
Лучшие дипломы направления CGI & VFX Школы дизайна 2026 года
Every year, students in the CGI and Visual Effects program at the HSE Art and Design School create graduation projects that surprise, inspire, and set a new standard. Before you are the best works from the cohort—projects that have passed through hundreds of iterations and sleepless nights of rendering.
Without you
In a grim, rainy city, a paper man leads a monotonous life, finding solace only in the glow of a household lamp. When the lamp suddenly goes out, the attempt to bring it back to life turns into a loss. In searching for the vanished light, the protagonist sinks deeper into the fog, the rain, and his own despair.
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SLEEPMODE
Three 3D specialists, teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown, navigate a city—absurd and glitching like their software—to make it to their project defense.
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Authors: Arya Schmidt Alina Plishkina Irina Nesterova Igor Gorinin Marina Aterekova
Sun Dancer
A grand and beautiful prince lives in a palace amidst luxury and prosperity. But the illusion of his greatness shatters when the truth about the purpose of his existence is revealed.
Miraculously saved, he loses his perfect appearance and his belief in his destiny. However, falling from the heights of his ambition is not the end of the journey. It is the acquisition of gravity and the first step onto solid ground—the beginning of a new life.
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Authors: Alexandra Agaeva Veronica Berdnik Anastasia Primachenko Maria Semak Victoria Kondratyeva Ekaterina Lukinykh
Kupala Lights
The «Kupala Fires» event draws from the traditions of the Slavic folk holiday. Two girls break its prohibitions, leading to the most unexpected and dangerous consequences.
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Depth of Field
A short thriller about the collision of dreams and reality. The protagonist works at an aquarium and increasingly notices a stranger photographing her.
Gradually, casual photography evolves into an obsession that threatens not only the girl’s personal space but her life.
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Authors: Yulia Loova Diana Pak Elizaveta Bogatenkova Mi Ran Sek Varvara Alekseeva Alexey Sindinskiy
Train
«Sleip» — a short animated thriller where, in the haze of 1950s America, a detective follows the spectral trail of a murderer leading straight into madness…
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Awaken
Prince Siddhartha Gautama, heir to the Shakya kingdom, flees home to see the world. However, he encounters harsh reality and changes his worldview, awakening as the Buddha.
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