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Cooking LEGO Fried Chicken + Fries

Cooking LEGO Fried Chicken + Fries

Hypno Motion makes stop-motion animation. In this short clip, they took some brick-built LEGO chicken legs, battered them up in 1×1 bricks,  and fried them in a pot. Of course, you can’t have fried chicken without a side dish, so they also cooked up some french fries. Their Hidden Patterns Inside video series is a fascinating watch, too.

Everything Is Connected in the Universe

Everything Is Connected in the Universe

(Flashing images) Filmmaker Conner Griffith created this riveting short video from public domain images found on Wikimedia Commons. It starts with a single-cell organism, and as each frame advances, the subjects evolve into larger and increasingly complex things. Conner’s 2023 showreel is also well worth a watch.

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Grands Canons: An Animated Short Film

Grands Canons: An Animated Short Film

Artist Alain Biet created this mindblowing short film, which starts out with an artist painting an image of a pencil. As soon as he’s done with that one, more everyday objects start appearing and accumulating until the frame is completely filled. We can’t imagine how long it took Alain to create all 8,000 watercolor paintings. Music by Yan Volsy + Pablo Pico

Quilted Animation

Quilted Animation

Textile artist Greg Climer creates quilts that look like pixelated photographs. After filming a brief scene of his friends kissing, he transformed them into a series of 36″ x 48″ quilts which he animated into a 3-second sequence. In total, he made 36 quilts from about 59,000 squares of fabric. It took him roughly five years to complete the project. (Thanks, Rusty!)

LEGO Pixel Art Animations

LEGO Pixel Art Animations

There are tons of stop-motion LEGO animations out there, but Legotto’s approach is different. Rather than moving models and minifigs, they create frame-by-frame pixel art animations using 1×1 LEGO bricks. This process requires great patience and attention to detail, but the results are impressive. Check out their octopus, slime, and Pokémon animations.

Xenomorph Life Cycle But Its “Up”

Xenomorph Life Cycle But Its “Up”

Sellatorful created a gory hand-drawn sequence that depicts how Alien’s Xenomorphs are born and grow. But the original was missing an appropriate soundtrack. So Bag Ingi added Michael Giacchino’s tune Married Life, the music from Pixar’s Up that underscores Carl and Ellie’s sweet but heartbreaking life story.

Pexachu vs. Godzilla

Pexachu vs. Godzilla

Animator MootroidXproductions loves to create stop-motion shorts using action figures and toys. This epic battle sequence features a confrontation between multiple building-stomping Godzillas and a powerful human/Pikachu hybrid, all set to a jazzy soundtrack. They followed it up with Godzilla vs. Kong vs. Pexachu.

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Curiosity Killed the George

Curiosity Killed the George

Curious George has always lived up to his name, relying on the kindness of The Man in the Yellow Hat to get him out of all sorts of monkey business. But all those years of curiosity have taken their toll on the now grown-up primate. Matt Shaver, Alex Martens, and Joel Haver offer their take on a weary George’s final days in a very real world.

Ghost of Vroom: Still Getting It Done

Ghost of Vroom: Still Getting It Done

Mike Doughty is best known for his time leading Soul Coughing in the 1990s. But he’s still making great music as both a solo artist in Ghost of Vroom with Andrew “Scrap” Livingston. Produced and mixed by Beastie Boys collaborator Mario Caldado, Jr., the alt-rap track Still Getting It Done offers a groovy electronic rhythm and a fun vertical music video by SWIVS.

Animation vs. Math

Animation vs. Math

Alan Becker’s Animation vs. series usually has stick figures battling the animation process or other stick figures. But in this short, our stick figure hero encounters a new challenge – mathematics. Things start with simple addition and subtraction, but the calculations quickly become harder to solve, especially when Euler’s Identity shows up.

Pixar Character Size Comparison

Pixar Character Size Comparison

We always enjoy watching size and speed comparison videos. This clip from Data World Studio looks at the relative sizes of the major characters from Pixar’s animated universe. So now we finally know how much bigger Buzz Lightyear is than Remy from Ratatouille and how much smaller they are compared to The Incredibles.

