If Andy Warhol hadn’t died young in 1987, there is no doubt he would have guest starred on The Simpsons as himself at some point. But, since we’ll never be able to see that, experimental filmmakers Clint Enns and Stephen Broomer have created the next best thing: The wonderful tribute animation Simpson’s Empire in which Bart and Milhouse are mesmerized by Warhol’s most notorious film Empire.

A chipmunk having his own private tea party gets rudely interrupted by an enormous hairy beast in Jo Dery’s amazingly charming short film Munk and Monster.

Life, love and adjustable rate mortgages star in Jodie Mack’s toe-tappingly wonderful animated musical short film Yard Work Is Hard Work.

Colleen Cox’s award-winning Wrong Number Singapore is a brilliantly executed and hilarious animated interpretation of a real-life phone call.

Geometric shapes flow into organic blobs flow into humanoid figures in Edwin Rostron’s cool abstract animation Visions of the Invertebrate.

Sam Henderson has started animating comic strips from his long-running Magic Whistle. The results are pure comedy genius.

“The Curse of Crystal Lake” is an absolutely brilliant mash-up of old Friday the 13th films and episodes of Scooby-Doo.

The puppet master becomes the servant in Patrick Smith’s twisted and hilarious short animated film Puppet.

Dean Packis’ patently offensive animated web series Rats on Cocaine is also absolutely hilarious, featuring two abusive, drug-addled rodents.

Douglas Sirk meets Jean Painlevé in Lisa Barcy’s melodramatic love story Mermaid, in which a married man falls in love with a giant squid.