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Here are 10 of the best on the net at the moment. Make a coffee, then sit back and enjoy these sites:

Alien Opera

An alien with his single eye in his mouth sing his heart out. Weird, peculiar, hypnotic, if you don’t like opera, you will love this. The guys at Tokyoplastic give us a real Flash feast for the eyes. This is wickedly entertaining and beautifully original work.

Dad’s At Work

Once you’re on the site, click on “Watch this Movie” to see the animation. Written, animated and directed by Sakupen, this is a crazy insight in to the working life of Dad – perhaps from the overactive imagination of a small child. Dad loves his work and arrives in a superhero type frenzy of crazy activity, obliterating most things in his path as he strives to get to his desk. Mad, bad and dangerous!

Nose Pilot

The work of Alexandru Sacui, this is European style flash animation at its best. Choose from two languages (French or English) and you are away in to a strange alternative world where a slug can be your best friend and you have better watch out for the evil exploding robotic duck! A great way to while away your time!

Blockhead Ghostmas

A twisted animation from Michael Swain. The No 1 Guy has decided that Halloween is just a made up holiday and should be replaced by Ghostmas. What ensues is a lot of totally idiotic Flash mayhem, compounded by the disappearance of the No 1 Guy’s Weevil. Strange, a little disturbing but superbly realized work!

Waterlollies

A fully realized story from the sublimely talented Adam Phillips, this Flash produced short feature will just blow you away completely. Bitey is a satyr like creature who loves to eat and tease the other creatures of the Brackenwood world. Hubristic to a letter, Bitey eventually gets his comeuppance. Your mind will boggle at the skills that have gone in to this fantastic, weird and beautifully animated short. Note – this is very graphic intensive – if you are on a low spec computer then click the link to YouTube and watch it there instead.

Spy Bar

Mattias Lindburg is another preposterously talented animator. This piece gives you directions to the mysterious place known as The Spy Bar – as if you are something of a secret agent yourself. Cool music and a visual treat that will make you wonder how on earth it was done.

Creep

If you love Radiohead then you will adore this acoustic version of their brilliant song “Creep”. Realized in Flash by Laith Bahrani, this is a slow build movie and eschews the usual bangs and whistles in favor of a quieter, more subtle nuance. If you have ever felt like throwing yourself out of the office window, watch this one!

Animator Vs. Animation

The little stick man takes his revenge after all those years of being beaten up, blown up and generally used and abused by Flash animators. Will the little guy escape or will the animator destroy him first? A wonderful short animation by the uber-talented Alan Becker.

Animator Vs. Animation II

The little stick guy is back! This time he escapes from his program and wreaks havoc on the Windows environment. Alan Becker is back with the sequel to his hugely popular Animator Vs. Animation – but makes the foolhardy mistake of making the little guy The Chosen One. Superbly created flash animation that you will want to watch again and again!

Hey, Hey, 16K

A look back at the games we used to play. If you remember Jetpac you will love this cheery little song! Deliberately unsophisticated looking but very clever animation from Rob Manuel, this will take you back to the days when you thought a gig was something you went to in order to watch a rock band!

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