If you tuned in to NBC’s season premiere of 30 Rock last week, you may have spotted a 1-minute animated short. The Temp is one of five submissions from NBC to the Liberty Mutual Responsibility Project, which promotes responsibility in our daily lives. The 1-minute, Flash-animated story was directed by Jack McBrayer, who plays the country rube Kenneth on 30 Rock. He teamed up with Hollywood’s Six Point Harness to create the short, which was led by James Krenzke on the animation end:

El miku, a director at boolab, directed and animated this TV spot for Dodot, a maker of baby products. El miku had help on the Flash front by Fran Alcaraz, but they also incorporated some CGI, which was handled by Lactea Studio. The spot, which aims to fight tetanus, was creatively overseen by the ad agency Tapsa. Big thanks to Kenneth Figuerola from Studio Camara for the story tip.

A new division at FlickerLab called MOSS, which is “dedicated to producing media that fosters environmental, social and political awareness,” produced this PSA below for the American Heart Association. It stars the animated Better Fats Sisters, who hope to keep us from getting heart disease. You may recall The Bad Fat Brothers from last spring, and this is the corollary aimed at keeping you from having a coronary. Yeesh – what was in my coffee this morning?

Early last month, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore spoke at the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference in Monterey, California. He delivered a shortened version of the world’s most famous PowerPoint presentation, the slide show that turned into the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The video of Gore’s 30-minute speech can be seen at the TED website, but below you can view a short segment pulled from the middle. It features Dave Schlafman’s Flash-animated PSA, Sky is Falling, which won Current TV’s Sixty Seconds to Save the Earth contest. We’ve now featured this short on the site 3 times, but it’s just cool to see Al Gore introduce it.

Exxpose Exxon, a collaborative effort by 15 environmental and public interest organizations, has just released a new Flash-animated short that, according to the press release, “mocks the company for spending its record profits on backwards energy policies.” The 1-minute short, titled ‘Toast the Earth,’ was animated by Powerhouse Animation, and the song is by The Austin Lounge Lizards, specialists in satirical folk, country and bluegrass music.