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Animation & visual effects Videos Recommended on Hacker News (83)

Animation & visual effects is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 83 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 191 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Animation and VFX: 3D animation, Blender, Pixar, motion tracking, compositing, CGI breakdowns, practical effects, virtual production, motion graphics, after effects.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Beauty of Bézier Curves: “it's genuinely one of the best math/graphics/explainer videos ever made” — an HN commenter, 2025.

13 mo on HN

The Beauty of Bézier Curves

Freya Holmér
16 HN recommender · 2021–2026
10 mo on HN

Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

Stanford Graduate School of Business
9 HN recommender · 2010–2017
8 mo on HN

"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview

Blender Guru
7 HN recommender · 2018–2025
8 mo on HN

DNA animation (2002-2014) by Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno wehi.tv #ScienceArt

WEHImovies
9 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HN

"NO CGI" is really just INVISIBLE CGI - 1

The Movie Rabbit Hole
6 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018

Captain Disillusion
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
5 mo on HN

The Inner Life of the Cell Animation

XVIVO Scientific Animation
5 HN recommender · 2017–2024
5 mo on HN

World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert

Blender
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN

Learn Low Poly Modeling in Blender 2.9 / 2.8

Imphenzia
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!

Captain Disillusion
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN

CD / Color

Captain Disillusion
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HN

Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender

IanHubert
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906

Denis Shiryaev
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Blender Motion Tracking - Room Transformation!

IanHubert
4 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HN

Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1

Blender Guru
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

Flight of the Navigator | VFXcool

Captain Disillusion
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN

Prius Hybrid Drive Explained

Niels Blaauw
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HN

ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

Corridor Digital
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

How does a Bowling Pinsetter Machine work? (Brunswick GS-X)

Jared Owen
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

They Shall Not Grow Old – New Trailer – Now Playing In Theaters

Warner Bros.
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009

Stargate Studios
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024
3 mo on HN

How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks

3Blue1Brown
3 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN

Salad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM, Ep1

IanHubert
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HN

VFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi

Corridor Crew
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HN

Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [read pinned comment]

Noodle
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

HBO Intro - Behind the Scenes

archivefilms
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HN

Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)

RocketJump Film School
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HN

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing

Walt Disney Animation Studios
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HN

Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time

Every Frame a Painting
3 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HN

12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)

AlanBeckerTutorials
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
2 mo on HN

Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4

SamCam2011
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV

@HOLLYWOOD
2 HN recommender · 2016–2026
2 mo on HN

Back to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)

Captain Disillusion
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024