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Family Guy: SSSDS

Family Guy: SSSDS
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Available 12/22/09, Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside is Seth MacFarlane’s latest faithful Star Wars retelling, this time parodying The Empire Strikes Back.

Video: Cardboard

Video: Cardboard

Save your shipping boxes: Sjors Vervoort’s Cardboard is a stop motion/CG film making use of over 800 cutouts, with animations composited into the film frame by frame; film stills here.

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Astro Boy v. Peacekeeper

Astro Boy v. Peacekeeper

We enjoyed the Arena Battle clip, but this Astro Boy vs. Peacekeeper video gives us exactly what we want: a giant robot on not-so-giant robot, city-leveling slugfest (with butt guns).

Short Film: Yellow Cake

Short Film: Yellow Cake

Yellow Cake starts off innocently enough, but this mid-century style cartoon quickly morphs into something far more post-modern and disturbing with inequality, unrest and war.

Arena Clip: Astro Boy

Arena Clip: Astro Boy

This latest Arena Clip from Astro Boy isn’t quite as exciting as the Metro City clip, but it gives us a taste of robot-on-robot combat (Little Stinker FTW!); the movie hits theaters 10/23.

UAF Hockey Opening

UAF Hockey Opening

We’re used to crazy sports animations, but this Alaska Nanooks opening features the most awesome polar bear ever: it destroys a solar system, obliterates our moon and nukes Anchorage.

Superman/Batman: PE

Superman/Batman: PE
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Now available: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is a buddy cop film with our two favorite caped crusaders battling seemingly insurmountable odds: Lex Luthor is the US president.

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Movie Trailer: Metropia

Movie Trailer: Metropia

It’s a pity it’ll only be released in Sweden, because this full trailer for Metropia has us looking over our shoulders in a good way: the animated film is a paranoiac’s worst nightmare.

Funny: Technology

Funny: Technology

Mark Fiore’s Technology is an animated short film that dares to ask (and rhyme) what happens when technophiles fully unplug from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Thanks, Chris!

Funny: Jetsons Extended

Funny: Jetsons Extended

Meet George Jetson: the overly optimistic future-utopia gets a postmodern makeover with alimony, divorce hearings and secret robot mistresses in the Jetsons Theme Song Extended.

Trailer: First Squad

Trailer: First Squad

Debuting today at the Alamo Drafthouse and opening in Russia 10/15, we don’t get a word of this First Squad anime trailer–but what we see rocks: WW2, zombie knights and Nazis.

Metro City: Astro Boy

Metro City: Astro Boy

It’s got adventure, it’s got comedy, it’s got giant hovercraft called The Spirit of Freedom: we promise this Escape from Metro City clip for Astro Boy will rock your rocket-powered socks.

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Short Film: The Cat Piano

Short Film: The Cat Piano

Winner at numerous Australian film festivals, The Cat Piano is a stylish take on film noir by The People’s Republic of Animation with sensuous poetry and a graphic 2D look.

La Nueva Yma Sumac

La Nueva Yma Sumac

Created by Cocoe Studios for Spanish band La Casa Azul, you don’t need to know Spanish for La Nueva Yma Sumac; it’s a catchy retro homage to video games and superheroes.

Video: Mundo de Papel

Video: Mundo de Papel

Created by Mexico-based Cru de Ladies, Mundo de Papel (“Paper World”) envisions a a life of college-ruled margins; it was made in 2 weeks using 3DS Max, After Effects, and Photoshop.

Artificial Paradise, Inc

Artificial Paradise, Inc

Like an artsy Matrix, Artificial Paradise, Inc is filled with organo-metallic monsters and wonderfully creepy sound effects; it was selected by both SIGGRAPH 2009 and ONEDOTZERO.

Short Film: Tarboy

Short Film: Tarboy

Tarboy is partly an animated short film with fighting robots and explosions galore, but it’s also an amazing technical demo: the entire movie was animated using Flash. Thanks, Will!

Short Film: Exeter Library

Short Film: Exeter Library

Based on the Philips Exeter Academy Library, Alex Roman’s atmospheric short film may look real, but it’s a partially CG work created with 3ds Max, Vray, AE and Premiere.

South Park: Unaired Pilot

South Park: Unaired Pilot

South Park’s all-construction paper Unaired Pilot is viewable for 30 days; it runs 2 min longer than Cartman Gets An Anal Probe with four minutes of unseen footage. Thanks, Andrew!

Featurette: 9

Featurette: 9

With the success of District 9, we hope you haven’t forgotten about the other 9: Tim Burton, Elijah Wood and Shane Acker give us a brief rundown of the film, which hits theaters 9/9.

Futurama Mini Figs

Futurama Mini Figs
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We almost lost it when Fox threatened to replace the original voice actors, but this set of sixteen 3″ Futurama Mini Figs makes up for it; as Bender would say, buy my shiny metal ass!

Full Trailer: Astro Boy

Full Trailer: Astro Boy

The full trailer for Astro Boy is finally up and starts off the same as the teaser, but really kicks ass with new characters, humor and action; the animated movie hits theaters 10/23.

Short Film: The Seafarers

Short Film: The Seafarers

Slightly NSFW: The voice acting is hammy and it starts off slow, but The Seafarer redeems itself in the second half: think giant robots with laser beams, machine guns and cannons.

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