...and leave a good-looking corpse behind. Yankee Girl is a short animation set during World War II about a fighter pilot experiencing death through the twilight of his life after being shot down. Breathtakingly brilliant, subtle lighting & modelling, extraordinary editing and sound design rounds off a superbly crafted video.

The song is mesmerising in its' impact, was originally written in 1938 by Cole Porter, captures the feel of the era and reaches a crescendo where you find yourself rooting for the aviator to bail out, he never does. But we'll never know what happens next, so let your imagination fill in the blanks. Created by Antoine Perez, Céline Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque during their course at Supinfocom animation school in 2008, it took a whole year and a team of four people to make. We can only imagine the labour of love, but sometimes, just sometimes, it was totally worth it.