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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.

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.

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.

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.

Computer graphics artists and technologists are constantly finding new ways to imbue their creations with life, texture and dimension. This highlight reel soliciting submissions for SIGGRAPH 2016 compiles some of the more wondrous CGI submissions from 2010 to 2015.

An awesome CGI animation from Brothers and Sisters in which a moving image from The Avengers is turned to liquid, then moves across the house to another TV to sell the concept of Sky Q’s Fluid Viewing service, which lets viewers resume paused shows on another TV.

Dark Souls 3 brings back the magic meter, adds a more aggressive combat stance, and allows players to be more fluid in combat by making them more agile and giving them weapons such as a small bow and dual scimitars.

ILM shares an effects breakdown reel from last summer’s popcorn blockbuster. By today’s standards, it’s a fairly typical, yet still impressive mix of CGI, rotoscoping, and matte work, but the way they did the kiddie rides and the mo-capped raptors is worth a chuckle.

An abridged look at the life of a proud doorman in Dublin, Ireland, from his first day at work to his last. Damien O’Connor’s animated short film is a sad tale about how we sometimes miss out on certain opportunities because we’re so focused on others.

A mother gives her son what would normally be a welcome gift: a puppy. But the seemingly heartless boy rejects the dog. Jacob Frey’s award-winning animated short film is an adaptation of Fabio Coala’s comic strip about rolling with the punches.

“When you grow stronger the world grows more dangerous.” Our latest look at Laika’s Japanese adventure shows both its dark and lighthearted sequences. Stars George Takei, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

Studio Smack envisions a future in which advertising goes beyond billboards, banner ads, and product placement, and brands devise a technology to invade our dreams with not so subtle promotions for their products. For some reason, we’re craving a can of Coke now.

SkiFree, die hard. YouTuber Andrew McMurry and his friends must have missed Chris Pirih’s memo: no skiing beyond 2000m. We guess the Abominable Snow Monster was the one who uploaded this.

(Flashing lights) “I found myself there a collagin’ with all of the human race, a dancer from Ghana smiling in Tijuana.” The dancing baby is back, and he brought his family with him in the colorful music video for Animal Collective’s fun single from their new album Painting With.

Eager to prove herself, Zootopia’s first rabbit police officer asks the help of a con artist to solve a huge case. The second trailer for Zootopia explains the movie’s plot, but we think it also reveals too much, so we can’t blame you if you skip it.

The second in a series of videos called Polygon Graffiti. Made by Japanese collective AUJIK, the series is a conceptual look at the potential of augmented reality for artistic expression. First video here.

A schizophrenic comes up with a clever way to contain and eventually shut out her hallucination. But the painfully mundane cycle of adult life loosens her screws. But that’s not all. Nah, we’re just trying to laugh our tears off *closes fridge*.

An alien race treasures one of its planet’s minerals because of its faint glow. But one of them finds a strange object that outshines their precious rock. Maxim Zhestkov worked with artists from around the world for a year-and-a-half to create this short film.

From LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls, comes another promising stop-motion movie. Kubo and the Two Strings is about a boy who goes on a quest to retrieve the armor of his father, who was the greatest samurai who ever lived.

A variety of single purpose machines repeatedly perform mundane human activities in Molistudio’s music video for Endless. The song is a single from Monsters, the latest album from Argentinian alternative duo Anybody There.

The stars of The Secret Life of Pets pose for Christmas greeting cards in the movie’s latest teaser. It seems like a typically cute but safe Holiday movie, but that hamster might make you think twice about watching it with your family.

Ad agency Panoply made this irreverent 3D animated short to talk about dopamine and oxytocin. These hormones are crucial in feeling happiness or satisfaction (among other things), but there are healthy and destructive ways to trigger them.

Insomniac’s action platforming duo make their way to the big screen. Ratchet & Clank is about a heroic but brash mechanic, his smart robot friend and a tyrant taking chunks off of planets to make a new one for his race.