VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 42

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[@CorridorCrew]

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[@AB-these-handles-are-stupid]

Does Freddy still want salmon renders?

[@brandonendrizzi]

At 5:57 there is a face in the smoke of the volcano eruption in Dante’s peak. What the heck?! 😂

[@gavgraham]

Hey guys! I was the CG Supe on that 2012 sequence. So glad you liked it, it was pretty hard to do 12+ years ago!

[@assortedramblings9132]

No way! You should go on the show and do a full break down

[@rere1483]

Ive seen you comment that u do cg on a cpl vids.so you still working with cg to this day?

[@nerdynoah]

That's awesome. What's the biggest difference between how you did it then and how you'd do it now?

[@level8473]

thats awesome, do u love me?

[@tarzan5932]

No kidding it looks awesome

[@michaeledwards2300]

This channel has actually made me see cgi in movies as an art form and I’m so grateful! Love these videos

[@mohammadareeb2488]

Me too 😅😅😃😃

[@RenegadeQuack]

Me to, but it brokke the illusion of movies for me to 😅🤣

[@mohammadareeb2488]

@@RenegadeQuack yeah.... Same for me as well

[@JRBCollections]

I've started to dabble in my own CGI artwork, after learning how things are done AND how they are applied, I can't watch a movie with CGI the same ever again 😂 I start to break down how things are done and not watch the movie haha

[@JonathanLaRiviere]

😂 sometimes that is the ONLY way to look at the movies they review: incredible CGi art that happens to be in a terrible movie. Makes them more watchable. But great CGi AND great movie 😙🤌

[@eggnoggerino]

I worked on Dante's Peak. We actually did do a test render with early voxels for the pyroclastic clouds. Developed by the late Dr. Ken Musgrave, the voxel test looked awesome. However, still being on 100-200Mhz SGI Indigo2's one frame took over 40 hours to render - in video resolution. So Pat McClung, the VFX supervisor (who you guys should have definitely on the couch), brought out the tried and true air cannons filled with cement and other dense material - to great effect. Unlike Volcano, we actually did some true 3D lava in quite a few shots. I helped developing the look of it. I still have a vast knowledge of all things lava to this day. ;)

[@macabga5071]

Volcano movies in the US: *everybody panicks* Volcano movies in Iceland: *people meet up to play volleyball as the volcano erupts*

[@Ca7bon]

Ive never felt more understood than when Freddie said "Are you a Dante's Peak or a Volcano man?"

[@user-yy7tw9hv9n]

Dante's Peak, I remembe seeing it in class actually

[@axelfoley133]

Dante's Peak. They depict a variety of characteristics of a volcano, where Volcano just shows lava.

[@JonCollinsMedia]

How can anyone not choose Dante's Peak?

[@roberts9726]

haha and Wrens reaction 4:58

[@JonCollinsMedia]

@@roberts9726 he was like 🤔

[@oldmanmtb4069]

You should do an entire episode on the Golden Gate Bridge getting destroyed or damaged in disaster movies. So many examples and it would be cool to see how that trope has evolved over time.

[@Shadowreaper5]

Can we just extend this a bit? Wren has an engineering degree and I'd love to have him comment on the way movies treat structures.

[@psycapps]

Totally second this!!!

[@PiroMunkie]

That would also make for a fun inter-office competition to create the best destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[@rgerber]

(Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower)

[@septemily]

Anyone else have that scene from Dante’s Peak forever burned into your mind... of the grandma pushing the boat to safety in the volcanic hot waters? And the lightning flash that shows her mutilated legs?

[@B.McAllister]

YES haha I was going to comment the same.

[@tytoalbasoren9457]

It's acid water he said it in the movie, but I still don't understand how Pierce Brosnan's hand didn't melt when he paddled it with his arm covered only with a jacket.

[@CodeNameCheese_]

@@tytoalbasoren9457 he did wince with every stroke so who knows

[@lambchop518]

Her 1 hard twitch when she died still burned into my mind...

[@TheRealVodun13]

I really wish they would've reacted to the scene in Dante's Peak when the lava pours into the cabin and sets it on fire, that has to be some of the best use of special effects for a 90's movie

[@YourMCAdmin]

90s kid here. And that Volcano scene is without a doubt still burned into my mind. It's always the FIRST thing that pops into my head when I think about magma and lava.

