Looking for craploads of cute little GIF animations? Well, look no further than the hugely popular Nico video site from Japan. I can't read the site, but it doesn't matter, the animations don't require anything other than patience to scroll through 700, count 'em 700 of them. All on one page. All going at once. Madness, I tell you.

I haven't embedded any on the page because a web coder over there used javascript to make it too big a pain in the ass to view source and copy and paste. Boo!

Orin and Jerry Zucker, the talented folks behind the Emmy award-winning It's Jerry Time, have organized what is sure to be a very fun online video festival dedicated to animation.

From the website:

WEBJAM '08 is the first film festival dedicated to internet animation. You are invited to join Happy Tree Friends, JibJab, 30 Second Bunny Theater, Odd Todd, Joe Cartoon, Xeth, Low Morale, Its JerryTime! and many more of your favorite animated webtoons, all together on the big screen for the very first time. You can see LOLs, ROFLs, OMGs and even some WTFs. The first show is at the historic Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline MA, Thursday May 22-24.

Join us at this world premiere, star-studded event and see some of the breakout work being created in new media on the big screen. Hosted by Jerry & Orrin Zucker, co-creators of Its Jerrytime!

Check out the WEBJAM site for all the deets.

Just for good measure, check out an episode of It's Jerry Time after the jump!

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Pixeloo recently untooned Super Mario with Photoshop CS2 and "a bunch of random faces pasted over a 3d render of Mario from Nintendo." There's also an untooned version of Homer Simpson which is pretty freakish looking.

In case you're interested about the process, on the blog there are some examples of the texture sources used and there will soon be video screen casts to show how it's done. Pretty cool stuff for the Photoshop enthusiast.

Check out this mashup of stop-motion animated Transformers toys with dialogue taken from the cartoon. Really cinematic use of the camera positioning!

I just love this too much. An example of how even the most simple visuals can be compelling in the hands of a talented artist.

On EPIC-FU the other week we spotlighted Aesop Rock's awesome jam, "None Shall Pass." In this "making of" video, Aesop talks about the meaning of the imagery in the video. The artist who created the pieces in the video is Jeremy Fish, a really talented San Francisco-based artist who created the artwork for the album. For fans of the song and the video this is great stuff.

Rick twittered this a while back, and it's the funniest LOLcat animation ever. :)

Sit back and take a 30 minute trip down memory lane with some of the more popular cartoon openings of the time. I promise when you're done, you'll feel right as rain. ;)