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.
Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation
David Rosen of Wolfire Games explains how simple procedural techniques can produce fluid, interactive character animation from very few keyframes.
Salad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM, Ep1
The first episode of Ian Hubert's Dynamo Dream series, a one-person sci-fi short made in Blender with a gritty futuristic city setting.
VFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi
Corridor Crew VFX artists react to the visual effects of the 2021 Dune and compare them with David Lynch's 1984 version.
Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [read pinned comment]
Animator Noodle explains why frame interpolation does not make animation better, covering timing, easing, smear frames and using the wrong tool for the job.
HBO Intro - Behind the Scenes
A 1983 behind-the-scenes film about making the HBO 'Feature Presentation' starship logo sequence.
Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)
RocketJump Film School argues that we only notice bad CG while great CG is invisible, so CG seems to be everywhere ruining movies when it often is not.
Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing
Walt Disney Animation Studios' short introduction to path tracing, showing how rays are traced and bounced through a virtual scene to simulate light.
Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting on animator Satoshi Kon and his editing style, which distorts and warps space and time.
12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)
Alan Becker's short series on the 12 principles of animation, covering squash and stretch, anticipation, staging, timing, arcs, appeal and the rest.
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
A Sesame Street animation from 1979 with music composed by Philip Glass, showing geometric circle patterns.
How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV
Pixar staff tell the story of how Toy Story 2 was almost deleted from the studio's computers and was saved by a home computer backup.
Back to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)
Captain Disillusion explains the visual effects behind the Back to the Future trilogy.
The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
This Place argues that the uncanny valley is a flawed concept, since 'human likeness' is too broad and the supporting evidence is cherry-picked.
This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!
Corridor Crew tracks down Disney's lost sodium vapor prism process, used for Mary Poppins-era transparency mattes.
HERO – Blender Grease Pencil Showcase
HERO is a short animated film made entirely in Blender to showcase the Grease Pencil 2D animation tools in Blender 2.8.
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World (Official Video) [Full HD Remastered]
The official music video for Kylie Minogue's Come Into My World, directed by Michel Gondry, built around a looping scene with multiplying copies of Kylie.
YMS: Kimba the White Lion
A roughly two and a half hour YMS video on Kimba the White Lion that investigates the claim that Disney's The Lion King copied it.
🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
Last Day of War is an award-winning CGI animated short by Dima Fedotov in which automated machines keep following orders and prepare a bomber after all humans are dead.
Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)
A 1957 Walt Disney film in which he explains and demonstrates the multiplane camera, the animation tool that gave 2D films depth.
Bill Hader impersonates Arnold Schwarzenegger [DeepFake]
A deepfake in which Bill Hader, impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger on a talk show, visibly morphs into Schwarzenegger.
The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian Season One
ILM shows how The Mandalorian season one used a large curved LED wall to display interactive 3D environments in camera.
Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)
A kinetic typography animation for Jonathan Coulton's song 'Shop Vac', made by Jarrett Heather with Illustrator, After Effects and other tools over 500-1000 hours.
Nuggets
"Nuggets" is a five-minute animated short by Andreas Hykade in which a kiwi bird tastes a golden nugget and keeps chasing the high.
This 30-Year-Old Terminator VFX BLEW OUR MINDS!
Corridor Crew dive into the visual effects of Terminator 2 and try recreating the T-1000 bars scene with modern tools.