VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 46

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[@CorridorCrew]

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[@datacorz]

Warner Brothers : "We got a moustache problem." Netflix : "Hold my Tig."

[@hellfish2309]

12:50 “the edge blur is a little strong…” No my friend: that’s every … single… frame

[@TheAtaraxy]

We need the Delia cut

[@hellfish2309]

@@TheAtaraxy no thanks… I just don’t think he’s that funny

[@sirbak3d316]

I love you talking about spirits within

[@TheLastWhiteKid]

Tig Notaro might be funny, but she delivered the dialog like a brick watching paint dry. I could tell the lines were supposed to be funny, but goodness it was awful. I really think Chris Delia would have delivered those lines much better. Absolutely hilarious guy.

[@johnsaltfresh5946]

I feel like when wren is trying to figure out how a specific shot is done, he look like he just discovered fire with that look in his eyes lmao

[@hornaceka]

Wren is so animated.... How about another render challenge.... Making not only Wren more animated like in Tom and Jerry or Looney Toons, but.. Everyone? Lol! I can see cartoon characatures of the team already.

[@johnsaltfresh5946]

@@hornaceka lmaooo, that would be amazing

[@lamaidalaakapinkcrocodile7527]

fake overreaction

[@krystoferbelknap806]

Anytime a CG human appears: "SUBSURFACE SCATTERING, IT'S WHEN LIGHT DOES THE THING THAT DOES THE THING TO YOUR SKIN, THING"

[@owengrady]

it's also really easy to overdo. this type of lighting only really happens in real life when you have a light source extremely close to your skin (otherwise it becomes a silhouette).

[@klystron2010]

@@owengrady It makes you look like wax.

[@ArthurNunes29]

Not me. I think “THE POURS STRETCH!”

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

@@ArthurNunes29 Pores and subsurface scattering are like the fundamental things that accidentally turn CG humans into uncanny valley nightmares. They're such such subtle things that nobody thinks of them, but they're so important.

[@LewToons]

The guests are incredible, but episodes with just niko/wren/clint/sam are just so much more technical and fun. Either way, thanks for the awesome breakdowns!

[@coldspark290]

Absolutely ! it gets more formal when there is a guest

[@CapricornOnTheCob]

Special Effects: Mad Max Fury Road. The behind the scenes content on that film is incredible.

[@ThePapaBear15]

Check out some of the older vfx reacts. They've talked about it before.

[@zbgames5167]

They did that in a older episode it is really cool tho

[@KingYugiMotto99]

@@ThePapaBear15 special effects is different from visual effects. Special effects is explosions and costumes and make up

[@Ducks4lif3]

That movie is the best fever dream I've ever had

[@59rustyninja95]

It would be a good segment for a stuntman reacts, if they didn't have one of them when they covered it before. Most of the big scenes in that movie was practically done, with real explosions and people doing those stunts.

[@CinecomCrew]

Haha, thanks for using one of our videos 😎 Big fans over here!

[@PanginooTV]

JUST WHEN IS THE COLLAB GONNA HAPPEN

[@Gundam_JAY]

Oh... uh.. didn't expect you to be here... how uh... how you doing

[@ABDESSELAMYasserTakieEddine]

For a moment I was like "What's Jordy doing here?"

[@hehedagu9880]

Lol

[@kunalnature]

Hi Jordy!!

[@jorgecortinhal7654]

I BET Zack would love to come at your vfx breakdowns one day, he really is acessible to fans and youtube channels

[@cobybates8736]

Zack Snyder?

[@cobybates8736]

If so that would be amazing

[@samuelbonell8850]

Zack Snyder?

[@samuelbonell8850]

If so that would be amazing

[@gisdings]

Zack Snyder?

[@paulnorris1]

You should React to Loki interacting with Miss Minutes

[@jamesgrimes4587]

They did! Unsure which episode...

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It's impressive how much ingenuity went into movie scenes back then just to shoot one scene

[@dyfx9788]

its funny because i read this comment while watching the mustache part ok ill stop

[@calebblevins6415]

And that some of them did it for the entire film.

[@Janzer_]

in a way, in a way, in a way

[@ArifRWinandar]

Imagine if these movies were made because some special effects people figured out a cool new special effect and made an entire movie around it.

[@emalietison]

We may be saying that about unreal 5 in 49 years....

