Dave Redl, the artist behind the comic-turned-animated-series Family Pants, is feeling the globe’s pain. In a new Flash-animated PSA, titled Globe Guy, Redl illustrates what our planet might be thinking about our day-to-day activities up here on the surface. Redl directed, animated and edited, while James Yang designed the piece.

With this whole Copenhagen Climate Conference going on, it’s easy to forget that the real focus of this whole global warming thing is about… animation. Okay, it’s about each of us doing our part to secure a safe, disaster-free future for our offspring, but animation can help us get there. For instance, here’s a short PSA called The Stress of Business Travel, which was produced by the team at Producto Studios. It was crafted for Climate Care Day, an initiaitive created by Arkadin and WWF to illustrate the “simple steps you can take and to make a difference and create change.” The animation was produced by Producto Studios, and the design was handled by Les Harper on character and Dan Golden on BGs.

The Brothers McLeod are finalists in the NHS Choices animation competition, which challenges artists “to find new animated characters to communicate public health messages for the 21st century.” Their creation, The Tokkels, navigates the sensitive topic of Urinary Incontinence with just the right dose of humor.

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

Fawn Veerasunthorn at Six Point Harness Studios directed this Flash-animated Chowder spot for Cartoon Network’s Get Animated campaign. It’s part of the Spot the Block effort which “encourages kids to use the Nutrition Facts Label on food packages to make healthier food choices.” The animation team included James Krenzke, Mac Whiting, Jaime Velasquez, and Joe Kossuth.

**UPDATE**

…also, here’s the animatic below and check out Fawn’s details on the process.