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.

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/!

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]

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!

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 Europe's "Christmas Wishes" Christmas Promo

Below is a high quality (HQ) streaming video featuring Nickelodeon Europe's "Christmas Wishes" Christmas promo/trailer which was made by Milan, Italy-based creative studio "Mutado" as part of Nickelodeon's European channels' Christmas on-air presentation and features a machine being powered, run and operated by characters from the popular Nickelodeon original animated shows ("NickToons") "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "The Fairly OddParents" (including SpongeBob SquarePants's Patrick Star powering a Nickelodeon Slime machine by running on a treadmill, a SpongeBob SquarePants moon and a SpongeBob SquarePants sun). Unfortunately, there isn't much more information about Nickelodeon Europe's "Christmas Wishes" Christmas promo, such as which year Nickelodeon Europe channels aired the "Christmas Wishes" Nickelodeon Christmas promo:

Nickelodeon Christmas wishes from Mutado on Vimeo.

For the European Christmas promo of Nickelodeon, Mutado created an incredible machine full of some of the most popular characters of the channel.
http://www.mutado.com

Nickelodeon UK's "Light Up Your Christmas" Promo From The Mid-2000's

Below is a high quality (HQ) streaming video with lyrics featuring Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's "Light Up Your Christmas" 'Christmas On Nickelodeon UK and Ireland' Christmas promo/trailer from the mid-late 2000's, and features two child Christmas carolers singing a Christmas carol about Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's Christmas programming that year to the tune of the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and a house decorated in lots of outdoor Christmas lights and outdoor Christmas decorations in the shapes of programme logos of shows on Nickelodeon UK, characters from original Nickelodeon animated shows ("NickToons"), and a Nickelodeon logo:

Light Up Your Christmas from Phil Ball on Vimeo.

A Christmas promo made for Nickelodeon.

Written, Directed, Edited and Produced by Phil Ball and Jane Laffey [Senior Producer at Nickelodeon UK].


Audio by Envy Post Production House [which is located very near to Nickelodeon UK's studios and offices in Rathbone Place in London, UK [Postcode W1T 1JW]].

[Doorbell]

Light up you're Christmas with loads of great Nick shows, like:

Drake & Josh

My Parents Are Aliens

Genie in the House

The Amanda Show

[The] Fairly OddParents

Two of a Kind

[The] Sleepover Club

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!

Saved by the Bell

Unfabulous

Zoey 101

And Sabrina, the Teenage Witch!

Light up your Christmas, with loads of back to back [back2back] shows, everyday on Nick!

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.

Nickelodeon UK "Patchy the Pirate's Spongebob Weekend" Channel Bumpers

Below is a high quality (HQ) high-definition (HD) streaming video that features Nickelodeon UK bumpers for a special Nickelodeon UK "SpongeBob SquarePants" programming stunt called "Patchy the Pirate's Spongebob Weekend" which features graphics designed and created by Sheffield, UK-based creative studio Pixel DNA. Unfortunately, there isn't much more information about these Nickelodeon UK "Patchy the Pirate's Spongebob Weekend" bumpers, such as which Nickelodeon UK channel they are for, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD or NickToons, and when Nickelodeon UK will broadcast them on-air:

Patchy the Pirate Spongebob Weekend from Pixel DNA on Vimeo.

Bespoke graphics created for the Nickelodeon weekend special including 3D set, rotoscoping and 3D animation.

Nickelodeon UK's "Dreaming Of A Nickelodeon Christmas" Promo From The 2000's

Below is a high quality (HQ) streaming video featuring Nickelodeon UK's "Dreaming Of
A Nickelodeon Christmas" Nickelodeon UK Christmas image campaign from the mid-late 2000's which was written, directed and produced by London-based writer, director and producer, and former Creative Manager, Teenick Series Producer, and On-Air Senior Producer at Nickelodeon UK Jonny Mazur for Nickelodeon UK to promote "Christmas On Nickelodeon UK and Ireland" and Nickelodeon UK's Christmas schedules that year, which included "Nick Movies", "Back 2 Back Shows", and a "SpongeBob Day"/"SpongeBob SquarePants Day":

Christmas on Nickelodeon from Jonny Mazur on Vimeo.

