The Frito-Lays campaign we mentioned earlier this month has revealed another Flash-animated short. Little Bright Eyes was designed, storyboarded and directed by Berlin-based Fons Schiedon for Frito-Lay Dips and Chips project titled Made For Eachtother. The short was animated in Flash, with After Effects compositing. The project came to life by way of Patricia Claire and PostPanic. The animation team was comprised of Birdo‘s Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet along with assistant animators Pedro Eboli and Rafael Gallardo. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners lead the campaign. Since our last post, there’s also been a few new shorts from this campaign revealed at our sister-site Lineboil.com.

London-based illustrator/animator Aaron Blecha recently completed his second spot for Kur Organic Superfoods. It’s actually more of a short film than a TV spot, but it’s intended to promote the company’s Morning Glory Muesli. Blecha collaborated with Sweet Creative on the spot.

American comic artist Art Spiegelman, the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, is releasing a new book, titled Be a Nose. The 192 hardcover book is a reproduction of Spiegelman’s sketchbooks from the years 1979, 1983 and 2007.

To help promote the book, McSweeney’s, the publishing house founded by Dave Eggers, turned to NYC artist Lars Edwards to create a trailer. Featuring the brooding music of The Black Keys, the Flash-animated trailer is an assembly of surreal scenes and landscapes bookended by a look into the back of what is presumably Spiegelman’s head.

The title of the book was derrived from the 1959 Roger Corman film Bucket of Blood. film The animation team consisted of Edwards, Aaron Hawkins, Hanna Bliss, Brian Ellis and Jason Shwartz.

If you hadn’t already noticed, Disney’s Jetix network has relaunched as Disney XD. New series have been added to the slate including a couple digital 2D projects – Kid vs. Kat (created by Rob Boutilier) and Jimmy Two Shoes (created by Edward Kay and Sean Scott). Kid vs. Kat is produced in Flash, while Jimmy Two Shoes is brought to life using Toon Boom Harmony. Jimmy Two Shoes is being produced by Breakthrough Animation and TELETOON, with help from Mercury Filmworks. Here’s title sequence:

Kid vs. Kat is from Studio B Productions and YTV Canada. Here’s the title sequence, which we showed here before:

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Amanita Design redefined the casual Flash game experience in 2004 with Samorost, a higly-entertaining click-thru game with a unique production design built from natural elements. Jakub Dvorsky, the main creative force at Amanita (who we intereviewed in 2005), is now prepping his latest release, a full-scale adventure game titled Machinarium. The game is scheduled for release in the second half of 2009. Here’s a preview of what we can expect: