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.
How a Diesel-Electric Locomotive Works
A 3D-animated walkthrough of a heavy-haul diesel-electric freight locomotive, covering the frame, coupling, draft gear, engine and drive systems.
New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
Corridor Digital's comedic fake video of a Boston Dynamics robot fighting back against its human tormentors, made with motion capture and VFX.
a-ha - Take On Me (Official Video) [4K]
The official remastered 4K video for a-ha's 1985 hit, famous for its rotoscoped pencil-sketch animation blending live action and comic-book drawings.
Sintel - Open Movie by Blender Foundation
Sintel is a 15-minute animated fantasy short made by the Blender Foundation to develop and showcase Blender, funded by community donations and released under Creative Commons.
Enemies – real-time cinematic teaser | Unity
Unity's real-time cinematic teaser 'Enemies' from its Demo Team, showcasing HDRP lighting, strand-based hair and an advanced digital human toolkit.
the current state of search engines - music video
A short claymation music video by animator savannahXYZ satirizing how bad web search has become, with SEO spam and ads crowding out real answers.
Shrek Retold - Full Movie
Shrek Retold is a crowdsourced, scene-for-scene remake of Shrek made by over 200 creators, each redoing a short section in their own style.
How I Animated This Video
Animator Joel Haver explains how he makes his short films using rotoscoping and the EbSynth tool, along with the software he uses.
BTTF - Cafe 80`s
A one-minute clip from Back to the Future Part II showing the Cafe 80's scene with Max Headroom-style pseudo-CGI waiters of Reagan, Michael Jackson, and Khomeini.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK : SNAKE PLISSKEN FLIGHT ON TWIN TOWERS
A scene from John Carpenter's 1981 film Escape from New York in which Snake Plissken glides in over Manhattan between the Twin Towers.
New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)
A Corridor Digital parody of a Boston Dynamics promo, showing a CGI military robot trained for combat that goes rogue and refuses to kill a robotic dog.