This has been a week like no other in the Fringe Fridays department here at Yahoo! Video. Maybe it has something to do with Yahoo! Video launching in Germany, France, Italy, and the UK on Wednesday. Yes, now our friends in the EU are enjoying our awesome widescreen player, embeddable playlists, and network experience. And we are enjoying some startling and amazing work in the most universal of video genres: animation.

So, willkommen, bienvenue, benvenuto, cead mile failte, and welcome! Check out this sampling of remarkable work. A word of warning, some of it is not for the feint of heart:

For more of our good fortune, check out the animation network.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team