Stop-motion master Patrick Boivin pits the original Optimus Prime against the Michael Bay version in an interactive fight with two possible finishers for each Autobot. G1 All the way!

Animator Counter656 returns with another action packed stop-motion short – an epic battle sequence between good and evil using Kre-O Transformers construction toys. Go behind the scenes here.

A strange and sinister stop-motion film about an egg and an apple who build broadcast towers to compete for the attention of a lone transistor radio. Winner, Best Animated Short, Slamdance 2010.

Animator Steven Briand (aka BURAYAN) created this trippy stop-motion short while doing a two-month internship at Partizan. We only wish all internships were this creative and productive.

Bumblebee takes on Barricade in Counter656’s latest stop-motion animation, an awesome homage to the Transformers, hand-assembled from over 3500 still images over a period of 2 months.

A year-long labor of love for Kevin Parry, this stop-motion animation tells the tale of a lonely man who gives up his simple life for the easy way out. Even Tim Burton approves.

Two Ninjas battle to the death in this awesomely tight bit of stop-motion animation by Olivier Trudeau. It’s short, but sweet, and ends with style (and a splash of blood).

This cool stop-motion film by animator Sarah Wickens was made using rays of reflected sunlight as the primary medium. We’ve never seen light grow fingernails before, though.

Okay, it only goes two levels deep, but we still love the stop-motion-within-a-time-lapse that Joe Clarke shot of animator Barry Purves in which puppet and master operate on different time scales.

Carine Khalifé says she listened to Blown Minded off Young Galaxy’s album SHAPESHIFTING  over 1,000 times to get the atmosphere just right for this glass-painted, stop-motion animation.

A stop-motion video explaining how Ken Block’s new custom Ford Fiesta RS WRC can be tweaked so that it can be used to compete in Stage Rallies and Rallycross and also burn rubber at gymkhana.

A surreal mix of stop-motion animation composited with a live actor, Lizzie Oxby’s engrossing, award-winning short film was originally released in 2003, but you can catch the entire thing online right now.

Using lit-up windows as stop-motion building blocks, director Andre Chocron devises a perfect convergence of music and images in this video for Cold Mailman’s relaxing Time is of the Essence.

New York’s //kneeon produced this rather lovely looking stop-motion video for the song Flower by Amos Lee; it takes place in a delicate world, crafted almost entirely out of white paper.

Photographer Ryan Kothe uses stop-motion to incredible effect in his exploration of the deterioration of everyday objects. If your stuff wears out this quick, you’ve got big problems.

Compressing 11 hours into two minutes, Nate Bolt’s stop-motion vid of his flight from San Francisco to Paris includes sheer gorgeousness: mountains, stars wheeling overhead, and the Aurora Borealis.

A reel-to-reel tape recorder remembers his wife and child as he lies on his death bed, his counter about to reach its limit, in this stop-motion film made by Tom McDermott for his dissertation.

Henry Selick’s meticulously crafted stop-motion film originally shipped with those stupid red/blue 3D glasses when it first hit disc. Now – if you’ve got a 3D TV – you can watch it the way it was meant.

There’s some really fun and quirky storytelling here in stop-motion filmmaker and AFOL Chris Salt’s video; it’s an entirely brick-animated clip for one of the latest tracks by Printed Circuit.

How about a little game of Pac-Man? Guillame Reymond latest stop-motion clip features 111 human pixels acting out the classic arcade game. The 2-minute short took about 4 hours to shoot.

Ninjamoped (formerly known as Rymdreglage) are back with more chiptunes, video games and LEGO. Their latest stop-motion videos feature popular NES games recreated using LEGO.

We’re getting hungry just watching this short animated stop-motion flick by Brooklyn animator Lori Samsel. The entire animation was made from Japanese rice crackers. Crunchy and delicious!

This darkly comic stop-motion animation tells the story of a vacationing couple and their encounter with a stranger they’re convinced is the notorious Zodiac Killer. Go behind the scenes here.