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00:00 Welcome to VFX Artists React
00:48 Fast X
03:51 Scentbird
05:26 Automata
07:44 Drop Zone
11:23 Arrival
14:20 The Black Hole
17:27 Thanks For Watching

[@CorridorCrew]

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[@PsyopAgentProvocateur]

In a little over a month the series Doctor Who (BBC & Disney+), which is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-running science-fiction television series in the world will be having its 60th anniversary specials. With 60 years of effects, both practical and computer… there is a gold mine of content. With Doctor Who now being on Disney+, it’s be great too see a British icon, beloved across the road, getting its own reaction episode.

[@mrcroob8563]

Its musk, not must btw.

[@hulkhatepunybanner]

*That cannonball scene from last Fast and Furious has me longing for the first movie of the series.* You know, before it became a Saturday morning cartoon.

[@casuallychallenged]

holy crap, I know it has to be a coincidence, but I suggested a look at Black Hole on your last video AND it was my first suggestion ever! Just... my jaw hit the floor when I saw you were looking at it this vid :D

[@Matt100space]

Hey Corridor! I'm an optical engineer at NASA JPL, and although I don't know where you can get your hands on an actual PRISM camera setup, I know how you could rig up a similar camera setup in your studio for not that much money! It would be cool to see you all make your own PRISM shot using something home brewed. I'd be happy to share my knowledge if this interests you!

[@JoversStudios]

dude I really hope they see this that is awesome

[@CreamyCraigTV]

leave it to a nasa scientist to be like "yeah you could do this easily"... Corridor needs to see this comment!

[@conanichigawa]

Upvoting this so that Corridor could see this comment.

[@braydenbosch]

I hope they see this too

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Go on then, share away.

[@WallEWorld]

If you get Denis to join yall, it has to be a 2 hour episode. No less.

[@FlagCutie]

This!

[@wylanvallotton4462]

On their website sure, but even then seems excessive

[@fgp0032]

@@wylanvallotton4462 excessive?

[@rome8180]

@@wylanvallotton4462 You seem excessive.

[@1zymn1]

They should get him and David Fincher for Directors React.

[@alikus7]

As far as I known, “the prism” was developed by the genius who was Ub IWerks. His daughter Leslie, is a wonderful documentarian. If anyone reachable can give you some insight, it would be her. Leslie IWerks. Hitchcock, was one of the few, if not only non-Disney filmmakers allowed to borrow the technology. He made some amazing cost cutting hidden compositing uses with it.

[@Maddest_of_Hatters]

So glad you mentioned that Disney loaned the technology to Hitchcock. He first used it in "The Birds" and the "making of" segment on the Blu-ray/DVD showed a great demonstration of how it was used to film Tippi getting struck by the seagull in the boat.

[@petergivenbless900]

The Sodium Vapour process was simultaneously developed by Disney Studios and Rank Organisation, in England, with U B Iwerks and Petro Vlahos working on the Disney version. Both systems adapted two-strip Technicolor cameras fitted with custom made dichroic beamsplitters which used ultra thin layers of glass deposited at the interface to selectively reflect the frequency of light that sodium vapour lamps flouresce at through refractive interference. The version developed by Rank had a disadvantage in its filtering that required much more light to work, whereas the Disney version was more efficient so it ended up being successfully used while Rank's version never got past some early applications. The filters used involved didymium glass, which is made with sodium and absorbs the same wavelengths that sodium vapour flouresces at. The biggest difficulty, and the main reason the process was difficult to replicate, was that the optics of light travelling from the lens passing through the beamsplitter involved rays hitting at varying angles thus the refractive interferrence would change accordingly so the filter layers would have to be graduated in thickness to maintain consistent wavelength interferrence across the radius of the image, and only one such prism was successfully made for the Disney system (the Rank version used a conventional beamsplitter but with additional fliters resulting in less exposure and requiring more light to work efficiently). Another drawback with the optics was the incompatibility with anamorphic "Cinemacope" lenses.

[@clurkroberts2650]

You got it.

[@j_edwards6075]

I swear it was referenced on a Mythbuster's episode at some stage. I've definitely heard of this prism before and distinctly remember it.

[@oneroneen]

​@@petergivenbless900winner of "Mr. Science" award for the day

[@DaveJerrard]

The last I heard, Dick Van Dyke has the prism. I ran into him at a LightWave users group back in 2000-2001. Yes, he does 3D animation. During a break he was talking about how much fun he was having doing 3D animation and how he convinced the producers of the show he was in to let him do some of the VFX work, and how he felt like he did when he started acting. Then he mentioned that he still had the 'crystal' that was used for Mary Poppins, which was the first time I heard of this mythical artifact. So if anyone knows where it is, it would be him.

