Australian artist James Lee’s latest short emerged from his 3rd year of animation school. He used a variety of software to complete the experimental, gothic short, including Flash, Photoshop and After Effects. Here’s Purged:

Back in February, we featured the teaser for a new, Flash-animated TV series out of Russia, titled Qumi-Qumi. In this first, 13-minute episode below, you’ll see that it’s full of world-class design, both in characters and environments. The look is also quite unique, especially the characters. The series was created at Moscow-based Toonbox Studio, and in each episode you’ll visit a world inhabited by creatures divided into three nations who all speak one completely made-up language. This episode was directed by Vladimir Ponomarev and produced by Pavel Muntyan.

What happens when you merge Pucca with Happy Tree Friends? You get Love Ka The End, a new Flash-animated series from the Indian studio Y-Films, a subsidiary of the Yash Raj Films, one of the biggest movie studios in the country.

Angela Kim, a recent Sheridan grad, has posted one of her student shorts over on Vimeo. It’s titled Orlegi, a simple tale about a girl and her giant friend who aim to restore a dying forest. Inspired by Mary Blair, Kim painted the backgrounds on watercolor paper and then animated the characters traditionally in Flash.

The 10th episode of Dick Figures was revealed yesterday, capping off the first season Star-Wars-style. What was also revealed, in the season-ending credits, was that Six Point Harness is the production company delivering the biweekly show, while Ed Skudder and Zack Keller remain the driving force behind the stick figure comedy. Big congrats to the cast and crew on a huge first season – over 9 million views and counting (quickly). You’ll have to wait a month for the start of season two, which ain’t bad, considering there’s often 4 or 5 months of darkness between South Park seasons. Now off to the ragging space battle. Here’s Attack of the Pwns: