Fort Lauderdale-based comedian Lisa Corrao went searching for an animator to bring one of her comedy routines to life. What are the odds that she’d partner up with an animator who shares her same last name – Joe Corrao? Lisa, who was runner up in the Nick at Nite Funniest Mom in America contest, isn’t related to Joe – scout’s honor.

Disney’s Shorty McShorts’ Shorts keeps on blast out new projects, and I can hardly keep up. So here’s several, starting with The Imperfect Duplicates of Dodger Dare, the creation of my friend Andy Suriano, a fellow Michigander. The voice of Beauty is performed by Lisa Loeb, and Andy, who boasts plenty of improv experience, played several roles as well.

The animation was produced by Copernicus Studios in Canada. These guys are real pioneers in the animation world, and are producing perhaps the best Flash work on the planet right now. If you squint your eyes you can see the pencil crayon strokes they uses for the character outlines – a painstaking approach that delivers a cartoon look not often found in Flash productions. You can tell that Murray Bain, the art director at Copernicus, and his co-workers have really benefited from their collaborations with John K. They work pose-to-pose throughout Dodger Dare, which gives their work a more traditionally animated feel.You can also download that for your iPod.Next up is Mascot Prep, the creation of Chip Wass, who also created the designs for Shorty McShort Short himself. Boulder Media in Ireland produced the Flash animation.
And lastly is Flip Flopped, a show I believe was produced in Flash (help, anyone?). What I do know is that the voice of the Dad was played by Jeff Garlin, one of my favorite actors, and the co-star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Someone help me out here – which 2nd year Cal Arts student made this clever short called This World?

A new short is up at Weebls-stuff.com. It’s part 1 of a new series called Parsley Boobs. Prepare for a forking good time – there’s a time-traveling bunny, fecal facial scrub, and brief view of The Time Crapper. According to the website, future episodes will tell a “vast and winding story of frolics and woe.”

Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and video artist currently living in the Netherlands. His latest work is a short animated in Flash titled The Foxhole Manifesto, a 4:30 minute film featuring audio by poet Jeffrey McDaniel. The short is below, but I recommend going to his website for a higher-quality video version.