The talented gang at Mukpuddy Animation have posted a few new episodes from their series Sparkle Friends. Episodes 11 and 12 each feature over 3 minutes of animation and are airing on New Zealand TV as part of a variety show called What Now. Here’s episode 11, titled Return of the Gungi. Head over to the Mukpuddy blog to see episode 12, Yabba Dabba Don’t!

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.

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).

Mukpuddy, the New Zealand-based animation studio, has teamed up with the long-running children’s program What Now to release their original show ‘Sparkle Friends.’ Each of the 10 episodes is 3-minutes long, and it follows a group of kids who befriend a slime-vomiting character named Gun-gi.

You can watch the first episode (MOV) over at the Mukpuddy website, and each week (usually on Monday), they’ll be releasing a new episode. And check out he Muks’ blog for production updates.

Back in December, you were introduced to New Zealand’s finest Flash house, Mukpuddy. Their strong design sense mixed with fluid animation is on exhibit again in a music video (Quicktime 7 - 6.9mb) they produced for the band Pluto. It’s for the New Zealand band’s song ‘Baby Cruel’ and The Muks created the video in just 3 weeks. While it’s fairly static, it goes to show why Flash has become the goto choice for those with modest budgets. The record label also commissioned a 1-minute animated Pluto skit featuring these same animated likenesses, which can be seen here. As with the music video, it was created entirely in Flash.