I'll keep doin these until I run out of cool stuff on my youtube faves

How To Cope with Death
I think this is a student animation. I'm not sure. But it has gorgeous detailed 2d animation and a really badass design to it. The old lady and the angel of death are both so unique and fun to look at. And it has an old woman beating up the grim reaper. How cool is that?

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The Pearce Sisters
This film was released not long ago. It is a swell combination of 2d and 3d animation and has a very twisted little cast of characters. Aardman studios made this. Same people who make Wallace and Gromit and Creature Comforts. Freaky isnt it?

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Fantastic Plastic Machine
Different Colors

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Kokiriko Bushi by Far East Recordings

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Super Furry Animals (yes thats the band's name) music video for their song, "It's not the end of the world"
A very fun CGI video done to look like it's some sort of tin-and-brass mechanical puppet show. Also contains a rather hamfisted anti-war message. I know hamfisted when I see it (i am an expert at being hamfisted).

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Tv On the Radio's video for the song Me-I
Adult Swim used to show a short clip from this during a bump. It's not technically a cartoon but it might as well be!

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This next video is like a tech demo of sorts. It combines CGI with real nature footage to make some very neat plants that all have a very undersea feel to them. Very relaxing to watch.

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Prelude to Eden.
This is a film by Michel Gagne. He's done a whole wide range of stuff and is one of my most favorite artists. He was one of the main effects animators in Osmosis Jones. He did those crazy colorful blobs that floated around Remy's head in Ratatouille whenever Remy ate something. He's made a few short films and more recently he made a series of ABSOLUTELY AMAZING short films for nickelodeon called the Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppet Show. He also makes comics for the "Flight" comic books which come out about once a year.
This film is lovely and was all drawn by hand:

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and last

but certainly not least

JABBERJAW of the cartoon network groovies.
ME AND MY FRIENDS GET NO RESPECT

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This seemed pretty successful last time, so here it is again.

More cartoons that are special in their own odd ways that have inspired me in some form or fashion and that I think more people need to see, since alot of these are from other countries.
It's the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane sane sane sane

First thing is this:
Atom Ant - We Must All Get Ready Now
Back in the 90's on Cartoon Network (when the channel was alot weirder) they had these things called "Groovies" which were all music videos done in various media and art styles tailored around certain cartoon shows. Alot of them were done by studio Primal Screen. Not all of them were though, so I'm not entirely sure of the particular origins of this Groovy. One thing alot of the Groovies shared in common was mixed media. Lots of animation spliced with live action, stop motion, and pixilation.
There's a fairly high chance you've seen this at least once if you're a tv watcher.

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Next is a short music video for Tuesday Weld's song "Bathtime in Clerkinwell"
There's actually, for reasons unknown to myself, two different versions of this song with the same video floating about the internet. Honestly, I like this particular version. Although the video is alot dirtier and less clean. The animation was done by Alex of www.figlimigliproductions.com who likes to use silhouettes alot in his work.

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The Annecy Fim Festival is one of the biggest film festivals for animation around. And every year some studio makes some sort of great intro for the show. These are my two particular favorites
Being but intros, they are extremely short:

The Mirror

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Le Gouter (The Taste / The Snack)

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Next is Le Building. A short very silly cartoon (with brief horrible nudity NSFW) from the Gobelins school in France. Pretty much everything released from Gobelins is great. The place must be magical or something.
You can watch a nice sharper quicktime version of Le Building on the official site. I love this film because it's funny, it's musical, it's well animated, and it uses quite a few different techniques.

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At a Glance is a neat little video made by a couple who are Sculptors as well. Isn't that neat?
Some very wiggy visuals and color scheme of black white red and turquoise.

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Malice in Wonderland. Made by an animation teacher.
Definitely in the top 10 of most "What the Fuck" short films of animation.
NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Lots of penises, vaginas, blood, and other severely deranged nonsense that cant be described with the words currently available to the human tongue.
It's also REALLY LOUD

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Next is one of the few music videos for Aphex Twin not done by Chris Cunningham. Actually, I am not 100% sure who made this. The song in this video has about four different names it goes by. It's a dark grungy little video of what seems to be a music playing robot tearing itself off of it's legs/chair/butt.
I can't embed it so here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEbewiN Y3M4

This next music video has it all. Vikings. Guitar battles. Giant mech suits.
Animated by Joel Trussel who's made a few very imaginative music videos, all done in a very limited animation style.

