Awesome Animation

(Gore) Learn how to be a man Mann with YouTuber Dunk Movies’ inspiring video, featuring Team Fortress 2’s Red Team performing the song I’ll Make a Man Out of You from Mulan. Who knew the Pyro could sing?

“I would like to confess that I am lonely, with love to offer.” A heartbreaking short film by Steve Baker. Desmondo Ray is a socially inept simpleton who, despite his shortcomings, is still very much aware of the value of love.

The guys from How It Should Have Ended take on this Summer’s best popcorn flick with another alternative movie ending that would have been far more satisfying. They’re so right about that damned sword. Why don’t all Jaegers have one?

A young man lucks out and get a date with a beautiful lady. Unfortunately his brain’s bickering bosses can’t make up their – or his? – mind about how he’ll behave. A silly short by Josiah Haworth, Joon Shik Song and Joon Soo Song.

A breakup plays out as a graceful battle in this wonderfully animated short by Jonathan Ng. Jonathan was inspired by 50s Shanghai water ink animation and Kung Fu films to create this film. You can buy prints of the film on his website.

Have you ever wondered what ice cream trucks do in the winter? They migrate, of course. Watch these magnificent machines of merriment move to warmer climes in this short film created by London’s Trunk Animation.

Chillie the fridge is old and worn out. Will his buddy ditch him for a newer model? A funny and heartwarming animated short by Susan Yung, Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek. Makes us want to see The Brave Little Toaster again.

The latest animated feature from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) is a highly fictionalized – and controversial – biography of engineer Jiro Horikoshi, who designed many of Japan’s WWII fighter planes.

(NSFW: Language) Learn about the ins and outs of YouTube – or not – in this thinly disguised rant by YouTuber JelloApocalypse. If there’s one thing you should remember from his guide, please let it be the D.O.N.T. rule.

Secret agent and pun enthusiast Fox has to save the world from the evil Dr. Hammer and his adorable army of minions sardines. A funny animated short by Yoav Shtibelman, Taylor Clutter and Kendra Phillips.

This massive collector’s edition includes every episode from seasons 1 through 5 of the animated Star Wars classic, a bonus art book and more. Out 10/15/13. Pre-order now for Amazon’s discounted price. (Thanks Adam!)

Brental Floss has one very important piece of advice for gamers. Unless you’re a passionate collector, you should never ever buy a console at launch. To be fair, that snarky Game Boy is a hypocrite. But most of his points still stand.

Prepare to be animated! The Nerdist and Rug Burn envision what Doctor Who might look like if it were an anime. How ever will the Doctor and Amy defeat Davros’ ultimate deadly weapon? Timey-wimey-super-combo! Activate!

ASAP Science explains what happens to human feces after we flush it down. TL;DW: Thank goodness for bacteria and we’re not going to eat vegetable soup or chocolate milk for a while. But also, who poops pebbles?

After hearing that they might fight each other in their upcoming movie, Supes and Bats get into a debate about who would win. The film should just be an extended version of this cartoon. Either that or an extremely short film.

We’d love to think that Pacific Rim’s Jaegers are the future of urban warfare, but it’s more likely that we’ll see something like the remote-controlled tanks shown in this simulation. We at least need these in the next Call of Duty.

Seth Green and his pals, Dan, Justin and Harry have a new biweekly web series which fans of Robot Chicken should truly enjoy. This week’s episode: Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro move in together, and chat about sunglasses.

You’ll have to blow on the cartridge to start the game, but these pixel-perfect stop-motion animations of the first few levels of Donkey Kong by GuizDP are well worth the wait. The whole thing was made from melted Perler beads.

We’ve seen what Super Mario Bros. could look like in first person. Now step into the red shoes of Sonic with Machinima’s first person – first hedgehog? -run through the Green Hill Zone. It’s not as dizzying as we thought it would be.

Two dancing dogs meet their soulmates, but there’s just one problem: they’re balloon animals – and they’re dancing the tango through a cacti-filled desert. An imaginative and wonderfully composed short animated film by Humble.

The music video for Moderat’s Bad Kingdom presents a story of corruption and greed told through a series of illustrations. Moderat is the side project of Modeselektor and Apparat. Video by Pfadfinderei.

(NSFW) As previous episodes have indicated, a scientifically accurate version of anthropomorphic animal characters is always bad news. Combine that with freaky duck facts are and our childhood is really ruined.

If he were still with us, Stanley Kubrick would be 85 this month. Animator and Kubrick fan Shaun Pitz created this short tribute to the visionary director, which expands upon the journey of the mythical monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.