Animated Short Films We Like - Like the "Other People's Art We Like" thread. Keep it under 30 minutes.

[NoReturn]

I'll start us off with a couple.
Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow

The Reward

The Legend of Pipi

 

[Becky McDonald]

The Old Man and The Sea (1999)

29,000 hand-painted frames, each one a beautiful standalone painting in their own right.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Yeah, yeah, ultra short, commercial as hell, made by a big studio, but don't care. It always makes me laugh and is a nicely self contained story in 3 minutes.

Edit to add: I also really, really like that one xkcd did. It's simple and elegant and really well done, but I'm fucked if I can find it as a video. Everyone's seen it anyway, I guess.

 

[Days of Kinohood]

I remember watching a claymation of 4 people fishing on a platform, and finding a music box, and later fighting over it, till they all die. Can't remember the name and now I'm angry.

 

[NoReturn]

I remember watching a claymation of 4 people fishing on a platform, and finding a music box, and later fighting over it, till they all die. Can't remember the name and now I'm angry.

Was it "Balance"?

 

[MoonState]

 

[maguyver16]

A little stop motion never hurt

 

[Shig O'nella]

Another one - someone here posted it in chat (I think) and I found it charming enough to bookmark:

 

[Regio Consiglio]

I really like this guy's storytelling voicehttps://youtu.be/ifhdsOiyPfw

 

[NoReturn]

I really like this guy's storytelling voicehttps://youtu.be/ifhdsOiyPfw

This one is narrated by Denzel Washington (the animation isn't fabulous, but the pictures are cute, it's basically a video-Kamishibai):

 

[JosephStalin]

My favorite - "Bambi Meets Godzilla".

 

[Orange Tabby]

 

[The Cunting Death]

Harvie Krumpet

Went on to beat Disney and Pixar at the oscars that year.


The guy who made this later went on to create Mary and Max

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Personal favs.

I am also going to cheat a bit and mention both Genius Party films, Neo Tokyo, Robot Carnival and Memories and the Animatrix. These are all antology films made up of several short films each directed by different people, all pretty great.

 

[John Titor]

Found this while randomly looking for fugu references.

 

[maguyver16]

Harvie Krumpet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ClRsCpQfTQWent on to beat Disney and Pixar at the oscars that year.


The guy who made this later went on to create Mary and Max

Anyone in this thread who has not seen Mary and Max, I could not recommend it more.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oolJWcOhHCwFound this while randomly looking for fugu references.

Well, he did want to reach water...

 

[I Do Not Post]

I'm fucking ashamed nobody posted this. You all should be ashamed too.

 

[NoReturn]

Pootis Engage

Neko no Shuukai

I'm fucking ashamed nobody posted this. You all should be ashamed too.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

WE ALL KNEW IT WAS THERE BUT DIDN'T WANNA POST BECAUSE IT'S SAD.

 

[Enola Straight]

I've loved this one for years now.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

My favorite - "Bambi Meets Godzilla".

Yes!