Popzilla got an official premiere date the other day. MTV will begin airing the new Flash-animated series on September 28th at 6:30pm, and the show will air every day there after (Mon – Thurs). Yes, you read that right – a daily animated show. I’m getting tired just writing about it. Congrats Animax! Here’s a clip, featuring the lying President of the United States, Barack Obama. HEY! I meant “lying down.” Sheesh.

You may have spotted a new animated campaign for Charter Communications on your telly boxes, promoting their cable/internet/phone bundles. This one below was led by animator Mike Carlo at Curious Pictures. Its worth a couple watches, as I missed the cat’s whole (fully-animated) butterfly eating routine the first time through. Four other spots were produced for the campaign, and the team included a number of folks we’ve featured here before – Joe Cappabianca, Dany Kimanyan (kaNO), Danny Hynes, Elliot Cowan, and Ian Jones-Quartey. Beautiful character animation, guys.

Fresh from directors David Cowles and Jeremy Galante’s animation lab is a new, 8-bit-inspired, Flash-animated music video titled Put It to the Test. The track is on the Grammy-award winning They Might Be Giants’ soon to be released album (September 22nd) Here Comes Science. It’s their third educational album, following 2005′s Here Come The ABCs and 2008′s Here Come The 123s. The CD/DVD release is aimed at school kids K-5, but if you follow the bible to the letter, this album probably isn’t for you, as it’s not an accommodationist bow to creationism. In fact, there’s a song titled My Brother the Ape, that will surely make some parents fall out their tree. Oh, science – you’re a scoundrel!

Thankfully, Alan Foreman has continued producing his surreal online series Cat Slap since we first posted about it in March. His latest catnip-induced Flash short is titled Hair Ball, which is now part of the Mondo Mini Shows network.

Sook-Yin Lee, the host of CBC Radio One’s Definitely Not the Opera (DNTO), has said that in her family “stories were traded like currency.” The latest currency she’s bartering with is animation. Three Canadian animators have been handed a short audio segment to bring to life, and below is Jon Izen’s film titled True Love.

You can see the other films in this series on YouTube.