Dart-throwing monsters are resistant to change

The lesson of Darts in the Snow: don’t ruffle feathers. Or, don’t interrupt a chain of monsters from throwing darts into each other’s butts. Both pretty universal messages.
Creator Alexei Kharitidi’s bio, from Little Animation Inc.:
Oscar nominee Alexei Kharitidi graduated from the Advanced Institute For Scriptwriters & Film Directors in Moscow, the very best school [...]

Radiohead: “we will judge your cartoon”

Everyone always kind of assumed Radiohead loved cartoons because of the epic, weird, hilarious, and brilliant animated video for their 1997 song Paranoid Android. Now the proof: in conjunction with Aniboom, the living legends are judging an online animation contest. Caught you, Radiohead!

13-year old makes scary cartoon

Disturbing in a really charming way, Octocat is either the work of a 13-year-old animation prodigy named Kevin Peters or a piece of jokey performance art by animation rogue David O’Reilly. In either case, it’s the tale of a half-cat half-octopus that wants to find its parents and likes cups of tea.

Man-cat bond

“Let Me In” is kind of like Garfield, if Jon was less of a weirdo and Garfield was less obese and much more proactive. It’s also a really neat example of the possibilities of pared-down Flash animation. You can find the rest of creator Simon Tofield’s ‘Simon’s Cat’ series at Tandem Films.
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The monster under the bridge

Trolls will club you, eat your bones, and make devastatingly snide judgments on your character via the web. But they’ve got an artistic side, on display in this Boing Boing TV animated short about their epic history. More on creator Adam Koford at Hobotopia.