I’m keeping my eye on Planktoon, a Paris based CG animation studio with a very cartoony aesthetic. Here’s their latest, RouDooDou, directed by Sun Michel Limet.

A 1965 Oscar-nominated experimental short written, directed and starring Muppets creator Jim Henson. The film is live-action with brief bits of abstract animation throughout. Read more about it here. (via MetaFilter)

Not exactly animation (though there’s some pixilation), Steve Cloutier’s The Chimney makes terrific use of a cartoon music favorite: Powerhouse by Raymond Scott.

Pssst! Also check out Cloutier’s website devoted to LeRoy Shield.

(Thanks, Leonard Maltin)

A disturbing new creation by Pixeloo who gave us Mario a few days ago…

Badmash a new Indian animation studio with bases in Pune, India and Berkeley, California is promoting itself with a political parody site about legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and his candidacy for “prime minister” of the US. The site is notable for a couple of slickly produced Flash animation pieces—Dishoom 2008, and a parody of a Hillary Clinton campaign ad, It’s 3AM, America.

(Thanks, Kevin Elam)

Simple but thoughtful storytelling in under a minute by Oscar-nominee Alexei Kharitidi. (via Cold Hard Flash)

Tim Hollis sent this in:

Last night, while clearing things out of a glass display case, I found the this plastic bag that someone sent to me probably 20 years ago. I thought you might get a chuckle out of such blatant H-B trademark infringement. All I can say is that it’s a good thing Officer Dibble wasn’t a vegetarian… or a rabbit…

“Yes, he’s a chief, he’s the king, he’s a vegetable thing…”