New Zealand-based animation studio Mukpuddy is back with a second season of Sparkle Friends, due to air soon on New Zealand TV. You can watch the trailer below, and to all Flash animators out there – the Muks are looking for a clip of broadcast-quality animation to place inside a TV screen on their show. Head over to their blog to read more.
Channel Frederator has announced an exciting new animation project with a clever name – FredEx. 
It’s an experiment in animation colloboration that challenged filmmakers from around the world to produced 10-20 seconds of animation on a common theme. The first installment is ‘Robots,’ and iPod-ready episode is available for download now (NSFW).
The shorts were produced in a variety of formats, including the following Flash shorts – Salad Bars by Mukpuddy, Weddings by Doogtoons, Dating by Animax Entertainment and Death by Bernard Derriman.
Celebrating Oral Health Month, New Zealand’s 
Studio 2 program recently unleashed The Adventures of the Colgate Taste Buddies Competition. Kids were challenged to create a comic strip featuring the Colgate Taste Buddies, and the winning submission would be animated by Mukpuddy, the New Zealand-based Flash-animation studio.
The winners were Liam and Rachel Thompson, and after their character designs were polished by the Muks, the short went into a blindingly-fast 2 week production. You can see pre-production materials over at the Mukpuddy blog and below is the resulting animated short.
The gang from New Zealand, Mukpuddy, 
have been giving us fairly steady stream of Flash-animated episodes lately, and today is no different. ‘In the Deep End’ is the 3rd episode (MOV) of ‘Sparkle Friends,’ and this one features burping, high-dives and, or course, barfing. For more info on the series, read up on the post from May, or visit the Mukpuddy blog for production notes.
As promised, New Zealand’s 
Mukpuddy has returned with another episode of ‘Sparkle Friends.’ With 10 total episodes, we’re just getting started here. And check ou the Mukpuddy blog for some sketches from this 2nd episode, titled ‘Snap’ (MOV).
