Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise is apparently on track to launch a feature in 2014, and in the meantime, along with their newly-acquired, Finnish animation studio Kombo, the birds and pigs are starring in a new Halloween short titled Ham’O'Ween. This 4-minute piece was directed by Janne Roivainen.

The UK’s Michael Please (The Eaglman Stag) was commissioned to create a short celebrating the release of Dragonframe 3.0, a software used at stop-motion shops like Laika and Buddy System Studios. It’s titled Seven Legs:

Wind Mills is a 7-minute, CG-animated graduation film directed by Guillaume Bergère, Guillaume Coudert, Maria Glinyanova, Bruno Guerra and Charlotte Jammet, all students at Ecole Georges Méliès. We follow a young girl’s stuborn journey to fulfill her family’s dream of building a magic wind machine. The lighting and environments in general grabbed my attention here – the mood is especially well set.

On November 1st, Cars 2 hits DVD, which will include a bonus Toy Story short – Not In Hawaii. Directed by Gary Rydstrom (Lifted), the short starts off with Bonnie forgetting Ken and Barbie as she embarks on her Hawaiian vacation:

Below is a new student short from Vic Chhun, Leyla Kaddoura and Nicolas Ughen, students at the French school EMCA. The film is a dialog-free short titled Poussière (Dust).

Neil Stubbings directed and animated this award-winning CG short, titled Stopover. He recently won the audience award at onedotzero_ch for this 3-minute short about a space traveler on a mission.

A few years back, Sarah Wickens, while studying at The Royal College of Art in the UK, created this unique, stop-motion piece titled What Light.