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An amusing one-shot advertisement for Old Spice. Hilarity aside it does have some pretty smooth transitions between scenes.

If you’ve been following this blog, or even the internet lately you’ll have heard of “Bad Apple”, but this stop motion version of it, with the frames individually carved into apples sets a whole new standard. Enjoy!

A mesmerizing short animation that follows the first person view of a boy who jumps across the world, by Osamu Tezuka of Astro Boy fame. The short won the Grand Prize at the 1984 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.

For some reason it feels rare now to see animation that has a comic-like hand-drawn feel to it. Made by Patrick Smith of Blend Films.

Another one of his shorts with some surreal segments in it. The hands are a bit too large, but still nice nevertheless. I wonder if he had the music especially made for his animations or just ripped from somewhere.

A short teaser for Cartoon Saloon‘s upcoming feature, the same studio responsible for Oscar nominated Secret of Kells. Certainly something not to be missed for fans of animation.

The guy who made this, Tim Smit, a Dutch physics student, released this short movie called “What’s in the Box?”, which is a POV, Cloverfield-inspired short. The motion tracking is really impressive and I and I like the HUD designs, but the story doesn’t really seem that impressive to me and the atmosphere of the effects and environment seem to clash (that’s what you get for shooting in your Dutch hometown). The amazing thing is this though:

It seems like some Hollywood studios called him up asking how he had done the video and were amazed at that. I’m not really sure if he got job offers. Even though this is not likely to happen to most of us, even if we made cool shit, it seems that it does and can happen if you’re able to generate some good hype around it.

A very impressive short of animation designed to be a logo for Richard Williams’ “The Animator’s Survival Kit”.

Quite the visual treat, with a stunning combination of both 2D and 3D animation. From Passion Pictures Studio, Directed by Pete Candeland of Gorillaz music video fame.

Short-movie by Robert Valley (2003). Not sure about the music but it sounds like a Massive Attack song.

Robert Valley is an american artist who worked on Aeon FLux (direction), Dark Fury (story-boarding), but he’s the main animator on Gorillaz music videos.

A great artist.

Often it’s the most simple message in its most basic form that reaches an audience effectively. This is just one of the many videos created by the group who go under the name “Common Craft”, be sure to check out their other videos too!