the artwork, click here.
To view the show in person, be sure to contact the gallery by going to the site.
I took some shots of the show opening, including the wall of fur: Joel Trussell’s Culture Jelly Show Flickr set.
Oh, and I almost forgot. You can also nab yerself a limited edition show poster signed by Joel himself: Culture Jam Show Poster.
That was excellent. I suppose it helps that the song was good too, but the concept and art made the song that much better.
I really love Joel Trussell’s animations but unfortunately didn’t particularly care for that vid clip :(
Just think Joel’s past music clips have been far, far, far more interesting. I was watching this one waiting for some sort of clever twist or some sort of intriguing interpretation or anything really but nothing seemed to happen.
Did I miss something ? All I got from this was balloons with faces that cheat with other balloons.
Got nothing against the Gossip and I still love Joel Trussell ! Just felt this one missed the mark.
I guess you’re right Mike. Joel’s other animations burnt Gossip’s music video to a krisp. However, on the other hand, music videos are a collaborative effort and, in many (I’d argue most) collaborations an artist isn’t given all that much leeway in terms of creative license.
I know nothing of what went on behind the scenes but, it’s a good bet that a studio exec for the record label put their foot down and claimed that the music should read louder than the video. The roller rink & balloons just SCREAM nostalgia; which is great because, this simple concept works great with Gossip’s 80’s pop inspired sound.
I totally agree that without the sound the animation just doesn’t hold any magic, oomph, get up and go, or what have you but, the fact remains, this is a good music video.
Of course, nothing could change my opinion (and hopefully yours) that had Joel Trussell been given free artistic reign with possible direction/inspiration from the band that the music video would have been MUCH MUCH better. After all, as poppy as the song is, the lyrics are fairly deep.
[p.s.It would be very difficult but, I'd even argue that the concept he was given could have been improved upon; some of the concept is just filler and, it feels like JT didn't have more than a 20 min. conversation with the band.]
p.p.s.I’ve thought about this WAY TOO MUCH
Hey, I appreciate the extra thought you put into it Durtin :)
And that makes a lot of sense to me, I hadn’t considered how much flexibility they would have given Joel.
A real big shame, seems like a waste of his awesomeness.
While it may not be as animation-heavy as you’d like, from what I gather Joel was responsible for directing the live action as well as the animation. And if you’ve seen the work he’s done with fruit, this video seems to fall right in line with that.
That’s good to know John. Now we just have to go out and find whichever punk decided to put the emphasis on live action vs. animation and give them a piece of your minds… Five bucks says that they were also the ones who opted for the idea of a roller rink over a carnival/theme-park location too.