Big congrats going out to Allison Craig today – she finished her short film, Barko. This 7-minute short about a sad circus dog was produced at Titmouse Inc, and it’s now being prepped for the festival cicuit. Here’s the trailer:

Have you been tuning into season 3 of Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse? Like the first two seasons, the series is being produced at Titmouse Inc in Hollywood, and they’ve begin to add more elaborate animation. Here’s a clip from a recent episode:

via Drew Newman

Titmouse Inc’s Edward Artinian directed and animated this spot below, which promotes the new Brutal Legend video game from Electronic Arts. The heavy-metal game features the voice and likeness of Jack Black, who plays a roadie charged with saving the world, and here he joins the cast of Metalocalypse. The spot was created to play during the Dethklok Tour 2009, which wound down last week. Most of the scenes in the spot were animated in Flash, while lighting was handled in After Effects.

G4’s hit series Attack of the Show (weeknights 7pm ET) has been featuring a fair amount of animation these days. New episodes of Baman Piderman premiere about every other week on the live show, and on Monday the AOTS team premiered an original series. Slasher School, once a live action series, was a group effort by the AOTS producing team, but it was written by Blair Butler, a longtime G4 member who is often on-screen, but she also writes and produces. Butler, along with fellow hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn, provided the voices, and then Jody Schaeffer (co-creator of Megas XLR) at Titmouse Inc. took over to bring it to life. Schaeffer first turned to Dave Johnson, who designed the characters, and then he and Kevin Hand (DJ & the Fro) animated the episodes along with assists from Shiloe Swisher, Gary Doodles and Eliot Sperl. Here’s the first 2 Flash-animated episodes, and the third is up at G4TV.com.

The talented team at Titmouse Inc. (feature deal? wow!) recently produced a new Flash-animated music video for the rock band The Fray. It’s for their cover of Kanye’s Heartless. Allison Craig, Ryan Deluca, Tony Andrade, Dave Gerhard, Dave Vandervoort, and Keith Yan all chipped in on the project.