[@julianwass]

That’s my mother (more specifically my mother’s’ stunt double) getting dragged across the courtroom. Being there that day as a little kid was one of the ultimate highlights of my life

[@bavarianbanshee]

That's super cool! I bet it was awesome to see all of that going on

[@helenl3193]

That's amazing!

[@h2o21075]

HA HA 6:45 the quote to say "it's kinda fun to pick on one shot." then the camera pans and goes completely out of focus on Ren

[@shazzaisdabest1]

I loooved Final Fantasy: Spirits Within as a kid. That movie was like an amazing mind blowing thing to me

[@bongotezz]

Non CGI special effects - Dead Alive. It's one of Peter Jackson's early movies and it's great.

[@uklcourses9636]

Oh yes. It is so good.

[@maximeteppe7627]

dead alive is such a generic title. It's known as Braindead outside of north america, which sells the juvenile goofy nature of it a lot more.

[@huntershaw8263]

Excellent suggestion

[@KernelLeak]

Bloodiest movie ever at the time... :)

[@Sportsvee]

Bad Taste, thats a great one by Peter Jackson 😁

[@firefly5247]

YOU GUYS FINALLY TALKED ABOUT FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN!! One of my unironic favorite movies.

[@thejumbo]

Just watched it on bluray again after not seeing it for a few years - clearly dated, but has some amazing visuals.

[@eldragonball14]

Big yikes

[@bboyhanvzla]

@@thejumbo that and advent children were excellent movies, but the one they made for ff15 was...so so, like, just ok.

[@uklcourses9636]

@@bboyhanvzla I think Advent Children was like 10 times better than Spirits Within

[@fbi9490]

@@uklcourses9636 At least in terms of CGI.

[@raykim8519]

Terminator 2 has some amazing practical effects as well. Including hiring Linda Hamilton's twin sister to do a mirror shot with arnold while hamilton did some surgery with dummy arnold's skull. Also very interesting use of background projection throughout the film especially in the opening future scenes. I don't know if you covered it already on this channel but might be worth looking at.

[@paulcochran1721]

A couple car stunts you could check out come to mind: The bridge jump in "The Man With The Golden Gun" and the car roll near the end of "McQ".

[@hmmmmmmm69]

We still need a VFX Artists react to Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil. That movie has some of the best FX to date, and i think a lot of them are practical, not so much CGI.

[@andrewpayne5093]

Well then shouldn’t they have special effects artist react to it ?

[@hmmmmmmm69]

@@andrewpayne5093 VFX can be Digital or practical.

[@calebmccoy9685]

The scene where one of the students gets impaled on a log while running away is a crazy vfx shot to me.

[@SDXStudio]

HE FELL RIGHT INTO THE WHOOD CHIPPER That scene gets me every time

[@arvidp.247]

@@andrewpayne5093 They litrally asked for non-CGI special effects at the end of this video.

[@WilliamBurnett]

Never mind the dragon's neck, RDJ's "Welsh" accent there is the jankiest effect in movie history.

[@rhymingreason]

Haha, reminds me of Tom Hanks in the godawful "Ladykillers" remake; A-lister: "I was thinking of playing the character like this." Director: "I... I don't think that's..." A-lister: "Sorry, I meant, I AM playing the character like this." Director: "yes sir."

[@mixmastermind]

@@rhymingreason yes because the Cohen brothers have never used over the top accents in any of their other films

[@FunZies.]

That's Welsh?!

[@WilliamBurnett]

@@FunZies. so it has been claimed 😂

[@maodijong3661]

Lool I couldn't figure out where he was supposed to be from

[@robertsharp1312]

Hey Wren, what about checking out some of the practical effects of the silent era of film. My favourite is from The General a Buster Keaton film, where he sits on the front of a moving steam train and throws a railway sleeper at another sleeper that would de rail the train. Blows my mind everytime

[@andreaszollos6772]

They reacted to that shot in a Stuntmen React episode

[@robertsharp1312]

@@andreaszollos6772 must have missed it!

[@jypsridic]

I've been watching the show Leverage for the last few weeks, and when I got to the opening of Season 4 Episode 3 "The 15 Minutes Job" I couldn't help but burst into laughter and immediately think of you guys. It is priceless.

[@Toberumono]

One thing to note: the reason that trailers for Final Fantasy games look so good is because Square Enix kept the studio that made Spirits Within open and they kept improving. So, the reason that those trailers look like they could be from movies is because they literally could.

[@santishorts]

Not completely accurate. Square Pictures, the studio that made Spirits Within, only ever made one other thing and that was the short "Final Flight of The Osiris" for The Animatrix. After that Square Pictures pretty much closed shop. Contrary to popular belief, the studio was not based in Japan, it was based in Hawaii and some of the people there may have moved on to work on (then) Square and thus on some of the Final Fantasy cutscenes of that era (post 2003). But Square Pictures as a studio very much ended probably not long after The Matrix project was done.

[@Toberumono]

@@santishorts I raise your not quite with another not quite! Square Pictures was folded into consolidated subsidiary of Square called Visual Works. While it is almost certainly the case that the majority of original staff were fired, the technology investment was more what I was concerned with.

[@santishorts]

@@Toberumono Sure, they definitely kept the tech developments achieved in Hawaii and likely applied those even on other subsequent movie projects like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

[@hazonku]

Ultimate special effects film, Bram Stoker's Dracula. The whole thing is a love letter to classic film making techniques and anything the could do in camera they did. That miniature of the train with the shadow falling across the journal entry in the foreground blew me away as a kid and still ranks as one of my top 10 miniature shots. They used a combination of miniatures and bigatures to get that. Also Slice of Life, a Blade Runner fan film that looks super legit deserves a look. They used a lot of miniatures and projection for that.

[@iloveanimation99]

Maybe I am remembering another channel but I think they’ve gone into all of that on a previous episode. Agreed though, that movie is incredible in terms of visual effects. Never seen slice of life, that sounds cool.

[@SoCloseToToast]

@@iloveanimation99 Red Letter Media just did a video on it. Maybe that?

[@reikun86]

@@SoCloseToToast I was thinking of that too.

[@dfiddler7067]

Came here to suggest this movie!

[@KevRyanCG]

I was just thinking this, and it was absolutely because Red Letter Media did the re:view episode of it.

[@DanteYewToob]

Anyone else love how Niko says “Draygun” as much as I do? Haha “Draaaygon! That’s a good looking Draygun.” lol I don’t know what accent he has but I like it.

[@ShapeGSX]

I’d love to see you guys review the Special Effects in “Dark City”. It’s an incredible movie with some crazy building warping effects.

[@CatskillOne]

UE5 really held up to its “billions triangles” promise. The future of gaming is ambitious, given we have the storage and RAM space for it

[@MrProthall]

Now if only the studios that can take advantage of it would also make games that aren't generic jank, that'd be great.

[@LetsTakeWalk]

With UE5, storage and RAM would have a better time, because the memory load would be reduced.

[@Volker_A4]

Everyone is gonna have 64 gb of RAM in 2 years. 32 will be the new 8

[@ZacDonald]

The demo is 25 GB packaged, with 75% of the space being used for textures, Nanite and Lumen really doesn't use much storage, ram, or vram.

[@cikame]

It's not something that can be utlizied by modern systems, these are future technologies.

[@Tores444]

One of the coolest things about working background in Army of The Dead was being scanned to be used in the wide/panning shots! And Snyder was really nice to everyone too.

[@SpacecraftNoob]

I rewatch final fantasy spirits within every 2 or 3 years it was amazing as a child.. I would love to see you guys work your magic and see how you could bring it into the modern day..!

[@christphern]

I love the irony of showing Ghostbusters 2016 as an example of how they’d do it all with cg, considering that most of the ghosts were practical effects, particularly real people on set, that were enhanced later with cgi.

[@katevgrady]

Were they really? What a waste, it all ended up looking cg in the end :/

[@christphern]

@@katevgrady I don’t really agree that they all look CGI, but yes, as far as I know, if they looked like a human ghost, they were an actual person on set. They put LED strips under the costumes to illuminate them, and then CGd to remove the strips and add effects to the ghosts like skeletal structures and distortions (Gertrude for example was a person on set, but then they CGd to distort her face rather than use a mask). Only ghosts like Mayhem, the Slimers, Rowan, and the balloons were fully CG that I’m aware of. Granted most of it could have been done like the old films and had people in suits, but it’s so much easier to do CG for monstrous characters, and allows you to get away from human anatomy a bit easier. Fun side note, the lady Slimer was added to give Robin Shelby, the actress that played Slimer in GB2, a role in the film.

[@pferreira1983]

@@katevgrady Yeah and they still didn't look good at all. 😆

[@jamfilmsofficial]

not joking. Corridor should try to make a video with the 80s vfx technology at least once. we all know that they know many techniques. I hope corridor reads my comment.

[@troyb78]

I second this! Would be great to see them experiment with some legacy tech.

[@thecognacsipper]

they did something like that, but only created a static image each if I remember correctly

[@thecognacsipper]

was a featuring with Linus Tech Tips if I'm not mistaken

[@Mega13ist]

Captain D does exactly this but better.. Way better

[@jasonblalock4429]

The tricky thing about that is that everything in the 80s was bespoke. There were no standard apps. There were no plugins. Every studio had their own software and workflows, based around now-ancient "supercomputers" like Crays. I'm not even sure how you'd recreate that in the 2020s.

[@suparman1996]

I'm curious to see a break down of the Ghost Rider scenes in Agents of SHIELD. For a TV series, even Marvel, I think every scene he's in was made so well, a lot of which were in the day.

[@mariabobia69]

ghost riders in agents of shield??

[@TK_Brainslug]

@@mariabobia69 yepp in season 4

[@binglybingler2598]

@@mariabobia69 it's the one with the car

[@JustKrin]

You also need to take into account that he wasn't in Disney + Marvel, he was in ABC Marvel. For a cable tv show he looks incredible

[@T_theTrain]

I feel like there were lot of great vfx shots in that show but this one was really good too.

[@manuelgutierrez9314]

"the one" with Jet Lee has some great special effects for its time! Also two great Russian films that I thought you guys would appreciate are night watch and day watch also so pretty interesting special effects!

[@TheEplestugas]

Hey, you should take a look at the visual effects of the "scary movie"s. The filmmakers reproduct a lot of famous scenes withe a much lower butget. It would be interesting if you talked about the different ways to aprouch effects in this context.

[@wilberforce95]

I love the fact that Chris D'Elia was just scrubbed from Army of the Dead and replaced with Tig Notaro, and so expertly as well. Lmao

[@phoenixdzk]

The real-time lighting in UE 5 is insanely good. I really want to see a Gears of war game made with this tech Snyder did a fantastic breakdown of how accurately he had to move the camera around to match the actor's replacement. That's some seriously great work

[@hazonku]

The real time lighting is great but the shadows are what blew me away. They just don't bother re-rendering shadows that don't change in any given frame and that's brilliance in efficiency. Shadows are essentially just the edge and a whatever changes beyond that. Leads to some super jank falloff especially on thinner shadows but I'm sure folks'll figure out ways to address that.

[@jcm2606]

There's actually a number of teams working on improving shadows by combining raytracing and shadow mapping to form a hybrid solution, where only the edges are raytraced (to provide high detail and the potential for multiple layers of shadow casting objects) and the insides are shadow mapped.

[@FranklinKirby]

This episode blew my mind! I always loved your work, but this one?!.. Wow! Just wow!!

[@renderpeach]

Truly mind blowing what workflows were taken to complete the original Ghost Busters... Magical.

[@PikaPetey]

You should look at older movies like "Forbidden planet"

[@Craftlngo]

particularly the attack of the Krell Monster on the flying saucer, quite at the end of the movie.

[@rap401442]

Totally!!

[@CorridorCrew]

Funny you mention that... ; )

[@ghostderazgriz]

@@CorridorCrew You scoundrels

[@Yesthatsmyfirstname]

@@CorridorCrew kzbin.info/www/bejne/naDSiJeZa9CVbpI how did he do this?? This is awesome, I'd love to see a breakdown

[@brixn2302]

Have they done "Love, Death+Robots?" It's all CGI. Some of them are pretty photorealistic

[@DeanS946]

also live action and mocap.

[@CHASEMAIL]

The Werewolf one was my favorite.

[@muffinman3052]

boosting

[@MYPOWERSTATION1]

Found you guys on Saturday while searching Blender toutorials and have been binging since. Always been interested in movies and the process. Great Channel.

[@thesoupin8or673]

You should totally do the scene from In The Heights where they dance on the side of the building! The transition to that was smooth af, and they also have a shot where the camera looks out through a window at the two of them dancing on the window so you're seeing the bottom of their feet. As soon as I saw it I thought "yup these guys have got to talk about this, I'll bet there's some material here." Love your work!

[@MelangeToastCrunch]

Pretty insane how we’ve really got to the point where real-time video game rendering has approached the level of the pre-rendered shorts you’d see at someplace like Blur Studios. What a time to be alive

[@julianjiminian4792]

Love death and robots on Netflix blew my mind. With great cg work, varied animation styles, and ability to get you fully invested in a story quickly kept me hooked until I finished them all.

