25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies
Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn’t easy, but even in this case designers and artists are quite creative and manage to come up with very surprising and unusual results. The selection below is supposed to make you cry, laugh, feel bizarre or even shocked — in every case being absolutely smashed.
Let’s take a look at the collection of 25 brilliant animated short movies. Among them you’ll find funny cartoons, typography-related movies as well as artistic masterpieces — hopefully everybody will find something interesting and unusual for his/her personal taste.
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Short and Sweet
Starless Night A short animation about a cat, a dog and… a sleepless night. Sweet!
Circle of Life “Life constantly changes, as it comes full circle…” A finalist of numerous animation contests and festivals.




## Artistic Short Movies Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use under a Creative Commons license. Quicktime-version.




## Typography Handlettering Animation A stunning handlettering-animation presented during the TYPO Berlin 2007 party in 2007.



## Funny Cartoons Cane Toad What the hell happened to Baz?



## Last Click Robin Hood If you haven't seen Robin Hood you haven't lived. This is the opening sequence of the 1973 Disney animated version of Robin Hood. At 00:50 starts the best moment in the history of music film scores. Well, it's not really short, but it's indeed brilliant.

## Further Movies How To Make An Animated Movie 25 of the best title sequences