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Bone–What Could Have Been

Just for fun, animator Andrew Kaiko created this hand-drawn Flash animation test of Jeff Smith’s comic Bone. He took the audio from an …

Does Flash Have a Future?

Animation created in HTML5 The controversy about Apple’s exclusion of Flash from the iPad may appear to have minor relevance to …

The Smile and Penny Show

Here’s the opening to The Smile and Penny Show, a web series created by Hobo Divine. His collaborator on the project is Mike Geiger. …

Sonar by Renaud Hallée

An elegantly layered visual representation of sound by Montreal-based Renaud Hallée. Sonar was made in Flash with keyframe animation (no …

The Ship That Never Came In by Kim Deitch

I don’t know how I missed this before, but I just found this 2003 animation (by John Kuromoto) of a Kim Deitch cartoon based on a Waldo …

Poezenklaas! by Victoria Cook

Sing along: Hey Poezenklaas you are the best With your Poezen paws and your big red vest Gotta big kitty face and a big big …

A Candy Affair

A nice little Halloween short about a Corn Kernel who has a crush on a cute piece of Candy Corn. This nicely done G-rated cartoon is from …

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Spot

Illustrators David Cowles and Jeremy Galante collaborated on this snazzy promo, titled “Don’t Miss It,” for the Rochester Philharmonic …

A New Episode of Simon’s Cat

“Fly Day” is the latest episode of Simon’s Cat by Simon Tofield, a UK-based director on the Tandem Films roster. It’s refreshing to see …

Max Weintraub

Whether it’s the elegant animated navigation of his Flash portfolio site or the visually adventurous commercials and promos on his reel, …

Toy Movies

Where Dan Meth sees Hollywood updates of classic toy and cartoon properties going. He’s not far off: (Thanks, Sterling Sheehy)

Tucky Tales

Tucky Tales is a simple but inventive example of digital “cut-out” animation. The pre-school series for Baby TV was created by Israeli …

David Ferguson’s Animated Shorts

Adventure Time creator Pen Ward recently turned me on to the work of Glasgow-based animator David Ferguson, who posts his work at …

Closed Zone by Yoni Goodman

Yoni Goodman, the director of animation for Waltz with Bashir, created this public service announcement for the human rights organization …

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