Awesome Cgi

Researchers from CMU have come up with a way to load 3D models into 2D photos, allowing nearly seamless manipulation of the objects so they look like they’re part of the photo, complete with matching light and shadows.

SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Plankton and the whole gang must leave Bikini Bottom and enter the real world to save their home from destruction. Think Who Framed Roger Rabbit but with sea creatures (and a squirrel in a spacesuit).

Leona, Ahri, Graves, Rengar and Jax go up against Darius, Draven, Zyra, Katarina and Nautilus in this trailer for League of Legends. Imagine what it would be like if there was actually something to announce about the game.

Star Wars fanatic Frank Wunderlich can’t wait until Star Wars: Episode VII drops, so he made up his own “leaked” footage – though his movie takes place at Germany’s Frankfurt Airport, rather than a galaxy far, far away.

A teaser for The Lord Inquisitor, a fan film based on the Warhammer 40,000 franchise. Animator Erasmus Brosdau has been working on the film for about four years – and it looks like it. Check out the first trailer here.

A construction robot happily goes about his duty, until he sees what his fellow robots can do. Director and animator Scott Thierauf presents a funny parable about envy and desire in this animated short.

Animator Walter Volbers imagines what lurks inside the Overlook Hotel’s iconic hallway carpet. The short has a couple of nods for The Shining fans, but it’s still worth watching even if you haven’t seen the movie.

An incredibly lazy interplanetary delivery man unknowingly wreaks havoc on a Liliputian planet and its inhabitants. Johnny Express is a hilarious and wonderfully animated short by Kyungmin Woo of Alfred Imageworks.

This animated short film by Supinfocom student François Heysen follows the story of a robot on a quest to recharge before his battery drains. Unfortunately, his choice of power source is none too happy with him taking what isn’t his.

In this timely commercial for social media management specialist Hoot Suite, the dominant players in social networking are presented in the style of Game of Thrones’ opening sequence. Snapchat is coming.

Construct is a short science fiction film created by VFX/CG supervisor Kevin Margo that showcases advancements in computer generated graphics hardware and software. We’re looking forward to seeing the film in its entirety.

(NSFW) A short film about a detective who can see daemons – creatures that plant ideas in our minds. Comic book artist Rafael Grampá worked with Red Knuckles and Absolut’s Facebook fans to create this cool animated short.

Infiniti Red Bull Racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo go over the adjustments they made to their Formula One car in response to the 2014 rule changes, which focus on fuel efficiency and safety.

A pigeon loses a feather as it escapes from a museum of miniatures. Or not. Ludovic Habas, Mickael Krebs, Florent Rousseau, Yoan Sender and Margaux Vaxelaire made Douce Menace (“Soft Threat”) as their graduation film in 2011.

(NSFW: Language) Patrick walks us through Nomad X while rambling about other stuff. Like why he got punched in the throat. Kristian Andrews’ short film captures a gamers’ psyche without resorting to geek stereotypes.

CGI Chuck Norris trumped JCVD’s real world epic split. YouTuber Linh Mai is here to even the score. The next time you look at the calm, peaceful and star-filled night sky, you won’t be able to stop yourself from chuckling.

The award-winning visual effects studio Framestore gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work they did for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. Watch and you’ll wonder why the movie isn’t classified as as animated film.

Smooth surfaces. Perfect shapes. Palette swaps. Movable light source. Exploded objects. Green screens. Glitches. Copy. Paste. Edit. Synthesized. Created. Alan Warburton’s Spherical Harmonics is a surreal exhibition of the nature of CGI.

A normal day in the life of Louis XIV and his nobles in 17th century France. Except they’re  chickens. A la Française (“in the style of the French”) is a hilarious animated short made by former Supinfocom students.

A short video uploaded by Chris Jones. Let’s just say the eye doesn’t belong to him and leave it at that. Saying any more will render the video useless. Watch and you’ll see what we did there.

Watch out Flappy Bird. Independent game developer Coffee Stain Studios presents the next big thing in gaming. Or not. They were just fooling around with “programming stuff” and decided to make this video.

The primary reason to watch Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, packed in 10 minutes. YouTuber Tunglebrek compiled most of the transformation sequences from the first three movies in one video. Uncompressed copy here.

The dream of the 90s is alive in Volans. Talented digital artist Murat Sayginer made this psychedelic short film. It reminds us of the videos used to demonstrate graphics cards back in the day. It’s kitsch in HD, and it works.