Adobe Creative Suite 4

I guess I don't have to tell you Adobe CS4 was announced today...

And there is much joy :)

David O'Reilly

I don't even know how to start with this weird thing, but in its unique way, it's interesting:

Octocat Adventure: A really silly animation series (I'd suggest starting with the final chapter, only because, even though it looks really silly at the beginning, it becomes strangely neat after, so you'll understand better what's in front of you, but maybe I'm just too serious :P)

Please Say Something: Another strange animation series of that artist.

And his site

Found in Motionographer (here and here)

Manu Järvinen & HBC

This guy's (and his group, HBC) works are something from another planet, really amazing!

Link to their site

Animations

And their last one - HBC-0004: Field Trip

2 Interesting Techniques

Edge-Preserving Decompositions for
Multi-Scale Tone and Detail Manipulation

Aritcle and Video Demostration

Textured graphics can be captured in a flash: Link

Joel Sundberg - Them Dark Odors

http://features-temp.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/340455/340455_1219673385_large.jpg