Awesome Vfx

(NSFW:Language) Awesomer reader Dennis Liu and friends Ryan Condal and Jonathan Hsu made this sci-fi film about a convenient, yet privacy-invading tech which tracks our movements to reduce crime.

(SPOILERS!) A look at some of the effects made by Pixomondo for the second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. The show bagged the Outstanding Visual Effects at the 2012 Emmy Awards.

A magician transforms a coin into bills from different countries and then some. It’s not sleight of hand, but a mix of video editing and vfx, but it’s still fun to watch. Skip to 5:20 for the trick.

Watch the flashy Avenger at his flashiest in this compilation of Tony Stark suiting up to – and suiting down from – his Iron Man form. The clunky junkyard armor is missing though.

Andrew Mc Murry plays a man who manages to create a true 3D version of Roller Coaster Tycoon. He does what anyone who’s ever played a tycoon game has done at least once: go on a power trip.

Black Moon Studios is back with another “instructional video.” This time they show us how to tell if a plane flying overhead is on a long haul flight. It’s really simple. Impossible, but simple.

Even without board games and videogames, we’ve all managed to entertain ourselves with our impromptu pastimes to make a long trip or boring day more bearable. Video by Ian Bennett.

Delivery guys encounter all sorts of people and situations on the job. But this dude will have one hell of a time explaining to his boss what happened. He should’ve taken the first payment.

If you liked Freddie Wong’s Battlefield 4 videos, check out his latest video. It’s a seemingly straightforward sequence, but the magic lies in the seamless transition between perspectives.

Witness the life of Louis, from childhood to adulthood, through his own eyes. The moral of the story? Don’t spend your entire life in front of a mirror. Just kidding. Check out the making-of here.

Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films is back with another weird and wonderful mash up of amusement parks and commercial districts. This time he uses New York City as the background.

The music video for Justice’s song New Lands. The video has a retro-futuristic B-flick vibe (with shades of Rollerball) that fits the song perfectly. Directed by Barcelona-based studio Canada.

(Spoilers) YouTuber Joel935M used After Effects to add a bit of Star Wars in the battle between Jaime Lannister and Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones, turning their swords into lightsabers.

Corridor Digital is up to their usual visual trickery, altering the world to suit their purposes in this short clip about a camera which can replace portions of the real world with digital images.

Jason Craft used “3D tracking, seamless camera cuts and 3D camera projection” to recreate the mind-bending and space-warping ability of the Portal gun. The gun itself isn’t a prop but CGI.

Inspired by the lotus flower, City in the Sky is a concept for an oasis rising above the “developed and polluted city.” If you ask us, we’d rather have both this and clean cities.

We’ve seen people wage war with cardboard, now watch a battle using weapons drawn with magical chalk in this short film by SoKrispyMedia. It’s like an adult version of Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Freddie Wong’s latest video doesn’t have a story, not even a semblance of a plot. Just a warrior rampaging through Skyrim, as skilled as he is insane, with enough power to stop a meme.

YouTuber ThereIsaCanal imagines gaming on Google’s AR glasses. We were expecting more use of the map and communication apps, but gaming on real-world locations is revolutionary enough.

Digital filmmakers KORB created this unofficial Coca-Cola promo for a competition, taking the drink’s iconic glass and liquid-filled bottle and playing with its form through sound.

Freddie Wong aka F Wong aka F to the W aka Weezy F is back to use his team’s visual effects chops to freshen up a busted up horse, west coast style. The reveal and reaction scenes are spot on.

Vimeo user La Pompadour runs down the English alphabet with names of pop culture monsters. Try and guess all 26 of them. Protip: La Pompadour is quite loose with its definition of “monster.”

The iconic Cartier Panthére brooch comes to life and takes a gem-encrusted VFX journey around the world in this commercial for the company known as “The Jeweler of Kings, King of Jewelers.”