Awesome Animation

A short film by Samuel Blain about strange recurring dreams, in which the individuals reporting on their experiences have their heads replaced with physical manifestations of their bad dreams. Now we’re gonna have weird dreams.

What do you get when a North Korean force meets a Russian object? Shirtless gods. In his latest adventure, playboy detective Kim Jong Un collides with asteroid puncher Vladimir Putin. Miraculously, the world didn’t end.

Bobo is the loneliest monster in the forest – until an ambitious hunter decides to throw him a surprise party in hopes of capturing another trophy head for his wall. Unfortunately, things don’t quite go the way the hunter intended.

Humans accept the idea that we’ll grow old and die. But some animals are resistant or immune to aging, so perhaps growing old isn’t so natural after all. Learn more in this primer by Joao Pedro de Magalhaes and PHD Comics.

(NSFW: Language) 1A4 Studio speedily recaps James Cameron’s sci-fi classic. This is perhaps the studio’s most digestible and understandable Speedrun yet, although it’s still filled with action and irreverent humor.

Another music video for a song released half a century ago. Featuring old footage of The Beatles mixed with animated graphics. A promo for the Fab Four’s On Air: Live on BBC Vol. 2. You can also get both sets in one bundle.

What starts out as a cinematic drama turns out to be a silly piece of metafiction and an amusing animation within an animation. Disruption is YouTuber FineLeatherJackets’ entry for the 2013 Saxxy Awards.

An artist meets a robot and ends up finding a solution from an unsolvable puzzle. This wonderful animated poem by Isabela Dos Santos explores how we sometimes confuse our identity with our arbitrary goals and purposes in life.

When you hear the phrase “fluid dynamics simulation,” you’re probably think about how they make water look so real in CGI movies and games. But in Yusuke Endoh’s case, we get an 80×24 computer terminal, spewing out ASCII.

wow. so animation. much soundtrack. Weebl’s Stuff takes a page out of Nyan Cat’s book, creating an infections little video featuring the Internet’s favorite shibe doge. Nope, it still makes no sense, but we love it anyway.

The latest trailer for Laika’s upcoming feature The Boxtrolls, we get an inside look at the incredible precision and artistry that goes into the production of their beautifully handmade stop-motion animated films.

A hungry llama sees a very juicy bush in the middle of the desert, but there’s an electric fence in the way. Caminandes is a series made by the folks behind the free 3D animation program Blender. Watch the first episode here.

Created in a visual style that reminds us of LittleBigPlanet, this animated short tells the story of a little king who tries the control the almighty Sun. Co-directed by Anton Brand, Guillaume Klein, Charlotte Quillet and Raphaël Théolade.

(NSFW: Language) Collegehumor continues to poke fun– er, glorify the very best leader of North Korea. Will Kim Jong Un’s Pokémon expertise help save his nation? Not that it needs saving. North Korea’s doing just fine.

For its latest couch gag, The Simpsons’ animators envisioned what each character on the show might look and sound like if transformed into their musical equivalent. It’s sort of like Peter and the Wolf, FOX style.

We love warm chocolate chip cookies. But have you ever taken time out to understand what’s going on inside your oven while they’re baking? TED-Ed schools us on the science behind cookies. We’re setting our ovens to 356° from now on.

Fans of the Portal games will love this music video – not just for its beats, but for its clever animation and addition of a gameplay mechanic we could have used on at least a few occasions – a penguin with a pick axe – and an AK-47.

If The Hunger Games were The Hunger Video Games, we hope it would look and play like this. We only wish that it had a train level with a drunk Woody Harrelson and a TV studio with Stanley Tucci in a powdered wig.

Have some CDs lying around? Don’t just use them as coasters! Revamping a classic form of animation, frames were printed onto 189 discs to produce a very cool and appropriate effect for the video of Life is Music by Japanese band SOUR.

Animation Domination brings us the touching story of “the unsung heroes of video games”: Barrel and Box. It’s a very short story, much like the tale of the goomba. But we can’t help it if they’re made to be digital piñatas.

A musical number from Disney’s animated flick Frozen, in which a snowman named Olaf longs for summertime fun. A catchy, Broadway-quality tune by Kristen Anderson-Lopez (In Transit) and Robert Lopez (The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q).

Screen Junkies imagines what a new Superman cartoon would be like if Zack Snyder and the brains behind the Man of Steel movie handled it as well. It could use a bit more nonsense, but the essence is already there.

A beautifully animated holiday advert for UK retailer John Lewis – a tale of the unlikely friendship between a bear and a rabbit (and their desire for fancy gifts.) The best part is Lily Allen’s cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know.