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The Wishgranter

The Wishgranter

A charming animated short about the Wishgranter, a being who grants the wishes of people who drop a coin in his fountain. His day becomes unexpectedly hectic when two people wishing for love unintentionally jam his wish-processing machine.

Unreal Real-time Cinematography

Unreal Real-time Cinematography

During SIGGRAPH 2016, a team of game developers and CG artists used Unreal Engine 4 to demonstrate a technique for shooting a live actor and turning their performance into a cinematic sequence in just minutes, rather than the weeks or months it might normally take.

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Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV (Trailer 3)

Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV (Trailer 3)

Magic versus machinery, an empire versus a squad. The action and animation are as impressive as ever in the latest trailer for the Final Fantasy XV feature film. It makes us wish Blizzard did the Warcraft movie themselves.

Unity “ADAM” Graphics Demo

Unity “ADAM” Graphics Demo

A visually stunning short film created entirely using the Unity Engine. The surreal science fiction short has amazing volumetric light and shadow effects, tearing fabrics, motion blur and more. Apparently, it can run in real time on a GeForce GTX980 card at 1440p resolution.

Star Trek: The Beginning of the End

Star Trek: The Beginning of the End

The universe is under attack by The Red Empire, a race of robots intent on wiping out all organic life. It’s up to the crew of the NX-01 Enterprise to stop them. Jürgen Kaiser’s stop-motion fan film is an incredible achievement and a true labor of love. (In German w/subtitles)

Invisible

Invisible

A chameleon wants to ask a fellow loner to dance. But he gets so nervous that he keeps on involuntarily blending into the environment whenever he gets near her. A cute and creative animated short by Michael Trikosko and Andrew Wilson.

The Mill Blackbird

The Mill Blackbird

Creating commercials for new cars can be challenging because the cars aren’t always yet in production. The Mill’s amazing contraption acts a stand-in for virtually any car, simulating its length, width, wheels, and driving dynamics. CG artists can then wrap it in any virtual body.

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Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV (Trailer 2)

Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV (Trailer 2)
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King Regis of Lucis is forced to marry off his son as part of a peace treaty with the mighty Nilfheim empire. But it was all a ruse – war was coming all along. Now Lucis’ royal guard might be all that’s standing between Nilfheim and the rest of the world.

Moana (Teaser)

Moana (Teaser)

A young navigator and a fallen demigod go on an adventure to save her people in Disney’s animated feature based on South Pacific lore and culture. Starring Dwayne Johnson as the deity Maui and Auli’i Cravalho as Moana.

Motion Capture Madness

Motion Capture Madness

Method Studios’ presentation for the 25th AICP awards show features dancing computer animated models made of a variety of virtual materials and shapes. One of the most impressive CGI clips we’ve ever seen.

Overwatch: Hero

Overwatch: Hero

Jack Morrison was a super soldier and the first commander of Overwatch, but he fell from grace shortly before the group was disbanded. Now he seeks vengeance against those who orchestrated the peacekeeping force’s collapse as the vigilante Soldier: 76.

Overwatch: Dragons

Overwatch: Dragons

The best video game marketing campaign of all time continues with the story of Overwatch heroes Hanzo the bowman and Genji the cyborg ninja. The sons of a crime lord, Hanzo and Genji had a falling out that tore their lives apart, but each now seeks redemption in his own way.

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Iron Man vs. Optimus Prime

Iron Man vs. Optimus Prime

The latest episode of batinthesun’s Super Power Beat Down is a computer animated battle between the leaders of the Autobots and the Avengers. Place your bets! Skip to 5:20 for the fight itself.

Help

Help

A 360º short film about an alien that crash lands on Earth. It goes on a rampage when a woman picks up the device that came with it. Best watched via YouTube on Android or Google Spotlight on iOS device. Behind-the-scenes here.

The Old New World

The Old New World

We can’t imagine how much work it took Alexey Zakharov to create his short film, in which he created entirely new moving pictures using antique still photos digitally projection mapped onto 3D models.

Wrapped

Wrapped

This award-winning short from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg’s Animation Institute envisions a day in which nature reclaims the Earth from civilization. It’s a vision we’ve seen in films like I Am Legend, but here we see the process rather than just the end result.

Charles X: Can You Do It

Charles X: Can You Do It

A city comes to a standstill to watch their neighbors have a horse race from the suburbs to downtown, while soul artist Charles X sings about opportunities and oppression in Parallel’s animated music video for the single from his new album Sounds of the Yesteryear.

Overwatch: Alive

Overwatch: Alive

Blizzard’s body of animated work stays afire with another awesome Overwatch short film. The cold-blooded Talon assassin Widowmaker is after a beloved robot diplomat, but Overwatch’s time-traveling ace agent Tracer is on guard.

Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV (Trailer)

Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV (Trailer)

A CGI animated film set in the same place and time as the events of Final Fantasy XV. The film is about King Regis (the father of FF XV’s main character Prince Noctis) and his personal guard, the Kingsglaive. Featuring Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Aaron Paul.

Overwatch: Recall

Overwatch: Recall

It looks like Blizzard is going to copy Team Fortress 2′s “Meet the…” short films for its own team-based FPS Overwatch. We say keep ’em coming. This first short is about Winston, the fierce gorilla scientist.

Super Parkour Bros. 2

Super Parkour Bros. 2

A few years back, Dark Pixel treated us to a little Super Mario parkour action. Now Mario and Luigi are back to entertain us with more acrobatic antics in their VFX-enhanced suburbs slash Mushroom Kingdom.

Real-Time Facial Remapping

Real-Time Facial Remapping

An international team of researchers have developed Face2Face, an amazing technology which allows an subject’s face to be captured with a standard webcam, then remap their facial expressions onto another subject in a video in real time, with very convincing results.

Real Time Performance Capture

Real Time Performance Capture

A look at the impressive new real-time performance capture technology being used in the making of the console game Hellblade. This allows scenes to be acted out and observed in real time in the game world, accelerating development, and improving creative freedom.

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