The merry minions at Bolt Creative have delivered a new, Flash-animated holiday short for Christmas….errr, Fishmas. The short emerges from the wildly successful world of Pocket God, which is one of the most downloaded apps on the iPhone. The piece is titled Pocket God Fishmas Special, and it was written by Allan Dye and animated by the fine folks at Peach Nova Productions (Mark Salisbury, Scott Martin and Michael Lennicx).

The 4th episode of Larkmart has arrived. In Interview, we meet a young job-seeker looking for directions, but he soon finds himself on a road to nowhere. As with past episodes, Scott Martin animated, Eric Bauza joined in as the voice of the Kirk, the job-hunter, and Mark Salisbury was the Animation Supervisor. I wrote, directed and played the roll of Marty. Big thanks to Mondo Media for producing and distributing!

Episode 3 of Larkmart, titled Tires, is on shelves now. In this installment of my very own Flash-animated series introduces us to a friendly, middle-aged man named Gregory on the hunt for an All-Season Radial Tire, but little does he know that he’s standing in the center lane of on the Larkmart expressway. To his surprise, Gregory finds love, but it moves so quickly, passionately, and painfully.

A new animator joined the production this time – Scott Martin, and I’m a huge fan of what he added to the short. Episode 2 animator Mark Salisbury acted as Animation Supervisor, and the now imfamous (see Cartoon Brew) and incredibly talented Eric Bauza joined the cast, performing the voices of Gregory and Greg’s dear old mum.

Thanks to the fine folks at Mondo Media, the world’s most horrifying convenience store is again open for business, and in this second episode, titled Sale Price, we meet a young grifter aiming to freeze prices at all new low.

I animated the first one, but for this second episode you’ll likely notice that animation quality went up, oh, 2000% percent. That’s due to the addition of animator Mark Salisbury, who brought so much to this short, he’s really due a co-director credit (after all, he is an animation director). I worked with Mark a whole bunch in 2009 on a number of Dr. Tran episodes, and he always blows me away with his brilliant acting, funny drawings and incredible speed. Big props, Mr. Salisbury. You hereby get a lifetime supply of Freezy Froze drinks, courtesy of the Larkmart management. If you missed episode 1, go here, and if you’re a super big pal, you’ll go over to the YouTube page and leave a comment.

Ever wonder how people make all those animated 8-bit films? You know, the ones that look like Atari or NES games? Well, one method involves the Pixel Tools V2 plug-in for Flash, which lets you draw shapes with a pixel brush, or with pixel shapes. The tool was created by Patrick Mineault, who has since retired from the Flash developer game.

But his tool lives on – and it was recently employed by Mark Salisbury and his team at Worldwide Biggies on a title sequence. Below you can see the pixel animation for the new SpikeTV show Mocap LLC, which premieres in April.