[@belowaverageasian7197]

This would be an amazing Corridor episode, to do an investigation and search for that Crystal, like an episode of the First 48!😂 Asking and finding more hints

[@DUHRIZEO]

I love this story being built around it as a real life mythical artifact! So interesting, it will make for such a fun episode.

[@arwenrosefall8081]

Dick Van Dyke did 3D animation at like 75 years old? Damn, that's insane

[@Rockhopper1]

It was interesting to see the Fast X previs, I worked on the second unit for those sequences, and we used the previs all the time on set to help us set up the practical FX. What will freak you out is that 98% of the car action is real and shot on location, and some of the inserts and pickups were shot just outside London in a soundstage and the back lot, the car going down the dam, the car jump was real, the car racing down was real but shot batman style and the explosion to launch the car was real, with a rigged vehicle going into a huge water tank, the explosion was over a hundred foot long and went 60 foot in the air, and shot multicam. There was a ton of practical effects going on and most of the car action was performed by some of the best in the business, what was great was seeing the work ILM put in to recreate backgrounds and matching to on location shoots, for example the steps sequence it was too culturally sensitive to film on them and steps were built on the set. What was even better to see you guys missing all the invisible effects that were done on the film you missed loads. The previs had to be 100 % spot on, as multiple units were relying on that information to match up with each other. You mentioned the timing with inserts, as the action was so fast paced you needed breathing points to orient as to which actor was where and what was happening. What you all missed was the lorry flip which was a real lorry and better than the one in batman. The lorry was real in the shot, but the entire environment less the paving was CGI, and it was invisible.

[@jamiejoe4802]

Still terribly written and acted film, must be gutting to see so much hard work wasted on such a poor cast, like vin used to be a solid actor, he's great in pitch black and Fast 1.

[@Rockhopper1]

hey I am clothed, fed and warm, it paid for all that. @@jamiejoe4802

[@JoshLange3D]

Thanks for acknowledging how important the previs was to your work. You'd be surprised how many people want to pretend it doesn't exist so it seems like it's all masterminded by the film crew. You guys did great with the action shots.

[@Gunstick]

Did they drive the car down the dam?

[@tech-hm3qy]

Get this guy on the couch

[@bagoftricks6904]

A great stunt scene to look into is in the original 1940s Mark of Zorro film. A rider jumps his horse off a bridge into water, I just can't believe they did it for real

[@skewedTCOW]

High diving horse acts were a thing way back in the day. Stopped being a thing due to animal cruelty laws because it's obviously dangerous for the rider AND the horse. Check out Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) for some stunts and a dramatized telling of the practice from the POV of a rider.

[@Sparkrdom]

They might have - there was a time not too long ago where animal cruelty was rampant in film. They decapitated a real horse for Godfather in 1974, and in Milo & Otis from 1986, about 30 kittens were killed.

[@JayJonahJaymeson]

It's a lot easier to do when you have no concern for the well-being of the horse. Or the stuntman.

[@LastAphelion]

@@Sparkrdom LIAR DONT YOU TAINT MY MEMORIES GROWING UP WITH THAT MOVIE

[@martophrenia]

original Zorro from 20s had straight up parkour scenes)

[@rome8180]

I bet Denis Villeneuve will absolutely agree to be on this show. He seems like the kind of guy who would appreciate what you're doing. And I've seen him breaking down his movies in other videos. He just needs to find out about it.

[@medalion1390]

Coming to theaters this summer: _Corridor Crew: and the Quest for Walt’s Prism_

[@Cassycat99]

It'd be interesting to see you guys recreate the prism effect the old school way!

[@Craftlngo]

the point is, no one was able to recreate the prism! Even Disney has (had?) only one lens that was able to capture the alpha channel like it was seen in Marry Poppins

[@gh0stm0nst3r6]

​@@CraftlngoI bet Károly Zsolnai-Fehér has some ideas on what it'd take...

[@Craftlngo]

@@gh0stm0nst3r6 there is another KZbinr who is probably able to recreate the prism. The channel is called Huygens Optics.

[@Gunstick]

@@gh0stm0nst3r6 nowadays that we have protective glasses for laser lights, which can filter out just that specific color, it should be possible to engineer such a prism. There are RGB prisms used for splitting incoming light on to the 3 DCC chips in video projectors.

[@soejrd24978]

@@Craftlngo Get NileRed

[@SyntheticFuture]

Arrival is so good. Underrated movie honestly. Clever writing, minimal reliance on FX for storytelling. Love that movie.

