Awesome Animation

(PG-13) Gary the stormtrooper takes his daughter to work, Anakin goes to his happy place, Pruneface dreams of having more screen time and more in this look back at the funniest Robot Chicken: Star Wars scenes.

A triangle divides and combines itself into different shapes in time with a waltz. First released in 1966, Notes on a Triangle is one of four films about the basics of geometry by experimental filmmaker René Jodoin.

A schizophrenic comes up with a clever way to contain and eventually shut out her hallucination. But the painfully mundane cycle of adult life loosens her screws. But that’s not all. Nah, we’re just trying to laugh our tears off *closes fridge*.

An alien race treasures one of its planet’s minerals because of its faint glow. But one of them finds a strange object that outshines their precious rock. Maxim Zhestkov worked with artists from around the world for a year-and-a-half to create this short film.

Kurzgesagt explains the basics of black holes: how they form, how they distort time and how they dissipate in the first of a two-part lesson. Bonus points for the calm yet detailed explanation of a brutal death by gravity.

Alan Becker’s sentient stick figures accidentally discover Minecraft. Will the game’s limitless potential free them from their domain, or will it bring about their ruin? Part Minecraft tutorial, part adventure film, this work of art deserves all the awards that it’s inevitably going to get.

From LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls, comes another promising stop-motion movie. Kubo and the Two Strings is about a boy who goes on a quest to retrieve the armor of his father, who was the greatest samurai who ever lived.

“Entertainer entertaining everyone and every mass, enemies is envious ain’t even peep the elbow pass” Hip hop duo Blackalicious remix their classic tune Alphabet Aerobics, replacing the lyrics with sports-related lines.

A variety of single purpose machines repeatedly perform mundane human activities in Molistudio’s music video for Endless. The song is a single from Monsters, the latest album from Argentinian alternative duo Anybody There.

A brief look at the making of the critically acclaimed stop-motion film Anomalisa. The crew made 1,261 faces and 1,000 props for the film. The final cut has 118,089 frames of handmade animation, and ended up taking three years to make.

Adult Swim has once again teamed with creator Genndy Tartakovsky to relaunch the awesome animated series Samurai Jack. The show will return with an all new season in the Toonami block sometime in 2016. Though it’s only a 5-second tease, it gave us a full-on nerdgasm.

Editor Kees van Dijkhuizen jr. pays homage to the films and creativity Pixar, using excerpts from writer/director Andrew Stanton’s wonderful TED Talk and Michael Giacchino’s score from Up as the accompaniment.

(PG-13) A boy yearns for a girl who’s already in a relationship with… a gorilla? CANADA knocked it out of the park with this sexy and surreal music video for Tame Impala’s single. We hope gorilla hand dresses become a thing.

Korean animator Kang SuHyun’s short science fiction film requires no dialogue to tell its story, a haunting tale of a man who looks back on the events leading to the loss of his partner after a long and mentally grueling mission in space.

The stars of The Secret Life of Pets pose for Christmas greeting cards in the movie’s latest teaser. It seems like a typically cute but safe Holiday movie, but that hamster might make you think twice about watching it with your family.

The Dark Side of the Force meets the crazy side of Los Santos as Michael and Trevor duke it out Star Wars-style. Sadly this wasn’t made with a Grand Theft Auto V mod. YouTuber Boris the Blade spent a month and a half with After Effects to add the lightsabers.

Zack “Final Cut” King scribbles down some ideas for his animations, when the ones he discarded decide they’re not quite done with yet, and come back to life to wreck havoc on Zack’s room while he’s away. An fun and well executed short film with clever VFX.

Rather than simply turn Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s childhood classic into a CGI remake, this retelling is wrapped in a sort of Princess Bride / LEGO Movie meta story, providing a context in which to preserve the wonderful style of the original.

(Gore) Captain America fends off the Red Skull and his army of Nazi zombies. And then it gets much worse. YouTuber forrestfire101’s short film is one of the most complex and well-shot LEGO stop-motion animations you’ll ever see.

(PG-13: Language) “We kill our humans in a turkane way.” Animation Domination tries to ruin Thanksgiving by imagining what it would be like for us if the turkeys were our overlords, and we were the ones farmed for meat.

In writer/director Åsa Lucander’s charming animated short, an elderly woman goes to the lost and found office on a quest for her missing items, but can only seem to find others’ possessions and not hers. Along the way, she finds something much more special.

Brett Jubinville and Tinman Creative Studio have posted the first episode of their animated series which envisions a world in which our greatest scientific minds possess superpowers, and must help save the world from evil. It’s proof that Kickstarter can lead to great things.

Quentin Haberham’s charming short animated film follows a funny little fellow guy who finds himself wandering alone in a junkyard, when he realizes what he really needs is not just a replacement part, but a companion to spend his life with.