Design, Graphics & Visual Media
Animation & visual effects
Animation & visual effects sits within Design, Graphics & Visual Media. Look for the decisions connecting visual results, creative tools, and the experience of an audience. This selection contains 83 catalog videos from 62 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.
Recurring catalog topics include animation, blender, vfx, short film, anime and 3d animation. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, music, other, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.
“The Beauty of Bézier Curves”, listed under Freya Holmér, is cataloged as explainer. Freya Holmer explains how Bezier curves work, from the helper-line construction to their uses in animation, text rendering and shapes. It uses visuals from her Unity Shapes plugin and was a SoME1…
“Classic Game Postmortem - Another World”, listed under GDC Festival of Gaming, is cataloged as talk. Eric Chahi's GDC 2011 postmortem of Another World (Out of This World), describing how he built the game. He shows his polygon art approach, rotoscoping and animation tools.
83 videos
Talk
Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018Captain Disillusion
Documentary
How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars TechnicaArs Technica
