Awesome Animation

A stop-motion animation by PES, Black Gold was commissioned to promote an Italian jewelry line that features insects. The short has taken a life of it’s own though due to the animator’s expert execution and surreal visuals.

(NSFW: Language, Crude Humor) Comedy Central UK lists 10 of the best worst? moments from South Park’s rotund anti-hero. We can’t believe they missed Come Sail Away though. Respect our authoriteye and watch it anyhow.

If Bruce Wayne lived in the same universe as Skynet, you know he’d outlast us all. Obviously he’d try to take on the evil A.I. as well. That’s exactly the premise of this concept animated short film by Mitchell Hammond.

CGI Chuck Norris trumped JCVD’s real world epic split. YouTuber Linh Mai is here to even the score. The next time you look at the calm, peaceful and star-filled night sky, you won’t be able to stop yourself from chuckling.

This amazingly animated short film by Olof Storm follows the daily routine of a supernatural being called Vesper, who also happens to be The Evening Star (aka Venus). We think he should make a whole series of these for each planet.

A mashup of Super Mario Bros. and Seinfeld by animator EsquireBob. The casting of Toad as George Costanza is priceless. If relationship Toad walks through this door, he will kill independent Toad. A Toad divided against itself cannot stand!

(NSFW: Language) Welcome to the party, pal. The latest speedrun from 1A4studio sums up one of the greatest popcorn flicks of all time. We only wish they included the scene where Argyle smashes his limo into Theo’s truck.

Motion designer Amrit Pal Singh made this animated timeline showing some of the notable cellular phones in the past 40 years, from Motorola’s monstrous 1.8lb brick to the light and powerful smartphones we have today.

The award-winning visual effects studio Framestore gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work they did for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. Watch and you’ll wonder why the movie isn’t classified as as animated film.

(NSFW: Language) Rodrigo Huerta aka El-Cid and Hans Van Harken made this hilarious and polished mashup of Spongebob Squarepants and the Watchmen movie. Patrick Star as The Comedian is freakin’ genius.

Smooth surfaces. Perfect shapes. Palette swaps. Movable light source. Exploded objects. Green screens. Glitches. Copy. Paste. Edit. Synthesized. Created. Alan Warburton’s Spherical Harmonics is a surreal exhibition of the nature of CGI.

Created by Universal Everything, Walking City is an exploration of the design patterns of architecture as they gradually evolve. But rather than a building, the subject is a walking structure. Inspired by the 1960s works of Archigram.

The music video for Kong, a single from Close to the Glass, the upcoming album by German rock band The Notwist. The band is known for hopping across genres, and this time around it seems like they’re going for a bright pop sound.

OBEY THE BEARD. YouTuber nonamesleft used Source Filmmaker to make a short music video for Obey the Beard by the comical heavy metal band Psychostick. Screw portable chargers, let’s all just grow beards.

(NSFW) An underground street racing league filled with badass vehicles turns ugly (and a bit weird). The animated music video for RipTide’s In the Middle of the Nite was made by Stefan Glerum and Crooked Line. Buy prints of the stills here.

A normal day in the life of Louis XIV and his nobles in 17th century France. Except they’re  chickens. A la Française (“in the style of the French”) is a hilarious animated short made by former Supinfocom students.

A short video uploaded by Chris Jones. Let’s just say the eye doesn’t belong to him and leave it at that. Saying any more will render the video useless. Watch and you’ll see what we did there.

(SPOILERS) Gravity is a fairly short movie, but if you just want to know enough for water cooler talk, watch Leigh Lahav’s entry for the Jameson Empire Done in 60 Seconds Awards. You’re bound to have a long chat.

(Crude humor) A hilarious short about the Russian version of Excalibur: the world’s funkiest dance shoes. Spacebound Penguin dubbed the music video for SLC’s Love The Way You Move with Prodigy’s Voodoo People (Pendulum Mix).

(NSFW: Language) They’re the modern stone age family! Er, maybe not so much if you applied the realistic boundaries of science and anthropology to Fred and all his prehistoric pals. All we can say is thank goodness for evolution.

(Flashing lights) James Gillman aka The Hamster Alliance presents a brief history of video games and video game graphics through squares, blocks and cubes. See if you can name all of the games he referenced.

Watch out Flappy Bird. Independent game developer Coffee Stain Studios presents the next big thing in gaming. Or not. They were just fooling around with “programming stuff” and decided to make this video.

(Gore) This short film by animators Ruud Coenen, Luc Thijssen, Frank van Vugt and Stein Louisse tells the tale of three people as they vie for a mysterious box. We love the edgy, cel-shaded look, though it leaves us wanting even more.