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Fred and Sharon’s Movie Productions

March 8, 2008 11:14 am

Throughout the history of the animation art form, there have been a select group of innovators who have pushed the medium to its limits and explored the potential of animation to its fullest. These artists include Winsor McCay, Walt Disney, Max Flesicher, Tex Avery, John Hubley…and now, I’m pleased to announce, Fred and Sharon.

Fred and Sharon, hailing from Kelowna, Canada are redefining the possibilities of filmmaking and animation by producing movies for any type of occasion. You can learn about their skills by watching this introductory piece below, entitled “Who Needs a Movie.”

Of course, Cartoon Brew is an animation website and thankfully for us, Fred and Sharon are specialists in the art of animation. They work in a dizzying array of styles, including hi-end computer animation that is seamlessly integrated into live-action settings…

to a traditional hand-drawn look…

to more painterly and experimental styles of animation…

For more of their filmmaking magic, visit FredandSharonsMovies.com or their YouTube page. And when you see them accepting an Oscar, just remember that you read about them on Cartoon Brew first.

40 commentsshare posted in CGI, Shorts

03/8/08 11:25am	Tom Pope says:
	That’s a couple of unique people.
03/8/08 11:35am	Gabe Swarr says:
	This is the future!
03/8/08 11:39am	jay d smith says:
	you guys are mean! :)
03/8/08 11:47am	Tommy Day says:
	That’s some of the best VCR editing I’ve seen since I did it when I was 8.
03/8/08 12:22pm	Shawn Jackson says:
	I simply adore folks like this. So far away from my reality in Hollywood. Keep it real, Fred and Sharon!!
03/8/08 12:25pm	FP says:
	I wish I could animate good like that. Is this for real? The guy looks like Jamie Kennedy.
03/8/08 12:48pm	Animation Pimp says:
	Now, that’s a story worth writing about. They remind of these Edna and Tex Boil (sp?) on SCTV.
03/8/08 1:01pm	jtruss says:
	The revolution is here!
03/8/08 1:17pm	The Gagaman says:
	That’s it, Amid has finally lost it!
03/8/08 1:22pm	Zubby says:
	My brain hurts.
03/8/08 1:28pm	Mike says:
	Amazing. Their phone must be ringing off the hook.
03/8/08 1:34pm	dan says:
	Fred and Sharon make a Porno. Has been picked up my Sony Classics.
03/8/08 1:35pm	lamartherevenger says:
	I agree with Gabe Swarr this is the future!
03/8/08 1:35pm	dan says:
	Does anyone remember “Tex and Edna Boil’s Organ Emporium” from Second City?
03/8/08 1:46pm	Pedro Nakama says:
	What pisses me off is I sent them my reel and resume months ago and they haven’t contacted me yet!
03/8/08 2:13pm	Lauren Rasmussen says:
	good Lord, Amid, you really are mean!!! she types as she shakes with laughter. dang it, doesn’t sound like they’re taking internships!
03/8/08 3:14pm	Steve Segal says:
	Dan, Thank you so much for reminding me of the name “Tex and Edna Boil’s Organ Emporium”. I can still picture Edna gesturing with her arm, “come on down”. Amid, I swear you have been spending too much time in Jerry’s Cartoon Dump. Now I have to watch some Norman McLaren and Richard Williams and hope the feeling comes back to my brain.
03/8/08 4:13pm	Simon Stahl says:
	With skills like that it won’t be long before Robert Zemeckis poaches Fred and Sharon for ImageMovers.
03/8/08 4:20pm	Meng says:
	I love them. It’s easy to be mean, but honestly… they are producing something, which is more than can be said of a lot of self-called (so-called) artists. Thanks for sharing.
03/8/08 4:23pm	Tim Drage says:
	I couldn’t believe these videos were not satire. I’m still not sure but there doesn’t seem to be enough of an obvious ‘joke’ for them to not be for real. :-S
03/8/08 5:37pm	Nic Kramer says:
	This must be a joke and it’s not even April yet.
03/8/08 6:34pm	Zekey says:
	Great Job!
03/8/08 7:15pm	Andrew says:
	Amid Amidi, you are a mean, mean sarcastic man. ;-)
03/8/08 7:35pm	M.T. Chiswell says:
	w….t….f……
03/8/08 7:58pm	John Surname says:
	That’s it, I’m going to law school. I don’t believe in nothing no more.
03/8/08 9:07pm	Gerard de Souza says:
	Well, in the 20th century we had folk art and folk music. Maybe this is folk animation and folk video.
03/8/08 9:17pm	Percival says:
	Fred and Sharon stole George Miller’s whole act. And I’ll bet they remember the names of their animators.
03/8/08 10:14pm	David Nethery says:
	Oh, yes , this is so EXACTLY what the SCTV’rs (in this case Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas) were spoofing with bits like Tex and Edna Boil’s Organ Emporium . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQl9jdKUmM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-82Q0ofs8 “Right , Tex ? ” “That’s right , Edna!”
03/9/08 3:37am	Fred says:
	I love outsider art!
03/9/08 3:45am	james suhr says:
	sharon’s slumpy posture while speaking, i mean reading badly, those lines is just the funniest damn thing i’ve seen in a long time!
03/9/08 5:00am	Jody Morgan says:
	Soon to be seen on Adult Swim!
03/9/08 10:24am	Alessandro Cima says:
	What I think is interesting about this stuff is that it exists at all. The fact is that these two people can get up and make something that people can see. I bet a lot of their friends are doing little more than watching TV and driving to the local CostCo. These two are playing with something that interests them. That’s pretty cool. I hope I keep playing when I am 64. It’s funny. But it’s also superior to what 90 percent of twenty-somethings post every day on their facebook/myspace/twitter/connect-me-with-the-next-moron.com site. Frankly, I haven’t laughed so hard in front of my computer monitor for months. Thank you, Amid.
03/9/08 11:00am	Chris Sobieniak says:
	Still, I wouldn’t mind if it had been a semi-professional husband & wife team of sorts that set up shop on their own and did something pretty cool despite such a cute name they used for their business, say the husband had been an animator and the wife was a videographer/editor of sorts, I could see it working so perfectly if they found a balance between each other and learn from each other’s expertise. In the case of THESE GUYS mentioned here, I can assume their services probably benefit those in need of having their precious weddings or child’s Christmas pageants recorded professionally if these guys could do well for that sort of thing than something a little higher like commercials or other commercial/work-for-hire projects. Of course as Gerard De Souza said before, this could be the beginning of a sort of “folk animation/video” period we’ll just have to get used to if we have to make it through those booths at craft shows!
03/9/08 3:45pm	Alex says:
	They’re like real life Tim & Eric characters! I love it!
03/9/08 8:18pm	Spit & Spite says:
	Finally, the first bullet in the independent internet animation revolution has been fired… Seriously though, it is kind of sweet… kind of… I’m with you Jody!
03/10/08 7:03am	christy says:
	so awesome!!!!
03/10/08 7:21am	Vincent says:
	I smell the next Adult Swim cartoon.
03/10/08 5:12pm	moopot says:
	That ‘Who needs a movie’ thing almost made me cry, it was so sad. But then the loch ness monster showed up, and I couldn’t help but laugh.
03/10/08 10:45pm	Gerard de Souza says:
	“But then the loch ness monster showed up…….” It’s Ogopogo, man. Ogopogo! ;)
03/20/08 8:34pm	kentiam says:
	it only gets better: http://www.tedandkarensmovies.com/

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