Awesome Animation

Marky Mark discovers Optimus Prime disguised as a truck in his barn, but instead of being amazed by his discovery, he’s pretty nonplussed by the whole thing. Which reminds us… We’re hungry. Oil sandwich, anyone?

Marty Cooper (aka “Hombre_McSteez”) combined doodles drawn with a Sharpie and Wite-Out on transparencies with live-action backgrounds to create this amusing animated short film. Marty also creates silly still images.

Spoken-word rap and storytelling by Tilawn Burtzloff, a young man who has struggled with homelessness, and how he copes with the harsh world through creativity. A film by Amy Enser & Drew Christie for the American Refugees project.

Inspired by the Marvel comic, Disney Animation’s latest flick follows a young roboticist who ends up in the midst of an evil plot in San Francisco, and forms a team of high tech heroes with his geeky friends and his shapeshifting robot sidekick.

Here’s your feel good video for the week. Two hip cats nod off and explore the universe through an 80s-tinted lens. Written, produced and directed by Ryan Barger and Katie Akana, who seem to have had too much catnip themselves.

Mutsack and Bleacher Report present this hilarious mashup of the NBA and Game of Thrones. It’s a bit outdated and it starts off slow, but you’ll be asking for more by the end.#theSpursarecoming

Nerdo Design Collective made this badass opening sequence for Cielo TV’s coverage of the 2014 MotoGP. Replays would be so awesome if they were augmented with animation. The song is Pump Up the Bass by Enertic & Ju’C.

The music video for Moving On, a single from English rock band James’ new album La Petite Mort. Stop motion filmmaker Ainslie Henderson used nothing but yarn to weave – knit? – a heartbreaking tale.

Walt Disney shows off an incredible invention his studio created in the 1950s – a camera which could capture multiple layers simultaneously to produce impressive background depth, a dramatic advancement in animated filmmaking.

In a black and white world, the few remaining artists and performers share their color with others, even as they risk becoming the target of a mysterious enchantress known only as The Gold Sparrow. YOU MUST WATCH THIS.

The Spy puts on his best Solid Snake impression in The Mystery Zone’s sublime mashup of Team Fortress 2 and the PlayStation classic Metal Gear Solid. They even used low resolution models and graphics.

Animator Walter Volbers imagines what lurks inside the Overlook Hotel’s iconic hallway carpet. The short has a couple of nods for The Shining fans, but it’s still worth watching even if you haven’t seen the movie.

An incredibly lazy interplanetary delivery man unknowingly wreaks havoc on a Liliputian planet and its inhabitants. Johnny Express is a hilarious and wonderfully animated short by Kyungmin Woo of Alfred Imageworks.

A man grows tired of his mundane existence and decides to get away from it all, and a man grows curious and yearns for adventure in this amazing short film by Daniel Britt. That damn ship shouldn’t have left on time.

One of the more amusing recent couch gags from The Simpsons is equal parts hilarious and depressing, as it’s a more accurate reflection of real life for many than we care to admit. We like to think of our lives as a game of Mouse Trap.

Back in the 1930s Walt Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston came up with 12 basic principles to help bring characters to life. Here, their observations are illustrated with a simple geometric shape by Cento Lodigiani.

(Season 4 Spoilers) Animator Leigh Lahav takes on Game of Throne’s upcoming trial of Tyrion Lannister, that’s sure to give him a *cough* fair and just hearing. Will our favorite characters ever get the break they deserve? Probably not.

(NSFW, Gore) Welcome to the future! The post-apocalyptic future, that is. Animation Domination HD imagines what the year 2055 would be like if we keep destroying our environment and each other.

Calarts animation student John Cody Kim created this charming short film about a faithful pembroke welsh corgi left behind when the zombiepocalypse breaks out. Naturally, he’ll never gives up on his master – or his shoe.

How It Should Have Ended and Brotherhood Workshop take on the stop-motion animated LEGO Movie, and the implausible capture of all of those LEGO superheroes towards the end of the flick… as if the rest of the flick was plausible.

Anton leads a lonely and monotonous existence, and decides he can’t take life anymore. But his decision to end it all transforms him into something quite unexpected. Written and directed by Ben Brand.

Daniel Savage’s gloriously animated short film tells the story of a boy who inhales too much helium, and ends up on the adventure of his lifetime. Think UP, but without the house, the dog, the old man, or the tears.

Electronic funk duo George Brower and Jonathan Baken set up an interactive audiovisual stream of their latest album George & Jonathan III that displays every note of the songs as they are played. The album is also out on iTunes.