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This gory, action-packed comic aims to explain the origins of evil. We don’t know much yet, but it has something to do with an ex-con who discovers he’s descended from angels. All we know is the art looks amazing.

SIGGRAPH 2013’s Computer Animation Festival honors some of the best CGI in recent years, from indies like R’ha to big budget stunners like the one in Cyberpunk 2077. List of videos here. The song is Disintegration by Monarchy.

A bird with aviophobia does everything he can to avoid the trip South for the winter. A brilliant short film created by Conor Finnegan using live-action puppetry – and not one bit of stop motion. (Thanks Kenny!)

A hilarious parody of classic Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel. But instead of being idealistic, we’re schooled in how today’s world really works, and the future today’s young people can look forward to.

In How to Train Your Dragon 2, Hiccup and Toothless have become explorers. But one of their discoveries threatens to tear apart dragons and men once again. And none of that is in the teaser. It’s still fun to watch though.

YouTuber Sqorck presents an eerie parody of Pixar’s iconic animated logo concocted by fellow Redditors. They should just run with it and make a feature-length parody, such as A Bugged Life, Finding Edward and uhm, Monsters.

(NSFW) 1A4 Studio replicants replicates Ridley Scott’s cult classic the only way it knows how: fast and funny. Amidst the chaotic yet accurate retelling, they even manage to come up with a plausible extended ending.

Despite being done in the style of classic arcade fighters, this battle between the internet’s best friend and man’s best friend is surprisingly accurate. Plus, whether you’re a cat lover or a dog lover, there’s a satisfying ending for you.

Natasha Allegri’s hilarious online animated series. Bee and PuppyCat is about a slacker who stumbles upon a half-cat, half-dog. It seems like it just wants to be a quirky .gif factory at times, but overall it’s a riot.

(NSFW) We love to call out and make fun of rude people, but you don’t have to look far to find despicable behavior. Even good people become jerks from time to time; let Collegehumor explain in color and rhyme.

Disney Shorts keeps the hits coming with another amusing retro-style cartoon featuring Mickey, Minnie, and an elusive hot dog that leads Mickey on a chase through New York City. Betty White guest voices in this episode.

Ever wanted to float in space like an astronaut? It turns out that it’s less like floating, and more like a free-fall in orbit around the Earth. Watch and learn in this short TedEd lesson from Matt J. Carlson, animated by Josh Harris.

The latest from the folks who brought us ParaNorman and Coraline tells the tale of the Boxtrolls, lovable monsters who live beneath Cheesebridge and steal children and cheese under cover of night. (Thanks Anthony!)

Breaths from the band members of Travis bring a projected animation to life in this entirely appropriate video for Moving, the second single off of their upcoming album Where You Stand. The album drops 8/19/13.

Flint and his friends return to his home town to try and stop his food-creating machine from the first movie, which is now turning food into living creatures – and subsequently causing them to exhaust all the food-related puns in the world.

Another retro-infused original Disney Animated Short features Mickey Mouse courting Minnie with his yodeling. Unfortunately, they live right in an avalanche zone. We’re thrilled to see Disney revisit its classic cartoon roots again.

After dropping his beloved flower pot, a man becomes paralyzed by his fear that he too will fall. A moving stop-motion animated short film by Joseph Wallace that reminds us to face our fears and not let them stop us from living.

Staying home this Friday night? Why not unwind and zone out with this adorably weird animation. It’s the music video for Mitchiri-Neko Marching Band, a song from the popular Japanese comics Mitchiri-Neko.

There’s a lot of enveloping geometry to fall into in Eoin Duffy’s On Departure; the animated short is a very personal narrative centered around the loss of his younger brother, Emmet. Best watched full-screen with headphones on.

Paul B. Cummings & Eriq Wities of Friends in Faux captured 1600 still images and assembled them into an clever “interactive” stop-motion animation on the screen of their smartphone. See how they did it here. (Thanks Nathan!)

(NSFW) The music video for Do I Wanna Know?, the latest single from British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. The surreal line-drawing animation matches the roller coaster ride that is unrequited love.

Disney’s upcoming Frozen is based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale which involves a young girl on an mission to find her sister, whose icy powers have trapped their kingdom in eternal winter. (Thanks Ferdi!)

(NSFW: Language) Ryu has some moves that take a ridiculously long time to build up, but ADHD’s very special “ultra” move requires more patience than the average game player has. What’s the button sequence for this one?