Awesome Vfx

CaptainDisillusion is getting so good at debunking, he’s now tackling two lies in a single short video. The cup levitation trick is easier to do, but at least you know it’s a trick. The train track near miss video on the other hand leverages realism for views.

The chefs in this kitchen use some pretty unconventional ingredients, serving up car chases, explosions, angry velociraptors, and more in this awesome ad spot for TV network CANAL+. The spot uses a wonderful mix of CGI and practical visual effects.

The guys at The Viral Factory made skiing even more exciting by enlisting animator Nick DenBoer to fill the course with all manner of deadly obstacles, from dinosaurs, to giant sawblades, to falling meteors. Just one question: when can we play this video game?

At first glance at the crazy flying lounger in this video, we figured it was the work of Colin Furze. Sadly, the awesome hovering hammock is just a well-executed VFX trick in a commercial for Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer. All we can say is: Your move, Furze.

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.

“Narutoooo!” “Sasukeeee!” “Narutoooo!” “Sasukeeee!” RackaRacka promotes Naruto Online in a hilarious live-action battle between Konoha’s premiere rivals that’s filled with inside jokes. And outside jokes.

A cult goes to extremes to “experience a taste of God” in Pierre Michel-Estival’s proof of concept short film. The first 40 seconds are nearly worthless, and the transition to the climax is janky, but what a climax it is.

We had high hopes for Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla, but it had far too little destruction for a Kaiju flick. Japan’s Shin Godzilla makes up for that in spades, as is clear from this VFX reel from Shirogumi and StealthWorks, set to a soothing ambient soundtrack.

Corridor got their hands on a prototype of the year’s most hotly anticipated new toy, the Anki Cozmo Robot, and sent him on a mission to take on an army of angry machines, a couple of which happen to come from Anki’s biggest competitors. Behind the scenes here.

(PG-13: Language) Corridor’s latest video puts its protagonist smack dab in the middle of the obscenity and violence-filled world of Grand Theft Auto after he puts on a pair of schmancy VR goggles, and runs into the real Trevor. It only gets worse once the modders show up.

YouTuber Aldo Jones spent about a month making the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer look freaky. Witness the Empire’s creepiest Star Destroyer, the Death Party Troopers, the Rebel soldier ALF and more.

(SPOILERS) Frame by Frame examines what inspired design and visual effects studio Aaron Sims Creative when it conceptualized the appearance of Stranger Things’ Demogorgon and its bizarro-Earth home, the Upside Down.

Mario, Luigi and Wario jump from planetoid to planetoid to obtain a Power Star. Corridor Digital used a 360º camera to emulate Super Mario Galaxy‘s distinct look in their latest video. Making of here.

Claire & Max’s short film envisions New York City as a giant movie set, its buildings replaced by thin facades of themselves with the help of some super trippy visual effects. Though we’re pretty sure we’ve seen this somewhere before.

The Force. The Jedi… All of it.. It’s all visual effects. Industrial Light & Magic shares some of the work that they did for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including the Millennium Falcon, Starkiller Base and Rey and Kylo Ren’s fight.

We love the juxtaposition of nature and visual effects in director Michał Marczak’s music video for Mark Pritchard’s collaboration with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Pritchard’s original instrumental is about loss, contrasted with Yorke’s vocals about love and hope.

Laika and the cast of Kubo and the Two Strings talk about the painstaking work that was done to make the stop motion world come alive, from piecing together a boat of out tiny pieces to making custom rigs to simulate an ocean.

Filmmaker Patrick Boivin created this all too short video simply described as “The world as a five-year-old boy sees it.” What makes it truly special is how amazingly realistic the toy animation looks. Impressive VFX work, Patrick.

PixelStorm Films latest video envisions what will really happen to all of us once the Pokémon get sick of being captured by our smartphones. It should have served as a cautionary tale, but instead it just made us want that badass Pokéball assault rifle.

Philip Stockton created this brief, but hypnotic experimental short of a cars driving upside-down along Houston Street in New York. We’re not sure if we’re more transfixed by the cars or the thought of eating a hot pastrami sammie from Katz’s.

YouTuber kaptainkristian praises the use of digital animation in Jurassic Park, one of the first movies to convincingly blend visual effects with live action. It found success not by relying solely on software, but by studying real animals and using physical puppets when necessary.

A wonderfully minimal commercial spot for the Audi’s R8 supercar, which focuses not on the car so much as the experiences of its driver, as told by the reflections in his eyeball. Directed by ManvsMachine, with CG eye effects by Analog.

Sneaky Zebra offers up an all-out battle for geek supremacy, with its soldiers equipped entirely by awesome and iconic replica props from sci-fi and superhero series, and a heaping helping of VFX to bring them to life.