Nicktoons UK - 2014 Rebrand

Following a competitive pitch, the London-based award winning creative production studio Beautiful Creative were tasked with rebranding Nickelodeon UK's top-performing animation and action channel, Nicktoons UK & Ireland. The brief was to 'focus on funny' and to place Nicktoons characters at the forefront of the branding.

The rebrand went on to win silver at Promax UK in the best channel identity category!

A new identity was created placing the characters eyes within the Nicktoons logo. This simple solution ties the Nicktoons brand to the characters seamlessly and allows the brand itself to be funny.

Nickelodeon selected key shots to be re-animated to sit in with the branding. Cell animation was re-created in Adobe Flash to give a crisp scalable image. 3D cartoons were modelled and rigged in Maxon's Cinema 4D.

The rebrand included logo, idents, stings, promo packaging, bugs and in-program-pointers as well as re-skinning existing assets to sit within the new brand.

Check out Beautiful Creative's Nicktoons UK rebrand below!:

Nicktoons UK Rebrand 2014 "Laugh" Ident from Beautiful Creative on Vimeo.

Nicktoons UK Rebrand 2014 Continuity - Next Spongebob from Beautiful Creative on Vimeo.

Nicktoons UK Rebrand 2014 "Poop" Ident from Beautiful Creative on Vimeo.

Always on Nicktoons from Barry Evans on Vimeo.

"Gangnam Style", Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Style!

What do you get if you cross Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, Nickelodeon Star Rachel Crow, Manhattan in New York, Perez Hilton, Viacom offices'/rooms full of Nickelodeon employees, a Lady Gaga impersonator, Toys"R"Us in New York City, and NYC's Time Square with the South Korean rapper PSY and the North American rapper Vanilla Ice? "Gangnam Style", Turtle Power style! Click play to see Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get down! Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!

NY-Based Creative Studio Trollbäck + Company Unveils A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Making Of Nickelodeon's 2011 Image Campaign

The New York-based creative studio "Trollbäck + Company" has unveiled a few behind-the-scenes photographs from the making of Nickelodeon's 2011 image campaign, which features Nickelodeon stars from Nickelodeon's current live action and animated programming, including the casts of the Nickelodeon shows "Big Time Rush", "iCarly", "The Fairly OddParents", "T.U.F.F. Puppy", "Victorious", "The Penguins of Madagascar", "Planet Sheen", "Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness", "Supah Ninjas", "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Fanboy & Chum Chum", "Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures", and "True Jackson, VP", to their official website, which you can view here at trollback.com/nick/!

Pixel DNA Unveils Four Of Nickelodeon's Brand New "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Teaser Idents

To celebrate Nickelodeon premiering Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series worldwide (Planet Nickelodeon) from Autumn/Fall 2012, the Sheffield, UK-based creative studio 'Pixel DNA' has unveiled a brand new high definition (HD) high quality (HQ) online streaming Nickelodeon video which features four of Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" idents that they have created as Nickelodeon teasers to promote the brand new series of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on Nickelodeon!

Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Station ID's are set in a dark city environment, with each one of Nickelodeon's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" idents featuring one of the four heroes in a half-shell wearing their famous coloured bandana's peering out from their hiding places at the television viewer.

TMNT ID's from Pixel DNA on Vimeo.

A set of idents created as teasers to promote the brand new series of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' on Nickelodeon. The idents set in dark city environments, represents each of the turtle characters and only focuses on showing their eyes and coloured bandana's.

In the first of Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Nickelodeon teaser channel idents, 'Raphael' (also known as 'Raph') peers out through a bit of freshly shredded wallpaper that features the Nickelodeon logo on it.

In Nickelodeon's second brand new "TMNT" channel ident, 'Michelangelo' (also known as 'Mike' or 'Mikey') stares through a red and green neon 'Pizza' shop sign, which then transforms into a neon Nickelodeon logo shop sign.

The third of Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" idents features 'Donatello' (also known as 'Don' or 'Donnie') peering up under a New York City manhole cover, who then disappears after a car travels on top of the manhole to be replaced by a Nickelodeon logo resting on top of the manhole cover.

The fourth brand new Nickelodeon "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ident features 'Leonardo' (also known as 'Leo') staring through the carriage windows of a fast moving overground railway passenger train (railroad passenger train). As the end (last) carriage of the train appears onto the screen and travels by to exit the other side of the screen, a Nickelodeon logo appears, laying on top of the railway wall.

Pixel DNA's 'Nickelodeon TMNT ID's' video also features a special 'Pixel DNA' ident, which features a modified version of Nickelodeon's 'Raphael' "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" channel ID, except instead of a Nickelodeon logo, the wallpaper features a 'Pixel DNA' logo.

It is currently unknown whether Pixel DNA's brand new Nickelodeon "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" idents are for just for Nickelodeon UK and Ireland, or if Nickelodeon's brand new 'TMNT' idents will also be shown on Nickelodeon's worldwide channels (Nickelodeon Worldwide).

Nickelodeon has announced plans to premiere "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on Nickelodeon USA on Saturday 29th September 2012 at 11am ET/PT and on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK on Monday 1st October 2012 at 5.00pm. TURTLE POWER!

Video Of Nickelodeon Australia's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Teaser Trailer

Below is a high quality (HQ) streaming Nickelodeon video and transcript of Nickelodeon Australia's new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" teaser trailer which Nickelodeon Australia has been airing to promote that Nickelodeon Oz will be premiering and showing Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series on Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand soon. Nickelodeon Aus & NZ's new TMNT teaser promo was made by Nickelodeon Australia Associate Producer Cameron Jeong:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teaser from Cameron Jeong on Vimeo.

Heroes. Warriors. Brothers. Turtles?

