Fantasia-esque Cirque du Soleil Flying Drone Dance Short Film Makes Us Miss Practical Effects in Movies

Hollywood, take note. This magical video is seriously just a few quadcopters cosplaying as lampshades and flying along to an algorithm, and it looks amazing. Can we please have more inventive practical effects back in our movies? This is like Fantasia or Beauty and the Beast come to life.

If you’re looking for inspiration, filmmakers, here’s how they pulled off the scene with absolutely no special effects:

(via The Verge)

Previously in drones

• A Colorado town sadly won’t let residents shoot down drones
• Beer breweries are doing drone delivery
• A hacker created “zombie drones,” thus combining our two favorite apocalypses

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