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Charles Burns: Fear of the Dark

Charles Burns: Fear of the Dark

(NSFW) A loner stumbles upon the girl of his dreams, but his childhood obsession twists his reality. This short film is illustrator Charles Burns’ (Black Hole, X’ed Out) contribution to the horror anthology Peur(s) du noir (Fear(s) of the Dark).

C&H: Pull My Finger

C&H: Pull My Finger

A guy tries the old “pull my finger” flatulence prank on a co-worker, but his victim isn’t having any of it. Then things go South very quickly for the office clown in this ridiculous clip from Cyanide & Happiness.

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Inside Out (Trailer 2)

Inside Out (Trailer 2)

In Pixar’s Inside Out, a kid is upset that her family moved houses. Her emotions Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) bicker about how they will handle her new life.

BusyBody Quick Animator

BusyBody Quick Animator

This fun little plaything lets you create simple animations by posing ten bendy rubber figures in front of a mirrored background, then spinning it. It’s a simple way to learn the basics of animation and also just a neat desk toy.

Fever the Ghost: Source

Fever the Ghost: Source

This brilliantly offbeat music video from animator Felix Colgrave (the guy behind Man Spaghetti) is the perfect complement to the sonically rich neo-psychedelic rock landscapes of Fever the Ghost. (Thanks Matt!)

BTTF LEGO Clock Tower Sequence

BTTF LEGO Clock Tower Sequence

A spot-on recreation of the classic clock tower sequence from Back to the Future, painstakingly animated using stop motion by Macro LEGO Universe. It’s so well done that we want to see the entire movie trilogy in LEGO.

Unreal Engine 4: Kite World

Unreal Engine 4: Kite World

An amazingly gorgeous scene rendered using the same engine used in many of today’s video games. The scene was generated entirely in real time, proving that with enough hardware – and 3D artistry – movie quality animations are possible.

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Domino Etch-a-Sketch

Domino Etch-a-Sketch

Domino master FlippyCat uses his dominoes in a different way than normal, instead of just knocking them over, he uses stop-motion animation to make a gigantic working Etch-a-Sketch. Then he knocks them over.

Game of Thrones Quick Draw

Game of Thrones Quick Draw

(NSFW) 1A4 Studio, the guys behind the awesome animated Speedrun series, are working on a similarly drawn new series for Vanity Fair, but each 60 second film telling just one branch of the storyline, starting with The Life of Ned Stark.

The Very Best: Let Go

The Very Best: Let Go

The music video for Let Go, a single from Afro-pop band The Very Best. Pixel artist Johan Karlgren of Päppas Parlor used Perler beads to create the 8-bit style stop motion animation.

Little Dreams

Little Dreams

Filmmaker Wilkie Branson created this beautiful and heartfelt animated short by hand-cutting more than 4,000 individual printouts of dance movements from his other film, then compositing them into larger than life backdrops.

Danny and the Wild Bunch

Danny and the Wild Bunch

Robert Rugan’s live-action/animated short film tells the story of a children’s book author who’s asked by her publisher to make her books “darker,” but the characters in her book aren’t really happy with the proposed changes.

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Things from Movies

Things from Movies

ADHD presents the ultimate movie-inspired bucket list, tallying up a variety of scenes that play out on the big screen that might be fun to do in real life – though many of them would probably end up doing you in.

Feelings

Feelings

For three weeks, animator Nate Milton wrote down all the memories, thoughts or images that gave him “a tingly feeling.” Then he animated the items on the list, unintentionally creating “a stream-of-consciousness trek” through his life.

Sleater-Kinney: A New Wave

Sleater-Kinney: A New Wave

The kids of Bob’s Burgers rock out to Sleater-Kinney in the official music video for A New Wave, from their blast from the past new album No Cities to Love. A rare sighting of Tina feeling things. And not staring at butts.

Cloudrise

Cloudrise

“Don’t you dare let me go.” A couple are celebrating in their new airship when pirates attack them. Denver Jackson’s brilliant animated short is set in a vivid Chinese steampunk world, but faith and love ultimately take center stage.

World of Tomorrow (Teaser)

World of Tomorrow (Teaser)

Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow sees a child taken to the far future by her older self, “covering everything from the perils of discount time travel to the benefits of programming robots to fear death”, says The Film Experience. Out 3/31/15.

Things You Don’t See in Hero Movies

Things You Don’t See in Hero Movies

(NSFW: Language) YouTuber Commandoflauge’s new series of funny Grand Theft Auto V machinima. Here he imagines the mundane and not so glamorous aspects of being a superhero, or of living in a world where superheroes exist.

Hundred Waters: Innocent

Hundred Waters: Innocent

“An empty spacecraft. A paranoid vacuum cleaner robot. Some strange invaders. Jeremy Clapin’s animated short film serves as the music video for Hundred Waters‘ dreamlike track Innocent, and also is a great little science fiction story.

The Chasm

The Chasm

To continue their journey, two explorers tirelessly repair the only bridge over a vast chasm. Le Gouffre (The Chasm) is a simple story, but that such a polished animated film could come from just a three person team is mind-blowing.

NASA: The Far Side of the Moon

NASA: The Far Side of the Moon

Because it’s in synchronous rotation with our planet, the Moon always faces Earth on one side, aka the near side. But thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA was able to map the far side of the Moon.

Evangelion: Another Impact

Evangelion: Another Impact

Sola Digital Arts’ unofficial animated short film is set in an alternate universe of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but what unfolds will be familiar to fans of the series. Eva Unit Null is being tested when – surprise! – it runs amok.

Ant vs. Skateboard

Ant vs. Skateboard

Formic is a CGI/live-action short animated by Roman Kaelin and Florian Wittman which gives us an ants-eye view on the universe, as the tiny insect does its best to survive the dangers of a typical day at a skatepark.

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