[Michelangelo: (laughs) [can of spray paint falls on Mikey's head] Oh!]

The crime fighting foursome are back, in a brand new series.

[Villon: [screams at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles's]]

[Leonardo [Leo], Donatello [Don], and Raphael [Raph]: Wahh!]

They will rise.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the brand new series.

Prepare to be Shell Shocked!

Nickelodeon!

You can find the latest "Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" news here on NickALive!.

Video Of Nickelodeon UK's New "SpongeBob's Top 100" Trailer

Below is a high quality (HQ) high definition (HD) streaming video and transcript of Nickelodeon UK's brand new "SpongeBob's Top 100" promo/trailer, which Nickelodeon UK is currently broadcasting across Nickelodeon UK's channels to advertise and promote Nickelodeon UK's upcoming "SpongeBob SquarePants" themed Nickelodeon Programming Stunt called "SpongeBob's Top 100", which Nickelodeon UK is holding to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in June 2012, which will be marking 60 years of The Queen's reign.

Nickelodeon UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" promo features The Queen (using her stately voice), telling Nickelodeon viewers about Nick UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" while the camera pans through her Royal palace, which unveils many artworks featuring everybody's favourite sponge, SpongeBob, including SpongeBob SquarePants paintings (from most eras), and SpongeBob SquarePants statues, including a giant gold SpongeBob SquarePants statue of SpongeBob holding a golden Spatula and a Golden shield, to the background music of The Ren & Stimpy Show's "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" Anthem the British national anthem "God Save the Queen". Nickelodeon UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" trailer was made by the award winning UK based computer animation studio Blue-Zoo Productions [Nick Jr. Channel UK's "Olive The Ostrich"].

SpongeBob's Top 100 from Blue Zoo on Vimeo.

In celebration of the Jubilee weekend we created the somewhat epically regal SpongeBob Promo for Nickelodeon.

Blue Zoo

Animation Directors: Dave Hunt and Damian Hook
Modelling and Texturing: Dave Hunt and Jonathan Reid
Lighting and Rendering: Dave Hunt, Jonathan Reid and Charles Batho
Compositing: Dave Hunt and Jonathan Reid

Nickelodeon

Art Director: Akin Akinsiku
Creative Producers: Derek Best and John Preston [Director of On Air Promotions & Planning at Nickelodeon UK]

This year, Nickelodeon are celebrating the Barron of the bottom, the Prince of the Pineapple, the King of the Krabby Patty...

[camera shakes]

Would you mind, Barry?

Err Erm

...by searching for Britain's favourite episodes in SpongeBob's Top 100.

So get off your barnacles and head to nick.co.uk/spongebob to vote for your favourite episodes.

SpongeBob's Top 100, celebrating Britain's Best of the Bottom!

[Passes wind]

Oh, pardon me.

[SpongeBob SquarePants laughs and giggles]

You can find out more information about Nickelodeon UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" programming stunt in this Nickelodeon blog post here on NickALive!.

Nickelodeon USA's "Saturday's On Nickelodeon" On-Air Design Package

Below is a high quality (HQ) high-definition (HD) streaming video which features a montage of Nickelodeon USA's motion graphics and branding design elements from Nickelodeon USA's "Saturday's On Nickelodeon" on-air presentation, which also includes some of the Nickelodeon branding design elements and motion graphics that Nickelodeon UK and Ireland have recently adopted as part of Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's 2011/2012 brand refresh, including the Nickelodeon Idents which feature characters from popular animated Nickelodeon shows, such as "SpongeBob SquarePants", "The Penguins of Madagascar", "Planet Sheen", and "Fanboy and Chum Chum", morphing and transforming themselves into the shape of the famous Nickelodeon logo, and Nickelodeon's 'circle' bumpers and designs [which also features Dudley Puppy from the original animated Nickelodeon show ("NickToon") "T.U.F.F. Puppy"]. The video below which features some of Nickelodeon USA's "Saturday's On Nickelodeon" on-air presentation also features examples of Nickelodeon North America's "Saturday's On Nickelodeon" Lower Third strap bars, examples of Nickelodeon USA's 'Saturday' promos ["Tomorrow Morning", "All New", "One Hour Event", and "Penguin Premiere Event"], and a few of Nickelodeon USA's "Up Next", "Right Now", and "We'll Be Right Back" Nickelodeon bumpers for "Saturday's On Nickelodeon".

Nickelodeon USA's "Saturday's On Nickelodeon" broadcast design package was made creative agency "Buck Design":

Nickelodeon - Saturdays from Buck on Vimeo.

Remember getting up early to watch Thunderbirds? Maybe you were more of a Masters of the Universe person. Fraggle Rock, The Smurfs, Duck Tales, Care Bears, Jem and the Holograms, My Little Pony… the list goes on. These days there is a new roster, and we were pumped to infuse some of our fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons into these idents for Nick. Using stripes, circles, Nick’s logo and the characters from the shows, we made a fun series of idents which we hope the kids of today enjoy as they munch on their cereal.