Writer, director and producer on this Christmas image piece for Nickelodeon

[Background music bed "Winter Warm", composed by John Cacavas and Hal David and performed by Jeff Hooper]

The snow may fall but I don't mind at all because you keep me winter warm
It's cold and wet but I won't get upset with you I'm always winter warm....

Whatever lies ahead for you this Christmas, always remember: there's so much to look forward to, everyday, on Nickelodeon!

Nickelodeon UK's "Furious Friday" Promo

Below is a high quality (HQ) high-definition (HD) streaming video of Nickelodeon UK's "Furious Friday" Nickelodeon promo/trailer which was made by London, UK-based freelance motion graphics designer Matt Tsang for Nickelodeon UK to promote Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK's "Furious Friday" programming stunt on Friday 2nd December 2011 from 4pm (5pm on Nick Replay UK).

Furious Friday from Matt Tsang on Vimeo.

Here's my latest job for Nickelodeon UK. Used it as an opportunity to learn abit of Cinema 4D at the sametime!

As part of Nick UK's "Furious Friday" night, Nickelodeon UK & Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK showed SpongeBob KaratePants at 4.00pm, a Power Half Hour featuring the brand new Nickelodeon animated show "Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness" at 4.30pm, the two-part season finale episode of "Power Rangers Samurai" called "Origins" at 5.00pm and 5.30pm, which was followed by the super skills of the "Supah Ninjas" at 6.00pm, and another episode of "Kung Fu Panda: Legends" at 6.30pm (all shows and episodes were repeated an hour later on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's plus one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick Replay UK).

Nickelodeon Internationals ""SpongeBob SquarePants" "The Year Of The Sponge"" Fireworks Ident

To celebrate Firework Night/Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in the UK on Saturday 5th November 2011, below is a high quality (HQ) streaming video featuring Nickelodeon Internationals ""SpongeBob SquarePants" "The Year Of The Sponge"" Nickelodeon fireworks ident, which was directed by Davide Tappero Merlo for Bonsaininja Studio and made by Nickelodeon Italy (Nickelodeon Italia) for Nickelodeon International for Nickelodeon channels and networks around the world (Planet Nickelodeon/Planet Orange) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nickelodeon USA premiering the very first episodes of "Spongebob Squarepants" ("Help Wanted", "Reef Blower", and "Tea at the Treedome") in 1999 and was part of Nickelodeon Internationals "The Year Of The Sponge" "Spongebob Squarepants" campaign in 2009 and was used on-air and broadcast around the world on various international Nickelodeon channels during 2009, and features a Sponge-tastic international firework celebration to celebrate Spongebob Squarepants' 10th anniversary on the air:

SPONGEBOB The Year Of The Sponge from Davide Tappero Merlo on Vimeo.

International ident for Spongebob's "year of the sponge - think happy" campaign 2009

Client: Nickelodeon
Director: Davide Tappero Merlo for Bonsaininja
Creative Poducer: Davide Tappero Merlo
Post Production: Bonsaininja
Sound Design: Carlos Zarattini / Jinglebell Communication

Agency: Milano Design Studio
Art Director: Fabio Ardemagni [Creative Director at Nickelodeon]
Producer: Eleonora Cremascoli [writer & producer for Mtv Networks (Nickelodeon South Europe & Comedy Central)]

Halloween On Nickelodeon USA Promo - "10 Nights Of Fright"

Below is a streaming video featuring Nickelodeon USA's (Nickelodeon North America) "Halloween 2011 On Nickelodeon USA" trailer/promo to promote "10 Nights Of Fright" on Nick USA, which will feature Nickelodeon USA premiering brand new Halloween-themed episodes of hit Nickelodeon shows and popular Nick Jr. shows, plus Nickelodeon USA will be airing repeats of the classic Nickelodeon show "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" during TeenNick's "The '90s Are All That" programming strand:

Halloween On Nickelodeon Latin America Promo

Below is a high quality streaming video featuring a Nickelodeon Latin America trailer promoting "Halloween On Nickelodeon Latin America" which was made by Buenos Aires, Argentina based creative studio "A1 Design". There isn't much more information about the below Nickelodeon Lat Am Halloween promo, such as which year Nickelodeon Lat Am originally broadcast and used the Halloween promo on-air.

