Awesome Animation

A small, yet irritating event spawns a worldwide epidemic of rageface, and literally demonstrates the butterfly effect. Simply, yet cleverly animated by Guy Collins.

Illustrator and animator Tim Hijlkema made 20 planets using the iconic graphic and character elements from famous videogames. Can you name them all? No, Super Mario Galaxy isn’t one of them.

An illustrated summary of Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and The Sea by Hagen Reiling. Shot and converted to stop motion by Marcel Schindler. The song is Sail by AWOLNATION.

A group of colorful beings bring an equally colorful city to life with their mind in this eye-popping animated short film by Argentinian design and motion graphics studio 2veinte.

Your eggs are missing and the pigs have them stashed away. Who do you call in? Don’t count on George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Mr. T and that other guy to show up – call on The Angry Team.

A young man experiences afterlife in the Old West, still haunted by memories of his lover. An animated visual feast directed by Mike Roberts, based on the music of Canadian indie rock band The Sadies.

Cribble put the envelopes given to him by his university’s career department to send out resumes in to good use as the background for this imaginative and often nonsensical short animation.

Return to Pepperland with the Blu-ray release of The Beatles’ classic animated film. The trippy film was restored in 4K digital resolution by hand, frame by frame, by Triage Motion Picture Services.

Vimeo user La Pompadour runs down the English alphabet with names of pop culture monsters. Try and guess all 26 of them. Protip: La Pompadour is quite loose with its definition of “monster.”

A LEGO version of the The Dark Knight Rises trailer, by Paranick Films, Jedimastersoda and Adviceversa. Is it just us, or is Bane more comprehensible as a minifig than as a human?

The hypnotic video for Cerulean, one of the tracks from Unpatterns, the upcoming LP from English electro-duo James Ford and Jas Shaw aka Simian Mobile Disco. The album drops May 14.

Adam Sandler plays Dracula in this animated flick about a hotel for monsters from director Genndy Tartakovsky, the brains behind Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, and The Powerpuff Girls.

Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer created this digital sculpture by capturing the movements and sounds of a dancer using three Kinects, then rendering them into abstract volumetric 3D forms.

If you can refrain from blinking for eight and a half minutes, we highly suggest you do so when you watch RUIN, Wes Ball’s animated short. It’s thin on narrative but heavy on action and eye candy.

The Legend of Korra is about Korra of the Southern Water Tribe, the next Avatar after Aang. She will strive to master the four elements while living in a society that favors technology over bending.

Buck channeled its inner gonzo to make this ad for Goodbooks International. Whether they captured Hunter S. Thompson’s aura is debatable, but the quality of their animation cannot be questioned.

North Korea has a new Great Leader, but we know next to nothing about him. Luckily we have this informative video made by none other than Kim Jong Un. Or not. We bet he’d approve of it though.

Superman already beat the Hulk in DC vs. Marvel, but there’s nothing like seeing a battle unfold in video. Plus Michael Habjan’s Superman looks better than the ’96 Supes. First video here.

Arachnophobes look away! Cyriak fills our screens (and worst nightmares) with an endless barrage of animated spiders crafted from circuit boards, human heads, and other stuff. Get the Raid!

The latest trailer for ParaNorman introduces us to Norman’s family, friends and otherworldly neighbors. Looks like we’ll have our fill of adorable animated horror movies this year.

An animated original movie, the plot centers on Vandal Savage stealing Justice League dossiers compiled by Batman, then using the documents to learn each of their Achilles’ heels. Rent it here.

Tomás Vergara, a self-taught 3d artist, left his full time job to produce The Chase, an entertaining, animated tale of a hitman job gone wrong; it took $700 and 6 months to make. (Thanks Navid!)

The music video for Love Is Making Its Way Back Home, a track from Josh Ritter’s new EP Bringing in the Darlings. The video was made by Prominent Figures using photographs of 12,000 paper cutouts.