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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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0 mo on HNHow a Diesel-Electric Locomotive Works
Animagraffs
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNNew Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
Corridor Digital
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNa-ha - Take On Me (Official Video) [4K]
a-ha
0 HN recommender · 2014–2021
0 mo on HNSintel - Open Movie by Blender Foundation
Blender
0 HN recommender · 2011–2020
0 mo on HNEnemies – real-time cinematic teaser | Unity
Unity
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HNthe current state of search engines - music video
savannahXYZ
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026
0 mo on HNShrek Retold - Full Movie
3GI
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HNHow I Animated This Video
Joel Haver
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNBTTF - Cafe 80`s
Denkoboy2
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HNESCAPE FROM NEW YORK : SNAKE PLISSKEN FLIGHT ON TWIN TOWERS
Hacene Benmamar
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNNew Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)
Corridor Digital
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024