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As much as ads annoy us if we have to sit through them at moments not of our choosing, when we get to watching beautiful commercials by incredibly creative designers and directors we can’t get enough. Our latest round-up of cool (mostly) new commercials is all about animation (mostly computer animation, but not exclusively), and [...]

The famous clip that featured the debut of Mickey Mouse as we know him, Steamboat Willie, first aired on November 18, 1928, making today Mickey’s 81st birthday. (He appeared in Plane Crazy six months earlier, but that version of the character, considered by many to be more interesting, was scrapped and re-worked for Steamboat.)
He’s now [...]

Though we often feel like we don’t use them enough, we really enjoy animated gifs and appreciate their artistry a great deal. We may start to do it a lot more now that Urlesque has curated a top-notch listicle of 8 Animated Gif Blogs, which is a fairly invaluable resource given how many crappy animated [...]

As a general nutritional rule, we’re always a little suspicious of foods that require a cute animated spokesperson to give them some kind of appeal they can’t achieve by just showing us the food. Gunaxin’s listicle of 25 Famous Animated Food Mascots does a good job of chronicling that very problem, and though we agree [...]

We kind of have a thing for animated music videos, in that we think they combine two of the most pleasurable cultural artifacts of our time: cartoons and pop music. Of course, they don’t always have to be poppy, colorful and optimistic, as you’ll appreciate while perusing the entries in this listicle of 8 Beautiful [...]

Stop motion videos are like the sure-fire way to Internet success these days (note, for instance, the huge success of Sorry I’m Late), and though they haven’t always been all that visually sophisticated. As everyone jumps on the stop-motion bandwagon though, equipped with better cameras and fine-tuned editing systems, is it any wonder that we’ve [...]

It’s no secret that we kind of love and are obsessed with short films and animation, so it should come as no surprise to learn that we scour the Interweb constantly in search of new, spectacular, short and sweet animated films. In today’s round-up of recent discoveries we hone in especially on animated characters’ ability [...]

Kanye’s sort of been through a lot recently, huh? He released a backwards-looking all 808 album that featured a total of two rapped verses; he rocked a mullet onstage; he started dating a bald woman; and he was genuinely (apparently) humbled by his portrayal on South Park. In celebration of all the scintillating strangeness, we [...]

The beloved Warner Bros. animated water fowl character Daffy Duck made his first appearance 72 years ago, when the short Porky’s Duck Hunt first aired on April 17, 1932. Somehow, in the decades since, his brand of insane, non-squiturial humor has aged terrifically. As proof of his timeless humor, and in celebration of his momentous [...]

For today’s first of two editions of our weekly moving image showcase Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at three recent stop-motion shorts that use other art forms (photography, painting, installation) to take the medium in exciting new directions. After all, filmmakers with the time, patience and attention to detail can turn just about anything [...]