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We've seen a few previews of the Fox animated version of Axe Cop, and so far it's everything we could want a show that's basically written by a five-year-old to be. This latest trailer comes as part of Fox's upfronts presentation giving advertisers a look at their fall lineup. In it, we see a lot more characters from the Axe Cop universe, and we learn what's even better than friends.

Are you ready to see Iron Man 3 this weekend? I know I'm ready to see Iron Man 3 this weekend. If you happen to be joining the Stark train late in the game, there's three movies that you really need to read up on before seeing the latest and greatest. Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers all feature heavy doses of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Thankfully, the National Post has a lovely animated recap prepared for just such an occasion.

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is one of my favorite movies, because it's one of the best ones. At 125 minutes long I don't always have time to sit down an watch it all. Thankfully, it's the latest installment of 1A4STUDIO's Speedrun webseries. This animation compresses the entire film down to a simple minute-long animation.

Calvin and Hobbes was one of those great comics -- like The Far Side -- that at its dullest was still far, far more entertaining than the best installment of Family Circus. Cartoonist Bill Watterson had a great thing going with his strip, because it was as humorous as it was deep. Calvin's imagination and occasional philosophical musings are rightly admired still. Calvin and Hobbes never launched into a bigger franchise or animated series -- but only because Watterson didn't care for all that. "My strip is a low-tech, one-man operation, and I like it that way," he said in The Calvin and Hobbes: Tenth Anniversary book. That said, animator Adam Brown (Ugly Americans) went and made a short little animation of the comic, and it somehow manages to encapsulate its charm.

Anyone who's ever had to animate something knows what a drawn out and tedious process it is, or rather, it used to be. Being shown off at SXSW this year is a system by Motus Digital that animates actors in real time, cutting the process from months of effort down to an instant action. The booth at SXSW let passersby chat with an animated zombie, but the system could have interesting implications for companies with iconic characters they'd like to let people interact with.

Did you see Paperman, the black and white Disney short that preceded Wreck-It Ralph in the theaters and which snagged the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last night? Yeah, it was great. But in a curious crinkle of papery fate, Paperman producer Kristina Reed was kicked out of the 85th Academy Awards right after her cinematic baby took the award for Best Animated Short Flim. For throwing paper planes, which it turns out is as unacceptable at the Academy Awards as it was during algebra in middle school.

If there's one thing we here at Geekosystem are happy to promote, it's animated short films. Paperman is just wonderful, for example. The Oscars for the Best Animated Short Film category are looking tough to call at the moment thanks to how stellar all the nominees are. Adam and Dog by Minkyu Lee is a wonderful little short that's cropped up on the Internet now that it's been nominated, and you can watch the whole thing right here.

Animator Simon Tofield is back with the latest installation of Simon's Cat, the YouTube cartoon series that perhaps best captures the trials and tribulations of owning a cat. It may even hit a little too close for some viewers -- your author included -- for whom the utterly one-of-a-kind sensation of being actively scaled by the clawed limbs of a thing you are just trying to give food to* remains an all too fresh recollection. Rest assured, though, cat owners, that your beloved pet's mealtime antics never mean they don't love you. They just love food about a million times more than they're even capable of loving you. For those of you who may be wounded by this fact, I would remind you that it's a cat. You knew what this was.

If you weren't already aware, both Wreck-It Ralph and the animated short film that preceded it, Paperman, are amazing. That's assuming you're a human being that has emotions and not some kind of shell that's built to withstand even the strongest of feelings. Paperman's even been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category. Unfortunately for everyone everywhere, there's been no good way to actually see the short after Ralph left theaters. Well, until now.

Many are the times we have wondered to ourselves "In a world of so much turmoil both at home and abroad, wouldn't we really be better off with Axe Cop running the show?" The answer, you will be unsurprised to learn, is "Yes, and by magnitudes of order." If these first couple teaser clips are any indication, we're starting to move from excited to drooling over the prospect of full episodes of Axe Cop coming to Fox this summer. Get a load of the latest clip below and learn just the latest reason we don't want to be caught on Bad Guy Planet, and also why we're never voting for a non-magical President again.

We all have that one moment in our childhood when we "borrowed" our parents camcorder for the afternoon and attempted to make a stop motion masterpiece with the action figures we had lying around. But chances are the final product was, well, nothing short of absolute rubbish, with the camcorder always ending up broken somehow -- no matter how hard we tried to prevent that from happening. If its any consolation, stop motion animator Kyle Roberts has recreated the intro of the incomparable X-Men cartoon series from the '90s entirely from his collection of Marvel Legends figures, showing us all what could have been. Suffice it say that it's better than anything we filmed in the garage.

If you somehow missed the announcement earlier this year, Fox is bringing an animated version of the much-beloved Axe Cop webcomic to bear. It's set to be part of a new block of "late-prime" programming called Animation Domination HD, which is more or less the Fox equivalent of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. Though the actual series won't be starting until next year, the good folks behind ADHD just uploaded an animation test featuring Nick Offerman. Given that it's also about Halloween, this is pretty much the best.

Experimental animation at its finest, with a little bit of NSFW language toward the end, this video plays on the iconic meerkat stance. You know the one, where they're constantly standing up straight and poking their heads out from holes or grass because what was that noise? What's over there? Did you guys see that? No? Alright, phew, I thought there might've been a--what was that?

Olympic fever is nearing its zenith, and artists seem to have taken notice. Animators Leo Bridle and Amael Isnard present their own slightly warped view on these events in their short film Olympic Vermin. If you enjoy adorable animals performing endurance events in order to light an "eternal" flame, then you are in luck, my friends.

If your friend says to you, "Hey, Ryan! You better not go in that pond. There's an alligator in there!" you should seriously consider listening to your friend. That is, of course, unless you want a face full of alligator teeth. The Wildebeests in Bird Box Studio's new animated short are musing over a similar topic. You might be able to see where this is going. Just watch the video.