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Yukoner Excluded From Teletoon Animation Contest

, By Patcoola

Canadian cartoon broadcasting station Teletoon begins voting for the top five finalists as chosen by Teletoon’s staff for the Teletoon at Night Pilot Project Contest, Yukoner Patrick Spencer was excluded from the contest for reasons that have not yet been disclosed.

Patrick learned about this year’s competition latter into the submission deadline with about 45 days till the date. Patrick begun production of his submission with 28 days remaining, during that time his father was at Whitehorse General Hospital recovering from leg surgery taken in Vancouver. About one week after his father’s release from hospital, Patrick’s father suffered a heart attack and had to be aired back to Vancouver with six blocked arteries. Today Patrick’s father is recovering well now at the age of 75.

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During this ordeal Patrick still managed to do what many would consider the impossible, implementing a new system of digital 2D animation Patrick has been developing on and off during his spare time over the last six years. Patrick had created the first official animated short from his franchise The Curling Club.

With a 28 day production period, Patrick had to put in 16 hour day’s and in response Patrick only had one thing to say. “It’s not my best writing but it was the best I could do in such short notice, and given the Teletoon at Night audience I think it was a perfect fit.”

Titled “The Curling Club – Gig’s Bad Day!” this animated short is about three minutes in length, produced in high definition at 30 frames per second. Patrick states that he wouldn’t have considered to attempt a project this huge in such a short amount of time if it wasn’t for his new method of rapid animation deployment. The new system contains a massive library including trees, rocks, clouds, etc made just for The Curling Club. Patrick claims that the system can recreate any landscape in the Yukon in minutes to just a few hours where before it would have taken days to draw a mountain and animations can be done at an ultra smooth 120 frame per second at the same production speed as 30 frames per second.

Patrick says The Curling Club was design for success and has no explanation to why Teletoon would exclude his submission. At the moment Patrick has not been successful at trying to contact Teletoon nor does his e-mails receive the automated response anymore. This isn’t the first time Patrick’s work has been refused by an animation contest, back in 2004 Patrick submitted another animated short based on The Curling Club to the Maple Shorts Pilot Project contest hosted by the CBC and March Entertainment, this submission was also excluded from the contest for reasons unknown.

Patrick has won some web awards in the past for his animated shorts and plans to make The Curling Club an online animated series with games and comics. You can expect to see The Curling Club online sometime next year.

Read follow-up: Yukoner Broke Non-Existent Rule in Teletoon Animation Contest

 

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