[@JoshLange3D]

At last! You guys are finally showing and talking about previs on the show. The reason it's rough looking is so that there can be tons of iterations to get the shot design as dialed in as possible. We typically final at least one shot per day and it's important that all the elements are represented and accurate, even lighting and fx (it was cool to see Wren starting to get excited by those details he noticed). Remember, before we join a show, the only thing the studio has to represent an action sequence are a few boards or a cell phone video of "toyvis"--and often not even that. Although I wasn't on Fast X, I was with Proof. inc. on Furious 7 and Fate of the Furious, and can attest to how integral previs is to achieving those dynamic action shots. Storyboards are too simple and final VFX workflows would be too slow and expensive to make these action blueprints, so production crews use previs to have a clear plan for filming. Since film crews have typically shot tons of car interior setups and crowd reactions before, those are less important to spend the previs budget on, so that's why previs edits are always light on those. We're typically under serious NDAs to not talk specifics about our work but I still hold out hope that you guys will "embrace the jank" and see previs as a critical filmmaking tool for VFX-heavy films and hopefully even start a "Previs Artists React" mini-series. You guys would be surprised to hear our takes on how these blockbusters are made.

[@sheltongolden4394]

Sounds like an interesting subject! I would totally watch "Previs Artists React."

[@mikes78]

@@sheltongolden4394 Followed shortly after by "pre-vis artists sued to oblivion" if what Joshi says is true (and i would believe it).

[@pottsay]

Very well said Josh! I worked with Proof on FF9 and can attest to this. We are trying to offer as much help as we can for a final idea and that can be months before shooting but sometimes even the day before! Regardless, we adhere to deadlines and are all cogs in a machine. Boards and Toyvis can only get you so far and iterations will always happen, previs needs to be loose in this regard and it is the idea we are selling, not a final image for screen.

[@JoshLange3D]

@@mikes78 lol, funny how some people can discuss and others can't

[@FlagCutie]

Arrival instantly became one of my all time favorite movies. Not just as a language nerd, but as Wren said, so brilliantly directed!

[@SPQSpartacus]

Arrival is sheer Genius. My entry for the best movie of this millenium so far.

[@rockero1313]

I'm so glad "The Black Hole" is finally getting some love lately. I was like 12 when it came out (saw it in a theater) and just blew my mind as much as "Star Wars" did. so underrated

[@rickardelimaa]

Yeah, JoBlo had a video about that movie too recently. Going to check it out tonight. Too bad that they never had an ending in mind for the movie until the very last few days of shooting.

[@jackjones298]

Same, but I was older. I mostly remember the blade-thru-book scene and thinking, "this is Disney?!"

[@Gunstick]

@@jackjones298 yeah, the good old times you went "this is Disney? Disney does that?". Same vibes for Tron when it was released 3 years later.

[@iamnickthegeek]

I haven't seen TBH for probably 20 years but I'll always remember the first time I saw it as a VHS rental from my local video shop and the ending blew my 12 year old mind and scared me sh*tless.

[@ItsFreakinHarding.]

I absolutely loved the Black Hole when I was a kid. I was so amazed by the robots V.I.N.C.E.N.T., B.O.B. and Maximilian. Maximilian the robot was scary and imposing as hell to me back then. Funny thing, about three years ago I happened to be in a Walgreens and I found two Diamond select figures of V.I.N.C.E.N.T. and Maximilian. They were on sale, so naturally I bought both robots.

[@Rainforestdelight]

Would love to see a Lord Of The Rings style Corridor special where the crew literally goes off to do a quest to find the prism and along the way they encounter obstacles and encounter past guests like Adam Savage who help them eventually find the mystical prism.

[@nafeidt]

Like a mockumentary meets documentary to relive old school effects along the way where they were made?

[@seth1422]

Can we call it the Walt Disney horcrux?

[@hraefn1821]

you just pitched a short film featuring everyone's favorite vfx people...I'm sold.

[@vesasilander4292]

Lol, I was just about to post this but before clicking comment had to check if anyone had a similar ideas. :D "I really, really want to see "Raiders of the Lost Prism" documentary collaboration with Adam Savage. :D"

[@squidge903]

No, please don't ask Corridor to do any sort of acting. That's them at their worst.

[@slothomatic]

Arrival is such a freaking good movie. It's also the only movie I've ever seen that is BETTER on a second watch. The finale reframes the entire movie and it's like you see it for the first time again. Freaking incredible.

