Todd Ramsay, who you may know as the creator of Honkbarn, recently took part in a feature documentary project. One Big Hapa Family explores Japanese multi-racial marriage in Canada, and the stories of several couples are brought to life with animation. Here’s Ramsay’s Flash-animated sequence:

The Annie Awards nominations were announced a few days ago, and one of my good pals, Jason Carpenter, landed a nomination. Its for his short film The Renter, which will go up against the mighty Pixar and 3 other teams and individuals for the Best Animated Short Subject award. The Renter, a 10 minute “digital paperless” film, was produced mostly in Flash, with compositing being done in After Effects and backgrounds produced in Photoshop. The short “follows the story of a young boy who is cared for by an elderly woman during the day.” The Annies are being held on February 5th, 2011 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

I got confirmation yesterday that this episode of Problem Solverz below was indeed animated in Flash. In fact, much of the crew from Fosters Home From Imaginary Friends (including Eric Pringle) worked on the project , which is now coming to Cartoon Network in 2011. It’s the creation of Ben Jones (Paper Rad collective, and the Adult Swim pilot Neon Knome) and Eric Kaplan (the story editor on Futurama, amongst other things). Prepare yourself – this isn’t your father’s Cartoon Network series:

Damon Wong and Dee Boyd wrote and animated this short, which serves as a promotional piece for Floating Pear Productions. The short riffs on prehistoric animal documentaries like Walking With Dinosaurs, and we’re introduced to the fictional, Flash-animated saber-toothed house cat. The piece moves a bit slow at first, but it finishes strong.

Seb Burnett designed and directed this new pilot for a BBC science series. Peculiar Patents was produced for WONKY Films by way of BBC Scotland, and Burnett worked with a familiar conspirator, Joe Wood , who animated the piece in Flash (not sure why the quality is so crappy):