Last Fall, we highlighted a clip from Daran Carlin-Weber’s upcoming series pilot Summer Rec. Now, with only months to go until the premiere, Daran is offering up the first :45 seconds for you and your two eyeballs to enjoy.

On the heels of developing their Office Buddies series with 20th Century Fox, the animation directing duo known as Dan & Jason have revealed their latest creation – Man Team. It’s a Flash-animated buddy comedy that mixes in a political slant, skewering the likes of Herman Cain. They had help on the short from animators Keelmy Carlo, Alan Foreman, Mike Luzzi, and Mary Varn.

Claire Grey, Craig Knowles and David Ridges, an in-house team at Kilogramme, recently spent 6 weeks producing this 6-minute comedy pilot titled Angels Inc. The team utilized Flash, 3DS Max and After Effects. Here you’ll meet Bernard, a guardian angel, whose performance isn’t stellar:

In association with Comberry Studios, Shanghai-based artist Daniel N. Djanie, wrote and directed this 11-minute, Flash-animated proof of concept titld Santaman – The Patron Saint of Justice. It re-imagines the Santa Claus origin story, establishing him as more of a Batman-esque superhero. Djanie worked with a small, enthusiastic team who essentially worked with zero budget. Some of the dialog is clunky, and could use some comedic one-liners, but overall it’s designed quite well.

Last year we featured the title sequence from Dunce Bucket, one of the pilots that emerged from the Teletoon Detour Pilot Project. Below is the first segment from the pilot, titled Chicken Heaven, which was designed by Riccardo Durante and directed by Mark Ackland. Ackland and Durante also animated the piece. The entire 23-minute pilot can be viewed online.