A few years back, Atom Films released ‘Soybean,’ a Flash-animated sci-fi short by Alan Smithee. It’s wall-to-wall action, beautifully animated and full of hot, voluptuous, scantily-clad women. Or maybe they’re not women, but they sure do bounce like women.

Two years later, Smithee has released a new short called ‘Akumi,’ which bears many similarities to ‘Soybean.’ It’s packed with gorgeous, fully-animated action, and a voluptuous, scantily clad woman. The only difference here is that ‘Akumi’ features graphic nudity and a violent rape scene that you probably don’t want to watch at work.

Here’s a quote lifted from the production company message boards:

I wanted to create an extremely sexual, violent and action-packed film. I didn’t want it to hold back in any way with the extreme content and visuals. And yes, I wanted to shock people.

Well, it worked. I went from mouth agape at the beauty of the animation, layout and designs (and that cool blood effect) to mouth agape at the level of sexual content included in the second half.

The goal is to find funding for ‘Akumi,’ and turn it into a full-time project, complete with a DVD release. Thinking ahead, there’s already been mention of a ‘censored version’ of the project.

Dustin Remmel wrote the outline script and David Johnson added sound effects.

Ken McIntyre has put in his time. He’s pumped out a long string of popular web series and shorts, launched an online comedy destination, and now he’s getting just deserts – a show on Comedy Central’s Motherload.

His web series, ‘Super Retarded Dog,’ was recently purchased by Comedy Central for a run of five 3-minute episodes. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the creators of ‘Tom Goes to the Mayor,’ are executive producing, and they have yet to establish a premiere date. You can see some photos from a recent record over on Ken’s site.

Ken’s past work deserves another look. He created ‘The Steven Segal Show‘ which sees high traffic at atomfilms.com, he was a founder of The Toilet Online, which is currently being renovated, and he animated a sequence from the upcoming feature film ‘Puberty: The Movie.’ More recently, he animated the title sequence.

The immensely popular online animation hub Weebls-stuff.com recently unveiled the 8th episode of ‘On the Moon.’ It’s an original production from Weebl, who has been releasing shorts on his site from other creators.

Weebl first became popular for the Weebl and Bob series, and was featured here recently for the unusual short ‘Crabs.’

As reported back in June, Hayk Manukyan’s ‘Neenja’ project is coming to life over at Tire Fire Films. The Flash-animated series, about an Armenian taxi driver who becomes ‘the chosen one,’ is now up to its third episode. ‘Neenja’ currently lives in 3 places – over at Tire Fire, on Hayk’s Hayasa Pictures site, and Newgrounds.com, where episodes 3 is currently the 4th ranked upload of all time.

You can also catch up with the Hayasa Pictures gang over at their MySpace page.

Renegade Animation recently took CBS’s challenge to ‘Animate This!’ Teaming up with the folks at CBS’s online destination Innertube, Renegade animated an episode of ‘Animate This!‘ in which stars tell “funny tales from their personal lives.” Renegade’s episode, ‘Phil Keoghan’s Reindeer Games,’ uses an story told by the host of ‘The Amazing Race,’ in which he describes his dream of getting a reindeer racing license.