Awesome Animation

Paul’s birthday gift for his girlfriend Emma has all the right ingredients: a tale of adventure and romance that he made with his own two hands. Add Explosions in the Sky and you’ve got a winner.

Pixar outs the first full-length trailer for its upcoming Brave, the story of Merida, a young archer whose impulsive ways bring chaos to her parent’s kindgom. A surprising new style for Pixar.

Doodling is one of mankind’s ultimate forms of personal expression. Korea’s Studio Shelter reminds us in their short film that no matter what might come your way, Keep Drawing.

It’s been 2 years since the trailer and 6 years since Alex Kobbs and the rest of Kooberz Studios started working on this LEGO Halo stop motion film. It was all worth it. Nearly 28 mins. of fun and action.

It’s more like Welcome to WTF City, but don’t be a ‘fraidy cat. Some furry friends are here and more than happy to take you on a drive through the glorious metropolis they call home.

After a long wait, Jesús Orellana’s animated science-fiction short ROSA can now be seen in its entirety. A visually stunning short film, especially given its budget of… zero dollars. A true labor of love.

(NSFW: Language) Collegehumor captures the stiff, awkward and barely funny annual Comedy Central Roasts, only instead of celebrities they put American TV channels together. You suck MTV!

A man encounters a demonic spirit on a train and does his best to send it back to where it came from. A wonderfully animated, if slightly twisted one-minute short film from Giant Creative.

No, we haven’t seen Evelyn, but we have seen this music video for Evelyn Evelyn’s single, and it is a perfect fit for the song. Hoku Uchiyama’s animation is clever and looks so natural.

(NSFW) On one hand, we have this awesome cover of Chris Brown’s song Look at Me Now. On the other hand, we have this awesome video based on Chris Brown’s Look at Me Now. RIP Big Wayne.

We have a hard time believing this wonderfully choreographed animation is Or Bar-El’s “first attempt at 3D animation.” Sure, the shapes are primitive, but the storytelling is masterful.

A beautiful, sad and creepy claymation by Allison Schulnik. The song is It’s Raining Today by Noel Scott Engel. That monotone string section is going to haunt our dreams for some time.

The fansite StarCraft Legacy teamed up with animator Chris “Freespace” Ciocotisan to make this impressive CGI short film about the events shortly before and after Brood War.

From the creators of Coraline comes ParaNorman, about a boy who uses his ability to speak with the dead to defend his town from the undead. We’re not sure yet if he can speak with them as well.

An animated version of Iain McGilchrist’s lecture on the brain – how the popular left- and right- brain dichotomy is misinformed and why he thinks the US is living in a left-brained society today.

Animation and math geeks will love this clip from Peter Peake, featuring the smartest dinosaur we’ve ever met. With his trig and long-division skills, we’re surprised he couldn’t avoid extinction.