If you tuned in to NBC’s season premiere of 30 Rock last week, you may have spotted a 1-minute animated short. The Temp is one of five submissions from NBC to the Liberty Mutual Responsibility Project, which promotes responsibility in our daily lives. The 1-minute, Flash-animated story was directed by Jack McBrayer, who plays the country rube Kenneth on 30 Rock. He teamed up with Hollywood’s Six Point Harness to create the short, which was led by James Krenzke on the animation end:

Nothing ground-breaking about the animation in this new Weebls-Stuff.com short, but it sure is catchy (and potentially offensive – NSFW). This is Amazing Horse.

Check out this new spot for Sempre Livre Teen, a sanitary napkin product by Johnson & Johnson, Brasil. This 2D ad, which looks and moves beautifully, was animated enitirely in Flash and was directed by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet at Birdo Studio. I spotted this on the blog of an animator on the project, Pedro Eboli, who was joined by animators William Iamazi Ferro and Bruno Hamzagic. The agency overseeing the spot, titled My Life as a Teenage Girl, was Samurai.

A couple of “celebrity” directors have turned to Flash animation over the years, and perhaps the two most notable were David Lynch and Tim Burton. In 2002, Lynch, who received instruction from Tony Candelaria at one point, produced Dumbland – an 8-episode Flash-animated series. Two years prior to that, Burton teamed up with Shockwave.com and Flinch Studio to create Stainboy, a character who first appeared in one of Burton’s books. Tony Grillo at Flinch recently unearthed the original source files from that production and began remastering. The new HD videos will be screened at an upcoming MoMA exhibit on Burton that opens on November 22nd. Grillo has detailed both this recent process and the original production over on his blog, and below is one of the newly restored episodes:

Curtis Carey (Never Ending Rough Animation Project) has entered his 2-minute animated short in the LG Life’s Good FilmFest, and is eligible for the $100,000 grand prize. The film, titled Today Versus Tomorrow, was a collaboration with composer Jordan Roherty. The deadline for submissions is October 16th.