Awesome Cgi

In the future, London’s Brixton district will be home to countless robotic workers, living amongst humans, forced to do the jobs they no longer want. Solid social commentary, brilliant CG animation.

Black Moon Studios reminds us it’s not smart to park your car on the railroad tracks. But if you accidentally do, this short instructional video will give you all the tools you need to survive.

Directed and produced by Fabian Grodde, Crossover is quite blatant in its message. But it delivers it in a deft and subtle manner, combining a real miniature setting with realistic CGI insects.

VFX director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan brings us this tale of root vegetables, muscle cars, and little fuzzy bunny rabbits. Yep, it sounds weird. It is weird. But in a good weird sort of way, we assure you.

By taking a gigantic electromagnet and a bunch of pit balls loaded with their own electromagnets, Physalia Studio manages to create the greatest plaything ever. Or it could just be CGI. Still cool.

Tekken Blood Vengeance, the first full CG animation in the TEKKEN series, has a dream team behind it: Digital Frontier production, writer Dai Sato and director Youichi Mouri. (Thanks Jon!)

While we’ve yet to see a video game that looks as good as the graphics in any game engine tech demo, we’re still wowed by the incredible-looking images from this Xbox 360/PS3 gaming engine.

adNAU’s Tino Schaedler and Achim Lippoth combine photography with CG digital landscapes from The Scope to create this Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic world for a kid’s fashion shoot.

On a distant planet, order is the norm. But one little kid has his own idea of how to live, breaking out of his world’s monotony. Quirky, colorful animation and a touching, humorous story to go with.

The bittersweet (and shocking) tale of a boy and his household robot. Written and directed brilliantly by filmmaker Ruairi­ Robinson, and starring Max Records, the kid from Where the Wild Things Are.

Luc Besson is best known for The Fifth Element and The Professional. Here, the director tries his hand at CG animation in a whimsical short film for Renault, which translates to “Extraordinary Breath”.

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world smack dab into the middle of Central Park in Raja Gosnell’s live action-CGI The Smurfs.

Epic shows off more of what UDK can do with DirectX11 – incredible human skin, lighting and reflections, and stunning physics at every turn. We want games to look this good. Now. Watch in HD.

The CGI wizards at Charlex created this brilliantly animated film about a day in the life of a rat who finds himself in an extraordinary situation on his quest for an elusive bag of Cheezy Poofs.

A jaw-dropping short film by creative design studio Charlex. It’s probably part of an Audi campaign, but for now Charlex isn’t revealing anything else. Will Audi be selling transforming cars?

The films of Pixar have always set risen above other CGI movies. by Leandro Copperfield’s 7-minute supercut reminds us why they continue to be the best in the genre they invented.

This live-action/CGI short film was created by Uira Lamour for his graduation project using a Canon 5D, 3Ds max, Vray, Rayfire, Zbrush, Nuke and After Effects. We think he deserves an A+.

Created by CGI artist Alex Roman, every single shot in this photo-realistic commercial for Silestone was made inside a computer, using 3ds Max, V-ray, After Effects and edited in Premiere.

Actually, don’t. Instead, watch this music video for Flying Lotus and maybe it will calm you before you do something so drastic. Afterwards, download all the 3D characters and make your own animations.

Sintel is a gorgeously animated, dramatic CGI short film produced with the free Blender 3D creation suite and other open-source tools by an international team of artists and developers.

James Benson’s project is finally complete. The Red and Blue teams enact an emergency ceasefire to dance to Gonna Make You Sweat. There’s too much awesomeness here for just one viewing.

Created by Weta Digital CG animator Marco Spitoni, this teaser gives us a glimpse into his short fan film based on the Half-Life series. No actual Striders were harmed in the making of this film.

We’re baffled by the half-naked dudes in this short film from Russia, but we’re duly impressed by the computer-generated Transformers animations, built with 3DS Max, Boujou and After Effects.