Kat Morris created this stylish Flash-animated opener for Midsummer Night Toons, which was held at the M1-5 Bar/Lounge in NYC earlier this month.

This week’s nockFORCE episode takes on The Naked Brothers Band, the live-action series from YouTube with a really awkward name. nockFORCE is produced by Ian-Jones Quartey and Jim Gisriel

Sure! If you’ve got the skills and the time, a Sita Sings the Blues video game is yours for the making. Or a sequel or whatever else you can dream up. That’s because Nina Paley, the writer and director of the award-winning, feature-length animated film, has pushed the FLA source files into the in your hands with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. This move follows suit with Paley’s distribution method in which she offered a free download earlier this year, hoping it will promote the sales of the limited edition DVD and accompanying merch.

The Kiwi animation team known as Mukpuddy was featured on New Zealand’s 20/20 program back in 2008, and you can now see the 12-minute segment on YouTube. The clips reveals that Nickelodeon’s Nina Hahn has commissioned a pilot from the team.

and here’s part 2.

The 24 Hour Toons challenge revealed a particularly funny short this past month. The theme was “love” and as usual artists had 24-hours to submit a new cartoon. Alex Hirsch whipped together this short, titled Conversation Hearts: Corazones De Fuego.

Head over here to see the rest of the submissions.