[@skyeshi3570]

Yeah, i agree with that, guy was a hero

[@TheVofR]

I have a mostly irrational fear of lava because of scenes like that. Lot's of places I'd love to visit (like Hawaii) but probably won't because I'm afraid the ground underneath me will cave in and I'd fall into lava.

[@dezzybarrie]

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

[@stevenborg102]

Dante's Peak for me when the old bird gets her legs singed off in the magma pool...

[@richardtucker9385]

Yep, how every manager aught to be. I like to think that I would do the same.

[@TehZergRush]

Ah, the 90’s. Where you were a Dante’s Peak or a Volcano person, an Armageddon or a Deep Impact person, and a Bug’s Life or an Antz person.

[@GregBrockstar]

Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis

[@JudeFergy]

Antz forever.

[@ogelsmogel]

Dante's Peak, definitely. Armageddon (never a big fan of Deep Impact). Bug's Life maybe?

[@zycielotnicze2306]

Dante's Peak, Armageddon (although Deep Impact is more acurate) and Bug's Life kid here

[@sergeymeshkov]

Now it’s DC or Marvel, it’s the same

[@5Seed]

Dantes peak haunted me. That hotspring with the bodies and the old lady jumping into the acid water. 😱

[@GlennDavey]

Dante's Peak is late 90's in a nutshell, you got Sarah Connor and James Bond in a movie about a volcano. I was the exact right age for this.

[@Zw285]

EXCUSE ME!!! How could not pull up The Revenge Of The Sith Mustafar shots? It's literally an entire planet of volcanos!

[@rubesmit]

I was waiting for that too

[@Fede0779]

Lol , true

[@Real28]

I HATE YOUUUUUUUU

[@nickeyg.2714]

Prolly cus most of the lava effects for that scene were practical

[@CaedenV]

One does not anger The Mouse lightly.

[@amdreallyfast]

For 2012, I have to quote Roger Ebert: "It's not so much that the Earth is destroyed, but that it's done so thoroughly." But that Volcano scene of the guy melting in the lava. Gave my child self nightmares for weeks.

[@user-jp7tw3sd3x]

Actually... A human falling in lava is way more horrific, because of the Leidenfrost effect, aka the water drop on a hot pan effect.

[@SirStrugglesAlot]

@@user-jp7tw3sd3x Possibly be seeing eyeball boiling and exploding, and body just being cooked from the boiling blood....maybe

[@charliecat7321]

Sameee, that terrified me as a kid

[@etiennesauvageau8779]

It gives a whole other meaning to "the floor is lava."

[@amdreallyfast]

@@user-jp7tw3sd3x Oof. Didn't think of that. So they might just splatter. On second thought though, the body is largely made of water, and water has a high heat capacity. Making a lot of blood boil would therefore requires a lot of energy. The thermal energy in the lava is very high, but not infinite, so the lava would cool around the point of contact to the point where it wouldn't boil nearly as fast. Heat would be replenished, but the not-quite-lava-anymore rock wouldn't conduct heat as well as the more fluid lava it once was, so the heat might not be replenished fast enough for the Leidenfrost effect to continue indefinitely. I think. Thoughts? Talking physics helps me compensate for the great disturbances of the image.

[@hbkadt89]

The scene in Matilda where she's learnt her powers and has cards and stuff flying around the room looks real good to this day

[@DoorMonster]

Have you guys ever covered anything from the Netflix "Lost in Space" adaptation? Among many other things, they have some pretty cool planetary destruction scenes in there.

[@mynamejeff8401]

Or love death and robots

[@bobbywatson5697]

Nice to see you guys here! Love your stuff!

[@ssc1348]

Expanse space combat scenes are cool too

[@NeonThunder11]

@@mynamejeff8401 CRUSH KILL DESTROY

[@FrankLoydWright]

Yo! Now I want a Door Monster breakdown of y'all's best stuff! I think a collab would be so freaking cool between your two channels!

[@KingCombine]

"quicksand is like the third biggest thing you have to worry about in adult life behind real sticks of dynamite and giant anvils falling on you from the sky" - John Mulaney

[@mitchelllowy1686]

Came looking for this. Thank you

[@PPPPPPPP8]

Why do these guys dress so badly?

[@21centuryhippie61]

@@mitchelllowy1686 same lol

[@badaboum2]

It used to be pianos falling on people from the sky, which was a real thing that actually happened (though very few actually documented cases exist). It was already absurd, but cartoons cranked up the absurdity to 11 by replacing pianos with anvils.