[@ghostface1529]

my favorite part of Ghostbusters is the fact that nearly every ghost is a dude or a set of dudes in a puppet of the desired ghost and have the blue screen for the background and to get them to look like ghosts they use a plethora of 80s and 90s digital effects to make a puppet look all misty and glowing and semitransparent on screen that's what makes the iconic Ghostbusters so real feeling is that they use zero CGI which was available at the time in the shooting of the movie it's all practical effects that have 80s and 90s digital effects to make puppets look like real ghosts making the movie much more believable cause it looks so real on screen and realism is something you can't fully get with CGI

[@c1dv1c1ous]

This whole episode was mind blowing from ghost busters to Tig in army of the Dead. I recently watched that movie and had no idea. Just wow!

[@mojitomaker]

Niko’s wrap up on structured effects shots delivering a more “theatrical” experience is so true. When do don’t have to commit, and the vfx aren’t as hard, the story and the effects aren’t as connected. (M Bay)

[@pillemcphilsen8529]

When he said Dolittle clips into the dragon, I imagined him doing a colonoscopy.

[@MarsUtlaga]

Doesn’t he actually do that to the dragon?lmao

[@LobbyDaLobster]

@@MarsUtlaga He basically does. And then the dragon farts on him.

[@mjj69]

No you didn't

[@stopjakeproductions7426]

You guys are the ones who got me wanting to work in the film industry. And I am very thankful for that😁

[@nashmalkav1]

i watched the entire series in the last 3 days just to see if you talked about FF Spirit within. keep the awesome work

[@1zlotymovie]

I gave up after a year of asking, but decided to come back. Someday someone will notice me! I believe a single voice has a chance: SPIDERMAN 3: The Birth of Sandman Scene

[@sid4374]

Yes please!

[@apemayor3046]

this

[@user-qv2mx4yo1m]

Joss and WB: can't deal with this moustache Snyder and Netflix: *O B S E R V E*

[@kasbt]

It’s Snyder and WB still.

[@jacobdennison968]

The insertion of Tig Notaro into Army of the Dead was SO COOL to see now that I’m learning more about VFX!

[@Kevinerino]

You should react to Waterworld from 1995! Insane real effects used and how they have such a huge physical set on water!

[@vmgiceman]

Special effects: “Great Muppet Caper” - Ms. Piggy and Kermit biking in the park “Darby O’Gili and the Little People” - big dance scene

[@CsongorVarady]

They should do a whole puppets extra episode, including the Muppets with some puppet expert.

[@thejumbo]

Special Effects: The fight between RIPLEY and the ALIEN QUEEN at the end of ALIENS. It's a master class in SFX.

[@johnsensebe3153]

That puppet is so convincing!

[@zakattack1362]

Most of the franchise has impressive SFX, would love if they broke it down

[@hazonku]

@@johnsensebe3153 Especially considering they had just the one and had to put it back together overnight for a retake of the airlock shot. Any reasonable shoot would have had a stunt model but they just didn't have the time and money and had to use the hero which fell through the "starfield" blanket underneath & busted on the concrete below.

[@thejumbo]

The seamless swaps during the sequence between full size and miniature is really tremendous, and not only speaks to the skill in fabrication and direction, but editing and sound effects..

[@tristanjohn1733]

Watching the army of the dead I had no idea they replaced that actress until this reacts episode, Great work on the studios part and a fantastic eye on your part, very well done 👌🏼

[@DexG23]

Would definitely like to see your takes on Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

[@ob1slam]

I feel like if Zack Snyder saw this vid, he's the type of guy who would actually make the effort to make a vid with them. He's been on plenty of other KZbinrs vids, who have a much smaller subscriber base.

[@foxhound13]

Yes! Please get him. I think he would have fun with you guys.

[@TheJanvicgwaps]

VFX artisits reacts ft. Zach Snyder.. How dope is that.

[@whyequalswhat]

He seems like a cool dude. Shame he sucks ass at making movies.

[@siegeplays6859]

@@whyequalswhat what was the point of making this comment?

[@benjamingiddens6758]

For real. He’s done so many podcasts with small time youtubers

[@thryceberry]

I didn’t notice at all that she was added into the movie they did such a great job!!

[@jbl0ggs]

I didn't either, but what was the purpose of going through all that instead of hiring an actor who can be there for all the filming?