[@EmmettFurrow]

I'm sold, I'm going to do a re-watch today. I've been remiss in waiting this long, I loved the movie on first viewing.

[@jamesmorris591]

Read the hand behind the mouse. The Ub Iwerks story. He is the one who figured out the prism and the sodium vapor screen. He also figured out how to reproduce the prism. Put it was deemed obsolete by them. Grate info on early animation and visual effects.

[@Magpie1701]

Niko Pueringer's insightful anecdote about the colour science conumdrum the pioneering VFX artists encountered when first digitizing film is an example of why I keep coming back to watch these lads. They really know their stuff.

[@jscott4reel]

I’d love to see more pre visuals compared to the final product - super interesting

[@johnsensebe3153]

The Disney "prism" camera was actually a modified two-strip Technicolor camera. Instead of splitting different visible colors to separate filmstrip, it separated out a specific wavelength from the rest of the colors. Since two-strip color was replaced by the superior three-strip color in the '30s, this camera would have been more than forty years old by the time _The Black Hole_ was made.

[@stephendsullivan]

I believe that the Sodium Vapor "blue screen" effect was also used for some of Ray Harryhausen's live action effects -- possibly in the balloon sequence in Mysterious Island and some of the Gulliver work (maybe all of it), perhaps more. Memory says that it was Harryhausen's favorite "process shot" trick for live action, but that it was expensive and rare and his films didn't always get to use it. So... Maybe NOT just Disney. :)

[@Tetratronic]

That prism has been on my mind since the last time you guys mentioned it. Did a bunch of internet research and whatnot. Who made it, how it works etc... Would be amazing if you guys could find it, examine it and make a dedicated episode to it. Thing is, how I understand the prism was made, I doubt they would let anyone even touch it. It's probably locked in some dark box so sunlight doesn't degrade it.

[@MaybePancakes]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they (Nico) talk about the prism breaking and nobody knew how to make a new one and that's why they stopped using that kind of "green screen" tech?

[@Tetratronic]

@@MaybePancakes As far as I know, it didn't break. But it is true that they couldn't make a new one, which limited the amount movies that could be made with it. Also, from what I've read, the prisms (camera has more than one) themselves aren't very special, but the coating on it is. They don't know how to replicate the special coating/filter the prisms need to split the light. It needed a specific amount of layers of said coating, and the patent doesn't specifically mention how to make them. They just mention that it's made of "fluoride or silicon monoxide, zinc sulfide or titanium dioxide" I'm sure some genius could sit down and replicate it, but it would take a lot of trial and error.

[@animaToy]

@@Tetratronic I first time find out about this prism about 20 years ago while watching making of for Hitchcock's 'The birds'. For my understanding, this prism is some kind of dichroic prism (like those used in 3CCD cameras or LCD projectors) but very specific. This is why they only made one. Probably even Vlahos (guy who invented Sodium Vapour process) didn't know exactly how to achieve proper thickness. It's quite complicated today to coat prism exactly right and I guess even more tricky back in the 50s.

[@joshturner9443]

I think if they get their hands on it they should keep it, they could easily start a cult to worship the prism at this point

[@DamianWampler]

It's probably in Rochester at some Kodak museum.

[@thecountbassy_]

Arrival’s one of my favorite movies of all time. When they first go up into the ship and throw the wrench or whatever to show the gravity manipulation absolutely blew my mind. So well done, such a payoff for the anticipation they build from the opening of the whole movie.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

It’s a masterpiece. Such a cool movie

[@wodan74]

Also because he approached it from a very basic idea: the problem of communication... and shows us a more of almost scientific workflow that the audience can understand, that he can implement this crazy idea of time experiencing in a circle. A lot of movies disappoint us because they violate so many physics that people think: ugh just cgi. But, I'm sure this film can only be appreciated by intelligent and empathic people. It's not the strongest person who's the hero. And even the heroine loses something...

[@elliot_grooves]

One of my all time favorites. Love the detail with the canary that’s a reference to miners and cavers who would bring a canary with them that would die if the air quality got too low

[@darthsirrius]

My favorite prism shot would have to be the one you were demoing from Mary Poppins. That whole scene with the Merry-Go-Round horses and the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song is still one of my favorite Disney moments.

[@DaveGully]

I was always blown away with the merging of cartoons and live action and vice versa in Mary Poppins. Bedknobs and Broomsticks was one of my favorites! I'd love to hear your comments on that one!

[@Tezzinator]

I was on vacation in Rome last year in May - and happened to come upon the shooting of Fast X. I saw the metal ball rolling down the street in flames, and I must say, it was kinda awesome.