[@JoshHereUK]

The thing that was burned into my brain was in Dante’s Peak when the old lady has to push the boat in the acid lake and her legs just melt off! Always lovingly referred to as “grannys legs” in our family...

[@explodingtomahawks7589]

That's the one for me! It's still seared into my mind all these years later. Glad to see someone else suffers mentally from that one ;)

[@AirQuotes]

That funking granny

[@MotoJaxDS]

I was a huge fan of both Volcano and Dante's Peak but that granny lake scene hit me FAR worse than subway melting scene. I actually didn't rewatch that movie nearly as much for that reason.

[@coolguyhino92]

For me, when I think of "Volcano", my brain goes to the 2 scenes in Dante's Peak where people tried to use a thermal vent as a hot spring. One scene is people jumping in, and react to searing pain moments later.(Fun pan down through the water to see the glowing lava boiling the water) 2nd scene is when a brother and sister attempt the same thing, only to see the the pale-bloated aftermath of 2 adults being boiled to death. Saw it when I was 5. I just turned 29. Never gotten that image out of my head.

[@CodeNameCheese_]

When the kid was about to jump in I always wondered what would happen if pierce hadn’t stopped him

[@joshuagross3151]

Technically, it was an old vent that the entire town had advertised as a hot spring. The bloated couple just got unlucky.

[@stephenhoran4897]

Death Becomes Her 1992. Won an academy award for best visual effects. Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.

[@RannonSi]

I really liked that movie!

[@danielknauss5019]

The next time you do an “animators react”, I would like to see Monsters Inc. I remember being blown away by the scene in the Himalayas with how realistic the fur looked while being blown by the wind.

[@Uncle_Smidge]

I'd love to see them do a video specifically on the evolution of fur and hair mechanics, one about water mechanics, etc. It could be a very cool series!

[@AndrewDembouski]

I’ve been suggesting this forever because at the end when they leave the factory, Mike’s feet skate across the pavement and clip through it and it’s bugged me for years

[@Clay3613]

That movie also have massive object simulations for the Door room.

[@neogmz]

Also the snow getting stuck a little between the hairs, so impressive!

[@tombsofak]

They do talk about that scene a little bit in this older reacts video! But I agree it would be so cool to give the sequence its own dedication in an animators react video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2XReKuOZ9J7hdU

[@kamakazines4901]

Ngl, calling Jason Isaacs the poor man's Jon Hamm hurt me on a personal level 😂

[@Denashi]

Right?!?

[@DizzNutt93]

Absolutely, he is way better than Jon Hamm!

[@rockgordon]

Hello Jason Isaacs 👋🏻

[@hamblyl]

Totally - Hamm is TV's Jason Isaacs.

[@Turalcar]

So a rich man's Jon Hamm

[@MikeOlsen12]

Freddy couldn’t be more right! That scene in volcano is just so gnarly! I’m a Dante’s Peak man personally.

[@AndyGilleand]

Similar to 2012 another movie to check out would be San Andreas

[@sag6445]

@@Squidwart156 lol

[@aeonspast]

Freddie hit the nail on the head. The shoes melting and the dude landing in the lava in the subway SCARRED me for years.

[@evilspoons]

I think that plus the compound fracture Pierce Brosnan gets in Dante's Peak, eughh.

[@carlblack8574]

@@evilspoons The grandma melting on the acid lake on Dante's Peak was hardcore as well!

[@explodingtomahawks7589]

Seeing your comments make me think we all probably shouldn't have seen that movie as a kid XD Shit's hardcore, man! Having said that, it's a good destruction movie.

[@carlblack8574]

@@explodingtomahawks7589 Haha my dad made me watch a lot of PG-13 and R rated movies as a kid, i mean i watched Saving Private Ryan when i was 6 years old. But my favorite was Terminator 2. I loved those movies as a kid hahahaha.

[@FanaticDrummer]

“Pearl Harbor”, its a over looked movie for CGI despite winning awards. Looks great even today. Battle scenes are totally worth watching, epic explosions and plane sims. (Not for the story lol)

[@Buztroy]

Awesome. I'd love a war movie VFX artist s react

[@FanaticDrummer]

@@Buztroy I forget if they touched on Hacksaw Ridge, that also had great fiery and destructive shots. But they might have because there was a ton of tasteful comping in that movie.

[@Tabulatelk15]

Too bad it isn't a good movie lmao.

