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How The Virtual Actors Of Tomorrow Will Take Their Direction
Video: This video promotes a special facial rig that gives a glimpse of just how easy it will be to direct the virtual actors of tomorrow’s movies and video games. The elasticity of skin and muscles demonstrated here is amazing and offers an almost alarming degree of realism.
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This Is What A 3000-Car Race Would Look Like If The Earth Were The Moon
Video: Professional video maker Rickard Rick produces renderings of games in his spare time and this 3000-car race-cum-epic-pile-up is one of his best. The physics are a bit crazy, as if the Earth had the moon’s gravity, but the results have a dream-like quality that makes it fun and hypnotic to watch.
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Watching The World’s Last Ocean-Swimming Elephant Is A Real Delight
This video features the remarkable 65-year-old Rajan, the world’s last ocean-swimming elephant, who lives on a beautiful archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. Rajan, who weighs around 3.6 tonnes, once worked hard carrying lumber between islands, but he is now retired — although he still takes the occasional swim for fun.
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First Ever Point-of-view Video Recorded By A Wild Polar Bear Is So Cute
US Geological Survey’s biologists attached cameras and radio collars to four free-ranging female Alaskan polar bears last April. One of the resulting videos shows one of the bears in action in the Beaufort Sea, checking out a potential mate, swimming below ice, and trying to eat a frozen seal (which is kind of gross.)