Hong Sungin used Flash, Photoshop, After Effects and SketchUp in the production of his 4-minute student short Mutant. A few years back, Sungin attended Sangmyung University in Seoul, South Korea, and he’s now working at INNOIZ Interactive. We don’t often see full-on manga-style animation produced in Flash, and it’s pretty refreshing.

The fifth and final installment of the internet hit series There She Is!! has been released. Created by the team known as SamBakZa in 2004, There She Is!! has built a huge international following over the last 4 years, due in large part to the elaborate, fast-paced animation and the high-minded romantic story-arc. Watch the fifth short, titled Imagine, at Newgrounds, where it currently ranks as the #1 submission of all time, or at the SamBakZa website. Animation direction, as usual, was handled by amalloc.

Thanks to Sean McKenzie for the story tip.

Clocking in at over 5 minutes, There She Is!! Step 4 is slower-paced and darker than the previous 3 episodes. This 5-part series of Flash-animated shorts is produced by the Korean team SamBakZa, and directed by an artist who goes by amalloc. The storyline has consistently maintained an undercurrent of inter-racial tension, but in this fourth installment brings this thread to a boil. Episode 4 is titled Paradise.

The series is also available at Newgrounds, where this current episode is ranked #1.

It’s been over 3 years since the last episode of There She Is!!, which have been viewed over 2 million times at Newgrounds.com. The latest episode in this romantic series, which is set for a total of 5, is titled Doki & Nabi, a female rabbit and a male cat, respectively. The series was created by SamBakZa, an animation trio in Korea. Thanks to Sean McKenzie for the story tip.

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Cocaban, the Seoul-based content developer, has launched a new Flash-animated series about a weight-minded young girl named JaJa. The series, titled JaJa, is currently an online project, but TV series plans are in the works.