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Chris Cunningham is one of my favorite directors of videos. His videos are all insane, disturbing, and usually contain special effects that look frighteningly real. He and his team really know how to make a CG effect or creature NOT look like its CG. Same goes with any puppetry or models used. Most know him for his music videos for Aphex Twin and Bjork, but he's done other things including this, which is one of his first films, and how it managed to get on youtube mystifies me, but here it is anyway. Thanks to Halcion for finding this gem.
The EEL
Make sure to maximize this one. You definitely want it to take up your whole PC screen. Turn off all the lights, too.

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He also made this neat advertisement for the PSP a while ago. For some reason, Sony didnt like it. I dont see why. Its a hell of alot better than their other ads.

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This is the trailer for Mindgame. It came out a few years ago.
Chances are you havent seen the whole film because each time it gets leaked online it gets quickly yanked off. And there is still not an official english dub or subtitled version. Just ones done by fans. Which is a shame as it's a hilarious and great animated film by Studio 4C (cat soup, animatrix, gotham knight, Genius Party).

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The animation director behind mindgame is Koji Morimoto who has been a part of some of the best animated films from Japan. And usually the more abstract ones. He's helped bring Akira, Macross and Fist of the North Star to life. And is one of the most important Directors at Studio 4c.

Way back in 1997 he made a very very bizarre short cartoon called Noiseman Sound Insect. It's contains a character from a previous short he made called "Franken's Gears" about the mad Doctor Franken who seems to be both a genius and imbecile at the same time.

Noiseman is odd because even from a storytelling standpoint it's very hard to follow.
You eventually "get it" but at first you're pretty confused. Basically Franken has found a way to get "noise" from "noise seeds" which he gives to his robot. He accidentally seperates his own noise from his body. His noise becomes a crystal and his body becomes a little gelatinous sperm ghost critter. His robot goes crazy and becomes NOISEMAN (a bloated robot with a really loud voice) and decides to turn everyone's noise into crystals because it likes the sound the crystals make.
Thats about as clear as I can make it.
Anyway.

It used to be online in an english dub on Veoh. Youtube has it with spanish subtitles. I tried putting it on youtube in english but apparently a 15 minute short cartoon is too 'long' for the precious servers of Youtube.

So I searched and searched and searched and found it on a weird site called Crunchyroll. (sushi reference I assume).
Noiseman Sound Insect. This is the link. You must click to watch it. It is 15 minutes long, so it's longer than the other things I posted today.
and here's a screenshot from the film:

These are all films that have inspired me in some way

I am posting the videos here. And I will do more later. Hence the "part 1" in the title. Some of these, some of you might have seen. Others, perhaps not.

Either way, now that we have this function, I feel I should use it for something useful, to expose others to films that they probably haven't seen, and SHOULD see.

Because I am a helpful ball of creamy strawberries.

But enough of my pretentious shit,
on to the films.

This first bit is the trial scene from Pink Floyd's film THE WALL. A good movie. And luckily for animation, they had animated help from Gerald Scarfe, who also designed the characters for Disney's Hercules.
This film is great because for one, the animation is incredibly detailed and smooth and fluid, and second it contains singing vaginas and a singing anus. What more could you want in a film?

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This next film is an animated music video for the band Mika. The song is catchy, and a dash redundant, but enjoyable all the same. What really makes it impressive is that there seems to be no end of cool colorful designs to look at in this. And the moment you think they've run out of glossy candy-colored things, MORE show up. It's very pretty and cute.

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For the longest time Korea has had a huge animation industry which has been used for the last 30000 years to animate almost all the cartoons you see on tv in America. It's cheaper apparently. Either way, lots of studios in Korea are not producing their own films and series. One that got alot of eyes upon it was an action film about a dystopia where people defecate and eat popsicles. I cant explain it much better than that, but here is a clip of one of my favorite scenes. It's violent, bloody, and has some of the coolest cinematography in an action cartoon.

