Writer/director Lucas Martell in his first attempt at animation has taken nearly 5 years to finish. The result is the following Pixar-quality animated short that has been receiving accolades from critics and festivals all over the world. Via .

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Meet Anime Nathan. He knows everything there is to know about Anime. He wants to teach you everything he knows about Anime.

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1. Via The Internet Is Terrible

A nifty student animation by Sjors Vervoort - gets even better towards the end….

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Here is a rad music video by Greg Condon for Choo Choo la Rouge, using post-it note pads as flipbooks. [via The Uniblog ]

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Gentlemen duel for a busty lass’s favor in giant steampunk mecha. “A Gentlemen’s Duel” is by Blur Studio, who created the incredible Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer. [via The Uniblog ]

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Two aliens try to take over the same planet. A nifty little animation by Ben Harper and Sean Mullen. Who will win?!

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English-language trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's ( Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle ) latest movie, Ponyo , based on “The Little Mermaid.” The American redubbed release of the movie features the voice talents of Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, and Cate Blanchett. Hiayao Miyazki movies are epicly weird and beautiful. I am looking forward to this.

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Just in time for the blockbuster prequel, Dan Meth imagines if Star Trek was instead made in the 80's/90's world of teen comedies. Just add in some Tears for Fears and a few montages — you'll be all set.

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1. via Dan Meth
2. Trek Yourself on Atom Comedy

Your favorite videogame moments recreated with…sauerkraut? With a little ingenuity and some sauerkraut, there's nothing you can't do!

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MOVIE BUZZ: The Chinese, apparently unhappy with Jack Black and Co.'s astounding rendition of Kung Fu Panda , have decided that they can make their own version just as well, thank you very much. The result is Kung fu Master aka Wong Fei Hong vs Kung Fu Panda , and was a direct-to-dvd unofficial sequel to the movie that made a young lad named Jack Black an American action hero.

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1. China’s Real Response to Kung Fu Panda
2. Kung Fu Panda on Answers.com
3. Or Here
4. But The DVD Here

A mixed-media video set to a Daft Punk remix celebrates our new Prez in the most seizure-inducing of fashions. Was that Miss Piggy? That was most definitely Miss Piggy. Even Muppets love the guy!

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Probably due to the bad influence of the Women's Lib movement, some ladies in the '30s got the silly idea into their pretty little heads that they could be animators just like men. As a result, Walt Disney Productions had to find polite, easy-to-understand ways to delicately explain why this could never be the case.

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MOVIE BUZZ: A handy site that lets you make quick but good-looking animations, even without any previous experience. Soon the web will allow dilettantes to be masters of all things!

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1. Xtranormal - Make Movies In Minutes
2. Xtranormal’s Twitter Feed
3. Video Demo of Easy Animation with Xtra-Normal
4. An Episode About Relationships

A companion piece to WALL-E, this is a short film about another dutiful robot.

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CULTURE BUZZ: The beloved children’s writer and illustrator — of books like Where The Wild Things Are and Chicken Soup With Rice — recently turned 80, and is still as sad, angry, and misanthropic as ever. After undergoing triple-bypass surgery and losing his partner of 50 years, Sendak is a dark and depressing figure who has brilliantly managed to provide generations of adoring children with a legendary canon of fantasy subversively steeped in his own gloomy disposition.

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1. Maurice Sendak at 80: Still Wrestling With Wild Things
2. “Chicken Soup With Rice” (Sung By Carole King)
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Sendak On NPR
5. Sendak: “We Need Imagination Now More Than Ever.”
6. Maurice Sendak’s 80th Birthday: A Star-Studded Celebration
7. Gays <3 Maurice
8. Maurice Sendak Kind of Comes Out?

College Humor brings a comedic twist to Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree in a new short called “The Really, Really Giving Tree.” I always feel bad for the tree, poor thing.

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1. The Really, Really Giving Tree - CollegeHumor Video