[@FanaticDrummer]

@@Tabulatelk15 Never said it was lol Its Michael Bay. Whole storyline is a 3 way drama fest. But regardless I used to watch the second part of the VHS set because that was the battle scenes ha.

[@randomthingsposted583]

Yeah, the harbor bombing scene is the only good part about that movie.

[@humanoid251]

I had to watch Dante’s Peak for a geology class in college. It’s such a good movie!!! Some of the stuff in it is actually scientifically accurate (not all of it *cough* the driving on lava scene *cough cough*) but I still freaking love it

[@Luciferiandisciple1]

Let’s not forget the breathing in ash. That’s always the one thing volcano movies get wrong.

[@franciscs1604]

The things that makes and explosion SUPER SATISFYING: Big fireball expanding, chunks and debris flying into the air and crumbling down.

[@marton_dobo]

"Pierce Brosnan is the hottest thing right now" Freddie isn't just a 90s kid, he still lives in the 90s.

[@aztecklover69]

same here^^ I was 7 y’o; at the begining of thr 90’s:)

[@gabrielaribeiro6155]

Have you seen the man, lately? He aged like fine wine

[@marton_dobo]

@@gabrielaribeiro6155 good point!

[@Connstein]

You clearly haven’t been keeping up with THE ARCHITECT

[@PiroMunkie]

That was my thought exactly every time he opened his mouth, and I love him for it. xD

[@Samiam-mu5ln]

I feel bad for Jake as I'm sure once he starts talking, that's where the video ends for a lot of us xD

[@elkikex]

Corridor guys need to get some tips from LTT on making quick unskippable ads. Unless it's their sponsors who are asking for 2 a min ad no one watches.

[@ZipplyZane]

@@elkikex They're not remotely unskippable. You just double tap on your screen. Or use Sponsorblock. If it wasn't for the latter, I probably wouldn't watch much LTT.

[@Funkaxe]

I feel like this ep had a great level of technical depth while still being super entertaining. I sometimes miss that feeling of revelation in other episodes. I love hearing about all the pitfalls the SFX artists have to dodge. The three guys ripping apart scenes with respect for what was achieved and sympathy for the mistakes was great. Also maybe it was just the breakneck speed they can bounce ideas around cos they are so on the same wavelength. Anyway, awesome episode!

[@eliasd9129]

“Mortal Engines” it had more vfx Shots than I’ve ever seen in a movie and it has a rlly cool style

[@TheFrozenFlame05]

Freddie: "You were scared of volcanoes and quicksand, don't even lie" Dang, that was surprising accurate.

[@Mhidraum]

Nah, I'm fine with quick sand. The really nasty stuff is called quick clay. Quick clay is solid untill it's disturbed or stirred up. Then it liquifies in seconds. Search for Rissa landslide 1978 to watch one.

[@PPPPPPPP8]

Why do these guys dress so badly?

[@maxwellsimon4538]

For me it was just quicksand. I never saw any volcano movies as a kid, but I did see never ending story and jumanji

[@rhov-anion]

Volcanos, quicksand, and tsunamis.

[@makcraft]

I want VFX guys to go through all The Day After Tomorrow moments.

[@heisenbergII]

Fun fact: at the time only 4 people in the world knew how to properly animate water and they all worked on that film too

[@RusticVisuals]

@@heisenbergII source?

[@AndoniOlea]

They need to do a Roland Emmerich special.

[@heisenbergII]

@@RusticVisuals it was from one of the early videos from “VFX Artist React” I don’t remember which one but it was when they talked about the chase scene from “We Own The Night”

[@ogelsmogel]

I'd love to see that too.

[@Aluarc4]

I think one thing that helps with Dante's Peak is how real (or at least as real as a movie can be) made the volcano. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I was always fascinated by them and heard consistently about the Mt. St. Helens eruption, so watching that one always gives me this visceral reaction, kind of like a sinking feeling in my stomach. Those effects are top notch.

[@mookymookymooo]

Freddie you are so right, I grew up in the 90s and that lava scene HAS aaaalways been etched in my mind. I just had no idea till now that I was not alone 😮

[@Say_Tin]

Freddie: Volcanoes are cool. Don't act like volcanoes aren't cool, volcanoes are cool. Me, an intellectual: Actually, volcanoes are hot

[@evilsharkey8954]

The ones on the gas giants’ moons are pretty cool.