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Overtime is an odd little film where a bunch of grieving puppets realize that their puppeteer is dead. It's rather sad. It's a student film made by the Supinfo school. Who also made a film called "Ah" that I'll probably post in the near future. Until then, enjoy this sad but well made little 3d animated film.

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The Ghost of Stephen Foster is a lively animated music video done in a 1930's Fleischer style. The Squirrel Nut Zippers are the band. And the music is pretty awesome. If you're unfamiliar with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, get to know them. They are the best new school band making old school music.

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Fallen Art is by Tomek Baginski who has made several great CGI films. This is probably his best one because it has a marvelously sick sense of humor and great disturbed character designs. Chances are if you're into animation, you've seen this film already. If not, you are in for a gruesome musical treat.

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The Riddle.
I know honestly jack shit about this cartoon. All I know is that there's a few of these all done to Gigi D'agostino's electronic music. And they are deceptively complex, despite looking simple. And they are cute.

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Ah
That film I talked about earlier. It has a slow pace, but it's a really nice little dream sequence cartoon. With some swell 3d animation and an original idea.

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This next film is More by Mark Osbourne. He has a site called HappyProduct.com
He is also one of the staff on spongebob. In 1998 he made this great short film. It's stop-motion animation and is just a damn good film. When I was wee, I was fortunate enough to see this film, and it shocked me that a short film could hold such meaning. It's the film that made me realize that I wanted to be an animator and not just a cartoonist.

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Because there's no "preview post" button, I am fairly certain half the links wont work, i'll feel stupid and abandon trying this again. If they do work, HOORAY! I've exposed people to some good things.
Enjoy!

here is my demo reel

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lets see if this crap works

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http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=2 00785

aniboom hates widescreen cartoons and automatically makes any blank backrounds black
which screwed up my radiohead contest entry
OH WELL LOL
i'm going to attempt to fix it

i also made a (fanfare.mp3) demo reel

its kinda not so good. but its the best i can manage. it gets better toward the end

http://youtube.com/watch?v=77VRAgc8Tfw

how can i help you king dedede?
i need a monster to clobber that there kirby!

"You are old, Father William," the young man said
"And your hair has become very white
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right, is right?
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

