Awesome Animation

The fansite StarCraft Legacy teamed up with animator Chris “Freespace” Ciocotisan to make this impressive CGI short film about the events shortly before and after Brood War.

From the creators of Coraline comes ParaNorman, about a boy who uses his ability to speak with the dead to defend his town from the undead. We’re not sure yet if he can speak with them as well.

An animated version of Iain McGilchrist’s lecture on the brain – how the popular left- and right- brain dichotomy is misinformed and why he thinks the US is living in a left-brained society today.

Animation and math geeks will love this clip from Peter Peake, featuring the smartest dinosaur we’ve ever met. With his trig and long-division skills, we’re surprised he couldn’t avoid extinction.

Celebrating 25 years of Pixar, Amid Amidi and John Lasseter compile over 300 pages of Pixar’s color scripts and inspirational art behind the revered digital animation studio.

Max Winston’s I Live in the Woods! is a richly animated, terribly twisted tale of a woodsman’s journey, driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with the man upstairs. (Thanks Matt!)

Megatron, Mixmaster and Soundwave take on Epic Meal Time as only a roomful of Decepticons could. They’re makin’ the ultimate Energon Cube with plenty of silicon chips, tire strips and Jack Dagnels.

Andrew Ruttan turned Andrew Kolb’s illustrated book of Bowie’s Space Oddity into an animated short, proving that Kolb’s book is bound to make children cry and not want to be an astronaut.

(NSFW) The music video for Fantasy by DyE. Animation director Jérémie Périn and his crew are French, but their product is undoubtedly Japanese. In the best and worst ways possible.

Illustrator Mr Whaite envisions classic movies as animated neon images, capturing the essence of the original film with bold, glowing lines. We only wish they were actual neon signs.

You don’t have to be a fan of Gears of War to enjoy this wonderfully-made LEGO stop motion short by Kooberz Studios. Captures the grisly battles of the game without being too gory.

Cast out by his village, the lonesome Fisher finds himself thrown into an unexpected, life-changing journey after a storm carries him to sea. Think Castaway, but animated, and no bony Tom Hanks.

A villainous driver deliberately rams into a deer, but this is one roadkill that won’t go down without a fight. An intense interpretation of the violence in a car crash by The Animation Workshop.

In anticipation of the upcoming movie, animator James Curran created what he hopes the opening credits might look like, cleverly incorporating elements from each of the 24 Tintin books.

An exploration of the word “bout” by the talented Malcolm Sutherland. Alternately funny and creepy and will have you hypnotized from start to finish. We’ll have to watch this again when we’re drunk.

The TV spot for the FOX Retro channel in Italy. PUNGA studio cleverly tied up classic 70s and 80s shows like Charlie’s Angels and The A-Team with the games and graphics from the same era.

Two men enter, one man, um, leaves. At least that’s how a duel is supposed to work, right? Not exactly how this mano a mano gunfight goes down, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be bloodshed.

Two hamsters go for a wild chase across the globe in this entertaining CGI short-film from animators Jacob Frey and Harry Fast. Be sure to stick around through the credits for the punchline.

If you love the asdfmovie series, then you’ll probably enjoy this animated music video from the same warped mind of TomSka. In case you haven’t figured it out, it’s about a boy who… likes trains.

Not content with getting beat up by anime characters, Yung Lee is back for more (pretend) pain. This time around he duked it out with Western and video game characters at the FanExpo 2011.

Two Ninjas battle to the death in this awesomely tight bit of stop-motion animation by Olivier Trudeau. It’s short, but sweet, and ends with style (and a splash of blood).

Composer Matteo Negrin’s music soars thanks to the animated visual accompaniment that Alice Ninni, Luca Cattaneo and Alberto Filippini provided for his “Lacrime Di Giulietta.”

This cool stop-motion film by animator Sarah Wickens was made using rays of reflected sunlight as the primary medium. We’ve never seen light grow fingernails before, though.