[@Enrique-Garcia]

I was under the impression that the "prism" no longer existed? That's why Disney stopped using it, it was lost or broken. And the process used in creating it was so unique and difficult they weren't able to replicate it and could never create another prism.

[@alexisthemexican]

That's the lie they feed us. It's cuz it's the true soul gem. And we know who is in it

[@kotkaconforza]

Who? Eleanor Roosevelt?@@alexisthemexican

[@alexisthemexican]

@@kotkaconforza nah their name rhymes with malt whiskey

[@thynameislegion]

​@@alexisthemexicanfault grizzly?

[@CJTrue23]

I just rewatched “The Thing” and there’s SO MANY great special effects shots in that movie yall have to do a react to it!! Consider it a Halloween specials episode

[@skribblestyle]

Check out the episode: 'VFX Artists React to Bad & Great HALLOWEEN CGi'. They look at 'The Thing' and the 2011 reboot/sequel.

[@gurrenrodan3801]

The way you cut to that shot of the "prism" surrounded by flames keeps making me think of the Dark Crystal. SPEAKING OF WHICH, if you want to talk about invisible CGI effects like in 'Automata', then Netflix's 'The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance' would be a goldmine. Nearly ten hours of full-blown puppetry and live sets, enhanced with digital effects to hide the puppeteers, enhance character faces, and so on. Lots of REALLY cool stuff.

[@AFNacapella]

I'd love to see a "hiding the crimes" special. like how in BSG 2003 they used shaky cam and wild zooms, stills look horrific but once it moves it's okay...

[@ItsFreakinHarding.]

You mean like how they would start with a really far away shot of Galactica or a Viper ship and then zoom in real fast and shaky to a close-up of it? I thought that was awesome when I first started watching that show! The SFX/CGI in that show were phenomenal in my opinion! the Galactica and Pegasus ships looked so damn real!

[@tobar1p]

Have you explored the earliest days of digidoubles? Some excellent examples: Blade II the fight in their secret base and just generally throughout the film some fantastic digidouble work from Guillermo del Toro. The second is from the Jet Li movie THE ONE. For that one I recommend checking out the opening sequence in the police garage.

[@jacha4673]

"Seriously, is there a faster posture?" Great Sam quote @ 8:58 😂

[@twojuiceman]

You mentioned The Island At The Top Of The World while talking about the prism, and I think the effects in that film deserve a close look. Particularly the shots with the airship. There are airship shots with parallax and shifting perspective and atmospheric effects like fog. I think it's really a beautiful film and almost no one's heard about it.

[@nightspicer]

The "CHARGE " Blender short would be awesome for the VFX series. As well as *Aslan from the Chronicles of Narnia!* where you could do a comparison to the "live action" Lion King. Also at the end of second Chronicles of Narnia movie there's a big water creature, so it might be cool to see what you think about that. Maybe also, Max Schneider's Gibberish music video, the editing kinda breaks my brain there. The *last agni kai fight from ATLA* would be perfect for for the Animators React. It's so stunning! And for stuntmen react It would be cool to see you react to the duel from "Potop", it's really good sword fight

[@RoryMarverous]

I has always been curious about the effects in Automata - thanks for taking a look! Also, the fact that that whole scene in Arrival was cgi - mind blown. I totally did not expect that. I thought it was wirework or something. Cool!

[@DylanM15]

Watching these VFX videos has really made me appreciate smaller aspects more. I noticed when going over the robot portion at the beginning they left out parts of the white materials on the actual robots on set. Presumably to make rotoscoping out the green screen puppeteers and avoiding more reflection from the green suits spilling onto the robots. Just overall making less mess for the vfx artists to deal with and more room for them to just design and perfect.

[@abigigigail]

I recently watched Event Horizon and the special effects were so well executed that I would love to see your guys' insight on it

[@skepticalbadger]

Amazing movie.

[@The_Viktor_Reznov]

I would love to see Corridor make a video on recreating VFX techniques and maybe comparing them in workflow and results, like the Prism or the white background on blue screen.

[@BooN877]

That skydiving stunt was sick. Would be cool to get some stunt people who specialize in that kind of stuff for some reactions

[@codebus]

try to find my comment I made some comments.

[@diox8tony]

they have an entire series called 'stuntmen react'. doing just that. scroll back in their history 1-2 years.

[@arthurau67]

So glad you guys looked at Arrival, I expected to watch it and see janky effects, but it was a literal masterpiece and actually a good script too.

