Tiger Woods returned to his 2nd favorite mistress this weekend – golf. Playing in The Masters, the world’s best golfer didn’t suck, like most of the world wished he would. However, his return to form won’t stop the ridicule of a man who demands privacy after taking a dump on fidelity. My two cents on that…. and here’s a weird take on Woods from Indian MTV. It’s a Flash-animated segment from their Center Fresh program. I’m not exactly sure what happening here, but I like the lines “I conquer holes everywhere,” and “Tiger Woods is a Cheetah.”

Last summer, Alan Dickson at Yukfoo Animation Studios directed this spot for Sakata rice crackers. For animation, the team turned to Alex Dron, who we know as the creator of FOT. Great looking stuff, guys.

A few of my favorite Flash animators are podcasting this week. Alan Foreman, the man behind the wonderfully weird animated series Cat Slap, has debuted the Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum, which he hosts along with Joel Frenzer. Go check it out over at AWN.com.

Next up is a podcast including Nick Cross, who we’ve featured here recently for his latest production – The Pig Farmer. He’s on this week’s A-HAA Podcast over at ASIFA-Hollywood. I also need to share Nick’s video of him doing clean-up on The Pig Farmer below in Flash.

Todd Kauffman and Mark Thornton have been hard at work for the past couple years, directing the hit show Total Drama Island (which is now Total Drama World Tour for season 3). But Kauffman and Thornton are also co-founders of Neptoon Studios, where they’ve been baking a new adult-oriented animated series. The Commercial Show is an office-based comedy in the vein of The Office, that follows Danni, a producer at an ad agency. Cut into the workplace activity are the outrageous and often low-brow TV spots she’s producing. Here’s one of those, titled Stemcell, and below that is an animatic segment featuring Danni:

The German studio JEP Animation has produced a whole pile of Rudolf episodes. The series is a Flash-animated production about a travelling salesman for French television. The episodes, which are directed by Rudi Mertens, are 3 minutes long, and 13 of them can be seen at the Canal J website. Leonard Ward was the lead animator most of them.