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GoT: Battle of Winterfell VFX

GoT: Battle of Winterfell VFX

(SPOILERS) We’ve taken a peek at the live-action filming and practical effects that went into the climactic battle in Game of Thrones’ sixth season. But the epic sequence also wouldn’t have been possible without visual effects studio Iloura.

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Humans and vehicles pack and overlap on streets, roads and skies, but everything remains sharply focused. RISD film student Conner Griffith captures the hustle and bustle of urban life in this incredibly creative and mind-boggling twist on time-lapse videos.

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How to Draw a U.F.O.

How to Draw a U.F.O.

The latest short clip from Action Movie Kid sees 4-year-old James Hashimoto living out a popular fantasy, after doodling a chalk spaceship on the ground. Naturally, he had the help of his dad, VFX artist Daniel Hashimoto.

Beakmallusion: Free Energy Devices

Beakmallusion: Free Energy Devices

Holy crap! It’s Beakman! Instead of simply going for cheap nostalgia, the science teacher to millions of ’90s kids helped Captain Disillusion debunk videos that claim to show perpetual motion machines. Beakmaaaannnn

Pool Fart!

Pool Fart!

A teenager outdoes his friends’ swimming pool stunts by letting one rip in the water. The buildup of RocketJump’s short film could’ve been way shorter, but the payoff is worth it. You could even say its special.

Coldplay: Up&Up

Coldplay: Up&Up

Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia’s video for Coldplay’s single combines visuals of real world settings filmed at dramatically different distances. The result is a surreal world in which soccer is played on a sponge, volcanoes spew popcorn, and babies fly on airplane wings.

Mirror Ball Trick Explained

Mirror Ball Trick Explained

Captain Disillusion explains how animator Kevin Parry managed to pull off the seemingly seamless viral video of him playing catch with his reflection in the mirror. In a nutshell, it took multiple takes and painstaking video editing.

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Civil War Weird Trailer

Civil War Weird Trailer

YouTuber Aldo Jones loves to make movie trailers hilariously senseless using visual effects, such as warping characters’ faces and adding extra imagery. Here’s what he did to the last Captain America: Civil War trailer. Tony Stark turning into Lincoln Osiris killed us.

Snapchat Filters in Real Life

Snapchat Filters in Real Life

A Snapchat update lets a man add filters to real life in this silly video by SoKrispyMedia. Losing your face is a huge hassle, but at least he didn’t turn himself into a poop emoji. We’d abuse the rewind effect for sure.

Help

Help

A 360º short film about an alien that crash lands on Earth. It goes on a rampage when a woman picks up the device that came with it. Best watched via YouTube on Android or Google Spotlight on iOS device. Behind-the-scenes here.

NERF Team Fortress

NERF Team Fortress

Corridor Digital and their friends played a round of Team Fortress 2‘s Payload in real life using their cache of NERF guns. They swapped the goals of Red and Blu and there are not enough hats, but the Engineer’s turret is awesome. We give it Half-Life 3/10.

Game of Thrones: Inside the VFX

Game of Thrones: Inside the VFX

While we wait anxiously for season 6 of Game of Thrones to begin, HBO has something to whet our appetites for the time being – a look at some of the amazing visual effects work that goes into the series. That flamethrowing crane dragon stunt was pretty epic.

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Close Encounters of the Drone Kind

Close Encounters of the Drone Kind

Practical VFX artist Joey Shanks shows us how to create cool UFO like effects using an off-the-shelf DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter as his instrument of choice. The trick is all about making sure your lights don’t weigh down the drone too much or throw off its balance.

Animals Being Awesome

Animals Being Awesome

Nukazooka (the new name of YouTuber AndrewMFilms) used visual effects to make a bunch of animal stock footage more exciting. Check out a polar bear lightsaber fight, a web-slinging monkey and more.

The LEGO Touch

The LEGO Touch

A man is visited by the mighty Vitruvius, and is bestowed with the power to turn anything he touches into LEGO bricks. It’s an ability that we really wouldn’t mind having – assuming it didn’t affect our french fries – and we had our shoes on.

Toonocalypse

Toonocalypse

A race of cute and cuddly looking cartoon aliens lands on Earth, which leads some humans to welcome the creatures into their homes. But all is not as it seems in this brilliantly done live-action/animated sci-fi film by Owen Rixon and The 2D Workshop.

VFX 101

VFX 101

RocketJump Film School director Clinton Jones defines the core processes that fall under visual effects, including compositing, tracking, 3D modeling, and the dreaded rotoscoping. The video’s description has links to tutorials for each VFX process.

Every Best VFX Winner Ever

Every Best VFX Winner Ever

With the Oscars upon us, Burger Fiction put together this awesome reel of eye candy which compiles every movie that ever received a nod for best visual effects, from the primitive methods of the 1920s and 30s to the high tech CGI of today, and everything in between.

Chell vs. Gordon

Chell vs. Gordon

We’ve seen the heroes of Half-Life and Portal work together. This time they go up against each other in a battle to see who gets cake. A silly short film by YouTuber AndrewMFilms.

Sky Q Fluid Viewing Ad

Sky Q Fluid Viewing Ad

An awesome CGI animation from Brothers and Sisters in which a moving image from The Avengers is turned to liquid, then moves across the house to another TV to sell the concept of Sky Q’s Fluid Viewing service, which lets viewers resume paused shows on another TV.

Snickers: Marilyn

Snickers: Marilyn

Apparently, the secret to Marilyn Monroe’s beauty wasn’t her genes or her makeup. It was her food. Snickers gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the shooting of her infamous subway grate scene from The Seven Year Itch.

Channel Surfer

Channel Surfer

SoKrispyMedia dabbles in the emerging media of 360º VR video with their latest clip, as our protagonist finds himself trapped inside of his TV set, bouncing between channels with the flick of his remote. Yeah, it’s already been done before, but not in the round.

Inside the VFX: Jurassic World

Inside the VFX: Jurassic World

ILM shares an effects breakdown reel from last summer’s popcorn blockbuster. By today’s standards, it’s a fairly typical, yet still impressive mix of CGI, rotoscoping, and matte work, but the way they did the kiddie rides and the mo-capped raptors is worth a chuckle.

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