[@AG-ur1lj]

There have been several “satisfying animation” uploads on this channel. I gotta say, there is something immensely satisfying about the motion of the car doing a 360° around the ball

[@RGBeanie]

Arrival is so good and down to Earth. A more realistic interpretation of what may happen. Plus, Amy Adams was stunning in this

[@redadamearth]

It really was a very strong film. It drags in spots occasionally, but overall, it was exciting to see a great idea like focusing on language and its relationship to time, in a sci-fi film as so many these days have unimaginative scripts.

[@Lhaffinatu]

I always look forward to these video drops every Saturday morning. They always bring me joy. Thanks guys!

[@Robinson160277]

What I love of your channel, is that you learn us, to love the shots of older films, so we can see them with much more Appreciation... Thank you so much..

[@javiermartin787]

Was going to ask you guys to do Mary Poppins. Seems I was too late. It is truly a masterpiece and to this day still blows my mind. The cartoon scene, ceiling scene walking in smoke, the fireworks, laughing scene on the air, the Mary Poppins bag! You name it!

[@WhiskyCanuck]

That was probably the best shot in The Black Hole. If I remember right they also did some pretty good for the time zero-G shots in the opening scenes. and also the long distance shots of the black hole spiral which were really nice. Then there are a bunch of janky stuff too (even for the time - and I saw it in theaters as a kid).

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

9:00 this reminds me a LOT of typical pre-2000s Bond stunts, e.g. the skydiving stunt in Moonraker which is so obvious but still very fun, or Octopussy where they cut from two phenomenal stuntmen strapped onto the side of a prop-plane for dear life, to Roger Moore and Kabir Bedi playing the henchman in an obvious studio set. Would recommend looking at The Living Daylights though that has an AMAZING set-up for cutting from wide-shot stuntmen in mid-air and studio-set actors fighting on a prop-stage. Instead of green screen or back projection they use a sort of model background so that the lighting never seems off.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

The film I know the sodium vapor process from is Hitchcock's "The Birds", which helped them comp live birds into several shots. I'd love it if you reacted to some of his stuff, mainly for the subtle ways he builds suspense - which was a pretty new concept in films at the time. A scene stuck in my head is from The Birds, where the female lead is waiting in front of a school, while we see more and more birds gathering on the playground equipment behind her, set to the slightly distorted singing of a school choir...

[@Andresroman12]

Don't forget, Denis also directed Sicario and Prisoners. They're not relevant here because those aren't as VFX heavy as the ones Wren mentioned, but they are phenomenal!

[@wathsi99]

Scicario has more VFX than you think. Its border scene has lots of set extensions, too.

[@EmmettFurrow]

I just got around to watching Prisoners a couple of days ago, even though I was blown away by Sicario on its release. Don't know why I didn't backtrack to Prisoners immediately but I've loved all his work since and felt like it was time. It's nobody's idea of escapist entertainment, but it was directed superbly with great editing and soundtrack choices.

[@postcardsproductions5472]

I’d love to see you guys react to the train crash scene in Super8

[@redadamearth]

It's a flawed film, overall, but that train crash was, indeed, brilliantly done.

[@equinox9330]

I just had an itch yesterday to watch Arrival so its crazy to see you guys talk about it now. When I saw their faces in the hazmat suits my first thought was wondering if they were just face scans. Glad to get confirmation now.

[@shark3D]

hey! it's my work! I did a lot of FX, modelling and rigging on the FF previz!

[@shark3D]

ok so I'm a tech artist/generalist, I actually worked on different sequences in fast 8 and 9 (and 7,6,5) I believe which you're showing X? which still uses many rigs and effects we've come up with in previous movies (mash based crowd "sims" zootrope fire FX, rope rigs for the harpoons) a lot of that tech is developed less with accuracy and much more direct control in mind (no one has time for previz to perfect a physics sim) all the rigs I make have as little "dynamic" anything in them as possible, if it's a rope I have to figure out how it's controlled and animated to create the best on screen read, if it's crowds we have to be able to quickly paintin where people are and where they are going. destruction is one of the few times I simulate things, but then all the sims are attached to controllable variables so the animators have final control over timing (or even which part of a building collapses first) same for how things are rendered! we use the maya viewport directly most of the time, because it shortens iteration times and allows the client to give a lot more notes and try different ideas faster! really it's all based on maximizing the "fast" and "cheap" parts of the triangle love this episode keep doing great work!

[@redshirt4life181]

I watched the Black Hole for the first time about a year ago and, YEAH, it was THAT SHOT that I paused on and rewound multiple times. It just blew me away!

