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Sometimes the funniest pieces of animation are also the shortest. This (slightly NSFW) short by indie animator Signe Baumane packs a real …

Duct tape + empty wall + 24 hours = Interesting animation experiment. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)

I saw a lot of films that I enjoyed last week at the SVA student animation show. One of my favorites was Rob Bohn’s Orderly Confusion, a …

This Variety article explains how 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Broadcasting Co. are launching Fox Inkubator, a new inititative designed to …

Former Disney 2D animators James Baker (Mulan, Tarzan, etc) and Joe Haidar (Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas) have directed a new …

I’ve linked to Vince Collins’s animation before, but I hadn’t run across this hallucinogenic 1982 piece of animation he made called …

Recently I became curious to find out what is the most viewed original piece of animation on YouTube. The answer turned out to be a bit …

PerfectLand is an oddly appealing series of Flash-animated shorts created for MTV by Ben Meinhardt. I’ve embedded the first one below and …

Michael Jantze, former art director at ILM and former newspaper cartoonist (The Norm), has started animating cute little films in flash …

It’s been over a year since we’ve mentioned the innovative video experiments of Oliver Laric, but his latest project, (>’.’)>=O____l_*__O=

This one’s a must-see! Orgesticulanismus by Mathieu Labaye of Camera Etc. starts out slow but quickly turns into one of the most …

The Animation Show has announced the film line-up for their fourth annual tour, and the most exciting piece being offered, in my opinion, …

In terms of animation, the short is barely more than a glorified animatic, yet Graham Annable’s The Hidden People is incredibly fun (and …

Tron’s light-cycle chase recreated in cardboard, with stop-motion and pixilation techniques – no CG! (Thanks Mark Mayerson)

They say animation warps impressionable minds. Here is a piece of propaganda that was created to scare people from becoming Mormon, …

A 1965 Oscar-nominated experimental short written, directed and starring Muppets creator Jim Henson. The film is live-action with brief …

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

Badmash a new Indian animation studio with bases in Pune, India and Berkeley, California is promoting itself with a political parody site …

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

I just finished reading the new Maurice Noble biography Stepping Into The Picture by Robert McKinnon and am working up a review of it. In …