Awesome Animation

(NSFW: Language) “Used to be I’m a “ride or die” chick, B.I.G. with the “Me And My Bitch”, no objections, being an object.” Talib Kweli raps about the objectification of women that’s become par for the course in hip hop. Video by dreambear.

Director Anton Chistiakov’s award-winning short film is about a solitary robot programmed to sell ice cream. He lives a lonely and bleak existence, but finds solace in his unexpectedly vivid imagination. Beautifully animated and poignant.

Screw all the pranks and veiled ads. The best thing to come out of this year’s April Fools’ Day is a new episode of Homestar freakin’ Runner. Go and watch Homestar and Strong Bad work their old schtick like it’s still 2000.

The music video for Cell Song, a track from Let’s Go Extinct, the latest album by indie rock band Fanfarlo. Ewan Jones Morris used images from old science journals, encyclopedias and magazines to make the trippy animation.

My god, it’s full of dots. Geoff Hoskinson’s music video for Kishi Bashi’s upbeat single Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! is populated by people and creatures made of colorful, painterly dots. And thousands of violinists.

(NSFW) A short film about a detective who can see daemons – creatures that plant ideas in our minds. Comic book artist Rafael Grampá worked with Red Knuckles and Absolut’s Facebook fans to create this cool animated short.

(NSFW: Language) The music video for Space Cadet, a track by ambient electronica artist Flume. This version puts a more aggressive edge on the vanilla track, thanks to vocals from Ghostface Killah and Autre Ne Veut.

YouTuber Josh Newman presents Batman and his friends and foes in the smoky and silhouette-heavy style of True Detective’s title sequence. He even anchored characters to the lyrics of Far From Any Road.

Animation Domination HD pokes fun at Pres. Obama’s love for March Madness with this hilarious G.I. Joe skit. Cobra Commander sorts through his picks while attending to his duties. Hey don’t sleep on Harvard Destro.

Good grief! Charles Schulz’s classic cartoon is headed to the big screen, using a unique CGI style that does an impressive job honoring the style of the original characters. Let’s hope the humor and voice acting seal the deal.

(Crude Humor) We’ve all been there – sitting in a public restroom stall only to find there’s no toilet paper left. Cyanide & Happiness shows us what happens when we don’t just politely ask our neighbors to share a square.

An adaptation of Mike Lacher’s legendary tale… about the time he fixed his girlfriend’s grandparent’s Internet connection. Narrated by none other than H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) and animated by Jesse Benjamin.

Infiniti Red Bull Racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo go over the adjustments they made to their Formula One car in response to the 2014 rule changes, which focus on fuel efficiency and safety.

YouTuber MonsieurCaron recreated The Simpsons’ couch gag three times in this stop-motion animation. He mixed and matched pieces and minifigures from the LEGO The Simpsons set and The LEGO Movie sets to create the mashup.

A man tries to correct his half-shaved beard after his electric razor runs out of juice, turning to an unconventional resource to correct the common grooming mishap. An amusing CGI animated short by Florent Rubio and Xin Zhao.

Creation clashes with destruction in this amazing stop-motion video made by Oh Yeah Wow. It serves a music video for Elliot The Bull’s single Colourblind. Whether or not you like the song, the animation is top notch.

A pigeon loses a feather as it escapes from a museum of miniatures. Or not. Ludovic Habas, Mickael Krebs, Florent Rousseau, Yoan Sender and Margaux Vaxelaire made Douce Menace (“Soft Threat”) as their graduation film in 2011.

(NSFW: Language) Patrick walks us through Nomad X while rambling about other stuff. Like why he got punched in the throat. Kristian Andrews’ short film captures a gamers’ psyche without resorting to geek stereotypes.

Like Banksy, John K., and Guillermo before him, animator Sylvain Chomet (The Illusionist, The Triplets of Belleville) was invited to create his own spin on The Simpsons‘ couch gag. We could watch a whole movie of these things.

Yes, we wish they would stop calling these “8-bit” too, but that doesn’t make 16-bit version of David Fincher’s Fight Club, visualized as a side-scroller beat-em-up any less awesome. Bonus points for the penguin level.

“Half-man. Half-undead. All hero.” YouTuber veselekov imagines what a late 80s Dark Souls II cartoon might look like. Protector 101’s Cleaning Up the Streets and Zero Call’s Battle of Young match the campy animation perfectly.

“A robot cow searches for its mother in a slaughter house, while being chased by a killer robot.” That’s the way Rocky Curby describes his animated short film with a nonsensical premise, but still had us glued to our seats the entire time.

Want to know why we tear up? Educator Alex Gendler and TED-Ed’s animators explain not only what makes us cry, but how we have different kinds of tears for different situations. And here we thought that onions just made us sad.