CREDITS

Directed by Buck

Creative Director: Orion Tait

Executive Producer: Anne Skopas

Producer: Melissa Johnson

Production Coordinator: Billy Mack

Art Director: Yker Moreno

Design: Yker Moreno, Gareth O’Brien, George Fuentes, Ben Langsfeld, Daniel Oeffinger, Chris Phillips

Animation: Gareth O’Brien, Daniel Oeffinger, Chad Colby, Waleed Zaiter

Cel Animation: Harry Teitleman, Lizzi Akana, Jessica Milazzo, George Conkin

CG Supervisor: Ryan O’Phelan

Modeling: Ryan O’Phelan, Pete Hamilton, Brice Linane, Michael Lampe, Chris Hendryx

Texturing: Ryan O’Phelan, Brice Linane, Michael Lampe

Rigging: Ryan O’Phelan, Jordan Blit

3D Animation: Ryan O’Phelan, Pete Hamilton, Jordan Blit, Brice Linane, Chad Colby, Chris Phillips, Andreas Berglund

Lighting: Michael Lampe, Ryan O’Phelan

Composite: Conrad Ostwald, Seth Ricart, Maceo Frost

Editor: Jose Gerardi

Roto: Filaments

NICKELODEON

Creative Director: Matthew Duntemann [Vice President (VP) Brand Creative Nick Preschool and Parenting Group at mtvn (MTV Networks)]

Producer: Liz Williams [Producer at Nickelodeon]

Video Of Nickelodeon USA's "Nickelodeon Sales Tape 2011"

Below is a high quality (HQ) streaming video and transcript of Nickelodeon USA's "Nickelodeon Sales Tape 2011", which is a short advertising sales video which contains various Nickelodeon information and Nickelodeon statistics that tells potential Nickelodeon advertisers and Nickelodeon property license buyers how diverse the Nickelodeon brand is, from Nickelodeon USA's five networks (Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, NickToons, and Nick @ Nite (Nick At Nite)), Nickelodeon's big events (such as the Nickelodeon "Kids Choice Awards" and the TeenNick "Halo Awards"), Nickelodeon's "Nickelodeon Recreational" ventures and activities such as Nick's various Nickelodeon Theme Parks, Nickelodeon-themed theme park attractions and the Nickelodeon Hotel (Nickelodeon Suites Resort) in Orlando, Florida, USA) to Nickelodeon's global channels and Nickelodeon programming blocks around the world (Nickelodeon International), Nickelodeon's "Nickelodeon Digital" ventures, such as Nickelodeon Online which operates Nickelodeon's channels' and networks' official websites (Nick.com, NickJr.com, NickAtNite.com, TeenNick.com and NickToons.com), Nickelodeon's parenting website "Parents Connect", Nickelodeon's brand new website just for Mothers, NickMom.com, Nickelodeon's Shockwave Games website, Nickelodeon's Addicting Games website, Nickelodeon's official "The Big Help" Pro-Social Initiative for Kids website TheBigHelp.com, the "Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group" bouquet of websites and online games (such as Nickelodeon's "Neopets" and "Petpet Park"), Nickelodeon's MMO (Massively multiplayer online) game "Monkey Quest"), and Nickelodeon's digital applications (for mobile telephones and tablet computers), Nickelodeon's motion picture production arm "Nickelodeon Movies", which releases films based on Nickelodeon programmes (such as "Good Burger" "The Rugrats Movie", "The Wild Thornberrys Movie", "Rugrats In Paris", and "Rugrats Go Wild") as well as other adaptations and original projects, such as the Nickelodeon Movies "Harriet The Spy", "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn", and "Rango", Nickelodeon's soundtrack arm "Nickelodeon Records" which represents the Nickelodeon Artists Miranda Cosgrove, Big Time Rush, Victoria Justice, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Dora the Explorer, Keke Palmer, and the cast of "Victorious", and Nickelodeon's partnership with Sony Music, and Nickelodeon's merchandise arm "Nickelodeon Consumer Products", which represents leading Nickelodeon properties such as "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Dora the Explorer" and manages Nickelodeon's merchandising, such as action figures, trading cards, dolls, toys, and video games based on popular Nickelodeon shows and popular Nickelodeon characters. The below video featuring Nickelodeon's 2011 Sales Tape also features scenes from Nickelodeon's famous "The Nick Kit", which is "THE GREATEST POWERPOINT SLIDESHOW EVER" and is made by a collaboration featuring Nickelodeon's Ad Sales Team and Nickelodeon's Creative Team, and also features clips from shows across the world of Nickelodeon, including "The Penguins of Madagascar", "Victorious", "Big Time Rush", "Everybody Hates Chris", "Dora The Explorer", "Planet Sheen", "Avatar: The Last Airbender", "The Nanny", "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan", "Friends", "Dora The Explorer", "Go, Diego, Go!", "Team Umizoomi", "Fanboy And Chum Chum", "The Fairly OddParents!", "True Jackson, VP", "Family Matters", "The House Of Anubis", "Iron Man: Armored Adventures", "The George Lopez Show", Johnny Depp recording his part for Nickelodeon Movies' "Rango", and video clips from Miranda Cosgrove's "Everybody's Dancing Crazy" music video, Victoria Justice's "Freak the Freak Out" music video, and Big Time Rush's "Boyfriend" music video, and exclusive video clips of the cast and stars of the Nickelodeon shows "Victorious", "Big Time Rush", "Supah Ninjas", "The Penguins of Madagascar", SpongeBob SquarePants, "The Troop", "Planet Sheen", "Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures", and "iCarly". Nickelodeon USA's "Nickelodeon 2011 Uber Sizzle" video was designed and made by motion graphics company Nailgun*:

Nickelodeon 2011 Uber Sizzle from kay_lee on Vimeo.

Role : Design

Produced at Nailgun*

Nickelodeon Star Jerry Trainor: "Roll It!"

The cast of the Nickelodeon show "iCarly" (Miranda Cosgrove (Carly Shay), Nathan Kress (Freddie Benson), Jerry Trainor (Spencer Shay) and Noah Munck (Gibby)): "Welcome To The Nick Kit!"

Nickelodeon has five great networks...

...that reach every demo in the family:

Nick Jr. - Preschoolers and Moms

Nick - Kids and Tweens

NickToons - Boys

TeenNick - Millennials

Nick@Nite - Adults and Families

Nick Jr. - "Dora The Explorer", "Go, Diego, Go!", and "Team Umizoomi".

