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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.
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13 mo on HNThe Beauty of Bézier Curves
Freya Holmér
16 HN recommender · 2021–2026
10 mo on HNEd 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 HNDNA 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 HNCaptain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018
Captain Disillusion
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
5 mo on HNThe Inner Life of the Cell Animation
XVIVO Scientific Animation
5 HN recommender · 2017–2024
5 mo on HNWorld Building in Blender - Ian Hubert
Blender
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HNLearn Low Poly Modeling in Blender 2.9 / 2.8
Imphenzia
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNHow Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNChinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!
Captain Disillusion
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNCD / Color
Captain Disillusion
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNWild 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 HNBlender Motion Tracking - Room Transformation!
IanHubert
4 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNBlender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1
Blender Guru
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNFlight of the Navigator | VFXcool
Captain Disillusion
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNPrius Hybrid Drive Explained
Niels Blaauw
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
Corridor Digital
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNHow does a Bowling Pinsetter Machine work? (Brunswick GS-X)
Jared Owen
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNThey Shall Not Grow Old – New Trailer – Now Playing In Theaters
Warner Bros.
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNStargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009
Stargate Studios
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024
3 mo on HNHow I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks
3Blue1Brown
3 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNClassic Game Postmortem - Another World
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNAnimation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HNSalad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM, Ep1
IanHubert
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNVFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi
Corridor Crew
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNSmoother animation ≠ Better animation [read pinned comment]
Noodle
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNHBO Intro - Behind the Scenes
archivefilms
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HNWhy CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)
RocketJump Film School
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNDisney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing
Walt Disney Animation Studios
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNSatoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
Every Frame a Painting
3 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HN12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)
AlanBeckerTutorials
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
2 mo on HNPhilip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
SamCam2011
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNHow Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV
@HOLLYWOOD
2 HN recommender · 2016–2026
2 mo on HNBack to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)
Captain Disillusion
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024