[@Sequalsgoon]

@@jbl0ggs Chris D'elia was there for most, if not all of the movie (I don't know how much for sure), but then he got accused of a bunch of shady shit, allegedly underage teens, etc. and they scrapped him from the movie and instead of reshooting a TON of stuff, they replaced him digitally.

[@Coccosnuts]

@@jbl0ggs they had to replace the actor who actually was there on set. Chris D'Elia. After the movie was shot, but before it was released, he was accused of sexually soliciting underaged girls

[@thryceberry]

@@jbl0ggs apparently the actor they had they fired because he had a lot of sexual assault accusations against him

[@johnpoo1662]

@@thryceberry probably all untrue, as usual.

[@Hannah-wt7ww]

The White Witches Ice palace as Edmund enters for the first time in Lion the witch and the wardrobe, they did it as more of a special effect thing than visual but the scattering of the light and the clarity is really neat.

[@archmagekyle]

"In the Heights" scene where they are walking on the side of a building.

[@Stryker5G]

Special Effects, The End Shooting sequence for “TENET”, I know it’s a lot of Forward/Rewinding but can you break down how the Characters and Clips come together? And the details of the Area/Environmental Background?

[@johndawson6057]

I would love for Wren to make an episode explaining Tenet's end scenes

[@Georgejaffin]

Tenet has some insane stunts as well

[@TheJanvicgwaps]

That TENET building explosion tho.. Thats bonkers.

[@Stryker5G]

@@Georgejaffin absolutely! They have Behind the scenes of the Fighting and choreography is phenomenal! Especially showing how they Make the protagonists inverted/Revert, It’s insane

[@Stryker5G]

@@TheJanvicgwaps i really want them to do that specifically especially how the lighting and particles and debris Are around the set, it would be cool to break down

[@That1GuyMattShortz]

Absolutely nobody: Niko: Dreygan 🐉

[@david4rancibia34]

5:56

[@derPetunientopf]

I just love when they analyse old special effects. With CGI its just "yeah, can all be explained by digital black magic" but the old stuff is much more closer to real life and thus its more impressive. There is also up to this day in many many cgi shots the problem that they have this strange otherworldly PC game look.

[@explodingtomahawks7589]

"Digital black magic" XD That's freaking hilarious! I totally agree with them talking more about older movies and their use of what was probably voodoo magic.

[@derPetunientopf]

@macross_56 Well, thats just like your oppinion dude.

[@markbusterfilms7273]

Saul Bass' opening credits for Seconds (1966) use an analog distortion effect a lot like the one from Ghostbusters II. Highly recommend watching those credits as well as the film.

[@plzletmebefrank]

"And now... Back to the episode." "And make sure to leave a comment below, bye!"

[@perrodetokio]

Talk about how weak wind is when characters are riding flying dragons or on an open cockpit, please! Like the nazgul dragon riders, for example. Even when riding a bicycle on a nice day you get blasted with air fairly strong. In Hollywood it seems you can be flying in the sky at mad speed and your hair and clothes will only catch a subtle breeze -_-

[@Tamacat388]

That shot in Two Towers where they reveal the Nazgul always felt super fake for that exact reason. You can so obviously tell that the actor is just like sitting on some stationary chair/prop lol.

[@samahsaadi839]

Worst offender is the car chase in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. There's NO breeze at all. Everyone's hair is just still or straight down, haha. Looks weird as hell.

[@maxdrags3115]

@@samahsaadi839 Aren't most of them wearing hats or are behind the front window?

[@ashleyneku5432]

The ol' "Fighting on top of a train" from Archer.

[@pills-]

I think it's something of a joke trope at this point. (I remember watching an anime a while again with a group of characters literally standing on the wing of a flying aircraft (cuz anime) and one guy was just puffing away at a cigarette, with the smoke casually drifting away) That and, in a live-action film, fast moving air will distort the mic pickup as well as making acting difficult. It would end up being more of a stunt, but one the actor HAD to play in.

[@ParisChristianne]

7:00 the Gmod flesh slapping clipping sounds really got me in stitches lmao

[@ironmike2884]

Anyone else notice when the guys are taking about Dolittle, they say it's nice to pick on one little shot that was bad and in that moment wren comes in to shot out of focus and then gets refocused. Totally intentional in my opinion loved it haha

[@rockneywates]

You should look at Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole on Animators react! It's directed by Zack Snyder and has amazing visuals which scream Zack. An amazing insite to when I director does an animated film.