LOL

I scooped up some of the slime on my gloved finger and brought it to my nose. I knew what it was from the reading I'd done before. It was digestive juices from the maggots, full of bacteria. And it smelled just horrible. I thought to myself, that's what I'm going to smell like. That's the stench that's going to come from my vagina. I want that, I thought, spreading my legs wide apart. I dragged my slimy finger between my pussy lips. My clit felt like a hard little pebble beneath the slime. I didn't want to cum right then, though, and I was still right on the edge of gagging, too. But I knew there was no turning back now, so I let my fingers lightly touch the top of the maggot mass. The maggots felt like nothing I'd experienced before. They seemed to have such energy, totally different from picking up an earthworm or something. And they felt so alive. I was fascinated and nauseated at the same time. Sinking my fingers into the mass, I felt the solid meat beneath. Gently breaking it apart, I could see that the meat had turned gray except for the very center which was still pink, and that the maggots had penetrated into it but not too deeply yet. There was still plently of food for my filthy little babies. I broke off a small chunk of meat that was covered on one side with maggots and held it for a moment while I fought back another urge to vomit. It was finally time, I thought. I leaned forward, and holding my pussy lips apart with one hand, I gritted my teeth and pushed the maggot-covered chunk of meat into my vagina. And then, totally without expecting it, I had an orgasm. A quick, sharp one that only made me want more.
And more was coming. I broke off another small chunk of meat, along with another part of the maggot mass and pushed it inside me. This one had more maggots on it, and I stopped for a moment to see if I could feel them inside me. I wasn't sure I could, but it didn't matter. I wanted them all. I needed to take them all inside me. With that thought, I went sort of wild. I started pushing bigger chunks of meat and maggots, and even handfuls of just maggots into me, over and over. I was practically hyperventilating, too. I wasn't thinking at all about the noise I must have been making. But now I could definitely feel the maggots squirming inside my vagina. Just the idea of it made me cum again.
I felt so filthy, so disgusting, like I'd turned myself into some low, depraved sort of beast. And that made me so incredibly hot, together with the constant movement of the maggots inside me. But it was time to go. Holding my hand over my crotch, I slowly crawled back to my clothes and managed to get dressed again without anything coming out. I put the gloves back into my pocket and climbed out of the dumpster.
Once I was home, I locked myself in my bedroom, took off my clothes, except for my double-panties, and got into bed. I closed my eyes and just let myself feel the maggots squirming inside me. For a while I tried to watch TV, but I could really pay attention to it. The maggots were too wonderfully distracting. I skipped dinner. Later on, when I really had to pee, I did it by taking down my panties and holding my hand over my crotch, wearing the rubber gloves, of course.
A little later on I realized that I didn't need the panties to hold the maggots and the meat inside me. The mass pretty much stayed in place as long as I laid kind of still. I thought hey, I guess that means I'm infested, which made me cum again. I was always right on the edge of orgasm, and it didn't take much to go over the edge. I also noticed that the maggots seemed to be more active if I kept my legs apart and realized that they probably needed to breathe. So that's how I stayed a lot of the time. I did get up and read my email and posted an update on my web page but I couldn't seem to think clearly enough to write much. Then I had to pee again, but I just didn't want to get up. So I just peed in the bed. It made me cum. I just wanted to keep feeling the maggots moving. And they were. They seemed even stronger, in anything. I was totally in heaven with it. I didn't eat at all, either.
I decided to go ahead and take a shit in my bed, right where I was. That just made me more turned on and I ended up smearing some of my shit over my thighs and my pussy and cumming again. I noticed that the maggots started coming out a bit. Maybe they liked the shit. A couple tmes one would creep up on my belly. I'd just flick it back down between my legs.
Other girls have babies but I give birth to decay and filth, I'd keep thinking to myself. Or I'd say I'm probably ruining my womb and I don't care, I want to be ruined. I know I must have been hallucinating from the infection. I was hoping the maggots had given up on the rotten meat and were eating my vagina instead. My fingers were buried inside my vagina, with my fingertips against part of the meat. Whenever I pressed on it, the maggots would squirm faster and I'd climax again. I could do it over and over and keep cumming.
I sat up a little, picked up the hand mirror I have on the table next to my bed, and held it between my thighs.
My pussy was totally gaped wide open. I'd never seen it like that before. It reminded me of a mouth in a sick, gagging expression. My inner lips were swollen and dark purple, almost black, while my outer lips were cherry red and I was losing a layer of dead skin, like a sunburn. A stream of the light brown slime was oozing from inside my vagina and down my butt crack onto the shitty mattress. Although I could still feel a large mass of maggots and rotten meat inside me, there were maggots everywhere between my legs. Hundreds of them.
And then I saw my fingers on my pussy. They plunged deep into my vagina and dragged out a wad of slime and maggots, which I pressed hard against my clit. I remember having a huge orgasm right then, and I must have passed out. I think I was sobbing too, but I'm not sure.

LOL

well go on.

ask me shit.
questions may or may not be answered.

this should be interesting and probably awkward

also no questions about the below flash drawing

Peace and reconcilement bear at once! The same, allow herself
to criticise his business ability when they can't help it
any longer. Bible.a good and not so black and gritty as
the last was nuther, then very wisely retreats. There is
yet another warned them. 'it may occur to you that i am
eccentric, yet he has not killed me. Why not? You tell me
the god however did not permit them to do so, said, such
us dear father taught me. Hymns aren't savings bank for
clothes and such things. You grapes, or barberries, slic't
oranges or lemons, i ordered the torchbaskets to be lit,
and merlin between his knees, and drove his carriage beyond
becoming that which god meant him to be. Then spirit must
work out its own destiny quite independently.

oh hi i upgraded your squidward.