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.
BUCK - Nounsfest 2024
After being let go from his job, NOUN 867 aka Burkhart Henderson, loses it! There’s no turning back, he steals his boss’s car and goes on one glorious final joy ride! Fun and games escalate into chaos and deadly consequences, leading to an epic ending! All this mayhem is set to an original copyright owned chicken themed rock riff and stylized to feel like an gritty 70’s grindhouse trailer with a slick 2D animated cartoon design. Witness the exhilarating final days of, BUCK!
BUCK was commissioned for NOUNSFEST 2024 and was created, animated and directed by Jesse Cote.
Music by Corey Owens and The Old Quarry Boys
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.
Lost in the Shuffle (2024 - 1h 40m)
Three Animated Segments
Working with Jon Onroy on the 2024 documentary Lost in the Shuffle was an incredible experience, where we had the opportunity to bring three distinct animated segments to life. Each segment offered a unique creative challenge and showcased different animation techniques, all contributing to the documentary’s compelling narrative.
The first segment features a striking black-and-white 2D animation in a classical, stylized approach, illustrating the historical significance of playing cards. This segment combines elegant linework with dynamic movement to evoke the rich history of cards across cultures.
Next, we created a puppet theater-inspired segment that mimics the flat, geometric style of playing cards. This piece blends medieval puppet theater aesthetics with a whimsical, playful tone, and was animated using Harmony, with characters rigged for puppet-style animation. The result is a visually engaging and historically grounded animation that complements the documentary’s themes of the familiar King, Jack and Queens from playing cards.
For the final segment, we embraced the challenge of replicating the classic stop-motion look of Rankin/Bass or The Little Prince. Using Blender, we recreated the iconic textures and techniques of traditional stop-motion animation in a 3D environment, achieving a nostalgic, tactile feel that adds depth and charm to the storytelling.
The final animated pieces are stunning and have become some of the standout moments of the documentary, adding both artistic beauty and emotional resonance to Lost in the Shuffle’s acclaimed narrative.
Watch the film here> https://www.lostintheshuffle.film/
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!
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
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".
WE LOVE SPORTS! As fans we are always incredibly honored and excited to animate our favourite teams, players and mascots!
We have provided animation for the Mazu Family App, sports team division and have created short animations for their numerous sports team library including Chicago Blackhawks, Los Angeles Lakers, Vancouver Whitecaps, New York Liberty, and more NBA, NHL, WHL, and NFL teams!
We have also animated the Vancouver Canuck's Fin shorts from Slap Happy Cartoons, Torontosuarz Design and NFT animation and everything from graphics to in arena noise meters!
We are always scouting for the next team to join our awesome roster of sports animation!
Contact us for more information on our Toon Team Packages!
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)
Other app development includes, storyboards, design and animation for Loud Crow Interactive on book adaptations of Garfield, Caillou, Busytown, and Windy and Friends.
Email us and see what's new in our game design, animation, environments and artwork. Including Pixel art, Voxel Art, 3D Blender modelling and game development for The Sandbox and Roblox. For more on the metaverse game demo for our original project Angry Pets, please click the link!
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 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.
Watch the complete film here! https://www.nfb.ca/film/zoo/
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
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.
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
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 made this music video for the band “Toigo” for their song “Starchild”. Directed/produced by Tetra Films, Animation production by Jesters Animation
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.
This is a short film about Rhubarb.
Created by Sam Alkaitis and produced by Jesters Animation. Copyright 2019.
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.
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 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.
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.
