Atom.com managed to snag an exclusive premiere of a new Happy Tree Friends 2-parter. Junk in the Trunk, which was directed by Ken Navarro, features Lumpy and his pet elephant. Part 1, which you can see below, contains not an ounce of blood. Fear not, the bloody second half can be seen here.
What do get when you cross a crack addict, a coke addict, a meth addict and a chocoholic? Why a mecha-fiend, or course. Kevin Lofton has just released the first episode of Crackatron over at Atom.com, and without the use of a single barbituate, he handled animation direction, character design and layouts. His “crack” team of artists included Joe Cappabianca on animation, Edmond Hawkins III on compositing and Liz Artinian on backgrounds. Lofton is already rolling the next one, so puff on this one fast!
Kyle Carrozza watched his web short become a TV short this summer on Comedy Central’s Atom TV, a 2am block that airs Monday nights. Ralph and Bichael in Ralphy Panda and the Half Baked Ditz was submitted to Atom.com via their Upload Showdown competition, and the 1:30 minute film was off to the network. Here’s the fast-paced adventures of two red pandas:
Last week Viacom’s MTVN Entertainment Group relaunched AtomFilms.com as Atom.com, which will aim to “provoke, break rules and uncover talent much as
Comedy Central did at its inception on cable.” Several Flash-animated series live in the Atom Originals section, including….
…Samurai Love God, which was created by Eric Mahoney, and animated at Jordan-based Crazy Piranha.
And here is Window Seat, a series animated at Radical Axis.
And here’s the crudely-animated series from Scrubs-writer Ryan Levin, Benny, Escaped Convict:
As spotted on Drawn! and Channelfrederator.com, 5ON is Devin Clark’s 6-part series that “interviews anything on everything.” The Immigration episode below is up over 100,000 views at Atomfilms.com, and you can also see Director’s Cuts at devinclark.com.
