Awesome Animation

A fun disco track from Finnish electronic duo TJH87. Directed and animated by Kalle Kotila, the music video features 87 actual album covers. Name 5 covers that appeared consecutively and you could win a prize from the band.

Believe it or not, this is not a teaser for a new Dante’s Inferno game, nor is there one incoming. Dante’s Redemption is a fan-made short film made by Naughty Dog animator Tal Peleg, based on scenes and sounds from the video game.

The queen stumbles upon her husband checking out pawnography. Animation studio Rubber House will have you snickering at chess pieces. This is one of three shorts that it made for Adult Swim; check out the rest here.

A quirky animated short by Joel MacKenzie in which a lumberjack must battle a deadly mutant wasp whose threatens his home and his friends. It’s as awesome as it is enigmatic. The excellent music track is Yelling in Sleep by Rich Aucoin.

Two undertakers go through hell as they try to finish their job and deliver a coffin to its final resting place. Smith & Foulkes‘ Oscar-nominated short film is a visual treat and an irreverent slapstick romp.

With an animation style reminiscent of Little Big Planet, and producer Guillermo del Toro behind the project, we’re looking forward to this family-friendly Romeo and Juliet story, directed by illustrator and animator Jorge Gutierrez.

How It Should Have Ended points out the plot holes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Arnim Zola’s uselessness isn’t mentioned, but Black Widow’s secret and the Avengers-sized elephant in the room are more than enough.

CineFix envisions what David Fincher’s dark and disturbing thriller Se7en might have been like if it were a Super Nintendo point-and-click adventure game. We would totally play this. Though in our version, the box would contain a 1up mushroom.

(NSFW: Language) 1A4STUDIO is back with a speedrun of Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster, JAWS. And to think, without this film, Sharknado and Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda probably would never have been made. (Thanks April!)

Oscar-nominated stop-motion filmmaker PES is raising funds for his next short film. Submarine Sandwich will feature old sports equipment as delicatessen. Pledge rewards include HD copies of his cooking short films, t-shirts and toys.

Rob Lowe plays a philandering detective in the animated series Moonbeam City. The show parodies ’80s cop shows with the synth and neon turned up to 11. Also stars Will Forte, Elizabeth Banks and Kate Mara. Think Archer ’80s style.

Mexico’s largest cemetery Panteón de Dolores came alive with illusions and morbid yet silly imagery. Llamarada used projection mapping on the cemetery’s trees, tombstones and crosses. Part of the Ciudad Intervenida project.

A champion kickboxer looks to defend his belt against the Galactic Empire’s trusty starfighter in Robot Chicken’s “rock solid homonym joke.” We bet the badass Thai biker has more of a fighting chance.

(NSFW: Language) FoxADHD visits Winnie the Pooh and his pals in a parallel universe, where Eeyore’s doppelgänger is even more of a sad sack than he was in the Disney cartoons. And yes, Depressed Donkey the Honest Trailers guy.

A romantic and lighthearted animated film by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon follows the misadventures of the world’s unluckiest man and the world’s luckiest woman, whose paths collide to bring them together.

SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Plankton and the whole gang must leave Bikini Bottom and enter the real world to save their home from destruction. Think Who Framed Roger Rabbit but with sea creatures (and a squirrel in a spacesuit).

Mikey Please follows up The Eagleman Stag with another metafictional stop-motion short. Marilyn Myller calls attention to the perverted catharsis that we’ve come to prefer over tedious tasks such as examination and reflection.

Graphic designer and animator Guy Trefler’s graduation project. His thesis was that nothing is original, so he made this video using images he found on Google Images. If Andy Warhol and Terry Gilliam had a child, it would be Trefler.

It makes absolutely no sense that you’d remake the trailer for the 1987 classic Lethal Weapon using ice cream in place of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, but somehow this silly animation by toy designers Attaboy and Aaron Tomkins works.

Like Laurin Döpfner, Simon Gerbaud became obsessed with destroying objects neatly, exposing their insides and cross-sections bit by bit until all that’s left is dust, only to play the footage back to make the objects whole.

Film critic Tony Zhou looks at the editing style of the late Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Millennium Actress). His obsession with our multiple realities – social circles, memories, the Internet – led to his disorientating cuts and transitions.

Leona, Ahri, Graves, Rengar and Jax go up against Darius, Draven, Zyra, Katarina and Nautilus in this trailer for League of Legends. Imagine what it would be like if there was actually something to announce about the game.

Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There is an adaptation of Joan Robinson’s eponymous novel. Suffering from the death of her parents, a young girl’s spirit is lifted up when she meets Marnie. But all isn’t well with her new friend.