Now in its fourth year, the Nicktoons Animation Festival seeks to honor the best animated shorts (10 minutes or less) around (or at least, entered). Every night at 10 p.m., the Nicktoons channel screens a short; on Aug. 31, the best ones will be compiled and telecast, along with the grand prize winning short (which comes with a $10,000 prize).
This weekend, the festival set up shop at the Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank... and on Saturday, we brought Evan along to the fest's annual Kids' Day.
The high-energy event included DJs and dancers, as well as surprisingly gourmet-style finger foods (including and excellent mac and cheese, a citrus-spiked chicken sandwich and quite tasty hamburger sliders), a booth where kids learned about the animation process; another in which Nick animators drew popular characters for the kids; and others where kids could decorate their own character.
Animators draw several of the more popular characters; Blogger Toddler settled on a Dora the Explorer sketch
Character is led away
Spongebob, made completely of Legos
Fountain in front of the studios; don't forget, Nickelodeon's love affair with everything colored slime originated with "You Can't Do That on Television"
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