Sometimes it's not all about visuals, just about the story.  Here we get short that minimal in visuals, but great in concept.  The short starts with a blocky character that is pretty in a cubical room and draws a rectangle on a piece of paper.  He does until the stack of paper is finished.  When the clock is at 12:00, they all stop and you see that the last piece of paper has it's rectangular shape fading.  Everything is timed perfectly at a single beat.  The strokes, the opening of the marker, everything.  For some reason the main character drops his marker.  This total out of his and everybody's character.

In the mean time we get cuts of a person playing the drums.  We don't know what's going on.  Later we find out it's his heart.  I'm not sure what the short was saying, but from what I'm guessing it's that we're not robots.  Our souls/"heart" is what makes us different and alive.  Well, that my gist of it.  I guess the meaning of the story is open to interpetation.

So what sets the Cartoon Network's Batman from the rest of the other animated Batman? Well, this will be the first CGI animated Batman series. We'll be able to see batman in the CG world. Think of it ala Transformers Prime animated series. Let's just hope it will be a very dark Batman and not a lot of bright colors.

Check out this promotion art for the series called Beware the Batman airing sometime in 2013 on Cartoon Network. I'm not sure about the design, but I'm sure it'll grow on me if the story is good. Now if only Cartoon Network could start airing new Thundercats episodes.

The art style takes the painterly look of 2d and add the 3D element.  Though some of the designs of the ghost or monsters are strange, the goofiness of their looks add to the personality of the short.  If you'll like watching animation shorts this is the one for you.  The whole production is top notch from the visuals to the soundtrack and don't forget the story aswell.

In any case, "My Bathroom" is about a puppet doing his thing in the bathroom. The music fits well and the cinematography is great. It's funny, simple, and sweet. It's pretty amazing how the puppets were hand made. More amazing is how it took only 10 hours to shoot and edit the piece. If there's anyone out there who's thinking about filming cuddly little creatures like, oh say an old Husky, watch this short! For everyone else press play below and enjoy.

My Bathroom from Keith Lango on Vimeo.

If you've got time, grab some snacks and relax because what you're about to see is one of the best "A day in the life.." video in recent years.

Well we didn't get Year One, but we did get Batman Begins.  Jump to  present day,  Batman: Year One is back, but in animated form.  This is more closely based on the Frank Miller series.  It will hopeful show more of Bruce Wayne as Batman and how he became to be the cape crusader.

As far as the animation goes, it looks to differ from the cartoons we are more familiar with in the early 90's.  For some reason this has a more realisitc feel both in character and environnment.  Colors seems to be more muted, but the mood is still retained.  Now this is only from the short teaser trailer they've shown.  If I have to say something though, is that while Marvel pretty lacks in the animation department, DC sure knows how to put some pretty great straight to video movies of their IPs.  Check out the trailer below to view: