Remember when the Cartoon Network team produced new Powerpuff Girls animation in Flash? Inevitably, the discussion veered towards whether the software ruined the project. (the blogger calmly unclenches fist) If CHF has a mission, it’s to dispell this kind of talk, and illustrate that it’s not the software, it’s the artist. If the artist sucks, ergo the animation will likely suck, and vice versa. Flash is meerly a brush and a canvas.

So…. we move on to The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, which will release direct-to-DVD in April 2010. Six Point Harness recently put the finishing touches on the project, which was animated in Flash right here in Hollywood. The TV episodes were never about the animation, so we’re not talking about recreating The Lion King here, but nevertheless there will likely be discussion about how the move to Flash has somehow soured the visuals. I personally think it looks great, and I’d argue that the production values have gone up a notch. More importantly, what do you think?

As of today, all but 15 shots have been claimed in the Star Wars Uncut project. You may have seen Mike Geiger’s clip, and how Matthew Shepherd has submitted. Here’s Scene 279:

via FloobyNooby

Here’s a sleigh full of holiday animation from David Ferguson, the Scottish animator. The Flash-animated short, titled Santa’s netbook-internet-laptop, appears to be a promotion for the website dearscotland.com.

So we all know Santa gives gifts, but in this Flash-animated short we learn that Santa was born with a natural gift that makes Mrs. Claus very happy. It’s titled Reindeer STD, and it was animated by Mike Parker for CollegeHumor.com.

CBSNews.com’s Shira Lazar recently visited the SuperNews! headquarters in Los Angeles, where they’re in the middle of making 8 half-hour episodes. They discuss the now famous Twitter episode, and we meet series creator Josh Faure Brac, and Steven K.L. Olson, who are both “here to fix the news.”

Here’s one of the latest segments from the show, titled TMZ: Jesus Gossip!