Back in June, we posted the title sequence from Matthieu Saghezchi’s film Trevor, which was produced during his studies at Ecole Emile Cohl in France. The entire film is now online, which you can see below. Congrats on graduating, Matthieu!

Halloween is lurking around the corner, and I want to aim your eyeballs at the latest Hallowindow DVD. You can set up a window projection for trick-or-treaters in your area, or maybe play it on a your large-screen TV at a party. You can also see a clip from an earlier version of Hallowindow over at our sister site ColdHardFlash.

Stephen Neary, who produced one of my favorite student films of 2008 (Chicken Cowboy), has teamed up with folks on Planet Money, the NPR show. We learn of the death of Toxie, a toxi asset that wasn’t long for this world. Here’s Toxie’s Dead:

Gorillaz, known as “the world’s greatest animated band,” have teamed up with Microsoft to help launch the new Internet Explorer 9 browser in the UK. Here’s a clip below, and you can watch the entire 7-minute launch video over on the HTML5-styled Gorillaz website that’s been optimized for IE9.

Henrik Sønniksen animated this music video for the band Streetlight Manifesto. The track is titled Just, and Sønniksen used TV Paint. Also see the awesome Streetlight Manifesto video that placed 6th in our Best Animated Music Videos of 2009 list.

The latest short from Canada’s Malcolm Sutherland (Astronmer’s Dream) feels like an existential meditation on life as we know it. Umbra a cyclical film that views a new world through the eyes of an explorer who soon realizes that this world isn’t so new anymore. I’m curious about the production method – it feels very organic, as if it was painted on a single slab, with each frame painting over the last.

Titouan Bordeau has finished his studies at Lycée Marie Curie à Marseille, but not before creating this dialog-free short, titled Rendez Vous. It’s a brief love story between a retired pirate and a large mermaid. [NSFW - animated nudity]

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