What are your favorite animated shorts???

Stop motion, claymation, pencil & paper, Warner Brothers, Adult Swim, music videos (White stripes, paranoid android, etc), whatever you got..

Pixar & CGI are fine for this too, but this is more about the real deal, from real animators.

Youtube links are fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8il_LC--Y

Two amazing ones off the top of my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-9Cj_9CQMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYCRquSUKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZN9S7a5xk&feature=channel

I had a feeling Rejected would be an immediate response.

Pixar & CGI are fine for this too, but this is more about the real deal, from real animators.

That's some A++++ challops right there, kudos.

I had a couple of VHS tapes a friend dubbed me from the Intl. Tournee of Animation that had some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen in my life. I just did some quick searching and it looks like very little of it is available on youtube.

xpost -- "Jumping" was on one of the tapes -- awesome!

My favorites were two claymation pieces by a Czech guy, can't remember the animator or the titles.

Much love here for Wallace and Grommit.

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Amazing+Horse/

My favorites were two claymation pieces by a Czech guy, can't remember the animator or the titles.

― WmC, Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:25 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

Svankmajer? I'm just guessing.

As a child I saw an incredibly eerie and kind of depressing Eastern European or French animated film that was black and white and involved bird-headed men and women and some kind of maze or labyrinth. It was really melancholy and surreal and spooked the hell out of me (I was young) and I would love to track it down. I think it was part of those "Festival of Animation" feature length collections of animated shorts that used to do the rounds- it looked like it was from the late 70s or early 80s. Any guesses?

(similar in tone to "Planete Sauvage", but darker and more bummed out)

It wasn't Svankmajer -- he might have been Polish, now that I think of it. One was about a guy making chicken soup, and the other one was somebody trying to feed their baby.

I also rather enjoy the Polish animated short (Worker and Parasite was it?) showed by Krusty the Clown when The Gabbo Show wrecked his ratings and Itchy and Scratchy had to be replaced with something cheaper.

WmC- Maybe Jan Lenica? "Labyrint" or "Dom"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ

Pixar & CGI are fine for this too, but this is more about the real deal, from real animators.

That's some A++++ challops right there, kudos.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:23 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

I said they were fine to include.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nviaWnxwo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM

Brad Neely!!!

James Whitney represent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWwlZSXaR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrKgyY5aDvA&feature=fvw

Harry Smith's shorter stuff is nice too. I like Heaven & Earth Magic but these are in color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYJ51nSXRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJAoJVp8cU&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZxw1Jb9vA&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNh12zaFtxo&feature=related

WmC- Maybe Jan Lenica? "Labyrint" or "Dom"?

Not Lenica either. After a lot of googling, I finally found a name. Not Czech or Polish, but Hungarian — Csaba Varga. The two films are "Az Ebéd" ("Making Lunch," near as I can figure) and "Auguszta etet" ("Augusta Feeds Her Child"). They're stop motion animations of clay plus real food, and they are pants-wettingly funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aFxk0aUuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJv2Mugm2RI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncSlPGnuOss

Only seven animals suffered injury during the making of this video.

Only two animals were killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHhAamRjOE

No possible way this could be more emo. But I love it so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMfDbm7nFo

http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Clothing/Swimsuit/Shorts.gif

Oh you.

xpost I think the theme is a belabored, honestly, and could be better summed up in one elegant sentence. But then you wouldn't get to listen to that cool New Order track.

what's that pilot for a children's show about superpowered dog and kid fighting a wizard paper-rad style?

did it ever get picked up?

I love these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-a8ELOVig4

Now I have to digitize this videocassette with the Tournee of Animation stuff on it. It's too good to let crumble.

found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNVYWJOEy9A

Does anyone remember this rad 70s(?) vintage stop frame animation that was all done with sand? I would love to see it again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTcStBUW2Ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bse5iere8no&feature=related

seen when i was a kid: depressing and surreal russian black and white animation about a guy who is obsessed with feeding eggs to his gigantic pet pig. anybody know what i'm talking about?

i seem to recall it being linked a while back on aeon flux board but there's no way for me to find it again ...