Nick - "iCarly", "Victorious", and "Fanboy and Chum Chum".

NickToons - "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "Iron Man: Armored Adventures".

TeenNick

Nick@Nite - "The George Lopez Show"

Nickelodeon Star Miranda Cosgrove: "Nick doesn't just make kids TV shows"

Nickelodeon Star Matt Shively (standing with his "The Troop" co-stars): "Take a look at these big events":

The Nickelodeon "Kids' Choice Awards"

The TeenNick "Halo Awards"

Nickelodeon and "Victorious" Star Matt Bennett: Nick Is Recreation (Nickelodeon Recreation):

[Nickelodeon Theme Parks and The Nickelodeon Hotel/Nickelodeon Suites Resort] Entertaining 30 million guests each year

Global:

[Scenes from International versions of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards]

175 Country's

51 Channels

25 Languages

Nick Is Digital:

#1 online destination with kids and families

42 million unique users every month

Nickelodeon Star Keke Palmer: "Nick Is Consumer Products"

Nick Is Movies:

"Rango"

Jerry Trainor: "And music":

Partnership with Sony Music [for Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice and Nickelodeon boyband "Big Time Rush"]

[Scenes of the cast of "Victorious" and SpongeBob SquarePants dancing]

It's on.

Nickelodeon Star Nicholas Purcell (Jake Collins in Nickelodeon's Science Fiction series "The Troop"): This is awesome!

The stars and band members of Nickelodeon's "Big Time Rush" series and boyband (Kendall Schmidt (Kendall Knight), James Maslow (James Diamond), Carlos Pena (Carlos Garcia), and Logan Henderson (Logan Mitchell)): It's on Nickelodeon!

The cast of "iCarly": WHOOOO!

[Scene of Sheen Estevez from Nickelodeon's animated shows "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and "Planet Sheen" dancing]

#1 Cable Network

In total viewers

16 consecutive years

[Scene of Dudley Puppy from the Nickelodeon animated show "T.U.F.F. Puppy" dancing]

Nickelodeon.

NickToons Network USA's "Lego Spongebob - Don't Be A Jerk It's Christmas" Interstitial

Below is a streaming video of a director's cut edition of Nickelodeon USA's NickToons Network's "Lego Spongebob - Don't Be A Jerk It's Christmas" Christmas interstitial (Short) which was made by artist/animator Garrett Barati and was the follow up to the winner of Nickelodeon and LEGO's "Built by Me" LEGO movie contest in 2008 which was part of the "Nicktoons Network Animation Festival". NickToon Network's "Lego Spongebob - "Don't Be A Jerk (It's Christmas!)" Christmas Short features the song of the same name from Nickelodeon Records' "SpongeBob's Greatest Hits" compilation album which was released by Nickelodeon Records to celebrate SpongeBob SquarePants's 10th anniversary in 2009, and features Bikini Bottom completely re-created with LEGO bricks from "SpongeBob SquarePants Lego Kits", including Lego versions of most of the characters in "SpongeBob SquarePants" (including SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles, Gary The Snail, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, and Mrs. Puff), Lego versions of buildings and vehicles featured in "SpongeBob SquarePants", including LEGO versions of "boatmobiles" (including Mrs. Puff's), undersea buses, SpongeBob SquarePants' Pineapple house, Patrick Star's Rock house, Squidward Tentacles' Easter Island stone tiki Moai head house, Sandy Cheeks' Space Rocket, and the Krusty Krab, and Nickelodeon USA's NickToons Network logo made out Lego bricks:

Lego Spongebob - Don't Be A Jerk It's Christmas (director's cut):

This was the follow up to the winner of the 2008 "Built By Me" Lego competition part of Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. Nickelodeon gave me the song to use. A real hoot to create, hope you all like it! This is my original, Nick changed their logo without telling me and had to chop it out for the final release to TV. Enjoy this longer cut... Happy Holidays!!

Please Please, go to LegoClubTV channel to view the official short too!! More hits means they might sponsor more contests!

NickToons UK's "Christmas On NickToons 2011" Promo

Below is a streaming video of Nickelodeon UK's ""Ho, Ho, Ho, Catch All Your Favourite Shows This Christmas On NickToons" "NickToons Christmas"" promo/trailer which Nick UK broadcast on-air on Nickelodeon UK's animation channel NickToons UK and Ireland during December 2011 to promote NickToons's Christmas 2011 programming highlights and schedule line-up, and features festive Christmas-themed clips from the Christmas episodes of the NickToon and Nickelodeon shows "Power Rangers Samurai", "SpongeBob SquarePants", "The Penguins of Madagascar", "The Fairly OddParents!", and "T.U.F.F. Puppy", and from the Christmas Nickelodeon Television movie "Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh" with the Christmas carol "Silent Night" being played in the background and features NickToons' Christmas promo/trailer 'endboard' that features a montage of characters from shows on NickToons. The video below also features a NickToons Christmas channel bumper:

Nicktoons UK Christmas Promo 2011:

Brand new promo for nickelodeons nicktoons uk promo of Christmas on 2011 with power rangers fairly odd parents and drake and josh Christmas special

Nickelodeon USA's "Don't Be A Jerk (It's Christmas!)" "SpongeBob SquarePants" Christmas Music Video From 2009

To celebrate Christmas/NickMas/Nickelmas, below is a high quality (HQ) sparkling high-definition (HD) streaming video of Nickelodeon USA's "SpongeBob SquarePants" "Don't Be A Jerk (It's Christmas!)" music video/Christmas promo in which SpongeBob sings about Christmas and promotes anti-jerk behavior and which Nick USA broadcast on air in 2009 as part of Nickelodeon USA's Christmas presentation and to celebrate "Christmas On Nickelodeon 2009" and is based on the song of the same name on Nickelodeon Records "SpongeBob's Greatest Hits" compilation album which was released by Nickelodeon Records to celebrate SpongeBob SquarePants's 10th anniversary in 2009. Nickelodeon USA's "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas!)" "SpongeBob SquarePants" Christmas promo was made by São Paulo, Brazil-based Dinamo Digital, directed by film and art director Ricardo Carelli, art direction by art director, motion designer and illustrator Leandro Franci and sung by "SpongeBob SquarePants" voice actor/voice artist Tom Kenny, who does the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants:

Don't be a Jerk! Nickelodeon Christmas 2009 from Leandro Franci on Vimeo.

Christmas promo for Nickelodeon. We had lots of fun making this 1 minute animation, creating the characters and the animation for them (Robson did a great job giving life to them!).
I made the art direction, and After Effects.

SpongeBob SquarePant's "Don't be a Jerk, it's Christmas" lyrics/song words, from the SpongeBob's "Don't be a Jerk, it's Christmas" Song page on The Nickelodeon Fanon! wiki/NickFanon wiki:

SpongeBob SquarePants: IT'S CHRISTMAS!

Bring joy to the world; it's the thing to do. But the world does not revolve around you. Don't be a jerk, It's Christmas

There's a sign above the line that says "Express." That means ten items or less. Don't be a jerk, (don't be a jerk) It's Christmas

Be nice to babies and animals, old folks too. Cuz that's how you'd like them to treat you. 'Tis the season to be jolly not jerky, (jolly not jerky)

[...]

Spongebob's hit song "Don't be a jerk, It's Christmas is a song on the DVD "SpongeBobs Greatest Hits".

Nickelodeon's "NickMas" Christmas Holiday Shorts

Below is a streaming video that features a montage of Nickelodeon's famous "NickMas" holiday specials shorts and two "NickMas" Nickelodeon Christmas bumpers, which Nickelodeon USA premiered in December 2002 as part of Nickelodeon USA's Christmas celebrations and to advertise Nickelodeon's Christmas programming, and are still shown on Nickelodeon channels and Nickelodeon networks around the world even up to this day. The "NickMas" Nickelodeon Christmas specials you can view on the video are a "Seasons Greetings" Nickelodeon Christmas bumper featuring Tommy Pickles from the NickToon "RugRats" and Jimmy Neutron's pet robot Dog Goddard from the NickToon "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" putting up some Christmas lights, "Plankton's Holiday Hits" CD commercial, "Nickelodeon Holiday Party" (stop motion/stop action), presented by former Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards host/presenter Rosie O'Donnel, "The 12 Days of Nickmas", "A Nickelodeon Chuckie Finster Christmas, Channukah, Kwaanza, Winter Solstice" featuring the cast of the Nickelodeon original animated show "RugRats", "Nickelodeon Presents How the You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What!", "Nickelodeon Presents The Nutcracker Suite" starring Cosmo and Wanda from "The Fairly OddParents!", two "Nickelodeon Presents Patrick the Snowman" NickMas shorts, and a second "NickMas" Christmas Nickelodeon on-air bumper featuring SpongeBob SquarePants riping his pants while delivering a Christmas gift:



Below is a lot more information about Nickelodeon's "NickMas" Christmas shorts from the Christmas Specials Wiki page for the "Merry NickMas" Nickelodeon Christmas shorts:

Merry Nickmas

In December 2002, Nickelodeon ran a series of short Christmas-themed vignettes/interstitial in their commercial breaks to advertise their annual Christmas programming. Each of the shorts featured the characters from the network's animated shows, often parodying classic Christmas works such as those of Rankin/Bass. These shorts continued to be aired annually on the network through 2005.

As part of the event in 2002 and 2003, two specially-made pieces of animation were made for station ID spots used on the channel, both in the Rankin/Bass claymation style - one in which Goddard helps Tommy Pickles hang some Christmas lights, and another where SpongeBob SquarePants rips his pants while delivering a Christmas gift. These particular animation pieces were also used in bumpers shown whenever the specials themselves went to commercials.

Synopsis of each segment

A Chuckie Finster Christmas, Channukah, Kwaanza, Winter Solstice

A parody of A Charlie Brown Christmas, featuring the characters from Rugrats.

While the other Rugrats are off skating, and singing about how "Christmas-Channukah-Kwanzaa-and-Winter-Solstice-time is here", Tommy and Chuckie walk over to the nearby fence, where Chuckie admits that he thinks he has a problem ("Diapie rash?" Tommy assumes). Chuckie goes on to quote Charlie Brown's speech from the beginning of the special being parodied, adding in mentions of Channukah, Kwanzaa, and Winter Solstice. He then proceeds to list activities associated with said holidays in addition to "sending cards and decorating trees", during which snow falls all around him and Tommy, covering them up entirely and eventually muffling his voice.

Later, in Tommy's playpen, the Rugrats are all dancing to a jazz-based rendition of "Jingle Bells", with Dil playing piano and Spike on guitar. Eventually, Angelica (in the Lucy van Pelt role) calls a stop to the dancing to tell them all that Chuckie is coming with the decorations. During this, Spike mimics her movements behind her, and she makes a threatening glare in his direction. Chuckie comes in with a box containing a tree (just like the one Charlie Brown found), a menorah, and some corn, but he's still desperate for someone to tell him what the holidays are about. Tommy offers to do that himself, and proceeds to deliver the following speech in the manner of Linus quoting the Bible:

"Lights, please. And there were, in the same country, people of different backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures. What ho! This shall be unto you a time of joy, peace on Earth, and goodwill toward peoples."

Angelica responds to this by screaming, "You blockhead! It's about the presents! Lots of presents!" The rest of the kids immediately agree upon this and all wish happy holidays to Chuckie. As the segment closes on the Rugrats all whistling "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", an announcer tells us that the segment has been brought to us by Dork Krabby Mint Patties. Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants then makes an appearance to endorse the advertised food.

Holiday Party

A parody of the Rankin/Bass claymation specials, particularly Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

A snowwoman caricature of Rosie O'Donnel (voiced by herself) opens up the segment saying that "if I live to be a trillion and two, I will never forget the year Goddard the 200-Watt Dog saved Nickmas." She then remarks that we all know that story, and what she's here to tell is the after-party that occurred immediately following that event. As Rosie's narration goes on, we see her observing that very party going on in Santa's workshop. She notes of everybody being there, including Yukon Chinelius, Winter Squidler, the Abominable Starfish, and of course, St. Nick himself (who laughs to the tune of the Nickelodeon channel jingle). We see Mr. Krabs and two identical crabs performing on stage, and everyone enjoying their music so much that Carl Wheezer goes breakdancing.

Naturally, Rosie remarks, this party had some rather juicy things going on. First up was gossip - SpongeBob SquarePants reveals to his fellow elf, Jorgen Von Strangle, that "I don't want to be an elf, I want to be... a fry cook." Surprised at this, Jorgen tells it to Jimmy Neutron, who relays it to chief elf Zim [Invader Zim], who responds by screaming, "Who's SpongeBob?! TELL ME!!!" Then there was flirting - we see Yukon Chinelius bragging to Debbie Thornberry about his apparent battle with the Abominable Starfish, all the while Dil Pickles (as Happy) is bouncing on the Starfish's belly in front of them. And of course, adds Rosie, there were embarrassing photos - SpongeBob ripping his pants, Plankton trying to kiss Helga Pataki under the mistletoe, and Goddard taking a leak by the tree.

In the end, though, Rosie tells us all that the characters all remembered the spirit of Christmas - "to put aside [their] differences, join [their] hands together, AND OPEN PRESENTS!" As the characters all dive at their presents under the Christmas tree, Rosie comes in and leads the characters in wishing the viewers "Happy (insert holiday choice here) to you!"

How the You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What!

A parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Angelica Pickles from Rugrats.

All the Nicktoon characters in the city of Toonville like Nickmas a lot, with the major exception of Angelica, or "Grinchelica" as the narration refers to her. The narrator reasons that her hatred for Nickmas might be because her pigtails are tied too tight or because she can't find her Cynthia doll, but apparently the actual reason is because she believes she should have all the chocolate candy to herself.

Grinchelica rides into Toonville on her Malibu Cynthia sleigh, pulled by her cat Fluffy, and sneaks into the houses to steal all the chocolate goodies. Among them, she steals chocolate figures of Ultralord ["The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius"], Phil and Lil's chocolate worms ["RugRats"], Rudy's chocolate chalk [Rudolph Bartholomew “Rudy” Tabootie from "ChalkZone"], and Zim's chocolate candy cane that came all the way from Planet Irk ["Invader Zim"] (which he is not willing to part with despite being apparently asleep at the moment). Just as Grinchelica has finished her theft, the smallest Toonville citizen, Plankton Lou Who ["SpongeBob SquarePants"] ("who had one eye, not two"), walks in on her and asks, "What is going on here?!" Grinchelica tries to think of an alibi, but instead she just pats his head and kicks him back into bed.

Grinchelica returns to her mountain hideout with the stolen chocolates and parks her sleigh on the very top of the mountain. From her vantage point, she stops to think about how the other Nicktoons are going to be disappointed when they wake up on Nickmas morning and find that there's no chocolate for them. But she ultimately decides that she really doesn't care about that, because as far as she's concerned, the candy's all hers. She then feasts on the candy until her stomach has grown three hundred sizes.

The Nutcracker Suite

A short performance of The Nutcracker starring Cosmo and Wanda from The Fairly OddParents!

As the Nutcracker Suite begins to play, Cosmo and Wanda appear onstage, wearing tutus. Cosmo gives Wanda a nut, and she presents him with a cracker. "SWEET!" they both yell, and then toss their given food into their mouths. They then proceed to dance around the stage, while making loud munching noises on their respective snacks to the tune of the music. Jorgen Von Strangle briefly appears to sing the last few bars of the music piece, and the pair then swallow their snacks. They take their bows as the offscreen audience throws roses at them.

Patrick the Snowman

A parody of Frosty the Snowman starring Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants and the kids from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron.

As Nigel Thornberry [Sir Nigel Archibald Thornberry] from The Wild Thornberrys provides narration, the short opens with the kids building their snowman, which comes out looking like Patrick. Upon finishing it, Jimmy decides that all it needs now is his latest invention, the Spoofinator 4000 (which looks like a metallic top hat). He places it on the snowman's head, causing it to transform into Patrick, whose first words are "Birthday happy!"

At first, the kids have fun with Patrick, but they quickly grow tired of his antics (such as hogging Sheen's blanket, wearing Libby's clothes, and poking Carl with a stick repeatedly). But since spring is a long way off, the kids have to come up with a plan to get rid of him. Jimmy decides that they'll create a wormhole in the space-time continuum and send Patrick to the future. Cindy suggests they just melt him instead, but no one takes her advice.

The kids send Patrick 70 years into the future. 70 years later, at the Retroville Retirement Community home, Patrick shows up to annoy the now-elderly kids again, while Cindy chastises Jimmy for his idea. Nigel, now a skeleton, shows up to confirm that this is the end of the story; Patrick then pokes him with the stick, causing him to fall apart.

A shorter version of this spot, usually run during the end credits of the shows, ends with the kids being so spooked by Patrick coming alive that they immediately start chasing him down.

Plankton's Holiday Hits

A parody of Christmas album commercials, starring Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants.

An announcer tells us about Plankton's past successful albums, Born to Chum and Krabby Road, and that he has now released a new album of him singing holiday songs. We are shown samples of Plankton's interpretations of "Come All Ye Faithful" ("O come all ye fearful / Cower as I crush you!"), "Joy to the World" ("I'll rule the world and everyone / You will bow down to me!"), "Deck the Halls" ("Deck them all with fists of fury! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"), and "The Nutcracker Suite" (he simply sings "Dig" repeatedly to the tune of the music). The announcer tells the viewers that, to order the advertised album, they must send the Krabby Patty secret formula to Plankton [Plankton at the Chumbucket, Bikini Bottom, USA].

The 12 Days of Nickmas

In this particular segment, an entire group of Nicktoon characters, all rendered in claymation ala Rankin/Bass style, sing to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas. The lyrics are as follows:

All: On the 12th Day of Nickmas, Nicktoons have on TV...

SpongeBob SquarePants: Twelve bubbles blowing! (blows some in Squidward's face)

Squidward Tentacles ["SpongeBob SquarePants"]: Feh!

James Isaac "Jimmy" Neutron: Eleven clones ATTACKING!! (is chased offscreen by Carl Wheezer and his clones)

Debbie Thornberry ["The Wild Thornberrys"]: Ten thousand places I'd rather be right now.

Carl Foutley and Hoodsey Bishop ["As Told by Ginger"]: Nine reindeer droppings! Hehehehehe!

Cosmo and Wanda ["The Fairly OddParents!"]: Eight oddball wishes! (grant said wishes, during which Vicky wanders too close to them)

Someone offscreen: Watch out, Vicky! (A portrait of Butch Hartman falls on Vicky)

Vicky ["The Fairly OddParents!"]: Seven thousand pounds, ugh... (Her feet curl up)

Squidward: Six jamming jellies! (The jellyfish circling his head sting him) Ow!!

Courtney Gripling ["As Told By Ginger"]: Five incredibly expensive golden rings!

Otto Rocket ["Rocket Power"]: Four dudes a-shreddin'!

Arnold, Gerald Johanssen, and Helga G. Pataki ["Hey Arnold!"]: Three cans of hairspray! (spray themselves with said hairspray and cough)

Cosmo: Two turtles' love...

Wanda: Oh, Cosmo!

All: And a starfish on a pine tree!

Patrick Star ["SpongeBob SquarePants"]: Hmmm... pointy.

Trivia

A Chuckie Finster Christmas, Channukah, Kwaanza, Winter Solstice

A post on Manny Galan's blog, detailing the production of the Nickmas shorts, reveals that, for "A Chuckie Finster Christmas", they'd originally intended to have the Rugrats characters drawn and dressed to resemble the Peanuts characters they represented in the skit.

Holiday Party

SpongeBob ripping his pants in one of the photos in is a direct reference to the SpongeBob SquarePants series episode "Ripped Pants".

This is the only skit that doesn't end with an orange snowflake falling down the screen and stopping right above the words, "Happy Holidays"

Patrick the Snowman

In a case of life imitating art ironically imitating life, Bill Faggerbakke, the voice of Patrick Star in "SpongeBob SquarePants", took on the role of Frosty himself in the 2004 direct-to-video film The Legend of Frosty the Snowman.

The 12 Days of Nickmas

Jimmy being chased by Carl's clones is a reference to the Jimmy Neutron interstitial short "Carl Squared".

Vicky's hair is colored brown, instead of red-orange as it is on the show.

In spite of certain things happening to the characters during their respective lines, (such as Jimmy being chased away by Carl and his clones, and Vicky collapsing under the portrait), they still appear in their original positions in later shots.

Besides Butch Hartman's portrait, the "eight oddball wishes" that Cosmo and Wanda produce include a toilet, an old-time bicycle, a donkey carrying a suitcase, a giant set of false teeth, a big toy submarine (which looks like the one Wanda transforms into during the song in "Christmas Every Day!"), a bowl of cereal, and a plastic whale (which resembles Big Ben).

The music that plays when Squidward sings the "six jamming jellies" line is a background music piece titled "Stadium Rave", originally used in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Jellyfish Jam".

Patrick on top of the pine tree at the end of the skit is a reference to Christmas Who? when Patrick jumps up on top of the coral tree during the song.

Two Of NickToons UK's ""The Penguins of Madagascar" Premiere Week" Promos

Below is a high quality (HQ) high-definition (HD) streaming video that features two of Nickelodeon UK's "Brand New Episodes Of "The Penguins of Madagascar" On NickToons" Nickelodeon promos/trailers which features graphics designed and created by Sheffield, UK-based creative studio Pixel DNA for Nickelodeon UK to promote Nickelodeon UK's NickToons UK and Ireland channel premiering brand new episodes of the popular Nickelodeon animated series "The Penguins of Madagascar" during NickToons UK and Ireland's ""The Penguins of Madagascar" Premiere Week" which NickToons UK held between Monday 28th November 2011 and Thursday 1st December 2011:

Penguins Of Madagascar Promo Graphics from Pixel DNA on Vimeo.

Graphics created for inclusion in a number of promos to advertise new episodes of the popular kids cartoon.

Transcript of NickToons UK and Ireland's first "New Episodes Of "The Penguins of Madagascar"" promo:

[Commercial on television] Do you like... penguins, penguins, PENGUINS?

[King Julien XIII: SHUT UP! NO!]

We've got a whole week of brand new Penguin episodes just for you!

[King Julien: Change it! Change it! Change it!]

Don't miss "The Penguins of Madagascar" in 15 minutes on NickToons!

