Last summer, MTV green-lit an animated interstitial series called Head Trip, which was produced in Flash. The project was headed to series, but it was then dropped. The team is actively hunting for a new home for this project, so it may get new wings down the road. Kevin Lofton directed, designed and drew layouts, while Lou Solis animated and Edmond Hawkins composited the animation in After Effects. Here’s an example episode featuring Juicy J.

Tek Jansen, the animated series spawned by The Colbert Report, is back with the first new episode since the writer’s strike. This episode, titled For each great master was once a lowly student in a school of them, is the second chapter of the second series. Production was handled by Flickerlab, who are reportedly in production on six additional episodes.

Creative Director Harold Moss oversaw the design and animation team, which included Phil Lockerby, Simon Ampel, David Michael Friend, Frank Digregorio, Max Porter, Craig Wilson, Micah Cohen, Pedro Davies, Will Pittas, Jeff Lee, Anand Duncan and Rachel Hoffman.

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Beijing-based Hutoon Animation is producing Blow Up The Schools, a mixed-media series focusing on school violence. The character animation is produced in Flash, while the sets appear to be collage.

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The gang at Trapeze Animation has been ramping up their animation forces to tackle The Razzberry Jazzberry Jam, a new Flash-animated series headed to Canada’s CBC network in the Fall. Campbell MacKinlay, who was interviewed here back in 2005, is directing this musically-inclined children’s series.

The second season of Comedy Central’s Lil’ Bush premieres tonight with an all new episode titled St. Patrick’s Day. Kevin Federline adds his voice to the show as Lil’ Karl Rove - or MC Rove. This Flash-animated series is prepped in the States and then shipped to Bulgaria for production. Entertainment Weekly called the series “A juvenile pile of manure” but The Hollywood Reporter gushed, saying it features “some of the sharpest political satire on the small screen.”

Curtis Jobling’s 2001 book Frankenstein’s Cat has been adapted for TV, and on February 4th the Flash-animated series premiered on CBBC in the UK. Jobling’s career saw him as a production designer on Bob the Builder and in the prop department on the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave and Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! This series order is for thirty 11-minute episodes. Here’s the series teaser:

The series was produced by Mackinnon & Saunders and Kayenta Productions, and a few CHF regulars were involved in the production. Ian Culbard was on the pilot team and the Brothers McLeod wrote several episodes.

January 20, Adult Swim’s Flash-animated series Squidbillies returned with an all-new 3rd season of episodes. The series, which is produced by the Atlanta-based Williams Street studio and physically animated by Radical Axis, kicked off a 20-episode order with Webnecks, and then they released Tween Steam which you can watch below.