• Star Wars: Retold By Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It – Joe Nicolosi  In his own words “…I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top. I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration.” Interpretative goodness.
• Green Grass - PhylactereCola. This company’s based in Quebec and they have some really, really nice ideas and techniques. This has got a making of that I’ve included at the bottom of the post, which makes the video even better. 
• Presto - Pixar. Awooga! What more do you really need to say. It was oscar nominated and it’s by Pixar. Possibly their best short yet? It really harks back to the Tom and Jerry times of writing.
• New MacBook Wheel – Onion News Network. These people are just amazing. The resources that go into it out strip any comedy that appears on TV in the UK at the moment. Why’s it all so cheap and rubbery now? Anyway. I get annoyed with all the Mac obsessives queuing up to do indignant favours for Steve Jobs. He has lots of money now, just give him a steak sandwich. Yes, Mac does a lot of things incredibly well, but it does make some poo too, which people are more than willing to swallow (I won’t make a link for that one).

Here’s that making of I told you about:

• ‘Grey’ by Ivan Rusev. There’s no real nitty gritty details about this guy which is shame. Think he’s Canadian… or Bulgarian. This has really inspired me. The way that everything’s drawn and animated finally makes me shake off all the snobbishness I picked up studying animation and the world of Richard Williams. The thing about Flash animation it really helps retain styles of illustration that would normally be deemed ‘incorrect’ in terms of it being a 3D object. It also means you just get to spend more time worrying about the most important thing, the story! So thanks, this has really given me a kick up the bum. But remember kids, Flash can make you lazy.
• Fight scene from the undefendable, ‘Undefeatable’. If we’re going to be naming and shaming, ‘Godfrey Ho’ directed it. In the words of the YouTubian who posted it “This fight is complete with knife licking, shirt tearing, gratuitous shirtlessness.” I think special thanks to all the cast involved is needed too. “Yeah. See yer.”
• Food Fight by Stefan Nadelman of Tourist Pictures. Brilliant video, racking up well over 3million on YouTube so far. Its a food reinactment of the major wars of the last century so it’s meant to be sobering I guess, but funny, ‘cos it’s food. Here’s more details about it.
• Hogan Knows Depression by WTF-TV for Comedy.com (expensive domain name for sure). It’s funny and it’s like something we would make, but I get annoyed by the faceless ‘Blam!’ logos they put on these. It’s all about the brand, and that’s just a smiley face. How am I meant to interact with that?

• The Black Hole by Phil Williams & Olly Sampson - Great film that won the Virgin Media Shorts competition recntly. Perfect, short premise for a quirky film. Love the character development, without any words.
• Crime Fighter by Robot Chicken – Robot Chicken is an ‘Adult Swim‘ program strangely co-created by Seth Green of Austin Powers (sort of) fame.
• Don’t tend to go for satire as it dates very quickly, but this is just a very nice, just sarcastic enough quick fire of events from ITN.
• Cyriak’s shouldn’t be down at the bottom there. Doing very well for himself at the moment making relatively low tech, hypnotic, GIF avatar-based, repulsive, mahem animations. Just the trick.