New Zealand’s Yukfoo Animation has been tinkering with an in-house short for a few years now. Preferably Blue is the tale of the Easter Bunny bent on taking down Santa Claus, and it’s currently being submitted to various festivals. Here’s a :40 second trailer for the CG short:

Like their last BBC Comedy short Blues, Bird Box Studio’s Ice Creams is a dialog-free short full of excellent animation acting.

via Dave Carter

Here’s a simple character study of a cat and a butterfly created by the South Korean stop-motion animator Manzizak. It’s titled Nya Nya with Butterfly.

We’ve posted a few shorts from this year’s final films at Ecole Emile Cohl, the French art school. Here’s 3 more favorites, notably all produced in 2D.

Colonel Duke et les Zombies de l’Espace (Colonel Duke and the Zombies from Outer Space) – directed by Sylvain Decaux

Reset is Szymon Kabala’s graduation film from his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. It was produced in stop-motion, with a little 2001: A Space Odyssey mixed in for flavor.

Nuni Weisz and Doron Assayas animated this little, musically-driven short while studying at Minshar School of Art in Israel. Doo Bee’s Striptease was produced with hand-sewn puppets using stop-motion animation.

Pierre Mousquet and Jérôme Cauwe’s animated tale of two wrestlers won the CANAL+ creative aid Award at the 2010 Annecy Festival. Je Te Pardonne (I Forgive You) is the result of their studies at La Cambre in Brussels.