RVU, a Dutch National Educational Television broadcaster, is working with the University of Leiden and philosopher Bas Haring on Wisebits, a project bringing together a big collection of artists to produce 365 short animations.

Each of the project's animations will tell a story about a philosophy written and created by Haring. RVU will begin posting one animation each school day this fall on the official Wisebits site (in Dutch).

Several artists have already posted their videos, like this one on Chaos Theory by Coen Rens, or this clip on, um, using hamsters as a durable source of energy by Yuri den Oudsten.

Animator Ronnieism has posted two of his entertaining shorts, both featuring adorable pixel characters, which I've embedded below for your enjoyment:

"Fear Is A Good Advisor":

The animation is based on this text by Haring:

"Big fear, like phobia, is usually unnecessary and not very useful. But fear does have a very practical function when we think of practical behavior in daily live. For example, when we think of crossing the road, a bit of fear is needed. But on the other side, too much of it..."

"Assiemenou?!":

Says Haring:

"Humans are Herd animals that like to copy eachother. Behavior is culture defined. Consciously but mainy subconsciously we are copying each other. Sometimes this behavior isn't logical or easy at all. We simply don't think about it, we just copy it."

You can watch more of Ronnieism's animation projects, including a "Bluetooth animated pixel dancers installation", on his Vimeo page.