Awesome Vfx

Freddie Wong tends to make a mess of his dates. He wants a sure fire way of getting out in case he screws up again. He turns to Lucius Fox for help. He should have taken dating tips from Bruce Wayne instead.

Like fellow Japanese giant Sony, Honda lives and dies by its engineers. The company pays tribute to its most prized assets in this simple but powerful commercial. If only inventing stuff was this easy.

A short film that both depicts and serves as a metaphor of breakups. The brief dialogue is overly dramatic, but you won’t notice or care because of the film’s constant motion and tricks. At once hilarious and heartbreaking.

A trainer shadow-boxes with a huge robot that mimics movements, like the ‘bot in Real Steel. The hunk of steel should require his trainers to know about a thing called “reach”. Made by students at the Platige Academy.

(NSFW, Gore) The Merc with a Mouth goes head-to-head against the Dark Knight in Super Power Beat Down’s latest episode. Skip to 2:25 for the battle. Their production is top-notch, but we didn’t care for the Catwoman scenes.

(Gore) A band of unlucky – but also dim-witted – hunters encounter an opponent way out of their league. Village elders, heroes and hardened gamers tremble at the mention of his name: Dark Link.

Capt. Falcon, Link, Ness and Solid Snake duke it out. YouTuber pwnisher and his friends worked for a total of a year and a half to make this live-action version of Nintendo’s hit brawler.

Superman decides to teach a criminal a lesson he’ll never forget. Or recover from. If you think about it, the thug is pretty strong. We would’ve been atomized instantly.

Corridor Digital made an exciting live-action version of the Spies vs. Mercs multiplayer mode in Splinter Cell: Blacklist. The Mercs have better weapons, while the stealthy Spies bounce around the map. Who will win?

Daniel Sierra’s thesis animation for his MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Daniel wanted to illustrate the fact that all sound can be broken down into sine waves. More on his website.

Darth Vader hunts down two unlucky Jedi in The Stunt People’s follow-up to their viral hit. If you want more, pledge to their Kickstarter to help fund a mini-series. Best watched in full screen and high-def with headphones on.

This video is the centerpiece of RIT student Michael Lacanilao’s attempt at starting an urban legend – that somewhere on the RIT campus, there is a space-bending stairwell that was made by a mysterious architect.

ABE was programmed to love. Unfortunately, he expected to be loved back. There’s nothing like a good psychopathic robot story right before bedtime. Sweet dreams. Written and directed by Rob McLellan. (Thanks Thane!)

One of the funniest shorts we’ve seen in a long while. A retired Russian spy gets a chance to rectify a mistake he made when he was still in service, when he so ineptly and hilariously lost a top secret device.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) A group of friends unwittingly summon a demon using a Ouija board. A perfect, tight horror short directed by Anthony Melton. Part of the Bloody Cuts series.

(NSFW: Language) Commander Bolt Lightning embarks on a suicide mission in this live action short. Made by Corridor Digital to promote the out of left field fps Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. For best results, do not watch in HD.

A trippy short test video from The Old Mill in which they use motion tracking to lock the frame onto the moving tennis ball as the subject of the clip. We’re not sure exactly how they pulled it off, but this clip was the inspiration.

(Spoilers, Gore) Effects house Stargate Studios shows off their brain-bashing, head-chopping, limb-removing, blood-spraying VFX chops in this reel of some of the insane zombie kills seen in The Walking Dead Season 3.

Corridor Digital shows that they can do horror too. Maybe that wasn’t their intention, but we’ve always been creeped out by these kitschy crafts supplies. Well, guess we’re not sleeping tonight.

A major battle erupts between the guys from Sneaky Zebra, but all they’ve got to work with are props from various science fiction and fantasy flicks. No guns, knives or fists here.

The latest from Legacy’s Grzegorz Jonkajtys, this short is a test reel for a feature film about a woman trapped in an abandoned uranium mine, and the horrifying occupants of the creepy caves.

We’re not sure if we’re more hypnotised by the ethereal sounds or sights in The Aprons’ music video for Sound Time, its forest filled with a delicate crystal menagerie, brought to life by 40 animators.

A gang of tiny thieves meet their match in the latest video from Corridor Digital. The song is Wildstyle by Savant. The behind-the-scenes video is equally – if not more – entertaining.