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A small, hand-picked list of animated short films on YouTube, each with its credits and a note on where every detail came from.
Watch at https://didvc.github.io/animated-short-films/, or make your own list.
Two films for now. More will be added over time.
| # | Film | By | Year | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 |  |
Missing Halloween | Mike Inel | 2015 | 10:08 |
| 02 |  |
Twins in Paradise | vewn | 2020 | 9:30 |
As the creators give them in the video descriptions.
| # | Film | Credits | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Missing Halloween | Directed, story, design, animation, background, sound design and music: Mike Inel. Voices: Kirakirakat, VenBright, Mike Inel. Animation assistant: Negyek. Additional background: Kirakirakat. Additional character and crowd designs: contest winners listed in the video description. | 2026-09-30 |
| 02 | Twins in Paradise | By vewn. Sound design: Josh Yeung. Music: R.I.P. Guitars: Nick Stratton. Recorded by Tyler Fogerty. | 2026-09-30 |
| # | Film | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Missing Halloween | I genuinely cried. |
| 02 | Twins in Paradise | This is a masterpiece. |
I've actually watched 50+ animated short films over the past few months, and these two are my most memorable favorites.
Every detail in the list comes from the film's own YouTube page, and each entry records the day it was checked. Nothing is taken from wikis, fan sites or memory.
| Field | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Title, channel, upload date, length | The video page |
| Credits | The video description, as the creator wrote it. Long contributor lists (contest winners, patrons) are summarised and point back to the description |
| Genre | Only when the creator states one in the description (Missing Halloween: "Cute/Macabre") |
| Checked | The date the entry was compared against the video page |
In the page, these are stored as schema.org VideoObject fields: name, url, uploadDate, duration, author, creditText, genre, and sdDatePublished for the checked date. The same block is what search engines read as structured data, so the page and its metadata can't drift apart.
Short animation on YouTube is easy to lose: films sit on individual channels, credits live in descriptions that few people open, and the people who did the voices, music and sound rarely get named when a film is shared. This is one quiet page that keeps a few favorites together and names everyone the creators themselves credit.
There's no build step and nothing to install. The whole site is public/index.html plus its share image.
python3 -m http.server -d public 8000 # preview at http://localhost:8000Any static file server works. This repo deploys public/ to GitHub Pages on every push to main.
The list lives in the <script type="application/ld+json" id="film-data"> block near the top of public/index.html. Each film is one ListItem with a VideoObject:
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 3,
"item": {
"@type": "VideoObject",
"name": "Film title",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
"embedUrl": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VIDEO_ID",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/hqdefault.jpg",
"uploadDate": "2026-01-31",
"duration": "PT7M5S",
"author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Channel name", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@handle" },
"creditText": "Credits, as the video description gives them.",
"sdDatePublished": "2026-09-30"
}
}positionis the order on the page.genreis optional.reviewis optional: your own comment on the film, shown under its credits, as{ "@type": "Review", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Your name" }, "reviewBody": "..." }.- Update
numberOfItemswhen you add or remove a film.
Everyone's favorites are different, and this project is open source so you can build your own page with them. It doesn't have to be animation: any set of YouTube videos works the same way.
- Click Use this template to create your own copy with a clean history, and give it your own name. You can also fork it if you'd rather keep a link back to this repository.
- Replace the films in
public/index.htmlwith yours, and the comments with your own. - Change the title, description, canonical URL and
og:tags at the top of the same file to your own page's URL (https://<your-username>.github.io/<your-repo-name>/). - In your repository, go to Settings → Pages and set the source to GitHub Actions. If you forked, also open the Actions tab and enable workflows, since forks don't run them by default. Your page goes live on the next push to
main.
Once it's up, share it. Open an issue here with your link so others can find it, and send it to the creators you featured, who are usually glad to hear someone loves their work. Improvements to the site itself are welcome as pull requests. Before you publish, read the disclaimer: you're responsible for what your list shares.
This is an unofficial fan list. It isn't affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by YouTube or Google, or any of the artists or channels listed. All films, music, artwork and videos belong to their creators and rights holders.
YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. All other trademarks belong to their owners. Names are used here only to identify and credit the works, and their use doesn't imply any endorsement.
The site doesn't host or redistribute any audio or video. It links to and embeds the original uploads, so every play counts toward the creators. Thumbnails come from YouTube, and pressing play loads YouTube's privacy-enhanced (youtube-nocookie.com) player, under YouTube's terms and privacy policy.
Credits were taken from the video descriptions and original uploads on the date shown for each film. Any video can be removed or made private at any time. If you're a creator and want your video taken off this list, or a credit corrected, open an issue or email state-steep-brick[at]duck.com.
Lists that other people make with this project belong to the people who made them. We don't review, host or endorse them, and we're not responsible or liable for their content, including when someone links one in an issue here. If you make a list, it's up to you, at your own discretion, to check what you share: that the videos are official or authorized uploads, that the credits are right, that content warnings are in place, and that your page follows YouTube's terms and the law where you live. The code is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, as the license states.
The site's code is licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0 (SPDX: AGPL-3.0-only). This license does not cover the listed films, videos or artwork. See NOTICE for the scope of the license, third-party services and trademarks.
Contact: open an issue, or email state-steep-brick[at]duck.com.