Awesome Cgi

This 3+ minute reel of polygonal meshes, metaballs, fluids, and tearable fabric animations was all created with the new emPolygonizer2 plug-in for Softimage. CGI geeks, geek out!

Like computer-generated imagery? Hold onto your socks, because they’re about to be knocked off. These incredibly dynamic visuals were all created using the new Lagoa particle physics framework.

Coder Eskil Steenberg used the physics capabilities of the Unreal Engine to render this mesmerizing video, in which a stack of inanimate bricks come to life with incredible choreography.

Jamie Martin created this conceptual 3D animation of his Cybernetic Remote Autonomous Barricade (or C.R.A.B., for short) robot. We definitely wouldn’t want to run into this thing in a dark alley.

Kaktus Film’s Mega Robot animation is only 24 seconds long, but the incredible photorealism in this short clip gives us new-found appreciation for CGI artists. Kaktus, feature-length flicks, please!

Inanis Aedes, or House of Emptiness, is a very zen 2 minute full CG video about a quiet place in which Movement has many faces, created by French students Meradi Omar and Roussel Beranger.

French creative house Digital District shows off their many talents in computer-generated VFX and animation in this stellar demo reel. Bonus points for the catchy backing track by We Have Band.