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This is a clip from the “North Judson: Legend of the Mint Fest” Movie that we were working on. Sadly I am not sure if the movie will ever get made. So I thought I might as well post this video clip from it.

-Wes

Fruitless is the Winner!

Fruitless is a stop motion film submitted by Biatsku

October was a great month for animations here at ToonTube. Congratulations to all of the Finalists

-Wes

The Animation of the Month contest is back! After a slow month in September and not having the contest, it is back with some great animations.

ToonTube has been extremely blessed in the past month or so. We have gotten a lot of new members and have some great new animations. It was extremely hard choosing the finalists this month.

Just goto the ToonTube homepage to see if you made it. Good Luck to all of the finalists. Voting will go on until November 5h.

-Wes

As many of you know, Wes has moved to Tampa.  Now that we have an insufferable distance between the two of us, we have a difficult time bouncing ideas off of one another.  It is much different communicating on the phone or email, than it is in person.  I know Wes moved for the best of reasons, but it will change our dynamic relationship as a writer and animator.  It however will never change our friendship.

I am still writing and I have great ideas for the direction of ToonLife, Judson Boys, and even some soon to be named cartoons.  The problem is that I do a lot of the voices and Wes owned most of the equipment.  As most of you probably know, times are hard and money isn’t as expendable as it was 9 years ago.

What I am basically saying is, Please, Please stay patient if you are a fan of the website, the cartoons, or even these blog posts.  They will become more frequent and things will get back to normal soon.  Thank you guys for all of the support and stay active on the site and on ToonTube!

-Gary

So things are slowly getting back to normal around here. ToonTube was pretty active last week. We had a lot of new animations uploaded. We are almost at the 300 mark for members. That is pretty exciting!

As most of you probably noticed we didn’t do the Animation of the Month contest for September. This was because I was in the process of relocating to Florida and didn’t have internet access. Ted a member of ToonTube suggested that we just skip it and let animations from September and October be eligible for winning this month. I think this is a great idea. So at the end of this month I will just announce the finalists as usual and we will just skip September. I do appreciate everyone’s patience in all of this.

Also most of you probably don’t know this but October 11th was the 1 Year Birthday for ToonLifeOnline.com. This is very exciting! I can’t believe that TLO has been around for a year now. ToonTube will be 1 year old in January. I will post the exact date at a later time because I am hoping to be able to have some kind of ToonTube birthday contest for a prize. More details on this later.

We are working on a few cartoons. I am still waiting to get everything set up on my computer. Some new videos to be looking for are new epsiodes of: Adventures of Stickman, Judson Boys and maybe Advice by Johnny Stop. We will keep everyone posted on these.

-Wes

Yes it is true I am back! We are officially all settled in down here in Florida. We live in Tarpon Springs which is just outside of Tampa. When I finally got online I noticed I didn’t have any new emails. I checked into and the problem is now fixed so sorry to anyone who might of emailed me while I was gone. Hopefully things will get back to normal around here. Thanks for the kind words on the ToonTube Forum Ted! It definitely feels good to be back online again.

-Wes

If you get a chance please vote for our cartoon “Toon Life” over at aniboom. The 2008 aniboom awards are coming up and we have submitted our latest cartoon Toon Life (Playing to the Crowd). We need your support. There are some great prizes given away. Make sure to give it a rating of 5 and add it to your favorites. Also embed it anywhere you can. These are things the judges are looking for.

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom

Vote for Toon Life Here

Thanks for the support

-Wes

Any fans of Ron Cole or of ToonLifeOnline who are in the New York area are suggested to check out the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival on September 24th.  Ron will be showing his film at 8pm.  More information can be found here.

You might have noticed that things have been a little slow around here for the last few weeks. That is because my wife and I are relocating to Tampa, FL. We have been extremely busy and stressed. We have had a lot of unexpected financial issues as well but things have been working themselves out. We will officially be living there as of September 26th. This has made it very difficult for me to do things with the site or work on the new cartoons.  I have talked with Gary briefly through emails and we are still planning on continuing to do our cartoons. It will be a little more difficult since he will live in Indiana and I will live in Florida but I think we will do ok.

Starting the last week of September I will be taking down the animation of the day for atleast a week. During my move I won’t be able to use the internet and I am not sure when I will be able to get it set up at my new place. The “Animation of the Month” contest for September will also be delayed. I will  get both of these going again as soon as I get the internet set up down there.

I appreciate everyone’s patience.

-Wes