Awesome Vfx

Alex Cornell presents a short film about a dystopic future in which civilian territory is monitored by highly intelligent and imperious UAVs with Watch_Dogs-like abilities. Worse, Adobe updates are still around. Dammit.

…also known as “Tekken with Friends.” Rocket Jump visualizes some of the dick moves that we pull off when playing fighting video games. Here’s a tip from Uncle Sensei: download Divekick. Problem solved.

“You wanna pizz-a me?” We know that some sign spinners have mad skills, but Papa Roni’s rep takes it to the next level. And so does Papa Roni himself. Another funny and action-packed short from Corridor Digital.

Big Lazy Robot steps away from frightening glimpses of a grim future with this much lighter but cynical take on the negative and homogenizing effects of technology. Don’t take it too seriously. We all have an iDiot inside of us.

The Four Players is a mini-series by YouTube gaming channel Polaris. It re-imagines familiar video game characters with a darker and more serious tone. You can watch the rest here. The Soldier kicks ass.

Super Power Beat Down pits a Power Ranger against an undead ninja. Tommy was kind enough not to use his giant robot, while Scorpion was kind enough to wait while his opponent summoned his sword. Skip to 4:08 for the battle.

Joey Shanks shows off a simple, yet clever method for creating images of simulated cosmic bodies, using sheets of glass, food coloring, and milk. Our favorite trick is how he uses dust particles for the stars.

Remember the daring carnival trick involving ping pong paddles, a girl and knives? Viral video vigilante Captain Disillusion reveals that the video has two more crucial ingredients: visual effects and a piece of string.

Written and directed by Marcus Stokes, this short science fiction film takes us to a future in which a new energy source designed to solve the energy crisis has deadly side effects, and its inventor goes underground to warn the public.

While the video is a little technical, it’s still worth watching this series to check out the incredible VFX that Unreal Engine 4 is capable of, along with an appreciation for the effort that goes into creating game details we take for granted.

(NSFW: Language) Two cops catch up to their target but quickly find themselves at an impasse. Freddie Wong and crew combine their visual effects comedy with Key & Peele’s punchline-stretching humor.

In the year 2183 Earth has been reduced to a cloud of cosmic dust. A space archeologist uses his time-traveling telescope ship to catch a glimpse of our planet in its former glory. A visual feast by VFX artist Wes Ball.

Keloid isn’t really a short film but a series of loosely connected scenes strung together. It’s filled with bad-ass war machines and creepy living dolls though. A visual feast by VFX studio Big Lazy Robot.

What seem like ordinary aerial shots gradually fragment. Parts of it freeze in time and turn into gigantic photographs. It seems as if artist Theo Tagholm is visualizing the act of watching a video in Plain Sight.

We may have already handed over our lives to Grand Theft Auto V, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still love you, Niko Bellic. Watch as GTA IV’s protagonist drops his phone, and the good times that ensue for the guy who finds it.

Watch a man inside a photograph manipulate his hair, beard and moustache a la Wooly Willy in this excellent reverse stop-motion short by Peter Simon. The song is by Paul Otteson. Take a look behind the scenes here.

Watch a young girl age ever so gradually before your eyes. Anthony Cerniello shot portraits of his friend’s family then had the images animated and morphed together to create this amazing artificial time-lapse. More here.

(NSFW) Director Emile Sornin knows that kids today have the attention span of infants, so he used looping segments ready to be turned into animated gifs or viral Vine clips for the music video of Dizzee Rascal’s catchy UK single.

A visual treat featuring invisible figures in a forest being revealed by bursts of colored powder. Paul Trillo and his crew shot Salience at 1500fps using a Phantom Miro camera. Check out the behind the scenes video here.

(SPOILERS) Check some of the visual effects done by Canadian studio Spin VFX for the third season of Game of Thrones, including Mance Rayder’s camp, the Wall climbing scenes and the shots of the direwolves.

A once advanced civilization is reduced to ruins when a race of supernatural beings deprives man of electricity. This proof of concept for a TV series or feature film is a mix of Western, science fiction and fantasy.

Weapon X goes up against a warrior loaded with weapons and high tech gadgets. But will those gizmos be enough to defeat someone who can literally come back from the dead? Find out in Super Power Beat Down’s latest episode.

While you can now buy your very own Half-Life 2 Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, we much prefer the version that actually picks stuff up – even if it is just through the magic of special effects from the guys at Corridor Digital.