[@ScreamingScallop]

Oh great, now some mockbuster studio is going to make _Coldcano._ Or _Iceruption._

[@RogaineForEwoks]

@@ScreamingScallop Coldano: Iceruption, it's got to have that colon in there. And the tagline has to be, "It'll burrrrn you alive!"

[@matheussanthiago9685]

who are you who is so wise on the ways of science

[@MrJacobrezac]

Everyone’s talking about the scene from Volcano but let’s talk about the scene in Dante’s Peak with the old lady walking through the lake of acid.

[@warwickpalm1146]

Same here! Can't believe it never got a mention! I'd love to know how the boat dissolving effects were done!

[@CoolKid741741]

Yes! I didn't even remember what movie it was from, but that scene is still seared in my mind to this day.

[@PettyBees]

The one that got engrained in my mind as a kid is when that rock went through the car onto that girl’s head. I still remember the convulsions of her

[@Angry-ant-online]

Just rewatched REAL STEEL. First of all, an underrated movie over all. But the robots still hold up today. Watching it again recently, I was blown away how seamless everything blends together. I would love you guys taking it apart.

[@bansvortu1299]

I'd love to see a reaction on Rango! I rewatched this the other night and I can't believe how well it aged, it's still a animated masterpiece to this day despite how old it is

[@TeryJones]

_"This scene is burned into the minds of every 90s kid who saw this movie."_ Yeah no kidding and this wasn't even a rated R movie, just PG-13! And the guy was literally praying as he was walking through that literal hell. Jiminy Fucking Christmas....

[@360.Tapestry]

that pretty much tells you how cynical and desensitized i am now. i never saw either of those volcano movies when they were initially released, and seeing that scene now barely registers with me. clearly, i can see what they're going for, but i've already seen too much other stuff - which kinda reminds me how good _doctor sleep_ really is that the scene where the true knot were feeding off the kid did have an impact

[@davecrupel2817]

@@360.Tapestry "Doctor Sleep" Something that affects desensitized people like you and me? Im checking it out!

[@TeryJones]

@@DarkVitamins A lot of people like to think you need to be Rated R to leave a lasting impression of horror, that without blood or gore "it's just not scary"... But here's this PG-13 film, one of dozens out of the history of cinema, that serves as a blunt reminder to the contrary >:3

[@rome8180]

@@360.Tapestry I'm clearly not desensitized, because this was the first time I saw that scene and I found it really unpleasant to watch. I hope to never see it again.

[@nickllama5296]

Yeah I would have thrown the guy I was carrying onto the lava, and for the few seconds he was floating, used him as a stepping stool to get across. Sorry buddy!

[@tonysofia2686]

Do a comparison of how Spider-Man has changed over the years similar to how you did Hulk. It also gives you an excuse to look at sandman and venom.

[@adrianreynoso6496]

YES!!!

[@MaverickMyth]

And Japanese Spider-Man 😅

[@fourze4z138]

@@MaverickMyth ayo Japanese Spiderman is a treasure EMISSARY OF HELL

[@Eronbigo]

@@MaverickMyth and Italian Spiderman. Never forget.

[@MaxIronsThird]

Spiderman CG peaked in Amazing 2 for some fucking reason.

[@mikebeak1389]

So amazing seeing the movies years ago. Volcano and 2012 are the ones I've seen the most, they are so cool with the effects. I've seen some VFX breakdown of 2012 a couple of years back. I like seeing the behind the scenes of Volcano which I haven't seen. Really cool how they composite the lava into the scenes. Thank you for sharing behind the scenes parts too. Really cool video too :)

[@nivannakingsman1383]

The movie volcano gave me nightmares as a kid. That scene where they get burned in the underground utility tunnel stays in my brain rent free

[@zlayne357]

Dante’s Peak was a movie that traumatized me as a kid. I cried when the grandma got out of the boat in the acid water and pushed them to safety 😩😩😩

[@KimdraStBiryukova]

Oh, THAT'S where that's from??? I've always remembered that scene, but I never knew which movie it was from. I think I just kinda told myself it was a fever dream lol

[@glenovovich]

Yeah, how did they show the guy from Volcano but not the grandma? I mean, it didn't seem like she really needed to do that or that it helped, but come on, let's compare apples to apples.

[@collinmclaren6608]

Yeah, I remember a substitute teacher put that movie on in high school once. I still remember that scene where the skinny dippers were boiled alive in the hot springs.

[@PPPPPPPP8]

Why do these guys dress so badly?

