Founding 6PH member Greg Franklin recently directed this new comedy bit by up-and-coming comedian Kyle Kinane. The piece was created to promote Kinane’s album Death of the Party, which is now out on ASPECIALTHING RECORDS. It’s quality material, both comedy and animation-wise, and after you’re done watching this segment below, do yourself a favor and watch Kinane take out a heckler a few weeks back. Franklin had help on the animation from Marius Alecse and Mac Whiting, while Tony Christopherson composited and edited. [NSFW - language and bunny sex]

Remember when the Cartoon Network team produced new Powerpuff Girls animation in Flash? Inevitably, the discussion veered towards whether the software ruined the project. (the blogger calmly unclenches fist) If CHF has a mission, it’s to dispell this kind of talk, and illustrate that it’s not the software, it’s the artist. If the artist sucks, ergo the animation will likely suck, and vice versa. Flash is meerly a brush and a canvas.

So…. we move on to The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, which will release direct-to-DVD in April 2010. Six Point Harness recently put the finishing touches on the project, which was animated in Flash right here in Hollywood. The TV episodes were never about the animation, so we’re not talking about recreating The Lion King here, but nevertheless there will likely be discussion about how the move to Flash has somehow soured the visuals. I personally think it looks great, and I’d argue that the production values have gone up a notch. More importantly, what do you think?

Listen up, suckas! We finally got our hands on the Flash-animated Black Dynamite end credits. The live-action film, which opened in mid-October on 70 screens, is director Scott Sanders’ faithful send-up of 1970s Blaxploitation films (Dolemite, Super Fly), and the 90-minute project has received a strong critical reception. The producers turned to Six Point Harness to bring the action-packed end credits to life, but that’s not the end of the animated story. According to a recent interview with Sanders, the project is in the pilot phase for a series on Cartoon Network. We’ll keep you posted, ya dig?

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:

Fawn Veerasunthorn at Six Point Harness Studios directed this Flash-animated Chowder spot for Cartoon Network’s Get Animated campaign. It’s part of the Spot the Block effort which “encourages kids to use the Nutrition Facts Label on food packages to make healthier food choices.” The animation team included James Krenzke, Mac Whiting, Jaime Velasquez, and Joe Kossuth.

**UPDATE**

…also, here’s the animatic below and check out Fawn’s details on the process.