I must admit, I am a huge dork for Flat Eric – I have the plush doll and regularly go back and watch the original music videos and Levi’s commercials that swept the web back in 1999. It doesn’t hurt that love Quentin Dupieux’s music. Dupieux, of course, is the man known as Mr. Oizo, the creator of Flat Eric and the French electronic musician. Here’s a teaser for his next project titled Stade 3, which co-stars William Fichtner:

Nerdcore hip hop artist MC Frontalot as delivered a few animated music videos in the past, but not one with puppets. Until now. His latest creation was directed by Max Isaacson, who also helmed the MC’s Spoiler Alert video. Here we’re invited to a stoop sale in Brooklyn to rummage through a variety of ephemera and, well, garbage.

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The year ain’t over until JibJab puts ‘er to bed. So watch this video and then go toss your Christmas tree in the trash – cuz 2011 is a goner. Here’s 2011, Buh-Bye!, which was directed Jeff Gill and Evan Spiridellis.

And in this behind-the-scenes clip, you can see JibJab co-founder Evan Spiradellis working an Arnold puppet with his crew.
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The Muppets have been making a lot of noise lately about their November 23rd return to the silver screen. In the meantime, the Muppets urge you to keep quiet, at least while you’re in AMC Theatres.

Keith Lango, an animation veteran who has devoted his blog to sharing his knowledge of animation to anyone who seeks it, has stepped away from his computer long enough to create this puppeted short called My Bathroom. While Keith is not quite ready to give up his day job animating in front of the computer, he’s made a channel of Vimeo for more shorts done with puppetry.

Check out My Bathroom staring Yurt the Yeti:

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared doesn’t appear scary at all. Until it does. This acid-trip in pre-school clothing was created by This is It, “a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London.” This short features puppets and some 2D animation, and it was directed by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. Green isn’t a creative color, stupid!

Stacy Wall of Imperial Woodpecker directed this new spot for Boost Mobile, titled simply Puppets. We meet a poor grown-up who is surrounded by childish puppets, and locked into a childish mobile plan.