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I enjoyed this dreamlike animated video for Hat by Max and Laura Braun, directed by Michael Fragstein.

Congratulations to our John Martz, for getting nominated March 12 for “Best Emerging Talent” in the annual Doug Wright Awards! His short “It’s Snowing Outside, We Should Go For A Walk” is the reason. Got a link to it, John?

Edit: Here’s the link — It’s Snowing Outside. We Should Go For a Walk.

Le banc (The Bench) is a beautiful trippy little film from French illustrator Bruno Salamone and Belgian children’s book author Kitty Crowther. The short screened at Aller-retour, an exhibition in Paris.

I’ve already watched it twice. So fun.

Oh man, I love me some Grickle. I would be probably be happy if YouTube was nothing but Graham Annable’s surreal animations. Here’s his latest, Channels.

I am also looking forward to snagging a copy of Graham’s upcoming Book of Grickle, a compilation of his comics work, which is just as twisted and perfectly paced as his animation.

Yes! Joe Murray, the creator of Rocko’s Modern Life and Camp Lazo, has completed a new short/pilot called Frog in a Suit.

Unfortunately there’s no embeddable video for this short, but do check it out at its own site. Antoine Arditii’s Yulia is an entertaining black-and-white short about a woman who finds herself looking for love in a stark, empty room. The rotoscoped animation was created by printing out 3D animation onto paper, and tracing it with pencil.

Feeling like a little hand-drawn Argentinian psychedelia? Enjoy The Head by Matias Vigliano and Dante Zaballa.

So you may have already heard that there’s going to be a Higglety Pigglety Pop! short film as a bonus feature on the Where the Wild Things Are Blu-Ray, which is coming out March 2. Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life is of course the other major chidren’s book by Maurice Sendak. It’s a surreal story about a dog looking for Experience.

The film is semi-animated (there are puppets involved) by the filmmakers of Madame Tutli-Putli and includes the voice-acting of Meryl Streep (Jennie), Forest Whitaker (Lion), Spike Jonze (Plant). The production design – as in Tutli Putli - is rich and stunning. Streep is perfect as usual.

Two more clips after the jump…

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A short walk in the forest with Montreal comic book artist and animator, Diane Obomsawin. Obomsawin is also author of the wonderful, Kaspar, by Drawn & Quarterly.

Also, if you’re not already convinced – Diane Obomsawin wins.

And Kaspar at Book By Its Cover.

There’s something familiar about the actors in this animated video by Rhett Dashwood, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.