Nick Cross, the talented Canadian animator behind Yellow Cake and The Waif of Persephone, recently teamed up with the folks at Yo Gabba Gabba!, which is in it’s second season on Nick Jr. Cross produced this short, Flash-animated video about how music can be created with nearly anything. It’s titled The Music of Sound.

Some Yo Gabba Gabba! goodness today from Joel Trussell Puny Entertainment. It’s a collaboration with Robbert Bobbert and The Bubble Machine, a spin-off childrens project from Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider. We posted another video from the group here back in September. Here’s That’s My Family…

The New Zealand animation squad formally known as Mukpuddy have given birth to a Nickelodeon pilot. Dirk Banzai is actually over 10 years old, and was the very first Mukpuddy character, but when Nickelodeon International invited the team to produce a pilot for their Open Mic program, they brought him back into the limelight. Below is the full 4:30 minute pilot, and you can see a whole slew of production art over at the Muks’ blog.

Nickelodeon’s 15 Seconds to Fame contest recently closed the submission window, and we’ve spotted a few Flash-animated submissions around the web. Here’s an entry titled Jurrasic Clark, submitted by Vancouver-based Corey McDaniel.

… and here’s a submission from Brent Bouchard, Jesse Cote and Patrick Dufresne (BGs by Norm Krich and Jesse Schilperoort)

Wubb to the Z! Wubbzy, the star of Nick Jr’s Flash-animated series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, has a new rap video which you can see below. Wubbzy is officially the crunkest preschool series of all time. In other Wubbzy news, music mega-star Beyonce Knowles makes a guest appearance on the show on May 1st on Nick Jr, in an episode titled Wubb Idol. You can see a behind-the-scenes video over on the Wubbzy YouTube channel.

Did you know: Carlos Alazraqui from Reno 911 (Deputy James Garcia) plays Walden on Wow Wow Wubbzy.