INTERspectacular, a concept, design and animation studio in New York City, has re-branded Nicktoons Network’s 3 Headed Monster block with new logos, graphics and animated bumpers. INTERspectacular’s Creative Directors Luis Blanco and Michael Uman teamed up with character designer Joel Trussell to create a 3-headed monster with distinct personalities: Friday, Saturday and Sunday (the block airs Fri-Sun from 7pm to 1am).

The design and animation team included Josh Pelzek, Devin Clark, Efrain Cintron, Euralis Weekes, Sybille Schenker, Alberto Cerriteno and Andrew Macfarlane. INTERspectacular Executive Producer Greg Babiuk tapped Blanco and Uman to voice the monsters. To see handfuls of animated bumpers, head over the INTERspectacular site and below is one titled Mirror.

Last night at Cinespace in Hollywood, Fred Seibert held the first annual Channel Frederator Awards party. Seibert, the founder of Frederator and former President of Hanna-Barbera studios, attracted a mammoth crowd who enjoyed a continual cartoon screening, video interviews throughout the night and an A-list assembly from the kids animation world.

But the real stars of the night were the winners of the Channel Frederator Awards. Several of the award winning films were produced in Flash, including Jessica Borutski’s musical short I Like Pandas, which won Best Flash Film, and War Photographer by Joel Trussell which took home two awards - Best Music Video and The Producers’ Award. Jossie Malis’ Bendito Machine won for Best Design, Bernard Derriman’s immensely-viral Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me took home Funniest Film, and Ed Skudder’s Flash-animated short The New Guy walked away with the Joe Robot Award, for best use of a robot.

I also saw heaps of great people, including Melissa Wolfe, who not only works for Frederator but also created one of this year’s Random Cartoons (Sparkles and Gloom), Bill Bennett (who co-created Chalkzone), Kris Boban from Liquid Generation, the guys from Six Point Harness Studio and Animax Entertainment and Michael Uman and Luis Blanco from Interspectacular, the NYC shop who was written up here last December for the Discovery Channel work.

Great party, Frederator. I don’t think you have a choice on this one - you’re doing that again next year!

INTERspectacular, an animation and design firm out of New York, recently created a series of TV spots for Discovery’s The Science Channel. Here’s how the project is described on the INTERspectacular site:

When the Discovery Channel asked INTERspectacular to answer the question, “Where would we be without science?” INTERspectacular replied, “A world without science is a world without discovery.”

They created 5 spots, all animated in Flash and After Effects. Luis Blanco and Michael Uman, the co-founders/Creative Directors of INTERspectacular chose to work with illustrator Josh Cochran for the project. Uman said “we used Josh’s drawings as the straight man to our comedy.” Next, they teamed up with animator Ben Lee who brought the designs to life with help from animators Andrew Macfarlane and Efrain Cintron.

WATCH THE TV SPOTS HERE

Moon or Bust 1

Moon or Bust 2

The Spirit of Invention

The Wonder of Cloning

The Art of Navigation