Amazing Before & After VFX Breakdown: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is an incredible feat in terms of VFX and a labor of love from director Luc Besson, who was a childhood fan of the original comic. For this epic, alien-filled sci-fi a whopping 2,355 effects shots were needed, which in order to be manageable, were split between ILM, Rodeo FX, and Weta Digital depending on each company's strengths.
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Rodeo FX
Rodeo FX was given the task of creating The Alpha Station in addition to the main spaceship "Intruder" and various space battles.
Rodeo spent a lot of time breaking down concept artwork into individual pieces of architecture, which could then be modeled to start building up what would end up being, a huge library of CG buildings, props, and architectural elements.
These elements were then used to form hundreds of different modules which were the building blocks of every spaceship and building. 10 different modules could be assembled into hundreds of different looking combinations.
Industrial Light and Magic
ILM's main task was the extremely complex "Big Market Sequence" which consisted of approximately 600 shots spread between two worlds, Kyrian and Big Market. Each area within the market was treated and created as an individual set. Working once again from concept artwork, ILM built generic elements such as windows, doors, tables, and props as well as specific elements like stores which were then used to "dress" each individual set.
For the crowds, ILM did a motion capture session to obtain some general movement of tourists window shopping and talking to merchants, this was then used to create different animated sequences over 1000 frames long, containing different groups of aliens. When a character got closer to the camera they switched to Hero animation to create a specific action for the shot.
Weta Digital
Weta handled around 1,300 shots and playing to weta's strengths, these were mainly CG Creatures and a large amount of motion capture for The "Pearl world".
The Pearls are a race "In Sync" with their environment and show their emotions through their skin, which meant that on top of the primary and secondary animation of the characters there had to be a tertiary or even quaternary animation of their skin, in order to accomplish this Weta had to develop a complex skin-shading system.
Around 200 CG creatures were created for the film, many of these creatures' looks were locked down during production enabling Weta to concentrate on the "hero" characters. This was only possible because of the huge amount of concept art, Director Luc Besson had amassed.
In homage to Luc and his previous work, "the Fifth element" Weta added a brief shot of Bruce Willis' flying taxi somewhere in the film.
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[@WendyFilmsTheWorld]

One of my favorite movies. Absolute gem

[@sagarkakadiya7175]

Me tooo

[@cosmicking333]

Like a pro... Sir can u please breakdown... Ready player one.

[@lordgrimixb]

I remember watching this movie and thinking about how cool it was. Made really well.

[@aquariuswithfire]

Cool Easter Egg on Korben's cab! Will have to look for it next viewing.

[@mawasorangutan]

Love this one jaime !!!!

[@marvincerezo8440]

I got goosebumps from the outro

[@arayaentertainment2024]

Hi, epic video

[@lothean2099]

I knew that had to be body caption for the princess, that was such a sexy walk for cgi alone.

[@cienth]

imagine if you have to do this without VFX. thats why I really like fantasy/sci fi. I like looking at great fiction worlds. they are just wonderful. marvel dc any anime narnia avatar star wars valerian space movies. they are just so great.

[@atifaslamofficial8350]

Good video

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Verry nice vfx.amazinh

[@datgohzie]

Wow.. You just do it better man👏👏👏👏

[@MLTAKOS]

Have u done re vfx video breakdowns? 🤔

[@CharlesVanNoland]

I bet a 5th Element / Valerian crossover could be a big success, if they did it proper.

[@Adhykun545]

Imagin the word like that in the real life

[@crazyivan030983]

I do this often... Greetings from Poland :)

[@harpervoldigoad9172]

Me too.

[@syauqiumair2699]

Imagine the World like that in the real life*

[@johanedwartl.h.199]

Real Steel (2011) breakdown vfx please...

[@azddines4077]

you can talk about VFX the flash

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Wow

[@augustinasamuel7636]

Oh. I see

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[@mikesilva3868]

😊

[@viktorcalais3722]

Is it true that the movie bombed at the box office? I am really curious.

[@cienth]

yes. because it was not marketed properly. I havent heard of this movie until 2019. I would have watched it in the cinema

[@miyeongahyeon5458]

@@cienth The only good thing about this movie is the VFX, everything else, especially the acting, is so bad you want to stop watching it.

[@cienth]

​@@miyeongahyeon5458 i dont really see what you said. im going to rewatch it and have a better look. and see if i still think the movie is good.

[@miyeongahyeon5458]

@@cienth I'm sorry I tagged you by mistake. I meant to respond to Victor directly. :)

[@cienth]

@@miyeongahyeon5458 oh no worries. but im still curious as to why a lot people thinks it bad. i have not re-watch it yet.

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What’s the song?

[@DerSchubi]

Monkey Media - Greasemonkey

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@@DerSchubi thank’s

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Movie name

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Valerian and the city of a thousand planets europacorp

[@cienth]

watch it. you wont regret

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Tenet