What Fallout Looks Like Without Special Effects

"Fallout" has a massive, sprawling world packed with unique characters. The visual effects team put a lot of love into bringing that vision to the screen - and without CGI, it can be kind of goofy.
#Fallout #SpecialEffects #CGI
The Cyclops | 0:00
The Ghoul | 1:08
Snip Snip | 2:15
The Gulper | 3:06
The Vaults | 4:11
The Wasteland | 5:09
The burning cornfield | 6:21
Leaving the Vault | 7:19
The Vertibirds | 8:26
The T-60 Power Armor | 9:45
Pip-Boys | 10:46
Voiceover By: Dexter Manning
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[@Looper]

Did you think the special effects in "Fallout" looked good?

[@pb-squiddy]

yea man them dawgs were dawggin

[@fjellt]

While watching it with my wife, she kept emphatically asking me "HOW DID THEY DO THIS SCENE?". I'm glad I will be able to show her this video tonight!

[@wade_says]

Fallout has turned out to be one of the best video game to TV series adaptations of all time. Bravo to the cast and crew. As a Fallout game myself who's very first PlayStation Trophy was "Power of the Atom" in Fallout 3 on PS3 in 2010, I salute the entire team. Fallout fans greatly appreciate it!

[@SpinfoilHat]

Same, this show really took me by surprise! I wasn't expecting it to flop as hard as Halo, but I didn't expect to enjoy it more than I liked The Last of Us. I unfortunately haven't played TLoU but I saw how close the show was to the game and saw all the praise for it, I didn't expect to like Fallout as much because I'd played that one since 3, but they did an incredible job matching the vibes that got me to like Fallout in the first place and I am incredibly hyped to see New Vegas. I hope more adaptations take note on the ones that hit and why the misses miss so hard. I'm crossing my fingers now hoping that we'll get a Destiny adaptation some day that hits as hard as Fallout🤞There's so much genre variety potential in Destiny! I'd be happy just seeing grimoire cards adapted in hour long increments. Imagine getting one episode covering Thorn and The Last Word with an old western movie vibe, then getting another covering the Book of Sorrow that dips more into grimdark eldritch horror, then pay a nod to the silliness of Destiny and its community while also going over some in-game events with The Ghost Community Theater and all its papier-mâché glory. (Also, and I don't want to come off rude pointing this out, I think you meant "gamer" instead of "game"? 😅typos suck lol but hey sometimes you get gems like "scared shortless" 🤣)

[@djlancer88]

damn thats crazy you know your first trophy

[@rachelvoiles9699]

It’s a great show on its own but as a game adaptation, it’s phenomenal. It’s inspiring people to play the game in record numbers. They’re onto something with this, and I’m here for it all.

[@sirianrune198]

One of the best video game adaptations of all time.*

[@joffles6516]

Wow I can’t believe you’re a real fallout game, which one? Also how did you gain sentience and the ability to leave KZbin comments?

[@zonesproductions]

I was constantly surprised at the quality of the special effects in this show. I really really hope season 2 doesn't lose the high quality that makes this so good.

[@ChangesOfTomorrow]

The moral of the story is don't go cheap on props and let the special effects compliment them. The result is one of the best looking adaptations

[@donekyking]

I must say. I am a VFX artist and this is the first time I've seen one of these "a show without effects" video and it wasn't just nonsense. You actually have a guy who knows something. Thats refreshing.

[@Ieo9017]

I'm disappointed they didn't paint his nose green

[@LUCKSREVENGE]

😂

[@TheHT.]

I was thinking the same 😅

[@BDRmongoose]

was going to comment something similar

[@JoeLancaster]

Doesn't really help that much. You still need to roto, and the shape is small and simple anyway.

[@TrioLOLGamers]

​@@JoeLancasterand there is also already a black line outside the real nose, so they had already points where to cut.

[@ultmotive]

I had no idea Snip Snip was mostly practical. That's pretty bad ass. They could have easily used all CGI and made it look 'passable' but the practicality of it made it look grounded in reality.

[@Citnos]

Ella told in an interview there are iphones showing the images inside the Pip boys, that may be the reason why they will release a commercial version, most likely it will came with an app to put on your phone

[@DRGIZMO29]

Fun fact upon the release of fallout 4 there is a pip boy app that can interact with your game in real time. They even release a limited edition game that came with the pip boy casing so you can put your phone inside and wear it like a real working pip boy

[@ultmotive]

There already was a real version that shipped with a collectors edition of Fallout 4. And you did put your phone in it. You could download an app that connected with the game and operate your pip boy remotely. It would be great if they mass marketed them again but it would probably make the people who spent extra pretty upset if it became available to everyone.

