Before Waltz With Bashir made its big splash at Cannes, Ari Folman experimented with animation in a 2004 series. The Material That Love is Made Of, a documentary series, was animated in Flash at PIL animation in Israel, serving as the testing ground for the process Folman and his team would employ on Waltz With Bashir. The project was design by Mysh and David Polonsky and animation by Yoni Goodman, Ella Marshak and Oryan Ventura.

Kob, the Israeli indie rocker, has called up on Mysh and Oren Mashkovski to animate his most recent music video. The track is titled Fixed World, and it was animated by Roy Manor and Mashkovski. The three characters in the video are major, historical figures from Israeli history.

Tel Aviv’s Pil Animation recently produced 3 TV spots for Kidum, the leading test preparation company in Israel. Here’s one, and click here and here for the other two. The spots were designed by MYSH and animated by Sharon Gazit, Oded Naaman and Adar Winter.

The gang at Israel-based Pil Animation has released a new Flash-animated music video for an Israeli musician named Yoni Rechter. The lyrics for Sasha au Passage roughly translate to “Who’s got a massage parlor in the Passage? Sasha in the Passage has a parlor massage.” Art and design by Mysh, and animation by Oren Mashkovski.

About a year ago, you may have spotted a link to ‘Gaigin - The Tail of a Warrior.’ It’s a very well produced short out of Pil Animation in Israel. Well they’ve been hard at work in the ensuing year, and I’ve just been tipped off on a couple of their new projects.

First, check out ‘The Mad Scientist Show,’ created by Oren Mashkovski and MYSH, the same duo that created ‘Gaigin.’ Here’s the direct link to episode 2 (9mb - Windows Media).

And second, have a look at Pil’s animated bumpers for Channel 24 - The Israeli Music Channel. I like this one (2.3mb Windows Media) in particular. All of the spots were animated frame-by-frame and drawn straight into the computer using both Flash and Aura. The BGs were created in Aura and Photoshop. You can see the rest of the spots over on the Pil Animation homepage.