Alexander Chen made this animation of the New York subway in HTML5 and Flash. It turns the colored lines into little strings that are plucked when a trains runs over it. Longer strings make lower tones. Phantastic idea, consequently thought through and brilliantly executed. Beautiful!

Another one of those phantastic shorts from Gobelins, L'école de l'image. Great story, beautifully brought to life.

Bright, looney 3D animation coming from Yum Yum London. It's bursting with details. Look closer, with HD on!

Interesting minimal video for Issey Miyake by japanese team Euphrates. From a short loop of 3D tracking data from a model walking, this gets really playful and surprising, although it sticks to just white points and lines on a plain black background.

Sweet sweet animated clips of only 3.5 seconds each. A bit dark, because – despite of the title – it only shows various deaths of birds. But it‘s executed in such a minimal and elegant style, that it‘s a pleasure to watch. The sound design supports it perfectly.

Animated clay forms an abstract/philosophical view on the cycles of matter. Super-fun, great music, lots of phantastic details. Watching in HD is recommended!

Very unusual piece of 2D animation. Takes some getting used to, but then it‘s hypnotizing. By Carolina Melis, music is Polygene by Efterklang.

This must have been lots and lots of work: Wall-painted stop-motion animated graffitti by BLU. Wonderfully quirky, dirty and full of neat ideas. Nearly ten minutes of floating, jumping, evolving, growing and exploding paint on various surfaces.

Killer music video made by programming an 1979 Apple ][+ computer. Pure and simple lo-fi ASCII animations that fit the wonderful song very well. Check out the cursor blinking in sync with the synthesizer rythm.

That stedio has some more very interesting conceptual work. Check the website!

Abstract generative 3D motion piece by Future Deluxe for the coming "Life in 2050" exhibition. Perfectly matching sound as well.

Umbrella is a short film created by Philip Vose for his character animation class at Cal Arts. The archetype story of good and bad is told once again, but so detailed and surprising, that all 171 seconds of it are a joy to watch.

By Renaud Hallée, such a simple yet beautiful animation! How awesome that it‘s done with “Basic keyframe animation using flash, without scripting.”

Only 1:40 long, but packed with gorgeous graphic details and awesome 2D/3D animation is this music video by Takuya Hosogane, music by cubesato.