Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn’t easy, but even in this case designers and artists are quite creative and manage to come up with very surprising and unusual results. The selection below is supposed to make you cry, laugh, feel bizarre or even shocked — in every case being absolutely smashed.
Let’s take a look at the collection of 25 brilliant animated short movies. Among them you’ll find funny cartoons, typography-related movies as well as artistic masterpieces — hopefully everybody will find something interesting and unusual for his/her personal taste.
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Short and Sweet
Starless Night A short animation about a cat, a dog and… a sleepless night. Sweet!
Circle of Life “Life constantly changes, as it comes full circle…” A finalist of numerous animation contests and festivals.
Jasper Morello Animated Movie (AMV)
An AMV made using clips from 'The Mysterious Geographical Adventures Of Jasper Morello' and The Widow, by The Mars Volta.
Artistic Short Movies
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use under a Creative Commons license. Quicktime-version.
Doll Face
A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
Ted
The animation might be not the most attractive piece of art, but it perfectly blurrs the border between real and abstract motion.
Typography
Handlettering Animation A stunning handlettering-animation presented during the TYPO Berlin 2007 party in 2007.
Alternative Rugby Commentary - The Ten Commandments
This typographic video reveals 10 commandments of rugby.
Oceans Eleven
Ok, nothing phenomenal. But the elevator part is pretty fancy.
Funny Cartoons
Cane Toad What the hell happened to Baz?
Gopherbroke
A hilarious story of a funny gopher who wanted to eat some tomatos. Life is tough, buddy.
In the Rough
A cartoon created by the Blur Studio.
Last Click
Robin Hood If you haven't seen Robin Hood you haven't lived. This is the opening sequence of the 1973 Disney animated version of Robin Hood. At 00:50 starts the best moment in the history of music film scores. Well, it's not really short, but it's indeed brilliant.