Awesome Animation

(NSFW: Language) While Clerks: The Animated Series is long gone, Jay and Silent Bob live on in cartoon form, doing double duty as superheroes Bluntman and Chronic. (Thanks Adam!)

A bear determined to keep his house clean faces an uphill battle against nature. A sweet and simple animated short made by Hellen Dallat for her graduation from University of Wales, Newport.

The trailer for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. The machine that Flint (Bill Hader) invented is no longer making food rain down. It’s turning the food that’s already rained down into living creatures.

(NSFW) It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko never intended Spidey to be realistic. Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) shows us just how right that decision was.

Combining live-action shots with animated characters, Overcast is a short and sweet tale about a man who can’t live a normal life because of a rain cloud that’s loves to hang out above his head.

An award-winning CGI film by Grzegorz Jonkajtys about an alien tasked with cataloging species around the universe, and his brief stop here on planet Earth to scoop up a human for his collection.

A collaborative animation of Shane Koyczan’s emotionally heartwrenching poem about the lasting impact of bullying and rising up against its negative consequences. Learn more about the project here.

Chase scenes involving predators and prey are usually tense and gruesome. Rollin’ Safari doesn’t have those kind of scenes. Made by students from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Carrots are not good in your eyes, turns out some puppies carry knives and the deadly mine turtle returns in the latest edition of TomSka and company’s hyperactive animated series.

An unexpected nominee for the 2012 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, Maggie Simpson stars about her encounter with a caterpillar at the infamous Ayn Rand School for Tots. Watch before FOX yanks it.

Dan Ojari’s award-winning stop-motion animation about Derek, an office worker who has difficulty keeping up with the 1070mph speed of the Earth’s rotation beneath his feet.

Animator Evan Seitz’s latest clip features moving titles from 26 classic films, each represented by a sound-bite and the first letter in their title. See if you can guess ’em all. More here.

2D animation studio Powerhouse Creative promotes their “pure, organic, Z-axis free” specialty with a tongue-in-cheek commercial portraying 3D graphics as the enemy. Way to spin the flat scene.

(Gore) Yippee ki yay Mother Russia! Claymation master Lee Hardcastle hypes up John McClane’s latest misadventure A Good Day to Die Hard with a recap of the vigilante’s explosive résumé.

The full trailer for Monsters University shows the first meeting of Sully and Mike, but their friendship starts off on the wrong foot as they become rivals and find themselves in all sorts of trouble.

(NSFW: Language) This video by 1A4 Studio should get at least 1.21 million views. It’s a summary of Back to the Future that will be understood only by people who’ve already seen the movie.

Do you want to know what the world will be like in the future? Alex Goddard knows. Or at least, we hope his silly animated poem is prophetic. Hover Time! Best watched with headphones on.

While we won’t have to wait too long to see Man of Steel, those who prefer graphic novels will want to check out this May 7 digital release based on the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank classic Superman: Brainiac.

Not only does Jason Forrest’s 2005 electronic-jazz-rock opus make our eardrums buzz with glee, Joel Trussell’s imaginative animation is the perfect accompaniment to the track. (Thanks Barry!)

The trailer for the U.S. release of Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill, a movie about young romance blooming in 1960s post-war Japan. It was the top grossing film in Japan in 2011.

A clever stop-motion short made by animation students from the Communication University of China. It would’ve scored a 10 in our books if not for its stereotypical (and unnecessary) plot.

(NSFW) If you like RPGs, you’ll love this short. Two strangers embark on an epic adventure in search of… The Reward. An awesome animated short made by students at Denmark’s The Animation Workshop.

An “everlasting chain of convulsing memories.” Such is the music video for Shugo Tokumaru’s song Katachi. Kijek/Adamski made the jaw-dropping stop-motion using about 2,000 pieces of PVC plates.