Fallen Art (2004) dir. Tomek Baginski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HMz1WKkso

Run Wrake (2005) dir. Run Wrake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g40KpZa4hSI

Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) dir. Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7icAFa8fdLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yymdkfDVm-E

And lest I forget, a masterpiece of the computer animation school final project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2wViKSh_M

Harpya by Raoul Servais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYiS6lmc_H0

Cafe Bar by Alison De Vere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ecHNoC8T4o

This thread will get me through a long day at work tomorrow! I'll add to it with The Cameraman's Revenge by Ladislaw Starewicz :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI

Wow, been looking for these forever - David Anderson's "Dead Time Stories For Big Folk"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOGTI4IuO24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skl-c2PMmOI

found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJShIyNwEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMDb2v2iBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vErJFmUF7DM

Good news, Nunez, Adventure Time did get picked up for a series.

I've been building a playlist of animated shorts off and on for a couple of years. A few highlights...

'Hugh' -- animated campfire story based on an Apache myth about a time when the sky was too low. Made by students at ESMA, in France. The narration reminds me of City of Lost Children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwYY6wPzxo

'Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson': Russian animation (2006). Super-deadpan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HULUEK0PkbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2emcWHVULE

2 "superflat" animated music videos done by Groovisions for Halfby:

'Rodeo Machine'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lMsnj4AT78

'Screw The Plan'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtX_ezx6VKw

'Flat Life': Hand-drawn over 2 years by student animator Jonas Geirnaert. Won Best Short Film at Cannes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l64Y6wWCBvk

'Tyger' by Guilherme Marcondes of Brazil, based on the William Blake poem, blends puppetry, illustration, photography and CGI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LsMoUtBlDk

Someone mentioned Jan Svankmayer. Here's 'Darkness, Light, Darkness'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIE9Fty1cRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjSjJHnXKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po2d_cy1OBo

http://www.waveonesports.com/cart/images/P/CrazyRainbows%20Trees%20Flowers350.jpg

KJB I beat ya to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b86pYRjEo

Looks like Ryan Larkin's "Syrinx" was taken down from youtube.

Does anyone remember this rad 70s(?) vintage stop frame animation that was all done with sand? I would love to see it again...

― Nate Carson

You mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckr7QcPFaok

Or something else by Ishu Patel maybe?

Also, National Film Board of Canada to thread

xpost - hey thanks for sharing but that's not it. The one I'm thinking of was stop motion 3-d sand characters that would crumble and reassemble. It was so cool and used to run on PBS a lot when I was kid. Haven't seen it since though...

It was this! (Apparently it won and Academy Award too--which explains why it ran so much at that time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuS7mBf0_n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-f2bV47Nuk

I've been looking at this thread for a week now, and I just noticed that jjjusten posted the same movie as I did, like four posts before it. Way to pay attention there, self.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r_g6tzcubU&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6CvI8qK40

Ferdinand the Bull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-vsKwQ0Cg&feature=related

Love the Whitney stuff upthread. Great thread!

Saw this at the big screen when I was 9 or 10. Changed my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_absmacAGyg

Flipping through channels and caught that Adventure Time with Finn and Jake show - laughed my ass off! I guess since it's a kids show it's flying under the radar, but it's so goofy - almost wish it was also being run on adult swim.

Loving Adventure Time right now.

I've really become a die hard fan. So entertaining.

Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin is one of the best in a long time. I saw it in an Oscar shorts programme a couple of years back as a 'special mention' or something and was amazed it didn't receive a nomination. It's droll, somewhat bleak, and showcases the medium beautifully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxoO3F6N81U

Last week I went along to Ladymation at Onedotzero, where there were a couple of really good films - one paper animation, for which I can find nothing online (maybe Czech) about a boy named Villiam who did nothing but draw, and a Bafta winner showing a day in the life of a midwife, which was heartfelt and refreshingly lacking in sentimentality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbx3ECKvt60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbx3ECKvt60

There is a Bob Godfrey channel on YouTube which has received shockingly few plays. Here's Henry 9 to 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3UZPxsOdM

Has anyone seen David O'Reilly's new one, The External World? It won and Venice and Ottawa and people seem to be reacting well.

my girlfriend painted all the clouds for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oykNIuQLcoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWsiyKfeZs