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Waking up in the Universe: VR

Waking up in the Universe: VR

Ideally, you’ll strap on a VR headset for this, but if you don’t have one, you can still appreciate the ethereal fractal journey that Julius Horsthuis has laid before you, accompanied by excerpts from one of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkinsmost profound lectures.

Unexpected Outcome

Unexpected Outcome

A battery that lights up. An outlet that’s a plug. A pill that’s a screw. Daihei Shibata has an ongoing series of short VFX videos that show ordinary objects with a twist. They originally aired in a Japanese industrial design show for kids called Design Ah!

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Metal Gear LEGO

Metal Gear LEGO

“A LEGO Hind D?!” YouTuber Bearly Regal is recreating Metal Gear Solid‘s Shadow Moses Island in the sandbox game LEGO Worlds. Here’s what he has so far. It’s amazing how simply adding in the PlayStation boot sequence makes it so much better.

Captain Underpants (Trailer)

Captain Underpants (Trailer)

Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms and Nick Kroll star in this animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s beloved children’s novels. It’s about two fourth graders who accidentally turned their mean principal into the non-hero called Captain Underpants.

Strange Beasts

Strange Beasts

Magali Barbe’s sci-fi short film masquerades as a crowdfunding pitch for an augmented reality system that the main character helped create. It’s a game that lets you create virtual pets and interact with them through a pair of displays embedded into your eyes.

Golaem Digital Extras

Golaem Digital Extras

Want to stage a massive battle, fill an empty stadium, or take on a zombie horde? There was a time that you’d need thousands of extras to pull off such epic scenes, Golaem shows us some of the ways their software has been used to make movie, TV, and video game magic.

2017 Unreal Engine Student Reel

2017 Unreal Engine Student Reel

A brief look at some of the fantastic, vibrant, otherworldly, and whimsical environments created by CGI and game development students using the Unreal graphics and gaming engine. Lord of Horticulture is particularly wonderful and charming.

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Doctor Strange VFX Breakdown

Doctor Strange VFX Breakdown

Effects house Framestore walks us through some of the 365+ insane and trippy visual effects sequences it created for Doctor Strange. Were Benedict Cumberbatch and Mads Mikkelsen even in this movie, or were they just their digital doubles?

Editing Animated Films

Editing Animated Films

In live action films, editors come in after (most of) the footage has been shot. But in general, it takes way longer to create additional animated sequences. So instead, animated film editors work before anything is “shot”, helping to polish the screenplay and storyboards.

Arrival VFX Reel

Arrival VFX Reel

Visual effects company Oblique FX share some of the work that they did for Denis Villeneuve’s excellent sci-fi film Arrival. Naturally, the spaceships were computer-generated, but we weren’t expecting the freakin’ grass to be virtual as well.

Rogue One’s Digital Actors

Rogue One’s Digital Actors

One of the most talked about aspects of Rogue One was the digital resurrection of actors as they appeared in 1977. ABC NewsNightline had an opportunity to go behind the scenes with ILM’s John Knoll and his effects team to learn how they pulled off this modern movie magic.

Symphony of Two Minds

Symphony of Two Minds

“Are you hallucinating again?” Director Valère Amirault’s enthralling CGI animated short film pushes the envelope in terms of textures, materials, and lighting, as its protagonists struggle with the very idea of traditional animated genres and presentation styles.

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Majora’s Mask: Terrible Fate

Majora’s Mask: Terrible Fate

In the Lost Woods, a lonely outcast unwittingly unleashes a terrible power unto the world after playing a trick on a traveling salesman. Ember Lab’s stunning animated short film is an incredible homage to The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.

Inner Workings (Trailer)

Inner Workings (Trailer)

The neverending battle between our mind and our heart plays out literally in Disney’s animated short film. Also the lungs are the heart’s sidekicks for some reason. Inner Workings will be shown in theaters before screenings of Moana.

Warcraft ILM VFX

Warcraft ILM VFX

Industrial Light & Magic shares some of the visual effects work that they did for the movie Warcraft. As you may have guessed, it’s basically the entire movie. The Alliance. The Horde. Their hair. All of it.

Overwatch: Infiltration

Overwatch: Infiltration

Blizzard’s latest short film for its hit fps Overwatch introduces the much-hyped support character Sombra (“Shadow”). Sombra uses her hacking skills to manipulate even the highest ranks of authority for personal gain. Boop!

Piper

Piper

A sandpiper encourages her chick to fetch food on her own. With the help of a new friend, the little one learns that if others can do it, she can do it too. Pixar’s animated short was shown alongside Finding Dory and is also included in Finding Dory home videos.

SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne

SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne

The cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s latest expansion is about Vaylin, sister of Arcann and Thexan. As a child, she was so strong with the Force that the Emperor sent her away to be trained, a decision that her mother will forever regret not opposing.

Moana (Trailer)

Moana (Trailer)

The first trailer for Disney’s upcoming film introduces the proud and happy-go-lucky demigod Maui, played by Dwayne Johnson, a band of adorable pirates, and some of the best digital animation we’ve ever seen.

Last Day of War

Last Day of War

It’s been 20 years since all humans were killed in one final war. But the computers in military facilities and vehicles kept on fighting. Dima Fedotov’s CGI animated short is a post-apocalyptic look at nature’s endurance. Check out its prequel here.

The Lord Inquisitor (Prologue)

The Lord Inquisitor (Prologue)

Erasmus Brosdau and his friends have been working on this Warhammer 40k fan film for about 6 years, and the end is nearly in sight. This is the first 8 minutes of the short, introducing us to the cyber-gothic world and its main character, a young and cocky Inquisitor.

Overwatch: The Last Bastion

Overwatch: The Last Bastion

Overwatch‘s latest character profile is about Bastion. Manufactured by the artifically intelligent Omnics to fight humans, this unit was damaged and lay dormant for a decade. Will it follow its programming or realize that its directive is pointless? Twig OP, pls nerf.

Kingsglaive: FF XV (First 12 Min.)

Kingsglaive: FF XV (First 12 Min.)

The opening moments of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV introduces the root of the conflict and Aaron Paul’s character Nyx Ulric, one of the elite soldiers in the magic-wielding kingdom of Lucis. Nyx and his fellow Kingsglaive are strong, but their enemies have machines and monsters.

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