Last week, the Australian-based studio Nectarine was mentioned alongside 2 Flash-animated shorts for the WebDU 2007 Conference in Sydney.

They actually produced several more shorts for this event, including this one titled The Rather Amazing and Slightly Distorted History of Flash, which starts with FutureSplash, and takes us all the way up to today’s Flash CS3.

Australia’s Nectarine recently produced a series of animated shorts for the WebDU 2007 Conference in Sydney. They all spoof a particular software or code, and this first one below introduces the first Flash-based breakfast cereal - FlashO’s.

And this second one takes on the popular web application framework Ruby on Rails.

Nectarine, a Flash animation studio Melbourne, Australia, has produced a series of shorts to help illustrate the new functionality available in Flash Professional 8. Mike Downey, the Flash Project Manager at Macromedia, recently screened these shorts at last week’s MAX 2005 event in Anaheim, CA, and he’s made his presentation materials available for download. Included in the ZIP file are the six SWFs animated by Nectarine. The animations include some of the new effects and tricks available in the new version of the software (but unavailable for export to video). A French website is also hosting the shorts.

The shorts were animated by Nectarine’s Steve Piscapo, and they revisit Flash, the Macromedia superhero, who Nectarine brought to life earlier this year. He’s sporting a new hero suit, and the production quality is far advanced from his previous appearance. Notice the character ‘Sparkle’ in the earlier version, who is an embodiment Microsoft’s vector-based UI designer of the same name. If you haven’t been following, there’s been much (perhaps undue) hype about Sparkle being a ‘Flash-killer’ which I’m starting to think it’s not.