INTERspectacular, a concept, design and animation studio in New York City, has re-branded Nicktoons Network’s 3 Headed Monster block with new logos, graphics and animated bumpers. INTERspectacular’s Creative Directors Luis Blanco and Michael Uman teamed up with character designer Joel Trussell to create a 3-headed monster with distinct personalities: Friday, Saturday and Sunday (the block airs Fri-Sun from 7pm to 1am).

The design and animation team included Josh Pelzek, Devin Clark, Efrain Cintron, Euralis Weekes, Sybille Schenker, Alberto Cerriteno and Andrew Macfarlane. INTERspectacular Executive Producer Greg Babiuk tapped Blanco and Uman to voice the monsters. To see handfuls of animated bumpers, head over the INTERspectacular site and below is one titled Mirror.

Rodrigo Huerta, an animator living in College Station, Texas, has produced a series of bumpers for the 14th Annual Viza Go-Go, the annual student showcase for the Texas A&M Visualization Sciences Program (hey, Mom – I’m a scientist!). Here’s two of my favorites:

Tomato Trick

Rules

More can be seen on Huerta’s YouTube page.

About a year ago, you may have spotted a link to ‘Gaigin – The Tail of a Warrior.’ It’s a very well produced short out of Pil Animation in Israel. Well they’ve been hard at work in the ensuing year, and I’ve just been tipped off on a couple of their new projects.

First, check out ‘The Mad Scientist Show,’ created by Oren Mashkovski and MYSH, the same duo that created ‘Gaigin.’ Here’s the direct link to episode 2 (9mb – Windows Media).

And second, have a look at Pil’s animated bumpers for Channel 24 – The Israeli Music Channel. I like this one (2.3mb Windows Media) in particular. All of the spots were animated frame-by-frame and drawn straight into the computer using both Flash and Aura. The BGs were created in Aura and Photoshop. You can see the rest of the spots over on the Pil Animation homepage.