The Nicktoons Film Festival (or Nicktoons Network Animation Festival) was an annual televised event created by Fred Seibert and produced for first 3 years by Frederator Studios. Broadcast on Nickelodeon’s sister channel Nicktoons Network from 2004 to 2009. Animated Shorts from all over the world, and various backgrounds from the amateur up and coming animators to the professionals (18 and over) were submitted and aired in various “themed” episodes and through a panel of judges with prizes awarded to the best shorts in the “Greater Creator Contest”.
The sixth and final festival (with its name changed to the Nickelodeon Animation Festival) was broadcast in 2009. Several entries actually went onto become their own full series or are from preexisting series.
Entires in the Festivals include:
- Timmy’s Lessons in Nature: 2004 Grand Prize winner.
- La Revolution Des Crabes (The Crabs Revolution): 2005 Grand Prize winner.
- The Ballad of Sheep 13: 2006 Grand Prize Winner.
- Zoologic: 2007 Grand Prize and Grand Jury Prize winner.
- Boogie and Diggie 2008 Grand Prize and Student Animator Award Winners.
- Farm Force: 2005 Viewer’s Choice Award winner.
- Sinking Margot: 2006 Viewer’s Choice Award winner.
- After Oz: 2007 Viewer’s Choice Award Winner.
- The Naive Man From Lolliland: JG Quintel’s more “kid-friendly” student film which would become one of the pitch pilots for Regular Show. It even won the Producer’s Choice Award and the Student Animator Award in the 2005 Festival.
- Super Scout: the pitch pilot for the Nicktoon The Mighty B!. Won the Producer’s Choice Award in the 2006 Festival.
- Monstories: Fine Diners
- The Pitch Pilot for Hero: 108.
- Burglar Alarm: Also appeared on MTV's Cartoon Sushi.
- Various shorts from the 3D anime of Ape Escape.
- Welcome to My Life which was remade for Cartoon Network in 2015.
- The Weebl & Bob shorts Magical Trevor and Kenya.
- Several shorts featured in the 2004 lineup were from Nelvana's Funpak anthology series, which was originally shown in Canada on YTV.
- The Not-So Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick in "Doomsday Dog" (one of the pilots for Sidekick)
- Rotting Hills in "Clark’s New Home"
- The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps in "Serenity Now"
- The Manly Bee in "Return of the Manly Bee"
- Gruesomenstein's Monsters in "Freddie and the Yeti"
- Coolman in "Deep Sea Blues"
- Harold Rosenbaum: Chartered Accountant Extreme in "Ledger Lad Liquidation"
- Miracle Koala in "Belt for Punishment"
- Martini and Meatballs in "Avery's Game"
- The Wild Wild Circus Company in "Fishy Memories"
- Those Scurvy Rascals Pilot: Pant Island.
- The Mousochist created by John R. Dilworth (creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog).
- Charlie and Chunk created by Eric Fogel (creator of Celebrity Deathmatch and Glenn Martin, DDS).
- Manbird created by Mark Marek (Creator of Henry and June for Kablam)
- Beach Booty created by Alex Hirsch (Creator of Gravity Falls)
- Bert created by Moonsung Lee, who would go on to be an animator for Robots and Horton Hears a Who! (2008).
- Dia De Los Muertos created by Kirk Kelly, who would go on to be an Executive Producer for The Shivering Truth.
- To a Man With a Big Nose: Won Best Animation at the Fargo Film Festival.
- Mr. Mille Created by Massimo Carrier Ragazzi, founder of Maga Animation Studio.
- Bathtime in Clerkenwell Multi-Award winner.
- Runaway Bathtub Part of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
- Mr. Man in Abstract Created by Steve Whitehouse
- Day Off the Dead
- The Thing With No Head
- Jack and Jill
- Attack of the Note Sheep
- Boing Boing
- Magnetism
- Birdon
- Sucker
- Heads, You Lose!
- Interrogating Ernie
- Skippy
- <ESC>
- Tell Me Not to Worry
- Happy Mania
- Robot Family: The Slick Salesman
- Wingnut
- Medusa: First Date
- PGi-13
- Josh W. Eats a Bug
- Zoya the Zebra
- Doggie Door
- Bottom of the 9th
- Haina: A Concert
- Gumbuster
- Loco Melones
- Monkey, Monkey
- Six Snails Snoring
- Pigly
- Polygon Family II
- Nagymama
- Rockfish
- The Tribe
- Bath Time
- Minue
- Hobbies: Model Bus Collector
- UNMarked
- Man’s First Friend
- Terrance Eats Knowledge
- Up Up And Away
- I Like Pandas
- Pen Vs. Pencil
- Plumber
- Anthem (a.k.a. Psyop Anthem)
- Peeves: Toilet Water
- Short Circuit (Aka Trumpas Sujungimas)
- Soup
- A Sixty Second Tragedy
- Prey
- Chris Walker’s Unfortunate Alphabet
- First Kiss
- Maestro
- The Grosse Hunger
- Getting Ice Cream
- Out of Beat
- Mig Said
- Help!
- The Z Files:
- The Monster Within
- Over the Moon
- Anaka (A failed video game pitch)
- Oh, Dear
- A Short Visit to Toy Town
- Love Affair
- Five Infomercials for Dentists
- Defective
- Betty
- Nulbür
- Ralph’s World: Fee Fi Fo Fum
- Sing-a-Long with Roosevelt
- Egghunt
- A Great Big Robot from Outer Space Ate My Homework
- The Tale of How
- Handshake
- "Bip Bip" by Joe Dassin
- Dog Worries
- Late Night Comedy
- The Head in the Clouds
- Libraryhead
- Penguin Day Spa Commercial
- Ballyvaughan Story
- Doodle of Doom
- Juxtaposer
- Animation Test Pilot
- "Engrish Bwudd" by Man Man
- The Mad Scientist Show: The Transporter
- Giant's Kitchen
- Crocodile Journals
- My Best Friend
- Deep Six
- The New Guy
- The M Man
- I Love You Kitty
- Manege Frei
- Egg Song
- Zeitsprung Timetravels
- Exit
- The Passenger
- The Mustache Contest
- Snout
- Polka
- L’amie De Zoe
- Saalis
- Soñadora
- Bare
- Hedgehug
- Hominid
- Kiwi! [1]
- Carried Away
- Monster on the Moon
- José y Maria
- Angst
- A Peach for the Teach
- "Freewheel" by Duke Special
- Cranks
- FEB 18 05
- Mortimer Pigmun and his Time Traveling Chums
- St. Laleeloo
- Barfy the Pig episode 3: A Day at the Park
- Process Enacted
- Old Chestnut
- Puppet
- The Little Dictator
- Art's Desire
- Loose Change
- Insomnia
- Bob 'n Bobby
- Insert Coin
- Kina Sky
- Magic Theatre
- Mariza
- No Quarter
- Oakley and Bud in “Rogue UFO”
- Otis v. Monster
- Pencilmation Episode #7: Malice in Wonderland
- Popped
- Shiny!
- "So Close to the Sun" by Thaykhay
- Some Facts About Owls
- Squeak
- Tang
- The History of an Animation
- History of Man Part 2
- The Switch
- Tickle Me Silly
- Value Blind
- Vampirofaga
- At Deaths Door
- Barfy the Pig: Episode 6
- Best Present Ever
- Cricket
- Deadline
- Divers
- Flying Boy
- HUBO
- Do Not Feed the Aligators
- Slyness
- Foes: The Trash Monster