Yum Yum is Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer, two London-based, world-class designers who also direct. This short below was made simply to “brighten up your day.” Mission accomplished.

Brendan Carroll and Francesco Giroldini, two students at Ringling College of Art + Design, crafted this new CG short about a young monk sent on an important task. Since completing the film, both Giroldini and Carroll have graduated and begun jobs at DreamWorks Animation. Enjoy The Monk & The Monkey.

Sébastien Iglesias, a student at Supinfocom Arles, created this musically-driven CG short about a DJ and some beat-crazy birds. It gets really fun and abstract near the end, so watch it all the way through. It’s titled P-Jay.

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SlimTime is a new CG short co-directed by Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin and Thea Matland, students at Supinfocom Arles. The film imagines a world where body fat is merely an inconvenience, whisked away by technology. Below is a segment of the film:

Meet Buck is a new student short directed by Denis Bouyer, Yann De Preval, Laurent Monneron and Vincent E Sousa, who are studying at Supinfocom in France. Below is a trailer, and we’ll post the full short when it’s released in September.

Every year, I’m more and more impressed with the work from students at Ringling College of Art + Design. Take dilla, a CG short directed by Mike Klim, Stanley Moore, Dominic Pallotta and Mikey Sauls. Strong design, tight timing, crisp acting, smart use of color and camera – and a fairly entertaining story. It’s all pantomime too, which is hard to pull off. Not surprisingly, one of the directors, Mikey Sauls, was selected to participate in this summer’s Pixar Animation program.

Over on our sister site, ColdHardFlash, we featured some Flash-animated cut-scenes from Epic Mickey, the new video game coming in December 2010. But the real story there is the CG work. Check out this intro cinematic for the game, which was produced by Junction Point Studios.