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Animation and VFX videos can explain a construction technique, inspect an illusion or represent an invisible scientific process. Choose the purpose before judging an image by realism alone.

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The invisible-CGI essay examines the language used around film production. The WEHI molecular animation has a different purpose: making biological processes visible through a constructed representation. Watch the first to question a marketing distinction; choose the second to inspect how animation communicates something cameras cannot simply record. In each case, separate the image’s persuasive effect from the evidence supporting it.

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An animation is a model, not microscope footage; a convincing film shot is not proof of how it was produced without production evidence.

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