[@fbi9490]

Zack Snyder is overhated.

[@saram3449]

That ocean/storm scene is one of my favourites of all time

[@NicKeLas]

I so want Zack to come and speak about that movie particularly because it wasn't included in Vanity Fair's "Zack Snyder Breaks Down His Career" while he talked about every other single one of his movies.

[@carrottoponcrak]

If you look at Zack's movie and every other animated movie from that same year, it's embarrassing how good Zack is lol

[@supermus7291]

I'd really love to see your take on: "The Mask" - as it is a movie from 1994.

[@bbcseriesfan]

I've re-watched it recently and honestly, it didn't age that badly compared to other movies, so I agree, I'd love to see their take on that!

[@FergusDoyle99]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[@JonazKid]

They kinda reacted to The Mask on one of there vids...you gotta look for it.

[@feelflows]

They already reacted it it a while back, it’s in VFX artists react 6!

[@supermus7291]

@@feelflows Thank you! Most useful comment on the internet of the day (at least for me) .

[@1MrBryn]

The old Ghostbusters effects just look so much better than the CG on the 2016 film. The softer look of film vs digital goes a really long way too.

[@jaguarpaw137]

Would love to see your reactions to the live action "Where the Wild Things Are" from 2009! It had some pretty amazing visuals.

[@CRE-cl1dv]

Corridor should react to UFO footage, so they can talk about if it could VFX or not. I think that could be a cool video, kinda caption dissolution style

[@JunkyardDigs]

Slightly disappointed to hear Budweiser instead of Busch light, but another great episode!! As neat as the computer effects are, I love when you guys dig into practical shots. The ingenuity and creativity behind practical effects always blows my mind!

[@cactar4minecraft]

Wow I didn't expect to see you here! Love your content Kevin!

[@ThePriyo9]

Zack Snyder replaced a person with ease whereas WB had troubles replacing a mustache.

[@jacobsoper4708]

To be fair the moustache VFX studio does great work and actually worked on the Snyder cut. The issue with thr 2017 JL VFX-wise was the ridiculous time crunch on VFX elements that needed way more time.

[@PAIN_3100]

Aahhh.. I just hate WB. Used to love them in my childhood cause of Tom & Jerry but not now, they just ruin stuffs here and there (most of the time)

[@themilkdrinker7558]

Pirates of the Caribbean need some love, maybe an entire episode. Maybe the scene in Dead Man's Chest where Will is stealing the key from Davy Jones.

[@SoCloseToToast]

9:18 clean focus camera man :)

[@sdante23]

a healthy human eye has three types of cone cells, each of which can register about 100 different colour shades, therefore most researchers ballpark the number of colours we can distinguish at around a million

[@aebisdecunter]

@@sdante23 What? Did OC edit his comment? Now your comment doesnt really relate

[@sdante23]

@@aebisdecunter lol i was just being stupid

[@Badbhoys]

@@sdante23 hahahahahah

[@machoxs111]

"No computers" A few minutes later "The computer controlled the balloon"

[@megamecha100]

well any hardware that can perform mathematical actions is often called a computer just in case you don't already know

[@kjoc70]

I think they meant no computer animation. Things might be spliced together, but everything was actually recorded through a lens onto film.

[@machoxs111]

Oh I know they meant CGI haha I'm just messing around

[@wojciechmazurek947]

Poking the photons is actually so accurate description :o

[@BigJackGameplays]

I know I'm kinda late, but I think what you guys talked about the old Ghost Busters and what makes series like The Mandalorian special is that we have the real element there, and some ingenuity there that you know that it isn't "only" CGI; it makes the shot special in some way.

[@MortiferV]

Yes! Zack Snyder would be an amazing guest!!

[@psychastheneia7]

please also do a best of (and worst of) Zack Snyder's effects

[@Reverse_Hood]

FUCK NO

[@PresidentialWinner]

Zack Snyder is a bad director. Somehow he has made Watchmen which is a great movie, but that was a fluke. In that movie he simply took the comic and made a shot for shot copy paste movie version of it. Everything else Snyder has done is crap.

[@deadman-zc5ro]

yes he is the best

[@erickone4902]

@@PresidentialWinner sure dude, man of steel is bad, sure 🤣🤣

[@Just_A_Dude]

You know, I'd love to see them re-release _FF: Spirits Within_ re-built with modern rendering.