[@twoslimes7251]

I used to know someone with a fallout 4 style pip boy you could put your phone into and use the pip boy app

[@melon-qm7ed]

the version they are releasing has a built in screen

[@replay_pete]

I am a fan of Fallout games and watched the first season with my wife. She never played ANY game in her life. We both enjoyed it. It shows how great the amazon tv series is.

[@Gor85]

I like this😊Great CGI effects. Vaults,Snip Snip,Vertibirds.Guiper. Wasteland looks pretty good too. Walton Goggins is perfect as Ghoul. Pip-Boys would be cool to have. Great video😀

[@doodskie999]

Amazon really let the VFX team cook and delivered great CGI!

[@bigboygandalf4147]

no not really, I work at one of the companies that did the VFX. they changed their mind and scraped a few concept a good amount of time. Some of the stuff had to be redone. The VFX and CG looks good, but would have been better if the clients didnt changed their mind so much.

[@itsme729]

Metal…gear!?

[@theunfamousone2818]

A wonderful mix of practical and cgi, makes everything look better

[@sergeantlee7594]

This show is really amazing!

[@8bitKasper]

Awwww I really wish I had a little portable computer like a pip boy that I can carry round with me everywhere I go with the capability to show a map and play music and imagine like a function to talk to freinds and family while out of the house ...such a shame

[@RaXXha]

Wait a minute... Man do i have good news for you! 😉

[@codyreber8370]

Its actually visual effects, sincerely an iatse special effects member

[@hahatunboltun7413]

Prydwen! I didn't think I'd see him anywhere else.😎

[@art6022]

Loves the show. Can’t wait for season 2

[@HanniSeidenba0525]

"The best looking CGI is no CGI" - I believe someone said that and I don't remember who.

[@user-yr6th9cz8q]

What did they do for fallout is a best thing created, making it real ,your the greatest for the fan of fallouts ,waiting for season 2 😊

[@masterbait245]

the amount of practical effects in this show is commendable especially the Power Armor and Pip-Boy! Kudos to all crews and casts!

[@jamescrossdale6659]

After i watched Fallout out TV series any show I watch on wards has to be on that level of perfection 😄😄

[@nathanstockford8844]

true detective season one

[@bryonflaherty5957]

I don’t think anyone could have played the ghoul as well as Walter goggins

[@Denbub]

AWESOME ‼️👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@hockeystar3612]

I live right next to wear they filmed the opening scene of filly!!!! It’s a big junkyard in my area

[@bimonteiro27]

there are pipboys for sale now

[@oleholm5601]

My favorite weapon in Fallout 4 are a mod of an assault phaser from Star Trek 5 set on desintegration mode. Not even deathclaws are safe.

[@vatoloco1528]

I realize it would have been uncomfortable for the actors, contacts and all, but the ghouls eyes should be more bloodshot in my opinion.

[@The-Deadite]

Used to feek like this but glad it wasnt cuz you can see Goggins enotions better.

[@Micha-wb9oz]

They have REAL power armor?!!?

[@jobpineda2965]

Practical Effects are just so much better. I like CGI but the real deal is just next level talent

[@blazing6string]

Ella said the pip boy was an iPhone

[@elloway]

Ya had to let me know about the pipboy for sale... $240 later (thanks)

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

Did they need CGI to remove a nose? Couldn't they do what the remake of a nightmare on elm St did?

[@gavinshirley]

They need to make it sound hard so they can take 2 years to make 8 episodes.

[@Nydas]

@@gavinshirley Lots of the sets are practical and take time to build and decorate. But sure, be a negative little bitch. See how far in life that gets ya.

[@itdobelikedattho8112]

Bro, Freddy had a nose, a big and crooked one

[@JoeLancaster]

They can't cut a hole out of the actor's face lmao. What are you saying?

[@FlamingoKicker]

Why do they have Nuka Cola machines when there is no way they could be getting restocked for 219 years?

[@brianas5624]

My family has an joke that there is a secret organization who bottle and distribute a certain amount of new bottles to keep the caps market stable.

