Awesome Animation

The kids of Bob’s Burgers rock out to Sleater-Kinney in the official music video for A New Wave, from their blast from the past new album No Cities to Love. A rare sighting of Tina feeling things. And not staring at butts.

“Don’t you dare let me go.” A couple are celebrating in their new airship when pirates attack them. Denver Jackson’s brilliant animated short is set in a vivid Chinese steampunk world, but faith and love ultimately take center stage.

Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow sees a child taken to the far future by her older self, “covering everything from the perils of discount time travel to the benefits of programming robots to fear death”, says The Film Experience. Out 3/31/15.

(NSFW: Language) YouTuber Commandoflauge’s new series of funny Grand Theft Auto V machinima. Here he imagines the mundane and not so glamorous aspects of being a superhero, or of living in a world where superheroes exist.

“An empty spacecraft. A paranoid vacuum cleaner robot. Some strange invaders. Jeremy Clapin’s animated short film serves as the music video for Hundred Waters‘ dreamlike track Innocent, and also is a great little science fiction story.

To continue their journey, two explorers tirelessly repair the only bridge over a vast chasm. Le Gouffre (The Chasm) is a simple story, but that such a polished animated film could come from just a three person team is mind-blowing.

Because it’s in synchronous rotation with our planet, the Moon always faces Earth on one side, aka the near side. But thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA was able to map the far side of the Moon.

Sola Digital Arts’ unofficial animated short film is set in an alternate universe of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but what unfolds will be familiar to fans of the series. Eva Unit Null is being tested when – surprise! – it runs amok.

Formic is a CGI/live-action short animated by Roman Kaelin and Florian Wittman which gives us an ants-eye view on the universe, as the tiny insect does its best to survive the dangers of a typical day at a skatepark.

Victor Jardel’s wonderfully animated music video for Senbeï’s genre-defying track Rain features three strange but endearing characters who leave the forest and explore Paris during a downpour.

This silly website web page by Sheepfilms does just one thing, and does it well, serving up a hypnotic, endless stream of digital pizza. Damn we’re so hungry now. And just a little dizzy. (GIF via Metafilter)

Alphonse Swinehart illustrates the sheer enormity of our Solar System by showing in real time how long it takes for light to reach from the Sun to Jupiter, even though it travels at 186,287 miles per second. Aaaaand 43 minutes later…

Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon created this awesome pixelated version of the opening of The Simpsons. While we’ve played several Simpsons video games, this is the one we want to play most – especially that level at the end.

This short animation by WeAreSeventeen pokes fun at an all too common sight, people walking blindly through life staring at their smartphones. We’ve certainly been guilty of this, but sometimes we need to rejoin the real world.

A computer animated simulation of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. It will be the world’s most powerful operational rocket, able to lift the equivalent of a fully-loaded Boeing 737 into orbit. It will also support reusable booster rockets.

Conan wanted to have an episode of his late night show animated in Minecraft, but Mojang shot the idea down. So that’s not happening. You might as well close the video when you get to the 1:06 mark because there’s nothing to see here.

“Take a trip to the Photon Zoo” with Darren Pearson’s impressive collection of light paintings. Lightspeed is the sequel to Darren’s 2014 video Light Goes On. The song is Clouds by Dead Horse Beats.

Carlos Andre Stevens’ animated short film about a young man who inherits his father’s mysterious invention looks incredible, with stunning visuals and brilliant voice work. We can’t wait to see it when it hits the festival circuit this May.

Sterling Archer was supposed to drop by Conan O’Brien’s show. But as usual he brazenly screws things up and ropes Conan in to his troubles, and of course by the end somehow everything is Conan’s fault.

The music video for Dawn Richard’s hypnotic electro-R&B track Tide: the Paradox Effect. Despite its simple premise – a female warrior marching through a fiery interstellar backdrop – We Were Monkeys‘ visuals are truly spectacular.

Animation studio Simpals has a recurring character called Dji. He’s an angel of death who often bungles on the job. Here he gets distracted while waiting for a shipwrecked pirate to pass away. Check out his other misadventures here.

A lone astronaut is conducting research on another planet when he encounters a group of space ducks. Planètes Après Planètes (Planets After Planets) is a charming short film by animation student Titouan Bordeau.

A cab driver wakes up in a car wreck with the city in ruins. Before he has time to figure out what happened, zombies appear. Isolated is an intriguing and realistic computer animated short. We hope they finish the story.