Aside from the Adult Swim block, Cartoon Network has essentially turned it’s back on cartoons. It all went down in 2009, with the new CN Real block of live-action scripted and reality shows, like Survive This. It’s a move that questions whether the network itself may survive this.

To their credit, Regular Show premieres next Monday and it looks kinda awesome, Mad (based on the Mad Magazine universe) appears to have potential, and they were smarter than Nickelodeon last year in picking up Adventure Time. But they hit the reset button hard, prompting Craig McCracken, the creator of The Powerpuff Girls, to say “It’s a little sad. . . . Cartoon Network had something really unique.” Nick Woytuk, a student at AI of Portland, agrees, and he created this spec network ID with the tag “Keep Toons at Work.” Amen, Nick.

Brand New School recently teamed up with illustrator Meg Hunt to produce this stylish station ID for Cartoon Network.

Barcelona-based animation studio Dvein produced this CG ident for the TV show Hecho en SyFy, which plays on the Spanish Syfy Channel.

Tobias Gundorff Boesen directed and animated this new stop-motion ident for RTL Crime, the German cable channel. It was written and produced by Gregor Hackner and Florian Wagner. It’s titled Nightmares Come True:

For this year’s Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which is running through ’til June 13th, the production company known as Oh, Hello produced this bumper. It’s an ambitious piece of aniamtion, zooming through space and time at a breakneck pace.

Xilam Animation’s Olivier Jean Marie directed this new teaser for the upcoming Annecy International Animated Film Festival, which starts on June 7th. It features characters from Oggy and the Cockroaches, the popular French animated series created by Jean-Yves Raimbaud.

Here’s a burly, deep-woods short to start your Friday. It’s titled Lumberjack, and it was created by Buck for the F5 Re:Play Film Festival in 2009. Ryan Honey was the creative director on the piece, which Christopher Lee was the art director.

via Sean McKenzie