[@hypermonk33y56]

arrival and Annihilation are one of those movies that really i guess melt your brain with plot twist and its good. its like reverse ending or something

[@capsjukebox]

Glad you guys talked about the Black Hole. That’s one of the only Disney live actions I wish they would remake. The practical effects and character designs for the robots are great, too.

[@Adrian99Diaz]

Love your videos! Also love how well they're edited as well

[@sethbrandhagen3175]

Bedknobs and Broomsticks - The bewitched knights in the final scene. Blew my mind as a kid - absolute magic.

[@RpattoYT]

*CorridorCrew* needs to do a *gory realistic* version of the *Fast* _fireball sequence._ _Everyone in that sequence should be on _*_fire_*_ or _*_burning,_*_ being that close to a massive burning ball._

[@HakiYoki]

Before we even get to the fire, that ball had no right staying in motion for as long as it did, somehow accelerating in the weirdest moments. I switch my brain off for movies like Fast, but goddamn I could not let that one go

[@jamesszymanski1814]

​@@HakiYokiOhhh that bothered me so much. I thought, so just because it's round it keeps rolling and rolling and rolling...lol.

[@jamesszymanski1814]

I think following Honey I Shrunk The Kids, a natural choice would be an R-rated Jumanji. All the dangerous elements are there, it's just, how can you touch Robin Williams? Maybe just all the supporting characters...

[@inkoalawetrust]

Why would they even be burning ? Unless they ball actually touched them, I doubt it would radiate enough heat to actually burst things into flames.

[@emeyetee]

I want to see a video about The Creator! Some of the best VFX and CGI I've seen in a while.

[@qerm7097]

This is the best birthday gift ever, thanks guys for really entertaining me through all the times, you're the best!❤

[@ULTRAVISTA.]

This show is all I look forward to!!

[@rasmuspedersen3563]

Go hike in the woods someday buddy...

[@ULTRAVISTA.]

@@rasmuspedersen3563 what's hike

[@ciforoso]

You guys should check out some old school 50's/60's era compositing. The opening dream sequence from "Fail Safe" (1964) comes to mind. Super janky cutout, but very interesting stuff from a historical point of view of VFX

[@DanielS2001]

Fun fact about The Black Hole: It has a connection to the film TRON (1982). Steve Lisberger, after pitching TRON to Disney, was given several props and costumes from The Black Hole to use to create a test short to prove that the hand-painted lighting effects used for the glowing of the programs in the ENCOM system could be done. In fact, TRON: Legacy calls back to The Black Hole (in the beginning, you can see that Sam had a Black Hole lunchbox on his shelf), and it's been reported that director Joseph Kosinski (who went on to direct Oblivion and Top Gun: Maverick) originally wanted to do a Black Hole remake, but apparently had a falling out with Disney after they cancelled the third TRON film he was planning to do.

[@ZantharEos]

A great classic shot is the final scene in 1957 Curse of the Demon! The train scene actaully still holds up pretty well. Highly recomend you check it out.

[@jono6379]

Did they patent the prism? If they did you could get the original patent drawings and recreate it

[@AdamBladeTaylor]

I would think so. That thing made them stand out at the time, so I'm sure they wouldn't want it repeated.

[@nein13]

It would be fun to see you guys react to Kung Fury. A movie from me motherland and the greatest action movie of all time.

[@warnerwacha1918]

Hahaha "Drop Zone" My dad was part of the second unit camera department for that movie. The stunt department was so good on that movie. Nice to see it looked at all these years later

[@Simp_Zone]

The fact you guys put a countdown timer on the sponsored section so we can effectively skip it is a gentleman touch. Nice one lads 👍

[@AP-fu3gg]

I’m gonna suggest a movie. It has some neat practical effects and some stuff that looks really good for the time. The shadow with Alec Baldwin. I like the scene where he comes out of a shadow into a big tank of water.

[@dannybob42]

The sacred prism was corrupted by the Skeksis who use it to extend their life, the missing shard that'll make it whole is kept by Mother Aughra who will bestow it to one of the last surviving Gelflings

[@dosha_anand]

Any and all on the driving stunts in Blue Brothers would be worth while for another Stunt-actors react.

