back in the USSR Excellent collection of Soviet television computer graphics from the 1980s David Pescovitz

blender Flexpressions: latest facial animation tech in Blender Rob Beschizza

previs How Marvel Studios locks in most of their movie visuals years before the cast is set Thom Dunn

instanbul Gorgeous video of digitally-enhanced dancers cavorting through Istanbul Clive Thompson

T-rex Watch this guy fold a digital version of an optical illusion origami Andrea James

computer graphics Enjoy a relaxing half hour compilation of rain scenes in videogames David Pescovitz

Uncanny Valley The first 3D animations of a human face are wonderfully creepy David Pescovitz

vfx The short film "Fork" gets real trippy real fast Andrea James

computer graphics Watch the live action shots used to animate the original Mortal Kombat (1991) David Pescovitz

mermaids Disney+ covered up Daryl Hannah's bare butt in Splash David Pescovitz

mechanisms Animated explainer video: how an oscillating fan works Mark Frauenfelder

ghost in the shell The trailer for Netflix's new "Ghost in the Shell" series looks like a 90s kids' cartoon Thom Dunn

Public safety Excellent 1990 electrical safety video for kids starring VOLTON and hallucinatory CGI David Pescovitz

synthetic actors James Dean, dead for 65 years, will star in a new movie David Pescovitz

cgi "Happy Valentine's Day" set to Massive Attack's "Teardrop" Rob Beschizza

computer animation Watch: New Wave TV commercial for Hawaiian Punch with music by DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh David Pescovitz

computer history Kitty: a wonderful early computer animation from Russia (1968) David Pescovitz

deepfakes A fan's fantastic deepfake improvements to the Lion King David Pescovitz

squick Finally, a useful application for augmented reality: rendering virtual kitchen roaches Cory Doctorow

computer animation A delightfully bad US Army animation starring a talking floppy disk (1985) David Pescovitz