Awesome Animation

(Slightly NSFW) ScarJo’s Black Widow didn’t get a chance to shine in Iron Man 2. Thankfully Patrick Boivin has done something about it. Here she is beating people up. Well, for the most part.

Think of this web timewaster as an animated choose-your-own-adventure. Throughout the short snippets, you get to select from two options, each resulting in crazy and unexpected outcomes.

A funny claymation short by Max Mörtl, starring a… creature… that loves to eat. Are cute but creepy animated films the next big thing? At least this one’s more adorable than weird. Or not.

(NSFW) An acclaimed short film by David OReilly, The External World features video game-style animation, a morbid sense of humor, and real world angst. Funny, brutal and downright weird.

WEARWILL’s video for Dutch artists Kraak & Smaak (which means “Crunch and Taste”) overlays the background with a simple, but clever gimmick – a flipbook for animating the foreground elements.

Back in 1964, the White House recorded all of its phone calls. We can’t decide if this chat between President Lyndon Johnson and the guys at Haggar to order custom pants is bizarre, hysterical or both.

Headless Productions’ latest project, I’m A Monster, is about a monster dad in an otherwise normal family. We think the animation and humor are on the right track. Consider us teased.

The CGI wizards at Charlex created this brilliantly animated film about a day in the life of a rat who finds himself in an extraordinary situation on his quest for an elusive bag of Cheezy Poofs.

For some reason, humans lack the innate ability to walk in a truly straight line. NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich explores this phenomena, accompanied by animation by Benjamin Arthur.

Fans of the Ice Age movies should be entertained by this short film, starring everyone’s favorite saber-toothed squirrel as he manages to mess with the Earth’s geology in search of his elusive acorn.

Pierre Manry derezzes Tron: Legacy, making an achingly short 8-bit style animation that’s just begging to be turned into an actual video game. Background music by YouTube user midimachine.

We can’t believe we just heard of TomSka’s asdfland web comic – a prime source of stupidity! Here’s the third installment of the animated version of the comics. I AM PUNCHING YOUR SALAD!

A short film with two different styles of animation made by Leo Bridle and Ben Thomas as their graduation film. Bridle and Thomas made all of the animation and paper models by hand.

The films of Pixar have always set risen above other CGI movies. by Leandro Copperfield’s 7-minute supercut reminds us why they continue to be the best in the genre they invented.

Everything is illuminated in this beautifully constructed music video directed by Roger Haus and Matteo Crinelli for Cocoon. Illustrated using Adobe Flash and animated in After Effects.

(NSFW) The consistently sick and twisted Archer is back for as second season on 1/27, and we can’t wait to laugh our asses off again. If you missed Season 1, now’s your chance to grab it on DVD.

Gnomeo & Juliet, an animated version of the greatest love story ever told, stars the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt as garden gnomes, who dodge feuding neighbors to find true love.

This live-action/CGI short film was created by Uira Lamour for his graduation project using a Canon 5D, 3Ds max, Vray, Rayfire, Zbrush, Nuke and After Effects. We think he deserves an A+.

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.

You might enjoy Pixar’s famous opening credit animation sequence, but it turns out there’s a dark side (and consequences) to Luxo, Jr.’s unchecked bouncy lamp antics.

Jack Black and the Awesomeness return in Kung Fu Panda 2; this time, Po and the Furious Five must protect themselves from a villain with secret plans to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Out 05/11.

Buck is just your everyday sort of dude. Assuming everyday dudes were hip animated deer. When he stops by his girlfriend’s house for a visit, her dad isn’t exactly pleased with his new houseguest.

The Mushroom Kingdom meets Liberty City in The Brothers Mario, as Mario and Luigi whip out the big guns to take down Bowser and his minions. A piece of advice: never bring a hammer to a gunfight.