S4 Studios, the Hollywood-based design, branding and animation studio, has completed its first independent short animated film.

MyToons.com -- now in HD -- have launched their latest contest for animators all over the world.

Get with the Times! is an HD animation contest that will send one grand prize winner to New York City to see their animation played on a Clear Channel billboard, powered by Adobe Flash technology, in Times Square. Animators are invited to submit their HD animations at MyToons.com/contests/TimesSquare.

The 35th Annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards were presented Friday at a black-tie gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Time-Warner's Columbus Circle complex in New York City.

More than 1,000 performers, producers and craftspeople involved in daytime television, including drama, talk shows, children's programs, game shows and lifestyle programs from both the East and West Coast congregated at a single ceremony to honor the winners.

Outstanding Children's Animated Program
CURIOUS GEORGE (PBS)

Los Angeles-based ColdHardFlash.com, a source for high-quality, animated films produced with Flash, has named the winner of the Flash Animation 10: Best Animated event, which is sponsored by MyToons.com.

Channel Frederator, the largest Internet cartoon network in the world and one of the founding networks of Next New Networks, today announced the winners of the Channel Frederator Awards, recognizing extraordinary talents in animation and the Internet.

The Second Annual Channel Frederator Awards is available to watch online at www.channelfrederatorawards.com.

Kim Cattrall has signed on as the voice of Dee in the highly anticipated animated sitcom PRODUCING PARKER, slated to premiere in spring 2009 on E! in Canada. The announcement was made Thursday by Kevin Gillis, Ira Levy and Peter Williamson, the Executive Producers at Breakthrough Animation.

Australian Effects & Animation Awards
Sydney, Australia
November 11-13, 2008
Deadline: October 1, 2008

An international competition now in its 12th year, the AEAF Awards attract entries from around the world. The awards give recognition and reward excellence and creativity in 10 categories of competition:

Commercials Animation
Commercials VFX
Titles, Idents & Stings
Short Film
Student
Music Video
TV Series
Flash Animation
Feature Films, Animation
Feature Films, VFX

J. J. Sedelmaier Productions has completed three new spots for satellite broadcasting giant XM Radio, focused on the benefits to drivers of XM NavTraffic, XM's real-time traffic information service.

The spots are the first collaboration between JJSP and Washington, D. C.-based Brand-Aid, which worked closely with XM's in-house creative team on the integrated campaign.

Digital-Tutors released Flash and Maya Integration -- the newest release in a growing library of interactive training for emerging digital artists using Flash, an advanced authoring environment for creating interactive content for digital, Web, and mobile platforms, and Maya, the award-winning 3-D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution.

This week in AWN's Forums, members are discussing SKUNK FU and Flash TV series in general. A thread compares the success of GRAND THEFT AUTO IV to IRON MAN. Others are discussing the controversy surround Aniboom's Radiohead "In Rainbows' contest. What are your thoughts on the idea that "It's all about the story?" Members continue to post their picks for their favorite new toon series. Tried and true debates on 2D continue to have steam in the forums. Folks are still discussing the underuse of the Internet as a platform for animators.