We began following Canadian animator Kyle Marshall’s new project The 3 Amigonauts back in February, when we saw a walk test. Today Marshall delivers a little musical trailer for the project.

We’ve learned from Rihanna this week that you shouldn’t try to man the controls at the tattoo parlor, and Mike Parker’s latest CollegeHumor.com short, titled Tattoo Fight, illustrates what other trouble your ink might bring.

As you may have seen at lineboil.com yesterday, City Harvest, a NYC-based food rescue program, has commissioned a number of animated PSAs by way of their agency DraftFCB. The campaign is titled Rescue Food, and NYC animation studio World Leaders Entertainment created these two:

Fried Green Tomatoes

Butterfinger

Yesterday, over at lineboil.com we wrote about the upcoming The Secret of Kells screenings in NYC. The July 18th and 19th showings are part of the New York International Children’s Film Festival, and tickets are already available.

The film is primarily filled with traditional animation, but as we pointed out here in January, there are number of Flash-animated scenes in the film too. Here’s some Flash scenes that were animated by Alessandra Sorrentino.

ColdHardFlash was a proud sponsor of this year’s Chicken Jam, an event hosted by the Toronto Animated Image Society. Congrats to all who submitted shorts, and here’s a quickie Flash piece by Joseph Troy, who works on Peep and the Big Wide World at 9story Entertainment in Toronto (happy belated Canaday Day!).