Hoping to introduce more children to astronomy, Jason Tammemagi has created Cosmo, a new Flash-animated series being produced by Ireland’s Monster Animation. Tammemagi, the creator of the preschool animated series Fluffy Gardens, is now leading the team into full-tilt production using Flash and Swift3D. Here’s a trailer:

Mukpuddy has paired up again with Caspar Babypants for yet another music video for the little ones. For the track titled My Flea Has Dogs, the Muks went with a 1920′s rubber-hose style, and result is excellent:

The team at Ireland’s Flickerpix have revealed a 3-minute teaser for a new Flash-animated series titled Zig & Zag. The characters in the series were created and performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O’Hara, who first introduced Zig and Zag as puppets back in 1987. They eventually became quite popular as part of the cast on Channel 4′s The Big Breakfast. They’ve since starred in a number of programs and TV spots, and this is their first step into the world of animation. Animation production was handled at Boulder Media, another Irish company.

The German studio JEP Animation has produced a whole pile of Rudolf episodes. The series is a Flash-animated production about a travelling salesman for French television. The episodes, which are directed by Rudi Mertens, are 3 minutes long, and 13 of them can be seen at the Canal J website. Leonard Ward was the lead animator most of them.

Toon Factory, the French animation studio, recently teamed up with Foothill Entertainment to land some distribution deals for their animated series. Samson & Néon, a Flash animated series that already airs on France 3, is about a hyperactive Earthling named Samson who befriends an extraterrestrial named Neon. While Flash puppets are obviously in use here, it’s well animated, and fills quite “full” for a Flash show. Here’s a 2-minute sample (in French):