Awesome Animation

Stop-motion master PES grills some mussels that he picked up from Muscle Beach. They’re really meaty, but we’re not sure if we’d want to eat them. A funny commercial for Lipton iced tea. What was the tea made of?!

A band of animated puppets play soothing music while a sock puppet discusses the formation of positrons and electrons in a thunderstorm in the music video for Positronic, by electronic artist Ryan Mauskopf aka Professor Soap.

Video artists Dropbear created the stop-motion animation for Opiuo’s electro-funk track Quack Fat using 240 audio cassettes, 5,600 feet of video tape, 108 floppy discs and an old Sony Walkman. The tapes and discs make good pixels.

There’s a lot of head-scratching moments in Age of Ultron, but How It Should Have Ended focuses on the most important one, showing how simple it should have been for Ultron to beat the Avengers. So… part 2 is a DC movie?

Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is set in an alternate universe where dinosaurs didn’t die and eventually came to coexist with man. It follows a young human boy who befriends an Apatosaurus named Arlo. Coming this Thanksgiving.

This series of Adult Swim segways by Paul Robertson plays out like the greatest 16-bit console game ever, with brilliant character design that will have you grinning ear to ear, and wishing it were playable. Watch the entire playlist.

(PG-13 Language) “A dead end. A choice. One could go left, or one could possibly go ri– oh coins! Coins!” The hilarious gamer Jerma985 plays through a short adventure that he himself made using GameGuru.

YouTube celebrates its 10th birthday with an alphabetical, animated compilation of some of its most popular videos and genres, set to Blackalicious’ Alphabet Aerobics. YouTube, you da real MVP.

LEGO already has a lot of video games, but here’s a fun look at how Portal, Skyrim, BioShock and Counter-Strike might have looked like if LEGO owned them. A well-made short by YouTuber andrewmfilms.

The always informative Minute Earth teamed up with the animators at Kurzgesagt to explain the importance of Earth’s atmosphere, and the problems that greenhouse gases cause for the stability of our oh-so-important solar shield.

(PG-13 Language) “Today I didn’t even have to use my A.K. I got to say it was a good day.” YouTuber nekocekoBiH recreated the music video for Ice Cube’s It Was a Good Day in Grand Theft Auto V. Watch them side-by-side here.

Sascha Geddert’s animated short takes us to a fantastic planet inhabited by tiny blobs. As they replicate, they form a complex society that ultimately destroys its planet. A stunning parable about our own world. It’s also a video game.

A promising new animated show headed to Fox ADHD, Golan the Insatiable follows the story of a little goth girl who conjures and then befriends an angry monster, and team up to wreak havoc on the suburbs. Premieres 5/31 at 9:30pm (PT).

YouTuber LioN KoLLA’s Grand Theft Auto V machinima montage recreates some of the most memorable scenes from Breaking Bad, to the tune of the series finale song Baby Blue by Badfinger.

A boy narrates what happens when a peaceful city is attacked by the dreaded Gray. Rogier Wieland’s awesome stop-motion short film for LEGO China keeps things fresh by constantly switching scales and perspectives.

CD Projekt Red celebrates The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt‘s universally favorable reviews by releasing this intense computer animated short film, which shows the titular monster hunter Geralt of Rivia taking on an elusive creature.

Unklejoe’s web series Great: The Show parodies kid’s shows with skits that hilariously present the sadness and complexity of life that extinguish our sense of wonder and innocence. Also, brownies are just pieces of a brownie.

The latest installment of Rob Pratt’s animated fan film series features Flash Gordon and his companions meeting Ming the Merciless for the first time. This made us realize that Krieger is a dead ringer for Zarkov.

The amazing music video for the lead single from Son Lux’s upcoming album Bones. The Made Shop’s Nathan Johnson and Katie Chastain used foam boards, pins and rubberized thread to mimic primitive polygonal graphics.

Game developer Harry101UK (Portal Stories: Mel) auto-tuned GLaDOS’ Song and made this music video. The song was made by GLaDOS’ voice actress Ellen McLain with John Lowrie for Portal 2, but never made it into the game.

A stranger from another village is on trial for the murder of his friend in an amphibian community. CalArts student Yon Hui’s graduation film is a throwback anime about prejudice based on appearance. Be sure to watch the end credits.

Cyclops with crooked necks stay glued to their mobile device while the world breaks down around them. Students from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts made this animated short film about our addiction to mobile devices.

Psyop’s animated commercial for Coca-Cola shows an enthusiastic dog – aka a dog – putting a bit of wonder back into his jaded master’s world. TL;DW: Dogs are high and Coke gives you dog vision… but only if you stole it?