Gobelins-graduate Cyril Drouin has offered up a short teaser for his forthcoming film Repas des Fauves. Drouin directed, and was assisted on the animation, backgrounds and compositing by Jean Nicolas Arnoux, who also attended Gobelins.

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The Mighty B! co-creator Eric Wiese recently directed these two spots for the Oregon Lottery. Wiese, who is rep’d by LAIKA/house, worked with the agency Borders Perrin Norrander on the spots.

Mashed Potato Beard Santa

5,000-Watt Sweater

Japanese director Sugimoto Kousuke recently produced this animated music video titled The TV Show. He plays with the concept of what would happen if all of the various characters from different TV shows all clashed in a big high-def animation orgy. Or something like that…

The countdown continues to the release of The Princess and the Frog (December 11th). Here’s a new clip about gumbo. Will this film help lead the return of 2D animation?

This nasty H1N1 flu seems to be on everyone’s minds this year, including the team at the animation boutique Sweetworld. They created this PSA to help education Scottish citizens about the flu, and the “free flu jab.”

London-based animator James Lowne brought this UNICEF ad to life for Gucci’s Schools for Africa campaign. The animation, which is titled Snowman in Africa utilizes illustrations by Michael Roberts.

Director Tim Ruffle, who is represented by Aardman Animations, helmed a whole series of animated viral spots for Nintendo Europe. They’re promoting Flipnote Studio, which lets Nintendo DSi users create short films. The agency on the gig was 77PR.