Nickelodeon Latin America "Especial De Halloween En Nick, 31 De Octubre 10:00 MEX [Mexico] Promo

Nick Halloween from A1 Design on Vimeo.

Promo para Nick Halloween.

Nickelodeon Latin America broadcasts to Nickelodeon viewers in the Latin American country's and regions Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, República Dominicana (Dominican Republic), Uruguay, Venezuela, and Otro.

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 International's "SpongeBob Squarepants Iconic" Ident

Below is a high quality streaming video of Nickelodeon Internationals "SpongeBob Squarepants Iconic" ident (station ID), which Nickelodeon International commissioned Berlin creative design and animation studio "dyrdee Media" to create to celebrate SpongeBob Squarepants 10th anniversary on Nickelodeon's channels internationally. There are unconfirmed reports that Nickelodeon UK are airing Nickelodeon Internationals "SpongeBob Squarepants Iconic" ident on Nickelodeon UK HD (the "Nickelodeon HD" logo DOG (Digital On-screen Graphic/BUG) in the bottom right of the screen in the YouTube video only says "Nick HD" though).

A bit more information from dyrdee Media's official website about their Nickelodeon "SpongeBob Squarepants Iconic" ident (station ID):

nickelodeon | SpongeBob Iconic

To commemorate SpongeBobs 10th anniversary, Nickelodeon started an international spongtastic pitch for an ident. Avoiding "in your face" our surreal 60ths world shows a perfect little family out of a picture book, basking in their weekend garden paradise. Hints from bikini bottom summon you to take a second look while the boy is cutting the hedge and prepares for the final crop. Thanks to our professional tamer no snails got hurt.

SpongeBob Iconic from dyrdee on Vimeo.

dyrdee Tasks:
Concept, Production, Direction, Composing

Creative Directors:
Ole Keune, 
Ljubisa Djukic

Producer:
Sven Henrichs

Technical Director:
Mesut Can

DoP:
Oliver Köppel

Camera Assistant:
Pablo Ruiz Holst

Gaffer:
Enrico Strecker

Compositing:
Ian Hutchinson

SpongeBob:
Johannes Bathelt

Sandy:
Emma Drogunova

Mrs. Puff:
Carola Werner

Mr. Krabs:
Christian Ahlers

Snail Tamer:
Ekkifant Animal Models

Styling:
Teena Denziger

Photographer:
Malte Nies

Set Building:
Volker Rehm

Interns:
Lea and Markus

More Infos here:

http://www.dyrdee.com/project/nickelodeon-spongebob-iconic?b=1,65

You can also view a "Timelapse Making Of" video of how German creative design and animation studio "dyrdee Media" made Nickelodeon International's "SpongeBob Squarepants Iconic" ident (station ID) below:

SpongeBob Iconic Timelapse Making Of from dyrdee on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon USA's "Are You Ready" Trailer (2011)

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".

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.

First Episode Of Nickelodeon Europe's "N-View" And "N-View" Design Package

Below is a high quality streaming video of the UK (English language) version of the very first episode of "N-View", Nickelodeon Europe's children's entertainment magazine television show, which serves as Nickelodeon viewers' own personnel entertainment hub, and is packed with exclusive content from the Nickelodeon universe.

The very first episode of Nickelodeon's "N-View" is ready to play! Click the 'Play' button below to watch the very first episode of Nickelodeon Europe's "N-View" in English and which was shown on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland.

N-View Pilot from DigitalCelluloid on Vimeo.

11min Nickelodeon Offline & Online

Teen magazine show. Development of Pilot show, UK version and foreign language reversioning for 6 European markets.

I also cut the 30sec on-air promo for the show and a 30sec competition spot.

The highlights for the very first episode of Nickelodeon's "N-View" are:

* Behind the scenes of Big Time Rush's first ever overseas trip, which includes "Big Time Rush" themselves taking time from their busy schedules to tell Nickelodeon viewers about their first ever European tour, including how "Big Time Rush" started their European tour in Munich and Berlin in Germany.

* "Big Time Rush" greeting Big Time Rush's German fans at German landmarks.

* "Big Time Rush" performing their song "Stuck" for a select few of Big Time Rush's German fans at Nickelodeon Germany's/Nickelodeon Deutschland's offices in Berlin, Germany.

* "Big Time Rush" in London, UK, and visiting famous London landmarks, such as the River Thames, and meeting and greeting Big Time Rush's UK fans in Trafalgar Square in London.

* Footage of "Big Time Rush" performing their song "Til I Forget About You" inside the top of London's BT Tower.

* A clip of Big Time Rush's music video for their song "Boyfriend" featuring Snoop Dogg.

* "Big Time Rush" announcing that they would like to visit Germany and the UK again, as part of a worldwide tour.

* "N-View" opens and explores the Nickelodeon secret archives to show Nickelodeon viewers in Europe a never seen before clip of the Nickelodeon animated series (NickToon) "SpongeBob SquarePants", where SpongeBob SquarePants tries to teach his next door neighbour and Krusty Krab co-worker Squidward Tentacles how to surf.

* Preview and information about the movie "Hop", featuring exclusive interviews with the star voice actors of "Hop", James Marsden (Fred O'Hare), and Kaley Cuoco (Sam O'Hare).

* Preview, information, hints, tips about the "LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars" video game, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the staff who worked on the "LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars" video game (Kallam Eames, Mark James, Chris Gollaher, and Buren Renick).

* A preview and information of the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" being released on DVD and Blu-Ray, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the starring cast of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", Ben Barnes (Caspian), Skandar Keynes (Edmund Pevensie), and Will Poulter (Eustace Clarence Scrubb), and a look at some of the storyboards and studio sets used to make the "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" movie.

Below are three more high quality streaming videos featuring the design package of the UK (English language) version of "N-View":

Nickelodeon N-View Titles

Nickelodeon nView titles from Liam Chapple on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon asked us to create the packaging for their new magazine show nView. We were given free reign to come up with the treatment and this is the result.

Nickelodeon N-View Stings

Nickelodeon nView stings from Liam Chapple on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon nView packaging.

Nickelodeon N-View Music Sting

Nickelodeon | Music Sting from Liam Chapple on Vimeo.

This one wasn't on the compilation and I don't have the correct audio, so just chucked one of the other stings sound onto it.

Hope you like.

Project: nView OSP
Client: Nickelodeon
Animation: Mainfame

Nickelodeon's "N-View" visual design package was designed by animation and visual effects studio "Mainframe", who also created the "N-View Device". "Mainframe" have also created and designed various visual effects for other Nickelodeon projects in the past, such as Nickelodeon UK's 'Fantasy' rebrand In 2009, and Brighton, UK based sound-post production and creative audio company "Attic Sound & Music" created ""the sound & music [audio design] package (title music, beds, stings and sound design) for this Nickelodeon production ["N-View"]. A fun and interesting project!"

Nickelodeon's "N-View" is also shown on various Nickelodeon channels around Europe where it is dubbed into local languages and is named different titles:

Nickelodeon Germany/Nickelodeon Deutschland - N-Blick
Nickelodeon Austria - N-Blick
Nickelodeon Switzerland - N-Blick
Nickelodeon Belgium (in Dutch) - N-Zine
Nickelodeon Belgium (in French) - N-News
Nickelodeon Netherlands/Nickelodeon Nederland - N-Zine
Nickelodeon Italy/Nickelodeon Italia - N-View
Nickelodeon Spain/Nickelodeon Espana - N-Vision
Nickelodeon France - N-News

You can visit the official Nickelodeon UK and Ireland "N-View" website here at N-View.co.uk.