'Twas a big week here at Aniboom--a very big week.

On Tuesday, we announced the Marvel Wildcards for Aniboom's Marvel Motion Comics Competition, one awesome Hulk entry by Guicho Nuñez and a dazzling Nova piece by Arnaud Faire.  Next week, we'll announce our $10,000 Grand Prize Winner Motion Comic, which will then grace the ions and electrodes of Marvel.com.

Our featured Youtube animations showed off the Five Finalists in our Fox Holiday Animation Challenge.  We also gave you exclusive interviews with our FOX Finalists, on this here very same blog.

And, as all this was going on, we celebrated The Simpsons' 20th Anniversary in style.  So, without further Apu, let's give y'all Simpsons addicts one more priceless clip, before I sleep the weekend away, so that I may return to you rested and ready to impart only the greatest Aniboom news there is!

Created by animator Prijent Vincent, Aniboom's newest 1 Million View-hitting Youtube animation is fan-favorite "It's Not Easy Being Green"!

Uploaded to Youtube a little over a year ago, Vincent's story of one pea's journey has delighted over a million viewers, garnered thousands of comments, and holds an amazing 4 1/2 star rating!  Congratulations, Prijent!

Check it out below:

Featured Animation Angst is nearing 1,000,000 hits on our Youtube Channel, and we want you to help make it happen!

The chilling story of a boy named Andre who was bothered by the wind is directed in vivid chiaroscuro animation.  Directed by animator Emiel Penders, Angst is an incredible work of short film cinema, and definitely worth a viewing (or two, or three...).

Help send Angst into the 1,000,000 club!

Welcome back to our Creator Spotlight!

We're pleased to bring you the insights and ideas of incredible animator Julia Pott, whose animation My First Crush was a top-ranking contender and audience favorite in our Aniboom Awards 2008.

(Julia Pott herself!)

Aniboom:  When did you first become interested in animation?

Julia Pott:  I have wanted to be an animator as far back as I can remember..except when I was three and went through a short phase of wanting to be a balloon. Whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I would always say a cartoonist, or that I wanted to work for Disney. I think at the time I don't really know what that involved but I always pursued art in all forms and when it came to specializing at university I went down the animation route. I was always told it was very important  to choose a career that made you want to get out of bed in the morning and what better way to start the day then animating dancing animals.

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Congratulations to Aniboom animator Zack Matthew, whose incredible animation “Cube” joins the esteemed ranks of Aniboom’s One Million Hits Club on our top-ranked Youtube Channel!  “Cube” joins up now with such esteemed One Million Hitters “The Piano”, “The Red Button”, and all-time favorite “Stick Fight”.

Over the past year, “Cube”, the story of a mysterious cube that changes the life of an unsuspecting passerby, has racked up over a million individual views, garnered thousands of comments, and ratcheted up an overwhelmingly positive rating on Youtube.

“Cube” remains a top draw on Youtube, and we’re all placing our bets on how soon it’ll hit that inevitable 2 million mark!

And don't forget to check out "Angst", our next animation poised to capture the one million views gold!