Awesome Animation

A man rides a biomorphic motorcycle in Dylan J. Nathan’s proof-of-concept for his futuristic computer animated short film Extr0py. Either the dude is really small or the bike’s proportions are all wrong. Still pretty cool though.

Bored at your desk? Got a hole punch, a notepad, and plenty of patience? Like artist Scott Blake, you too could create your own flipbook animation using these common office supplies. Too lazy for that? Just buy one that’s already made up.

A sleepy boulder just wants to chill, but the rise of mankind takes him on a transformative adventure. CalArts student Seth Boyden’s graduation short film is a hilarious retelling of the emergence of Western civilization.

Animator Leigh Lahav teamed up with How It Should Have Ended to explore the various stages of anticipation, excitement, disappointment, and fanaticism we go through each time we watch a new Marvel movie – and its post-credits scene.

From Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children) comes The Boy and the Beast, an animated movie about a monster warrior who takes an orphaned boy from Tokyo as his apprentice.

(Gore) A crazy carnivorous bat and a cowardly flying fox become unlikely partners against a swarm of mosquitoes in this wacky and stylish animated short film by Max Maleo and Aurélien Prédal.

A robber executes a complicated heist on what has to be the most profitable convenience store in the world in YouTuber RisingJake’s Grand Theft Auto Online machinima. Seriously lady how much was in that cash register?

(PG-13) The folks behind The Reward want to make a web series based on the world they created. To get your support, they released this equally fantastic prequel short, about a powerful warrior obssessed with fame and fortune.

Student Academy Award finalist Carlos Andre Stevens teased us with a tiny bit of his gorgeous CGI short film, and now we can share the whole thing – a dark fairy tale that deserves every accolade for both its storytelling and visuals.

A girl befriends her eccentric neighbor, who tells her the story of The Little Prince. An animated adaptation of the classic existential tale about adulthood and human nature. Prepare your tear ducts for one hell of a workout.

Director Kosai Sekine uses motion control and trippy VFX to mess with our heads by messing with the head of lead vocalist Yuki, as she warms our ears with her smooth vocals, backed by the ethereal electronic sounds of Animation.

If all you want is B-movie action, just let a kid write the script. Axe Cop brings spider bears, dinosaurs with miniguns and now, a bath time crisis that foreshadows a bigger problem. Airs Thursday nights on FXX. Season 1 here.

Trevor puts on his best Forrest Gump impression in this Grand Theft Auto V machinima. Rockstar Games commissioned 8-Bit Bastard to make the short to show off the video editor included in the PC version of GTA V and GTA Online.

A trailer for Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux, a gorgeous full-length animated film being made by Creapole student Gwenn Germain. The movie is about a man trying to go back home after falling to the forest below his town.

The first episode of Louis du Mont’s short animated series about a tiny spaceman who lands on Earth and must find negotiate our planet to assemble the resources he needs to return home. We look forward to seeing more of his journey.

Similar to Taichi Saotome’s epic sword fight, Auditore Dubai used projection mapping, 3D animation and precise choreography to make a man fight his shadow. A presentation from the Hamdan International Photography Award.

YouTuber Neil Smith used Cinema 4D and the Octane Render plugin to turn the mission patches of NASA’s manned moon missions into 3D animations. You can buy the stills from the video as one large print.

(PG-13: Language) Collegehumor returns with more Game of Thrones dream scenarios, from the three-eyed crow getting straight to the point to Daenerys, well, getting straight to the point. No Reek and Ramsay body swap?

With great power comes…great. Just great. The Bilderbergers parody the Spider-Man cartoon theme song by imagining a superhero subparhero who was bitten by one too many radioactive animals.

Animator David Gruwier borrowed a little processing time on a render farm while interning for a VFX studio to produce this short, but impressive animation which breathes life into an otherwise inanimate object – a toy train set.

Any studio would be proud to have made just one of these hits. Yet CLS Videos reminds us that Pixar produced classic after classic in a ridiculous 15-year run. We hope we haven’t really seen the best of it yet. That last scene is a feels sniper.

Animators Amanda Koh and Mollie Helms weren’t fishing for compliments when they made this amusing short film which illustrates the quirky nature of some of the sillier idioms of the English language by taking them all literally.

The RED Spy heads an infiltration into BLU’s headquarters to steal the latter’s Intelligence (because his team clearly needs some). But he gets more than he bargained for in The Winglet’s amazing Team Fortress 2 machinima.