British filmmakers Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas directed and produced the documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, an animated film that attempts to shed light on the esteemed comedian by showing pivotal, previously unseen moments in Hicks’ life — hence the animation. Conducting over 100 hours of new in-depth interviews with Bill’s close family and […]

This is a genius short film directed by French animation collective H5. The animation on Logorama is superb, and the attention to detail is hilarious— a gay Mr. Clean, lecherous Pringles guys and a deranged, bloodthirsty Ronald McDonald all enter the fray (love the Slurm cameo and Leica rifle scope, too). No wonder Logorama was […]

Available on the Where the Wild Things Are Blu-Ray and DVD — which comes out today  — is a special feature, a completely unreleased 23-minute adaptation of another of Wild Things author Maurice Sendak’s books, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Starring the voices of Meryl Streep and Forrest Whitaker, the short was directed by Maciek Szczerbowski and […]

You’ve undoubtedly seen the work of Al Jarnow, although you just might not know it. His wild geometric animations and sometimes psychedelic short films have been seen by tens of millions via seminal children’s shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company, and if you take a peek at the video below I’m sure the […]

Apparently there’s a new genre of film burgeoning: animated horror movies. The business model actually makes sense, as the filmmakers only have to animate a compelling trailer and then find the proper funds to actualize the movie. Given the steadily decreasing costs of animation, and the steadily increasing costs of live productions, these films seem […]

We’ve all been here, hell we all probably reside here. Johnny Kelly’s graduation film for animation at the uber-prestigious Royal College of Art in London, Procrastination, is a great essay on all the things we do to avoid getting things done…but I think, in the end, we do get a lot of things done while […]

Every once in awhile a video pops up that just does everything right in my world, and such is the Ninjas Unboxing a Nexus One video by Patrick Boivin. Using ninjas, stop-action animation, miniature figures and some nice graphic design elements, this is pretty much all you need to make your day brighter. I love […]

Really dig this stop motion animation from PES called KaBoom!, that uses every day objects in clever ways (I especially dig the eponymous PES clown head tank explosions). If you like it, check out his Making of KaBoom! as well… via BoingBoing