Over the last 10 months or so, I’ve received an unusually high number of pleas for employment assistance. I often hear of job openings, but latelys there aren’t many. So it’s only appropriate that Hayk Manukyan’s latest short You Give Job offers a glimpse into Harut’s search for a new animation gig.

Remember Alex Hirsch’s CalArts short Off the Wall? Well it’s a series now, retitled Scribble Talk, and who better to help kick off the first episode than “Weird Al” Yankovic?

The climate change talks in Copenhagen are a couple months away, but Chris Voigt is already on the attack. A failed superhero is the only person who can save us now – this is Captain Planet goes to Copenhagen.

Genevieve Tsai has long since departed school, and she currently works at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores. However, back in 2004 when she attended the Academy of Art University for a Masters Degree in 2D Animation & Visual Effects, Genevieve created this Flash-animated homework assigment in Flash. It appears as though she used the software primarily as an ink and paint tool, and the results are quite nice. This is Cat’s Meow.

The 7th episode of Baman Piderman arrived yesterday. Alex Butera and his fiance Lindsay Small delivered what looks like the Stanley Kubrick remake of Baman Piderman. It’s all rather appropriate, especially as we lurch toward Halloween. Here’s Guess Da Number: