The second Shrek Forever After trailer has arrived, giving us a much clearer look at the final installment of this mega-franchise. The DreamWorks Animation film hits theaters on May 21, 2010.

Idan Vardi, a graduate of the Minshar School of Art in Tel-Aviv, has served up a teaser for his graduation film. The 10-minute project is aptly named Graduation Film, and it incorporates a similar look and feel to Vardi’s earlier work Woods, which you can see online thanks to AWNtv.

Mother London is behind this new Diet Coke campaign for the UK featuring fashionable marrionette puppets. It falls in line with the Love It Light message they’ve concocted. I’m still digging around for who did the puppet work on this.

I don’t seek out opera tickets all that often, but here’s a production I’m dying to see. The Nose, an opera composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, opened last Friday at the Metropolitan Opera (six performances only) in New York City, and it features giant animated projections throughout the show. William Kentridge, the South African artist, is the director and set designer on the production, and he’s also a very accomplished animator. The Nose is based on Russian Nikolai Gogol’s short story, thus the heavy influence of Soviet avant-garde constructivist artwork. Here’s some clips from the production, and below that an interview with Kentridge.

A new Archer episode, titled Job Offer, hits FX tonight at 10pm. Archer is watched by a little less than a million viewers each night, but that’s enough for it to get a second season pick-up. I’ve heard it’s relatively inexpensive, so I’d expect to see many seasons of this show on FX.

One of the funnier pieces to come out of Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy was Die, Sweet Roadrunner, Die – an almost existential look at an animation classic. The short was re-released on YouTube recently, and a new, :30 second, animated Priceline bumper was bolted to the front. It’s worth another look.

Tokyo Mater is the latest episode of Cars Toons, an animated short series from the world of Cars directed by John Lasseter, Rob Gibbs and Victor Navone. It actually premiered theatrically in 2008 in front of Bolt, but now it’s coming to Disney Channel on March 12th at 8:55 p.m., ET/PT. Here’s a clip: