Every so often we come across some beautiful and unique animated shorts online that truly deserve to be seen by as many people as possible. If you ever find yourself wondering where the future employees of Pixar, Dreamworks and Disney are going to come from, look no further. Some of these shorts have been online for a year or two but many are new to us and I suspect some may be new to you as well. 

Captain Awesome

Directed by Ercan Bozdogan and Mikkel Aabenhuus Sorensen

Captain Awesome isn’t feeling all that “awesome” today.

 

 

Childhood of a Circle

Directed by Kadavre Exquis

A sweet coming of age story. 

 

 

Out of the Forrest

Directed by Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Brilliant, sad and beautiful, featuring music by The National

 

 

Crayon Dragon

Directed by Toniko Pantoja

An inspired thesis from a student at Calarts, (birthplace of most of the folks at Pixar). 

 

 

Mytho Logique

Directed by J. Ambron, A. Aramini, A. Belbari, G. Poitel and Y. Vincent.

Definitely a favorite of ours, somebody give these people a contract, we want a feature!!

 

 

Pangea- The Neverending World

Gorgeous and hilarious, we sure have come a long way, haven’t we?

 

 

Dragonboy

Directed by Lisa Allen, Bernie Warman and Shaofu Zhang

This one was nominated for a Student Academy Award, you’re about to see why!

 

 

Ritterschlag

Directed by Sven Martin

a funny new spin on the old “damsel in distress” tale.