via vimeo.com Beautiful and brilliant. How often do you identify inanimate objects as character in such a diverse way over 4 minutes? So many subtle turns.

via vimeo.com Another fun short from Vimeo. Good to show the kids as an example of the power of cooperation!

via vimeo.com Some fun animation to provide a much-needed mind break.

via vimeo.com A poignant sci-fi allegory of the Brixton race riots from England's recent history. This is based on real events. Just search "Brixton race riot" on Google to find out some of the scariness...

via vimeo.com A beautifully executed animated short that will take the better part of your coffee break to get through yet is oh-so-worth it. Reminiscent of the film 9 or a Tool video on first...

via vimeo.com I don't know what could attract me to a 3.5 minute video with this as the narrative: "As his planet boils in the glow of a cascading Tesseract a young femto-panda makes a brave attempt...

via vimeo.com A pristine 147 seconds of story-telling through the Paradise Regained equivalent of Duck Amuck. And if you understand that reference, you get a +1 FTW.

via vimeo.com Under a minute. Cute. Cool. Just because.

via vimeo.com Another great reason to spend a few minutes a day on Vimeo. This short animation reminds me of Terry Gilliam from forty years ago, but with a decidedly more focused ambition and...

I love stop-action animation done well and both of these short films fit the bill. I marvel at the planning and work that went into making both of these. They almost look like tilt-shift.Kudos!

via vimeo.com This really cool and stylistic short animation is perhaps the best two-minute smile you're going to get today. I love the simplicity of the concept and the innovative determination...

via vimeo.com A surreal reflection on every story you've ever heard about a car running into a deer in the middle of the night. Violent, graphic, and a whole heaping load impactful. Give 4.5 minutes...

via vimeo.com I'm glad that I watched the short animated film JAM as I thought it was really cool. I'm extremely glad it was under three minutes long as I felt like I was under the effect of some...

via vimeo.com If you are a fan of Gerald Scarfe's animation work in The Wall by Pink Floyd, you'll probably find The Music Scene very appealing. Certainly not the same level of drama to the soundtrack...

via vimeo.com A very fine take on politics, ambition, and power. Reminds me of a Churchill quote: “Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it...

via vimeo.com I certainly could never have anticipated, upon reading the title of this short Vimeo submission, that three and half minutes could be so simple, engrossing and disturbing at the same...

via vimeo.com In what may be the coolest and most surreal superhero short story of your life, Salesman Pete is yet another effort found through the amazing community at Vimeo. I somehow don't feel...

via nfb.ca With my podcast yesterday about the Canadian government trying to throttle the sharing of the Ministry of Natural Resources scientists, what follows is another short gem from the National...

via vimeo.com I'm convinced that the love I garnered for tragicomedy and existential storytelling while doing English and Dramatic Arts degrees has been reborn via animation on Vimeo. Not a week...

via vimeo.com I like sharing some of the great work I find at Vimeo.com, especially when I find something short that I know you can't get fired for watching at work. Here's another animated gem...