[@fbi9490]

@Frank Rauen Spirits Within was not a good movie.

[@MarCuseus]

@@fbi9490 *is a good movie

[@martinkovsand5666]

Would love a reaction to both the fights/stunts and the effects in Gangs of London. That grenade scene...

[@drunkenmuse]

Great episode! Speaking of early practical effects that are incredible, did you guys catch Captain Disillusions video on the effects in Flight of the Navigator? It's amazing.

[@benvoliothefirst]

Everyone else: Comments on special effects. Niko: "Drayyyged"

[@thebeast1783]

Have any one of you guys seen CWs super man and Lois? The VFX there actually look good for a tv show

[@anurag809088]

Only for a TV show, nothing extra ordinary, watered down version from MOS.

[@apeirostudio2993]

@@anurag809088 Up

[@adiipurush1922]

yeah the show that copies most of its shots😂😂

[@aryaman1490]

@@adiipurush1922 yeah almost as if MoS and Superman and Lois are both about superman.....

[@apeirostudio2993]

@@adiipurush1922 Yeah They are kinda copying. But that is so far better than CW other shows.

[@tonkafonda1773]

The hunger games catching fire, baboon sequence is pretty a cool! LOVE THE CHANNEL ✌️✊🏼

[@RagtimeNinja]

Hey guys, love the show keep up the good work. Speaking of goofs, in the recent Sonic 2 movie I saw a goof where one of Knuckle's spines passed through his arm. The scene was when he's pinned to the cliff face by one of Robotnik's robots shortly after Knucles and Sonic fight each other for the first time. Thought it was a pretty glaring goof for a big box office movie

[@vipmvp1]

You guys should look at “terrified” cgi , it’s a Argentinian horror movie

[@scorba3]

that's a great scary movie

[@davidsantos1299]

You should react to the CGI in the Robin Williams movie "What Dreams May Come". It used special effects in a really creative way that we haven't seen since then. I would love some insight into how they might have created those images.

[@charlieshuck]

great suggestion! i hope they do this!

[@fala_hpy5507]

Go corridor

[@jasonblalock4429]

Yeah, especially the sequence that looks like an impressionist painting come to life.

[@ScamLikely9327]

I love this channel because I am completely uneducated in anything you guys are pros at. Learn something new in every video.

[@adambuchbinder2791]

I remember exchanging Usenet messages with some of the artists for "The Spirits Within" about RenderMan shaders used in BMRT, something about achieving a particular kind of glow effect. I don't think I said anything clever or helpful, but darn it, I was there!

[@connorcreach9642]

Some of the weirdest effects are in bill and Ted’s bogus journey. I’d love for you guys to check it out.

[@phytadesk119]

"3 minutes ago..." Fresh like always

[@GregoryCarl8]

I know absolutely nothing about creating visual effects and am not an artist but I'm obsessed with this channel lol

[@jayhafshshbx6033]

VFX artists/animators react to Maul vs Ahsoka, The Clone Wars Season 7 episode 10

[@fkndonnie6476]

The love child of practical and CG effects in the 80’s and 90’s was perfection. I’d love to see new movies use this technology

[@MissMisnomer_]

If you're looking for some great examples of practical meets CG married together to improve the storytelling experience, I'd totally recommend checking out the behind the scenes of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and The Mandalorian. Their work with puppets and giving them more life with computer enhancement is so SO inspiring!

[@KKomalShashank]

That's what the Jurassic movies have done. They never went full CGI. They never Peter Jackson-ed their way into a Hobbitty mess. However, people are so polarized about the new movies' stories that the technology behind the scenes is kind of overlooked.

[@kashishkumar8374]

Love Death and Robots VFX breakdown, especially episodes done by Blur Studios. They specialise in creating assets that look very life-like.

[@SilentNinjaSparks]

Was just about to suggest that lol

[@Niall487]

Didnt they do the halo 2 anniversary cut scenes?

[@kashishkumar8374]

@@Niall487 Not sure if it's the Mandela Effect talking, but an update on the photorealistic assets, particle effects and a general scene breakdown for those episodes would work really well, especially since they were commissioned recent as compared to H2A.

[@maximeteppe7627]

@@Niall487 Yes. They also did tons of trailer cinematic over the years, like for the Batman arkham franchise for instance.

[@henryruiz9932]

@Corridor Crew you missed at 5:55 RDJs hand clips through the dragon on the left side of the dragons snout