Frederator Studios

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Frederator Studios
Type Animated cartoon studio
Founded 1997
Headquarters United States United States
Key people Founder:
Fred Seibert
Creative Development:
Eric Homan
Supervising Producer:
Kevin Kolde
Producer:
Carrie Miller
Industry Cartoon & Animation Production
Products Television series, internet cartoons, & feature films
Website frederator.com

Frederator Studios is an independent American animated cartoon studio 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. Their slogan is "Original Cartoons since 1998."

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[edit] Television cartoons

Frederator's debut production was the television series Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which later spun-off three series: The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, and My Life as a Teenage Robot, in addition to 51 original short cartoons by a unique group of creators including the first films by creators like Butch Hartman, Rob Renzetti, Tim Biskup, and Carlos Ramos.

In 2002, Frederator created a joint venture for pre-school cartoons with producer Susan Miller's Mixed Media Group, Inc. and produced their first pre-school series, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, which recently[when?] featured Wubb Idol, a movie starring Beyonce.

Frederator Studios created a television series and competition The Nicktoons Film Festival (now known as the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival) for the Nicktoons network, which debuted October 24, 2004 now known as the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival.

Random! Cartoons is the latest from Frederator's successful series of short cartoons, running on the Nicktoons network in 2008-9. 39 original shorts have already spawned two series productions (Fanboy and Chum Chum for Nickelodeon, Fall 2009; and Adventure Time with Finn and Jake for Cartoon Network, Winter 2010).

[edit] Internet cartoons

On November 1, 2005, Frederator launched the world's first cartoon podcast[citation needed], named Channel Frederator. This weekly animation network features submitted films from around the world, and quickly became one of the top video podcasts on Apple Inc.'s iTunes. In quick succession, The Wubbcast was launched for pre-schoolers in January 2006, and ReFrederator featuring vintage public domain cartoons in April 2006. Channel Frederator is now part of media company Next New Networks and reaches almost 4,000,000 video views monthly.

The studio jumped into its first original internet cartoons with independent animator Dan Meth. The Meth Minute 39 launched on September 5, 2007, featuring 39 of Meth's original character shorts. (The first cartoon was "Internet People," a video on the viral video sites YouTube and MySpaceTV that featured some of the best internet memes and internet people.) A spin-off, Nite Fite, debuted in October 2008. These series have totaled over 35,000,000 video views to date.

[edit] Feature films

In June 25, 2007 Variety article announced the studio had formed Frederator Films, dedicated to creating animated feature films budgeted under $20 million.[1]

Frederator's first feature is set up at Paramount Pictures, co-produced with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ McNary, Dave. Toon trio starts Frederator. Variety. Mon, Jun. 25, 2007.

[edit] External links

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