New York’s FlickerLab has created a follow-up parody to their original parody American Leaf, which starred Great Big Leaf. The new Flash-animated :45 spot, titled The People vs Leaf, was ordered up by the American Legacy Foundation, who accuse Big Tobacco of “consciously misleading the public about the addictiveness of cigarettes.”

Written by Comedy Central Senior writer Lesley Keene, the commercial started airing on Comedy Central in early December. Harold Moss acted as the Creative Director on the project, and by Animation Director Nikolay Nachev and Frank DiGregorio, who helped on the 2D animation.

Raul Garcia (I think), created this snapply, little alcohol prevention PSA.

Garcia’s 2006 short Mushka is also worth a look:

32-year old Canadian animator Oliver Groulx created the following :30 second spot for the CITIZENShift effort. The project is sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada, and each month a new activist theme comes center stage on an interactive platform.

For more information, read up on the CITIZENShift blog.

Allan Sanders, a UK-based illustrator, recently teamed up with the ad agency Leopold Ketel & Partners to produce a Flash-animated TV spot. Together they created a commercial titled End Petlessness for the Oregon Human Society. Sanders imported background designs created in Photoshop into Flash, and completed the rest of the work with a Wacom tablet.

Sanders’ illustration work has appeared in dozens of major publications including The Guardian and The New York Times.Story spotted at adgabber.com.

Taiwanese animator/designer Jimmy Yuan, or Jimmy Play, created what appear to be two Flash-animated PSA spots for safety.

CHF-regular David Schlafman was recently commissioned by Animation Block Party to create a global warming PSA. Schlafman’s short, which you can see below, will premiere at the Summerfest event on July 29th at the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York. Evan Sussman joined David on the project, compositing the piece in After Effects.

Greg and Myles McLeod, known as The Brothers McLeod, recently released ‘Danger Pies.’ It’s an unreleased PSA for the BBC which was animated for a web feature on that very topic. The BBC never used it, so it’s now ours to watch! The short was produced in Flash and then the brothers added a film effect in After Effects.

If you haven’t gone and watched parts 2 and 3 of their series ‘The M Man,’ you’re missing out.