A fresh new collection of our recent 2D animation work celebrating our 10 year anniversary! Our demo reel includes work produced in Toonboom Harmony, TVPaint, After Effects, Stop Motion, Adobe Animate. We make short films, commercials, music videos, broadcast animation for TV and Streaming Services.
A brand new made for kids Youtube channel! Follow the adventures of "Blue and Curt", learn to draw with "Isla and Ella" , learn the alphabet and watch drawings come to life in "Alphabet Loops".
Itsy Mitsy has big choices to make during her day, and sometimes those choices lead to enormous problems. Thankfully, her dino sidekick, Mr. Roar, helps her PAUSE, fastROARward, and ROARWIND... Time to choose again!
Jesters Animation handled all the rigs and animation. Created by Elanna Allen, Produced by Kickstart Entertainment
We had too much fun making this “Rick and Morty Babies” Intro for Adult Swim Jr.. Thanks to Off Model Pictures and Cartoon Network for the opportunity! Jesters Animation did everything from design to final product.
We were honored to help out on this amazing new show “Waffles and Mochi”! We helped Six Point Harness with some of the animated segments!
We made this music video for the band “Toigo” for their song “Starchild”. Directed/produced by Tetra Films, Animation production by Jesters Animation
A hungry train passenger unintentionally disrupts everyone's commute. All walks of life are joined together in a gag filled series of stops and starts on route to their destination. For more information, please contact brad@jestersanimation.com
Awards:
1st Place Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival Comedy Short Shorts 2019
Best Animated Comedy Short Houston Comedy Film Festival 2019
Best Animated Comedy Short Portland Comedy Film Festival Fall 2018
Best Animated Film Comicpalooza 2019
Best Animation/Experimental Film 2019 CineCina FIlm Festival
Best Animation Silver Award Independent Shorts Awards 2018
Screenings :
2018 Anima Mundi Brazil Official Selection
2018 Linoleum International Animation and Media Art Festival Official Selection
2018 Montreal International Animation Festival - ANIMAZE Official Selection
2018 Coney Island Film Festival Official Selection
2018 Chaniartoon International Comic and Animation Festival Official Selection
2018 Manchester Animation Film Festival Official Selection
2018 Sommets du Cinema D’animation Official Selection
2018 Animation Chico Official Selection
2018 Los Angeles Animation Festival Honorable Mention
2018 Indie Short Fest Official Selection
2019 Kingstoon Official Selection
2019 Love Your Shorts Film Festival Official Selection
2019 Animation Nights New York
2019 Three Minute Film Festival Official Selection
2019 Just For Laughs Northwest Official Selection
2019 Short to the Point Festival Official Selection
2019 Monstra Animation Festival
2019 Canadian International Comedy Film Festival
2019 We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival
2019 TAAFI - Toronto Animation Arts Festival International Official Selection
2019 Athens Animfest Official Selection
2019 Ciné Court Animé - The Roanne animation short film festival Official Selection
2019 International Animation Festival Chilemonos Official Selection
2019 Die Laughing Film Festival Official Selection
2019 Atlanta Comedy Film Festival Official Selection
2019 Open World Animation Festival Official Selection
2019 La Guarimba International Film Festival
2019 AnimaSyros International Animation Festival
2019 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
2019 3DWire Animation Market and Festival
2019 The Animattikon Project
2020 Animotion Film Festival
A stubborn little monster named Curt receives some advice from a clever little bird named Blue.
Check out our development page for more information about Blue and Curt the series! Contact jesse@jestersanimation.com
Screenings:
San Diego Children’s Film Festival 2019 Official Selection
Open World Animation Festival 2019 Official Selection
Isle of Portland Short Film Festival 2019 Official Selection
Short to the Point 2019 Official Selection
PIAFF 2019 Official Selection
WFAF 2019 Official Selection
Chaniartoon 2019 Official Selection
This is a short film about Rhubarb.
Created by Sam Alkaitis and produced by Jesters Animation. Copyright 2019.
We had the pleasure of working with Six Point Harness and Wonderful Pictures to produce the animated series “Camp Halohead” for YouTube. Jesters Animation provided the rigging, animation and layout using Toonboom Harmony.
We teamed up with writer/creator Hart Snider to produce the National Film Board animated short "Shop Class".
Screenings:
2018 Victoria Film Festival Official Selection
2018 Calgary International Film Festival Official Selection
2018 Spark Animation Festival Official Selection
We were lucky to be part of Ann Marie Fleming’s feature film “Window Horses”. Jesters Animation provided roughly 45 minutes of animation for the film using AfterEffects and TV PAINT.
We teamed up with director Julia Kwan , The National Film Board , and Telus to produce the animated short “The Zoo”.
The Zoo follows the parallel lives of a polar bear cub in a popular city zoo and a Chinese boy who visits him until they’re both in their twilight years.
Produced by Network Entertainment for Spike TV, we produced all the animated segments for this very cool documentary of the late Sam Kinison.
Following international river conservationist, Mark Angelo, RIVERBLUE spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world’s most pollutive industries, fashion. Narrated by clean water supporter Jason Priestley, this groundbreaking documentary examines the destruction of our rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future.
Jesters Animation produced numerous animated segments for this powerful documentary.
A collection of our work over the years. It showcases our wide variety of projects using Toonboom Harmony, Animate/Flash, TVPaint, Stop Motion and After Effects.
We had the pleasure of working with GhostBot Inc. and Disney Digital Network on their production of Whisker Haven Tales season 3. We provided the character animation for 8 episodes.
Lummels is a great adventure series from Holland for the theme park Efteling. Produced by the talented Ka-Ching Cartoons, Jesters Animation was responsible for the Builds, Posing and Animation for the 10 x 11min episodes of the series. The series has lots of great adventures throughout major events in history, and some really excellent animation! You can check out the series trailer here, and there are also full episodes online at their youtube page.
Here is a fun Canadian Direct Insurance commercial we did for NOISE DIGITAL. This ad was made with a mix of classical animation and stopmotion draw over for the vehicles.
We had the pleasure of doing some character animation for BLATANT who created this Remax TV spot
We provide animation for the Mazu Family App, sports team division. We animate short animations for their numerous sports team library including Chicago Blackhawks, Los Angeles Lakers and Vancouver Whitecaps.
We had a lot of fun animating this Mission My Care Plus Commercial for Market Connections.
We had the pleasure of animating this Vancouver Aquarium TV spot for BLATANT. The video was part of the ad campaign from TAXI, which can be viewed here…
We produced 25 shorts for Bite on Mondo! Don't Feed The Humans, Mind Janitors, Barrel DeCloon, Swing and a Miss, Witches Ain't Shit, and Oh Shit Zombies.
Two animated shorts showing our company mascot in action. Animated in TVPaint.
Thanks to our friends over at Ka-Ching Cartoons, we were very busy doing the animation for 26 x 2.5 minute episodes of De Grobbebollen! This project was a lot of fun to work on! You can get more details and view entire episodes over at www.ka-chingcartoons.com here...
This music video was created for The Doll Sisters with funding from Telus and Public Records. The video contains a mash up of different animation techniques including, Live action, Stopmotion, After Effects and Traditional animation.
We've provided design, asset creation and animation for various flash games. We've worked with some great clients such as Gree (Beyond the Dead), East Side Games (Pot Farm, Trailer Park Boys Greasy Money) and Ka-Ching Cartoons (Monster Tracker)