[@burpethead]

I think Bethesda wants the wasteland to be sparse with few adventuring survivors except the ones we know as the story

[@FlamingoKicker]

@@burpethead Hank is made out as the big bad guy (at least for season one) but was he really bad? I mean the people of Shady Sands seemed to have an idyllic life but how were they never attacked by raiders or even those monsters? Hank knew stuff like that was out on the surface so his keeping everyone down in the vault actually wasn't that bad an idea. They didn't seem to have a weird experiment going on in 33 at least. Shady Sands didn't even have walls. And why wouldn't the Brotherhood of Steel come around and just strip them of their tech? Those guys were around when Shady Sands was bombed so it was a possibility.

[@FlamingoKicker]

@@brianas5624 I think this is the real problem with Vault-Tec's plan. Sure they outlasted their competition but they have no market. Nobody can buy their stuff now. How does V-T manufacture their products? Where do they get their raw materials from? But look at the executives they had working for them? Bud? He was dumb enough to have his brain cut out and put into a rumba that could get stuck behind a broomstick that falls in his way but not smart enough to call Betty or wake up one of his many frozen trainees to free himself.

[@yisyis]

you know the special effects are good when there wasn´t a single scene in the whole show that looked off and pulled me out of it for a second. I felt like I was watching cutscenes from a game where everything looked real and put together but in the end everything was staged. It was even hard to pinpoint what objects where really there and which weren´t.

[@kingoface5996]

8:00 i see a South African flag!, anyone know why the film studio and production had ties with South Africa? asking as a fellow South African

[@UberlordLaharl]

Nice.

[@craigshields8806]

Honestly the two eyebrows made no sense. It was still a funny scene, tho.

[@nicolaisidek]

Wrong about Pip Boy. The screen is an iphone running their own software. And the 'real one' by Bathesda still uses an iphone to put into the device and no you cannot buy because it's a collector's edition item in 2016. Most likely gone at this point

[@softbreeze941]

Literally doesn't show a moment without the special effects.... Only showing without the VISUAL EFFECTS - special effects are what are on his face for real...

[@CincaoV]

tio paulo

[@TheMooseFromTheRoom]

@9:50, Thats not true. The fan favorite Fallout: New Vegas didn't have powerarmor on the boxart

[@anthonymendez5072]

Said almost

[@jacobpaint]

I don’t think it’s technically a “mcguffin” if its purpose is revealed later in the show. I true mcguffin’s purpose is based solely on all the characters assuming its importance to be real.

[@user-zg1wz8fh8f]

Made up, but without the CGI, Ghoul looks like Randy Couture.

[@dukenukem8381]

Looper please ditch this 2012 watchmojo announcer style , i have to watch this on mute.

[@yikes6969]

Boohoo

[@durtyred86]

Sounds like you're a bit sensitive on the edges... It's clean and works well. Don't be a Karen about it.

[@dukenukem8381]

@@durtyred86 This style just feels detached and corporate

[@alejandrovallencci]

Agreed, the background music, the really compressed and loud narration and whole format feels so dated

[@Ieo9017]

Where WAS most of this filmed? Why did they go to Africa when there's comparable deserts on almost every continent?

[@kheops8498]

namibi desert is PARTICULARY barren and empty

[@BrandonDenny-we1rw]

These governments will also usually offer a tax credit to film there depending to help boost tourism to the country or just through the company purchasing local goods

[@AnjinThomas]

The Namib desert where they filmed wasteland scenes also has an abandoned, sand-buried, crumbling mining town so many of those buildings were real.

[@HenryLoenwind]

Don't forget that it almost doesn't matter where in the world you go with a movie production. Shooting on location costs so much money that the extra travel distance makes almost no difference. What's a couple thousand dollars when you're spending millions? And if that location can save you a couple of seconds of CGI, you save more money with that then you spend on travel.

[@stratcat3216]

Gee thanks.. let's ruin illusions.. smh

[@donekyking]

As a VFX artist on a full time VFX job. I dont understand how is that not making the show just more impressive

[@jaydoubleu3419]

Cgi wrecks everything

[@beemore18]

I dont think you understand the difference between quality and poor CGI.

[@jaydoubleu3419]

@@beemore18 I don’t like chi at all in my horror movies what’s to understand it wrecks everything It looks fake and cartoonish There is no quality CGI

[@beemore18]

@@jaydoubleu3419 lol I get you, but come on, some genres are literally impossible without CGI.

[@jaydoubleu3419]

@@beemore18 I still remember the 1980 when they had no cgi thhe movies looked real back then

[@KissMyFatAxe]

I swear Matt Berry is in everything. Like, literally everything.