http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFG1O4bRSw
a short animated film by brian carroll. this is a homage to german animator oskar fischinger, set to the classical piece "danse macabre" by saint-saens

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/05/animation-pioneers/
5 early animation before Walt Disney by: Cohl who made Fantasmagorie in 1908 considered the father of the animation cartoons. George Melies who made the prolific egg en 1902. Winsor McCay who made little Nemo in 1911. Stuart Blackton who made the enchanted drawing in 1900 and the work of a photographer Eadweard J. Mybridge in 1893, that isn´t animation, He made photograph of animals in motion but was one of the early experiments whitin animation.

http://vimeo.com/31956969hand drawing animation

Amazing animation by a French graphic designer call Olivier Beaudoin. It look 2D but I think is made with a 3D software because the animation have this perspective and depth that 3D programs does.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPfTlpCKaw&feature=related