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Catch Up: a simple, nifty short by Beijing animator, Mi Li.
A homicidal fry hunts for tasty gore.
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Surface Detail by subBlue: a hypnotic fractal surface does its writhing, hypnotic thing for your eye-candification.
You might want to lie down for a bit after this.
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One Rat Short: a very slick animation that tells the tale of a rat on a quest for a bag of Cheezy Pouffs.
From Charlex, the New York design studio that made the recent Gabriel Byrne-narrated Audi promo.
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Meet Buck: directed and produced by Laurent Monneron, Yann de Preval, Vincent E Soussa and Denis Bouyer.
Buck’s girlfriend is very happy to see him. She’s always happy to see him, despite how he looks. Her dad, on the other hand, is prejudiced.
Previously (and made by the same team, so if you liked that, you’ll love this): Monday Toon: Salesman Pete
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This is a real treat if you’ve never seen it.
Bottle – an award-winning stop-motion animation by Kirsten Lepore featuring a wordless, transoceanic conversation.
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The debut episode of Dick Figures from Mondo Media (they of Happy Tree Friends and Candy Hole): created by Ed Skudder, who wrote, directed and voiced with Zack Keller.
Blue’s been dumped. Red’s been mysteriously auto-tuned. Now watch on.
[NSFW: frequent f-bombing.]
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The Sandwich Movie – an animation from writer and director Sean Christensen – tells the story of a very important sandwich his sister made him on the occasion of his first overseas trip.
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Logorama, directed by the French animation collective H5: François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain. It won the 2010 Oscar for best animated short.
If you’ve never seen it before, and harbour any kind of ill-will toward Ronald McDonald, you’re in for a treat.
[YouTube version for the Flashless]
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An amazing stop-motion papercraft animation made by Andersen M Studios for the New Zealand Book Council.
Whether it’s pure cut-and-fold or a combination of Photoshop and CGI is all in the eye of the beholder.
Either way, it is somewhat booktastic.
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Salesman Pete, directed by Anthony Vivien, Marc Bouyer, and Max Loubaresse, all of whom dropped out of the French animation school Supinfocom to make this film.
Shrewd move, kids.