I would so watch a French version of The Simpsons that makes fun of itself as much as this couch gag. Hopefully, it could be just as beautifully animated as this too. This couch gag was made by French director Sylvain Chomet and it has Homer eating snails, Bart brutally making his own foie gras and a few other French touches sprinkled about.
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It’s been a snowy winter
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If you own a Moto X, chances are last fall you noticed a small, red hat appear in your notification tray. You either assumed your phone had been hacked and set it on fire, or you boldly clicked the mysterious chapeau and were whisked off to a 3D world that was like being inside a Pixar movie.
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I used to joke around about how I have learned so much more from YouTube than I ever did in school. I’m not joking anymore. Here’s a nice animation from Kurzgesagt that simplifies all you need to know about the Big Bang. It’s this type of education that plants a seed in my brain for future Wikipedia rabbit holes and YouTube note taking. All hail YouTube Class of 2014.
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The quality of this CGI may not be on par with Avatar, but the writing’s better. Adapted from a story written by Jack Handey—and originally published in the New Yorker’s "Shouts & Murmurs" section in July, 2007—My Nature Documentary envisions an African safari as the screenwriter pours through his script.
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Starting with the DynaTAC in 1974 and ending with the iPhone 5s, this wonderful little animation zips through 40 years of cellphones in a little over a minute.
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Allegories abound in this macabre tale of runaway industrialism in post-World War Europe. An enterprising defense contractor replaces his inefficient human workforce with mechanical monstrosities, a move that doesn’t sit well with his former employees. Returning with the hammer and sickle of socialist justice, one ex-bomb-maker attempts to enact his revenge, only to find that this military-industrial complex runs far deeper than anyone imagined.
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Who knew a sad story told through water drops can be so fun to watch? This stop motion animation called Cachoeira (which means waterfall in Portuguese) by Rodrigo EBA! is illustrated with a little droplet man in a little droplet car trying to take a dip in a little droplet waterfall. I find it adorable.
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As a truly monumental storm rumbles across the alien plateaus, one resident must take drastic measures to save himself, quite literally, from the oncoming destruction. Malcolm Sutherland directed and animated this action-packed, introspective animation.
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