Just in time for the biggest dogfight of the year, SuperNews sends up the US Election with a 2:30 minute quickie titled Top Gov. This Flash-animated show spoofs the 1985 feature film Top Gun, but swaps in Sarah Palin (Moose) for Anthony Edwards (Goose) and John McCain appropriately in Tom Cruise’s career-defining role as Maverick.
Funny stuff – ranks right up there with Tarantino’s Top Gun dissection.
Three Courses of Death, the second episode of the Happy Tree Friends spin-off series KA-POW! has been released. It features the Buddhist Monkey is his third starring role; his previous appearances were in Enter the Garden and Books of Fury. In this episodes, which is by far the most action-packed, we learn the back-story on how the Buddhist Monkey lost his hair. The 3-minute shorts was directed by Alan Lau who oversaw animation at Ghostbot, while animation was handled by Roque Ballesteros, Tony Cliff, Amanda Lattrell, Alan Lau, Brad Rau, Kris Toscanini and Lyla Warren. If you paid attention to the end credits, you’ll see that effects animation was handled by none other than Adam Phillips, the Flash-animation wizard behind Brackenwood.
Your are hereby commanded to lay our eyes on Common Scents, Steve Whitehouse’s 3-minute short. According to Steve, this is “a tale of lust, greed and the overwhelming desire to smell good,” and you’ll likely notice that it serves as an allegory concerning more than just romantic endeavors. You may already know his work from Mr. Man, the long-running Flash-animated series, one of the many topics in our 2-part interview with Steve, titled The Man Behind Mr. Man.
[link] – Artistic Nudity
Wait a minute. When did Spaceballs become a porno? In this promo below, G4 is employing the “stiffy-strategy” to promote their new Flash-animated series, a show based on Mel Brooks’ 1987 Star Wars parody feature of the same name. I mean, the original film had its fair share of sexual innuendos, but it’s more hoots than hooters. The new project starts on September 21st at 3pm ET (the original feature first, then the series premiere).
The series is being animated at Fantasy Prone. This other promo is infused with far less Viagra.
Mike Parker’s latest animated piece for College Humor has arrived, this time with a take on Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s book The Giving Tree. It’s titled The Really, Really Giving Tree, which was written by Amir Blumenfeld.
