Surreal animation charts a bizarre journey through the cosmos

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Superhero kids and ghostly fish and chips are just some of the highlights of this weirdly wonderful interplanetary tale.

We're big fans of daily design projects at Creative Bloq - whether they come in the form of beautiful type or isometric renders. And last year we became enraptured of illustrator and animator Andy Martin's daily project Illustrated Aliens.

But while the project came to end, that wasn't the end of Martin's lovable aliens. Now he's created 'The Planets', a surreal animated journey through 12 intergalactic worlds where we find plasticine battles, bored sheep, robots in love, ghostly fish-n-chips, superhero kids, as well as lots of other shenanigans. And you can watch it in all its bizarre and creepy glory above.

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Tom May
Tom May
Freelance journalist and editor

Tom May is an award-winning journalist specialising in art, design, photography and technology. His latest book, The 50 Greatest Designers (Arcturus Publishing), was published this June. He's also author of Great TED Talks: Creativity (Pavilion Books). Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine.