PickVidsBest Animation & visual effects Videos
The 83 Animation & visual effects videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 7 introductory, 9 intermediate, 67 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Blender, Captain Disillusion, Corridor Digital.
A CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
A 3-minute CGI animated sci-fi short by Dima Fedotov.
Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI
Andrew Price presents at the Blender conference on the problems, politics and possible fixes for Blender's user interface, followed by a full Q&A.
New Blender UI - The Proposal
Blender Guru's Andrew Price proposes a redesign of Blender's user interface, answering the usability problems raised in earlier parts of the series.
Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses Virtual Sets Over Green Screen | Movies Insider
Insider explains how The Mandalorian replaced green screens with LED walls that project real-time 3D environments behind actors, with over half the show filmed on such virtual sets.
Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film
A five-minute CG sci-fi short film by Danil Krivoruchko, based on Peter Watts's novel Blindsight.
Your Body's Molecular Machines
Veritasium short showing Drew Berry's scientifically accurate animations of the molecular machines that drive cell division.
Did We Just Change Animation Forever?
Corridor Crew explain how they made an anime short by filming themselves and running the footage through custom-trained Stable Diffusion models.
Mark Osborne's MORE
MORE is Mark Osborne's Oscar-nominated stop-motion short about a joyless inventor in a drab, conformist society who yearns for his younger days.
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Official Video)
The official music video for Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, taken from Discovery.
"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com
'Pipe Dream' is the best-known piece from the first Animusic DVD, a computer-animated music video in which fantastical machines play music.
Blender and Next Gen: a Netflix Original
Jeff Bell's Blender Conference 2018 talk on how Netflix's animated film Next Gen was produced using Blender.
IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey - Animated Short Film
A 13-minute hand-animated short film that takes a symbolic journey through the unconscious, built around Carl Jung's idea of confronting the Shadow.
Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
A 2013 research demo of simulated bipedal creatures whose natural gaits are found by optimizing muscle-based controllers, with no motion capture or keyframe animation.
ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS 2
Episode 2 of Corridor Digital's Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors, a short film made with AI-assisted animation techniques such as Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth.
CANADA VIGNETTES: LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ | Full Animated Film | National Film Board of Canada
An animated National Film Board of Canada short about a young woman who picks a log driver as her partner because his work makes him a great dancer.
The Mandalorian Luke Skywalker Deepfake
Deepfake artist Shamook's improved version of the Luke Skywalker scene from The Mandalorian season 2 finale, replacing the official CGI face with a deepfake.
The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Official Music Video)
The official music video for The Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar, directed by Michel Gondry.
The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video)
The official 1986 music video for Paranoimia by Art of Noise featuring the computer-generated TV personality Max Headroom.
Badgers : animated music video : MrWeebl
The classic MrWeebl animated music video Badgers, a short looping song of badgers, a mushroom and a snake.
World Builder (high quality)
World Builder is a short film by Bruce Branit in which a man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves.
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated
A video showing a virtual camera built in Blender that simulates lenses and film layers using path tracing, to make physically modeled photographs.
Bumping The Lamp
A one-minute clip from Who Framed Roger Rabbit in which a swinging pendant lamp is bumped and keeps flailing, showing animators' attention to detail.
Big Buck Bunny 60fps 4K - Official Blender Foundation Short Film
The 4K, 60fps version of Big Buck Bunny, the Creative Commons-licensed animated short film from the Blender Foundation.
Real-Time In-Camera VFX for Next-Gen Filmmaking | Project Spotlight | Unreal Engine
Epic Games shows how LED walls can provide both virtual backgrounds and real lighting, letting scenes be captured in camera in a single pass with Unreal Engine.