In his Video Portraits director and artist Robert Wilson theatrically stages celebrities as well as everyday people and animals.
28 of these motifs are on show until 22.08.2010 at the ZKM | Museum für neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, Germany. Including Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Prinzessin Caroline von Monaco, Winona Ryder, Steve Buscemi, Salma Hayek, Dita von Teese und Macaulay Culkin. The works have been produced by Dissident Industries.
An excellent exhibition I recommend visiting.

Beautiful cutout style animation by RISD student Kenneth Onulak.

“Recursion” is a short film by Maxim Zhestkov. Fullscreen recommended.

A visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash.

Beautiful Animation by Avrillon Ghislain.

The Duplicators – a Cartoon Network ID shortie by Meindbender Animation Studio.

Here’s a preview of Logorama, an animated short made almost entirely out of logotypes by H5.

Sony – “Bloggie” by Keith Schofield.

According to the movie charts almost everyone has seen James Cameron’s Avatar.
Here’s an interesting behind the scenes look of the performance capturing technique, that was used to animate the characters in this blockbuster.

Another very nice crowdsourced music video by Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey. The idea is rather simple, the guys shot a music video and now ask visitors of a website to mimic single frames of it, the original frames in the video get replaced by the user submitted onces on an hourly basis.
As often, the simplest ideas are the best.