Alma

This is a beautiful animation called Alma, directed by Pixar's animator Rodrigo Blaas.
Having people from pixar working on it can probably give you an idea of the quality this piece of work has. The thing that caught my attention from it is not only the amazing graphics, but the way they adapted this well know style into a more spooky narrative. Something always bothered me is when my parents used to tell me that cartoons are only for kids, when there's actually a big potential to make other type of plots without having to necessarily rely on dark and realistic CG.

PlotThe film has no spoken dialogue, just lighthearted music playing throughout the background.
A young girl is walking down a snow-covered street of a small French town. She stumbles across a wall with names written in chalk on it. She adds her name, Alma, to the wall.
Opposite the wall is what appears to be a closed toy shop. The doll in the window looks like Alma, and she is fascinated by it. She looks away briefly, and when she looks back the doll has moved from the window to a table in the center of the shop. She finds the door is locked, and angrily leaves, but hears the door open as she walks away. She excitedly walks in and the door closes slightly; there is no one else in the store.
Alma stumbles upon a small boy doll riding a tricycle which has fallen over. She pick it up and places it on the floor upright, and it heads towards the door, but the door closes on its own. While the little boy continues to slam against the door, Alma sees that the doll has somehow moved up to the shelves. She climbs up the shelf and reaches for the doll's face. In an instant the doll's eyes move, and a quick flash of images, and suddenly the lens is through the glass eyes of a doll, sitting on a shelf in the shop. As the camera pans away, we see that Alma has become the doll and is looking around the store like all the other dolls, trapped and unable to move.
As the camera pans out, another doll appears in the window suggesting the appearance of the next victim.