The Background Art of Looney Tunes

The Background Art of Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes cartoons are known for iconic characters like Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, and Foghorn Leghorn. The animators who created these characters and their voices often are mentioned, but the artists who created the background images are rarely mentioned. The Gaze gives credit where credit is due with this video essay focused on artist Maurice Noble.

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60 FPS Flipbook Animations

60 FPS Flipbook Animations

A typical flipbook animation displays its images at roughly 12 frames per second. Andymation wanted to know if he could smooth out the steps in his flipbooks by filling extra frames with AI interpolation software. Will the additional frames improve the look of his animations or make them just look incredibly weird?

The Nightmare: A Bike Survival Race

The Nightmare: A Bike Survival Race

In this intense animation by MIKAN, a group of bicyclists find themselves in a race for survival. Which of the 25 colorful riders will make it to the end, and which will perish in some nightmarish fashion? It’s kind of like Squid Game but on bikes. Craving more bike survival action? MIKAN has got you covered.

Berthold Gone Wild

Berthold Gone Wild

This wildly imaginative short film from Panic takes us on a tour of the creative studio’s methodology, using animation to guide our way. The story is driven by a goofy character named Berthold, who learns about the meetings, scripting, storyboarding, illustration, sound design, and editing processes that went into bring his own story to life.

Tenacious D: Video Games

Tenacious D: Video Games

(PG-13) Jack Black never plays video games anymore… except for all of them. That’s what we gleaned from this Tenacious D track and its animated music video by Oneyplays’  Chris “Oney” O’Neill and Adam Paloian. By the end, you’ll be rooting for Kyle Gass to exact his revenge. And here we thought they were friends til the end.

Genndy Tartakovsky Answers Animation Questions

Genndy Tartakovsky Answers Animation Questions

Director and animator Genndy Tartakovsky is known for his work on shows like Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Primal. While promoting Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the beloved creator sat down with WIRED to answer questions posted by fans about animation, cartooning, and the production process.

Your Houseplants Are Screaming

Your Houseplants Are Screaming

(Gore) This darkly comedic horror film drops us into an insane world where a plant monster grows human houseplants. Filmmakers Benjamin Roberds and Katie Gregg of Dominar Films flip the script on the relationship between living organisms in this award-winning and unhinged short.

Wanted: Animator vs. Animation VI – Ep 1

Wanted: Animator vs. Animation VI – Ep 1

Alan Becker continues his long-running Animator vs. Animation series with this action-packed short. It follows a super-powerful character on a thrilling journey to outsmart their adversaries and escape their digital confines. It’s like The Matrix and an Avengers movie but with stick figures.

Critterz: An AI Animated Nature Short

Critterz: An AI Animated Nature Short

Chad Nelson and Native Foreign’s animated short film is a hilarious parody of nature documentaries. As the narrator visits an unexplored forest, its residents have a thing or two to say about the invasion of privacy and being stereotyped. Its creators used DALL-E AI tech to make all of the creatures and environments.

Five Cents: An Animated Short Film

Five Cents: An Animated Short Film

(Flashing images) After making his first small purchase, a man finds himself pulled into a cycle of spending that quickly gets out of control. Animator Aaron Hughes’ award-winning short film is a witty and effective commentary on consumerism, appropriately drawn on market data pages from financial newspapers.

Fired on Mars (Trailer)

Fired on Mars (Trailer)

Luke Wilson stars in this original animated series about a graphic designer who moves all the way to Mars only to find out his job has been eliminated. Based on Nate Sherman and Nick Vokey’s award-winning short film, it’s a story of corporate bureaucracy and one man’s journey to rediscover himself. Coming to Max 4.20.23.

Dog of Wisdom II

Dog of Wisdom II

It’s been eight years since we heard the all-knowing words of the Dog of Wisdom. Our favorite animated wiener dog is back, and he’s on a mission to fetch us a fresh new batch of wisdom. Perhaps this time, the true meaning of life will be revealed. Or at least a good punchline.

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