Yahoo has (accidentally?) thrown the switch on the first Electric City promo. Conceived by Tom Hanks (via Playtone and Reliance), and directed by Six Point Harness director Joel Trussell, the 20-part Electric City saga takes us to a post-apocalyptic, dystopian world where topics of energy consumption and freedom of information are bubbling to the surface. I get the feeling that Yahoo wasn’t quite ready for this to be seen, as some of the links at the bottom of the teaser page are dead. We’ll apparently be invited into a labrynth of puzzles, clues and community engagement.

[UPDATE - both the teaser page and this video below are now offline]

Remember Joel Trussell’s 2006 music video for M. Ward? Chinese Translation was our 2nd look at Joel’s Flash-animation work, after his breakout video for Jason Forrest‘s War Photographer. Here’s his latest, The First Time I Ran Away. Full credits below.

After BearShark and Dinosaur Office, the next CollegeHumor animated series aimed at the Nintendo 3DS is called Pizza Quest. The animation on this one was directed by Joel Trussell, via Six Point Harness Studios.

Some Yo Gabba Gabba! goodness today from Joel Trussell Puny Entertainment. It’s a collaboration with Robbert Bobbert and The Bubble Machine, a spin-off childrens project from Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider. We posted another video from the group here back in September. Here’s That’s My Family…

Joel Trussell, the brilliant animator behind the War Photographer video and multiple Morcheeba videos has struck again. This time its for Gossip, and their track Love Long Distance. It’s quite the creative production, mapping digital animation onto live action footage from the roller rink. Mike and Anna Hollingsworth helped out on the animation, much as they did on Trussell’s previous project. Trussell is rep’d by One Small Step.

Spotted over at drawn.ca.