Max Winston’s animation test for a Nickelodeon show is now on display. The series, which sadly isn’t moving forward, is titled The Woods. I want to go to there!

Here’s the 10-minute pilot episode for The Gardenia Palace, a new CG-animated series from Italy’s ShortCut Studio. The team is now looking to pair up with investors to produce the full season.

Firestep Films and Kilogramme, two UK-based production companies, teamed up to create this TV series pitch presentation for a property titled Age of Heroes. Firestep’s Steve Maher designed and directed, while John Hedley animated and composited. Here’s one of the segments they created called Goliath.

Andrew Dickman toiled on his short Ivan the Unbearable during 2006 and 2007, and finally saw it air on NickToons in 2008 as part of their Random Cartoons project. Today you can finally see his 8-minute film right here.

Pittsburgh-based zoetifex Studio has raised the dead. Alfred Hitchcock’s voice has been set against CG-animation in this demo for a potential new TV series. The audio was lifted from a trailer for The Birds, Hitchcock’s 1963 film.

A finalist for Best TV Series at Annecy, Cuppa Coffee’s Nerdland has been viewable on their website for months now, but I recently spotted the 7-minute pilot over on Vimeo. The stop-motion series concept was generated internally by puppet maker Ted Heeley, and then after teaming up with TELETOON’s Detour the 22-minute series was set into motion. In related news, the 2nd season of Nick at Nite’s Glenn Martin DDS, which is produced at Cuppa Coffee, was just announced.

Slovenian director Dusan Kastelic at the Bugbrain Institute lead a small team on this pilot for a series titled Sad Stories. It’s based on Tomaz Lavric’s comics, and this heartbreaking story of canine love was animated by Igor Sinkovec. [NSFW - contains animated nudity, and buckets of urine]