Awesome Animation

The latest animated short from Bird Box Studio drops us in the middle of a crowded parking lot as a man makes fun of a barking dog left in a car. Yes, we know you should never leave a dog in a parked car, but it’s a cartoon, folks.

Left alone by her guide dog, a blind girl resorts to her other senses and her powerful imagination to make her way around. Out of Sight is a wonderful short film made by graduates from the National Taiwan University of Arts.

(NSFW) Lana. Lana. LAAAANAAAA! It’s Kenny Loggins. The world’s most obnoxious secret agent and the rest of ISIS reenact scenes from the music video of Danger Zone, the ’80s pop rock song popularized by Top Gun.

A short animated film by Job, Joris & Marieke about a world in which nobody has a mouth, but everyone still has the desire to speak, sing, and eat food. Though an accident leads them to learn how to release their pent-up mouth envy.

A short film that only makes sense to recent generations, Vincent Broquaire’s Progressbar is metafiction for the digital age. It shows a man in a tractor filling up his video’s loading bar – though by the time it’s fully-buffered, it’s over.

A DMV officer gets for the ride of his life (and death). Animation Domination reminds us that Batman and his enemies are just different sides of the same coin. The same crazy and overly theatrical coin.

(NSFW) Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your browser. Graphic designer Kim Taylor turns annoying online advertisements into serious fuel for your nightmares in Instant tentacles with this one weird trick!

A hilarious PSA for learning first aid from the Australian Red Cross teaches us exactly what the title says. You can’t put a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. From the same guys who taught just us how dangerous paperclips could be.

Pixar’s Halloween special sees Buzz, Woody and the gang get their Scooby Doo on. The toys go on a road trip but somehow end up in a spooky motel. Then Mr. Potato Head goes missing. Toy Story of Terror! premieres on ABC on 10/16/13.

Keloid isn’t really a short film but a series of loosely connected scenes strung together. It’s filled with bad-ass war machines and creepy living dolls though. A visual feast by VFX studio Big Lazy Robot.

An old couple gets on an amusement park ride that they know all too well. Of course, given that this is a Cyanide & Happiness cartoon you just know it’s not going to end well. The fun is in finding out how it’s not going to end well.

(NSFW: Language) Brad Neely is aliiiive! The webcomic creator and writer is back with a new character called Queeblo, who Neely says “lives a life I once lived.” Which apparently entails coasting through life with burgers and beer.

Director Guillermo del Toro handled the opening bit for The Simpsons’ latest Halloween special. The sequence is filled with fantasy and horror authors and characters, including ones from del Toro’s movies. Can you spot Gipsy Danger?

A brilliant animation by the late, great anime artist Osamu Tezuka in the style of really old cartoons. It’s filled with gags that acknowledge the terribly distressed condition of the film itself. One of Osamu’s 13 Experimental Films.

Come for the animation, stay for the song in the official music video for Massimo Giangrande’s alt-folk Paper Plane, brilliantly animated by Gianluca Maruotti, with paper-cut illustrations by Felicita Sala. Go behind the scenes here.

Natalie is having a bad day. She’s inconsolable now that Breaking Bad is over. Leave it to animator Leigh Lahav to help cheer her up. Funny thing is, we’re crying about the end of Dexter – for totally different reasons.

The music video made by crcr for Delta, a track from French electro hip hop group C2C. Flabbergasted? Pause the video at around 0:41. Still don’t get it? Take a good look at the people and see what they have in common.

Chronic cheater Swoozie is back with another tale about cheating in high school, plus a second story that’ll have you at the edge of your seat. Props to him for coming up with the best definition of studying.

(NSFW: Language) 1A4Studio recaps Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece the only way they know how: fast and funny. They skipped Jules and Vincent’s witty banter, but at least they arranged the scenes chronologically.

We love the silly style of Tumblehead’s short computer animated film – a “miniature spaghetti western” about two brothers: Rob and Ron and their Wile E. Coyote-esque plans for the great piggy bank heist. (Thanks Kenny!)

Troops of paper soldiers use their combined might to take down the dreaded Ginger Cat. Will their bravery and weapons be enough to take down their mortal enemy? A funny short by YouTuber Adam Cox.

A girl pining for her departed mother is taken on a wild adventure. The short film is named after the Mexican holiday where people encourage the souls of the dead to visit the living, often through festivities and recounting happy memories.

Microsoft pimps its upcoming racer for the Xbox One with this awesome commercial in which footage was captured by shooting stills from the game and speeding past them at 120mph with a camera bolted to a McLaren MP4-12C supercar.