Transcript of NickToons UK and Ireland's second "Brand New Episodes Of "The Penguins of Madagascar"" promo:

[Television Announcer while King Julien XIII watches TV with his subjects Mort and Maurice: We'll be right back with The Lemur Factor [The L Factor] after the break!]

[Commercial on television] Are you being treated badly by your boss?

Does he kick you when your down?

Does he treat you like your just a piece of the furniture?

[Mort: I'm economical!]

Well, by watching the brand new episodes of Penguins of Madagascar...

[King Julien: Boring.]

...You will learn how to stand up for yourself and get some respect!

Let the power of the Penguin help you get what you really, really want!

[King Julien: What else is on?]

The Penguins of Madagascar Premiere Week, this week Monday to Thursday at 6.30, on NickToons!

Two Spooky Episodes Of The Nickelodeon Short "The Presentators"

To celebrate Halloween On Nickelodeon, below are links to two spooky episodes from the Nickelodeon short series (Nickelodeon interstitial) called "The Presentators", which was a series of short stories about three plasticine (or clay) cartoon characters who are given the chance to be Nickelodeon presenters and present their very own Nickelodeon TV show on Nickelodeon and was made by the British (Bristol, UK) animation studio "Aardman Animations", who also made the Nickelodeon short "Purple & Brown", and were directed by Aardman Animations' Creative Director Stefan Marjoram. The first video features the "The Presentators" episode called "Spooky Story", which features the Presentators trying to tell Nickelodeon viewers a scary tale for Halloween, and the second video features the "The Presentators" episode titled "Aliens", and features the Presentators studio being overrun and overtaken by alien-clones of Presentator Dan:

The Presentators 'Spooky Story'

The Presentators: Aliens

Below is a description about the Nickelodeon short series "The Presentators" from Aardman's official "The Presentators" website on the official Aardman website:

The Presentators - Directed by Wee Brian, Dan Lane & Stefan Marjoram (2003-2004)

What happens when three anarchic cartoon characters are given the chance to front their own TV show on Nickelodeon? The Presentators provides the hilarious answers. Stefan, Brian and Dan, the heroes of Aardman’s award-winning short film The Deadline, confront burning issues of the day such as whether aliens walk among us and the difference between a stick insect and a plain stick. Created, written and voiced by three of the company’s CG animators (who uncannily also go by the names of Stefan, Brian and Dan), the series combines the technical possibilities of computer graphics with the quirky characters and comedy for which Aardman is renowned.

October Half Term 2011 On Nickelodeon UK Promo

Below is a high quality high-definition (HD) streaming video of Nickelodeon UK's new "It's The Only Place To Be, This Half Term, All Next Week, On Nickelodeon" trailer which was made by Sheffield, UK creative studio "PIXEL DNA" for Nickelodeon UK to promote the October 2011 school half-term on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon UK HD:

Nickelodeon Half-Term Promo from Pixel DNA on Vimeo.

Graphics created for the Nickelodeon Half-Term promos with the theme of school notebook scribbles mixed with 3D text.

Highlights of "October 2011 School Half-Term Holiday On Nickelodeon UK and Ireland, Nickelodeon UK HD and NickToons" include more brand new episodes of the Nickelodeon show "Victorious", a Sneak Peek of Nickelodeon UK's brand new live-action show "Life with Boys", the premiere of the brand new Nickelodeon Original Television Movie "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", and a count down the top 100 episodes of "SpongeBob SquarePants".

Nickelodeon's 2011 Image Campaign Videos

Below are three high quality streaming videos of Nickelodeon's 2011 image campaign, which were made by New York-based creative studio "Trollbäck + Company", who also designed Nickelodeon's 2009 on-air look to go with Nickelodeon's brand new logo, which was launched at the same time as Nickelodeon's brand new logo in 2009.

Each video below of Nickelodeon's 2011 image campaign features Nickelodeon stars from Nickelodeon's current live action and animated programming, including the casts of the Nickelodeon shows Big Time Rush, iCarly, The Fairly OddParents, T.U.F.F. Puppy, Victorious, The Penguins of Madagascar, Planet Sheen, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Supah Ninjas, SpongeBob SquarePants, Fanboy and Chum Chum, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, and True Jackson, VP.

Nickelodeon Montage 2011

Client: Nickelodeon
Director: Joe Wright
Co-Director: Anna Minkkinen

Nickelodeon recently had us create this image campaign that features both their talent from live-action shows and animated characters. In order to connect both worlds, we created an abstract environment using rear and frontal projections on a stage and shot the talent live, using CG sparingly.

The music used in the above video of Nickelodeon's 2011 image campaign was created by sound designers Sacred Noise.

The video below looks like it's Nickelodeon Internationals version of Nickelodeon's 2011 image campaign, as it has a 'Nickelodeon' logo at the end, instead of a 'Nick' logo, which Nickelodeon USA uses:



Below is a streaming video of one of Nickelodeon USA's trailers from 2011 called "Are You Ready", which is based on and features footage from Nickelodeon's 2011 Image Campaign, which was created and devised by New York-based creative studio "Trollbäck + Company".

The video below of Nickelodeon USA's "Are You Ready" promo from 2011 features Nickelodeon stars from Nickelodeon's current live action and animated programming, including the casts of the Nickelodeon shows Big Time Rush, iCarly (including Gibby (Noah Munck)), T.U.F.F. Puppy, Victorious, The Penguins of Madagascar, Planet Sheen, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, SpongeBob SquarePants, Fanboy and Chum Chum, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Troop, Power Rangers Samurai, and True Jackson, VP.



The music and song used in the above video of Nickelodeon USA's "Are You Ready" trailer from 2011 is called "Fly High" by the band "The DNC".

This blog post was originally posted on NickALive! on Tuesday, September 13, 2011.