[@jsl151850b]

15:25 *The Disney Prism* should be the McGuffin of a SciFi/Action/Adventure/Fantasy movie. *Person A: "It's.....Wonderful!" {weeps}* *Person B: "It must be destroyed."* *Person A: "I know."*

[@Lucky.Lewis610]

you know you're early when youtube says it's uploaded 9 seconds ago

[@TheeFlashbackMan]

9 minutes for me

[@Korizain]

sounds like you're right on time

[@mikeuk666]

Attention seeking kids

[@Lucky.Lewis610]

okay old guy

[@dewyocelot]

Earliest I've been lol

[@3lusif]

Same

[@mikeuk666]

Cringe

[@AzKbassist]

What I love about this channel is, I have no idea how to create VFX. But after so many years of watching, I know what i'm looking for when they react to certain things

[@eccles714]

Wren asking about the skydiving from the beginning of the Power Rangers movie unlocked some DEEP memories in me!

[@patricksimnor6589]

I've asked for Arrival several times, pumped you guys did it. Would be amazing if Denis Villeneuve come on the show.

[@TheGodzillatron]

Can’t believe this series of videos became the Polar Express of reactions

[@macfanguy]

Loved the episode!😊

[@jedironin380]

Another great episode! I'm old, so I remember The Black Hole and Island at the Top of the World- Loved them both! Thanks for giving them some attention. As for the Prism, you've already solved it... It was kept at the Island at the Top of the World, and then sent off into a Black Hole! 😂

[@polton00]

Needed this today, thanks

[@Wali28987A]

I am not a photographer or someone who is involve in making videos or photos but I love to watch each episode with joys.

[@nisqhog2881]

Probably my favorite part of the F&F previs is that it's how most movies look to you as animators before they show you the final cut haha

[@adri.gl3]

Arrival is such a masterpiece! One of my favorites movies.

[@SeMDesu]

Suggestion: Jalex Rosa's works, his mostly doing stuff by himself, even with a small team, it's equally impressive.

[@caseychin3698]

Hey Corridor! Great content as always. I think a Mary Poppins breakdown would be really cool!

[@chendzeeali6545]

The Black Hole BLEW MY MIND when I saw it. I was born in 73. Star Wars, Black Hole, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Flash Gordon, Wrath of Khan, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes back, The Thing, Alien, Dark Star, The Last Star Fighter, Star Man, E.T., Flight of the Navigator, 2010, NOVA, COSMOS, it was crazy time to grow up as kid with a love of sci fi.

[@chris_the_scientist]

It is so cool that you took a look at The Black Hole! The effects in there are pretty amazing.

[@Eksevis]

Imagining "the prism" being a soul gem is hilarious.

[@opusmaximum]

The prism! I have been waiting for years to hear more about it here. Hope somebody will tell you more soon!

[@Aegis_Mind]

Probably my favorite “hey subscribe” bit you guys have ever done 😂

[@AllDayBikes]

7:54 I had to go back and watch that, that segment is so good. I completely forgot about it until Wren mentioned it.

[@hdaalpo]

Since you brought up the magic prism, I MIGHT have a way to get a similar effect; though I'm don't really know much about this area so ya'll/the audience will need to look into it. Basically, you have a setup similar to 3D cameras where a semi reflective surface sends part of the light to one camera and the rest to the other one. The "Main" camera has one of those "urban light pollution" filter things that filters out the sodium freq; the "secondary" camera takes in the whole scene sodium light and all. In post processing, "secondary" minus "main" gives the sodium mask that can be used with the green screen stuff. Again I lack the knowledge needed to know how well this will work, but this could be a viable way to get that sodium mask in the digital era.

[@Pallialbertti]

Absolutely loved that you reacted to Arrival! It's one of my favourite movies and Denis is my favourite director

[@bybay]

bruh the shot of dude falling & screaming got me crying 😂😂😂

[@big_Wynn_74]

YES YES YES YES! you talked about the Black Hole! My absolute favorite movie! Thank you!!!!

[@skylinegtr41889]

Bedknobs and broomsticks is definitely a movie to talk about with old school prisms techniques that you should talk about even if you don’t get to talk to somebody who used them.

[@mikesbasement6954]

I would love to see you guys do a call for sample videos from youngsters (i.e. high school or below) showcasing and giving constructive criticisms of what they did right and wrong. It'd also be a great way to help budding artists get into the business.

[@inventgineer]

I dunno if this'll give you lads or the editor who chose the thumbnail a chuckle, but.....my first reaction when seeing the thumbnail was (facetiously) "OH YEAH, isn't that the face he makes in the part where he goes 'VROOM VROOM' ?" 😂 Also, not trying to "neg" poor 'ol Wren-y, here, lol, but.....although I don't always take away as much from him as I do some other hosts/guests, I thought he made a GREAT point, VERY well elucidated, at 7:15 👏. Well said, sir 👍, appreciate cha.

[@NotPoodle]

Thank you for reminding me of Drop Zone! i loved this movie as a kid.