Do yourself a favour and maximise this one as big as your screen will allow. Everything about it should be enjoyed at full size.

Mortys is a French animation about Death (if Tim Burton designed Morticia Addams this is probably what she’d look like) who has a young son. Being Death, though, she’s quite busy and doesn’t spend much time with the boy, so he gets a computer that can help streamline the system. And it does. A bit better than planned.

The animation is gorgeous, the script is amusing (I laughed out loud), and the soundtrack is a perfect compliment.

You know those days where you seem you have woken up in a slapstick comedy–you’re tripping over your own feet, stepping on rakes and bashing yourself in the face with the handles–that sort of thing? Well, even Death has days like that. Dji Death Fails tells the story of one of those days. The poor being only wants to reap one soul. One!

With music by Gogol Bordello .

That’s Slow Derek by Dan Ojari. It’s about a man who can’t keep up with the spinning of the Earth.

It reminds me of this map of our flat and stationary earth from 1893:

Click to giganticise.

See those nattily dressed fellows on the right?

Stop the world, I want to get off!

I love that they’re only flying on the earth that fast ‘in their minds’. Clearly, the earth must not be moving (not just because the Bible said so, which we all know is an accurate scientific and historical document but) because we’d fly off if it was moving. And if Professor Orlando Ferguson doesn’t understand the forces at work then those forces don’t exist.

Good to know people no longer cite random passages from the Bible to defend their irrational beliefs. (And if they do, it only takes a hundred years for them to look like idiots!)

If Tim Burton directed a Tool video and turned the disturbing level up to 11, this is probably what you’d get.

Neomorphus from Animatorio on Vimeo .

And there’s a making-of video.

Neomorphus Making Of from Animatorio on Vimeo .