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[Kofthefens]

I just watched The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello and really liked it. What other good animated shorts (or even non-animated ones) do you know of?

Spoiler: The List So Far (click to show/hide)

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Somewhere in Dreamland
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Susie the Blue Coupe
The Backwater Gospel
AxeCop
Kiwi
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Hedgehog in the Fog
The Forest
The original Aeon Flux
Anything by Bill Plympton
Stick Figure Theatre
Crazy Daisy Ed
The Killing of an Egg
The Running Man (by Yoshiaki Kawajiri) (part of Neo Tokyo)
Technological Threat
Alfred's Playhouse Parts 1-3

[kaijyuu]

Have some classics:

Somewhere in Dreamland.
Christmas Comes but Once a Year.
Susie the Blue Coupe.



For a more recent short, and based on what you linked up there, I think you'll like this:
The Backwater Gospel.

[Kofthefens]

I rather enjoyed The Backwater Gospel. It was really well animated and had an interesting concept.

[Tellemurius]

AxeCop, cause Axecop

[kaenneth]

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[Aptus]

I have always aaaawwww'd at this one.

Kiwi!

[Lagslayer]

Have some classics:

Somewhere in Dreamland.
Christmas Comes but Once a Year.
Susie the Blue Coupe.

Classic or obscure? Are those mutually exclusive? I mean, classic tends to mean it was and is still fairly well known.

Not that I don't remember (fondly, even), but it's not like bugs bunny. Kids these days couldn't even begin to identify anything else from that era. I suspect a lot of the older folk wouldn't either. But maybe I'm getting off on a tangent.

I do have another really obscure one to add to the list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGh97__-uLA

[kaijyuu]

Classic or obscure? Are those mutually exclusive?

No, they are not.

Also "obscure" in this case is relative. Everything I linked was and is well-regarded; Susie inspired the character designs for Pixar's Cars, if you didn't notice the resemblance.

Most people haven't seen them, of course, but if they had, it wouldn't be worth linking them here (as they'd already seen them).

[Vector]

Hedgehog in the Fog.

[Kofthefens]

I just watched The Forest which I enjoyed.

[Shakerag]

Liquid Television had a good number of interesting shorts (and a lot of crap, but that aside...).

Series:
-The original Aeon Flux  (before it was spun off into its own series)
-Anything by Bill Plympton
-Stick Figure Theatre (Hindenburg one was my favorite >_>)
-Crazy Daisy Ed

Shorts:
-The Killing of an Egg
-The Running Man (by Yoshiaki Kawajiri) (part of Neo Tokyo)
-Technological Threat


My significant other has high praise for Exposure, but I don't think I've seen it.  (If anyone knows how to buy/watch/etc this series, let me know.  We've been trying to find it for a while.)

(Side note: I forgot that Beavis and Butt-head got their start on Liquid Television.  Huh.)

[Lagslayer]

Another one I can recall is good, if slightly pretentious and depressing (also NSFW).

Alfred's Playhouse Part 1
Part 2
Part 3




edit: Dumb Ways to Die. I haven't decided weather I am more amused or terrified. They just keep smiling!!! And that damn smooth, haunting beat doesn't help. Oh, and it's catchy as hell.