Awesome Animation

A cutthroat little business woman doesn’t let anyone get a freebie in this cleverly crafted animation from student Kyu-bum Lee. The only bad thing about the cartoon is just how short it is.

Animated steampunk music video of Lovett’s song Eye of the Storm, from his debut album Highway Collection. Written and directed by Christopher Alender. Watch the making of video here.

While not quite at the level of action figure stop motion master Patrick Boivin’s works, Kyle Roberts’ Battle of the Bonds is still a hoot to watch, if only for Sean Connery’s crude jokes.

We’re fans of the cool animations which can be achieved by simply placing objects on a turntable and spinning them. Here we have an unusual set of zoetropes made from tasty eats (and matchsticks).

In Hambuster, food eats you. A fun, gory and masterfully made short film from the minds of five deranged and talented graduating students from the computer graphics university Supinfocom Arles.

We’re not quite sure what to make of Chris Ware and John Kuramoto’s offbeat short animated film about a mouse and his decapitated partner, but there’s something surprisingly endearing about it.

On display at this weekend’s Maker Faire 2011, Gary and Danny Aden’s zoetrope features 60 Android mascots spinning rapidly in front of a strobe light to give the impression of movement.

Director Chris Milk created this interactive music video for ROME, a project by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. Using WebGL tech, it plays best in Chrome Canary.

A cartoon re-telling of Swan Lake made the old-fashioned way – with pen and paper. Also it stars sumo wrestlers. Greg Holfeld spent 5 weeks drawing a total of 1300 stills to make the cartoon.

Hergé’s classic book series gets remade as a 3D animation, with Steven Spielberg at the helm, and Peter Jackson producing. Stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.

Film student Adam Grabowski created these brilliantly primitive animations using household tools and appliances for the 2011 Motion Graphics Showcase at NYC’s School of Visual Arts.

Tekken Blood Vengeance, the first full CG animation in the TEKKEN series, has a dream team behind it: Digital Frontier production, writer Dai Sato and director Youichi Mouri. (Thanks Jon!)

A fridge full of leftovers contends with encroaching frost, doing what they need to do to survive in this offbeat short film by Dave Green, with a special appearance by David Cross as Ham Sandwich.

If you don’t have time to sit through 7 hours of Star Wars movies, here’s Episodes I through III told in LEGO form, in record time. As an added bonus, you don’t have to listen to Jar Jar Binks at all.

StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization that archives stories told by American citizens, like this one from Kay Wang, who was reluctantly taken by her son and granddaughter to share her stories.

Martin Woutisseth made this chronological list of some Stanley Kubrick’s most memorable films, shown in the form of animated movie posters. A great reminder of Kubrick’s talent.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not going to like everything we come across in the world (and on the Internet). Fine. But the world doesn’t exist to please us either, so let’s cut back on the hate.

Had enough of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force? The Adult Swim guys are sick of them too, so forget everything you know about Frylock, Master Shake and Meatwad and get ready for the premiere 5/8.

YouTube user prefim’s cleverly titled animation Man Made is a Portal 2 intro sequence in the style of the hit show Mad Men, featuring ATLAS the robot. Not an original idea, but still worth watching.

Here’s an old gem from NPR science guy Robert Krulwich, about an experiment conducted by Harald Wolf and Matthias Whittlinger that seems to prove that desert ants can count their steps.

Paper animator Eric Power weaves an action-packed, bloody tale of a lone samurai as he takes on a demon lord and his army. Eric says the short offers “more paper cuts than you can handle.”

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.

Despite the fact that Pixar movies look incredible in HD, The Incredibles hasn’t been out on Blu-ray until today. Brad Bird’s brilliant superhero family flick deserves a second look on your 1080p HDTV.