[@rcworkplay5293]

Yep. Brutal. I still fast-forward/skip that bit sometimes.

[@Magm00]

I'd love to see you all do an episode around visual representations of Magic. How different people have tried to express something completely imaginary interacting with a real and tangible world.

[@TPund]

I second this. So many movie to choose from as well. Harry Potter to LotR to older 70s and 80s movies like Legend, Clash of the Titans, and Conan the Barbarian. An evolution of magic special effects episode would be great.

[@psyched.shelby5391]

this is a sick idea

[@arforafro5523]

Off the top of my head my favorite are probably Doctor Strange and the Warcraft Movie.

[@damyr55]

@@arforafro5523 Two excellent choices. Doctor Strange with his mostly minimalistic and clean effects (with some sparks added, just for fun), while Warcraft has the very over the top magic effects.

[@ZesPak]

@@damyr55 Sorcerer's Apprentice springs to mind.

[@OnTheRocks71]

This video encouraged me to watch Dante's Peak for the first time in probably 10 years, at least. And yeah, it still looks dope. Probably the weakest effects are with the water/flood sequence, but that's due to the miniature work. Don't think even modern CG would have been terribly better though, my brain still picks up on it. Water is just insane man.

[@soggysteve]

You also have to remember we watched most of these old movies on CRT TVs. So most of the bad effects were really hard to notice. Great content!

[@Rumpsore]

I really cried when the guy sacrificed himself by jumping in the lava. That took guts.

[@TrueRahf]

All for that shot, right?!

[@stephenharris5532]

They did a really good job setting up that character to have that moment. His story arc was amazing. Easily the best character in the movie even though he dies half way through.

[@tybertimus]

Took guts, and all his other tissues as well.

[@bishalacharya3418]

That dude when he sacrificed his life like that is the only scene I remember when I watched that movie in school...

[@Texass117]

I would've grabbed 2 and used them like stepping stones

[@lunarceltgaming4968]

man I'd love to see a vfx artists react to vfx from back in like the 40's and 50's. see how the pioneers of the art did this

[@CallMeDBlock]

you could do an entire crossover episode on Jiu Jitsu - ridiculous CGI, ridiculous Stunt work... just mind boggling 🤯

[@KlaustheViking]

The 90’s for a good amount of movies had a good balance of CGI and practical effects which made the movies worth rewatching.

[@grownmystical8796]

I rewatch 2012 so many times just for the cgi

[@timfondiggle2582]

Practical effects will always seem way more "magical" than cgi

[@KlaustheViking]

@@timfondiggle2582 True. I say both have their limitations. When you combine the two, it makes VFX awe-inspiring. Like I’m always fascinated by the volcano explosion in Dante’s Peak cause it looks so real even though the scale is so much smaller.

[@Shank5ter]

Even after that, VFX didn’t really become the norm until movies like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 and especially Avatar

[@MrQjax]

The biggest bummer about the sinking in lava scene is that, even as a liquid, lava is about 3 times more dense than our water-filled bodies, so you wouldn't slowly sink into it as much as you would splat down on top of it and start to boil.

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

Science is a prick.

[@Pouk3D]

That's what they said about the Gollum falling into the lava in LotR. The scene would be inverted, Gollum would splat on the surface and catch fire, while the ring would sink.

[@Skili19]

Here is a nice video of organic matter in volcano kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaKadXehbcp_qZo Jumping in a shallow pool of lava would be pretty nasty to watch, nothing so nice as in the movie.

[@rahueyork]

He is not sinking, he is melting ;)

[@hikkoko122]

That's an example of reality and movie reality. What it is vs what do you expect to be. Also, it would be less dramatic watching a guy just "splatting down and burning"

[@corvusblack830]

The subway scene with the guy in the lava? Even 20 years later I’ve still gotten nightmares so… yeah

[@michelletaylorlloyd]

I have seen both Dante's Peak and Volcano when I was a child back in the 90s and I haven't watched them since the 2000s. Luckily from me that I have both movies on DVD, I might rewatch them this weekend after watching this reacting from you guys.

[@SoundGuyRoy]

Freddie, if you are reading this there is a salmon in the movie "The Core" that smashed through a window with a bunch of pigeons. I know it's not a whole scene but the VFX team threw it in for a few frames just to see if anyone was paying attention.

[@explodingtomahawks7589]

I've always heard it was a bunch of fish that they did it with. Funny either way!

[@MotoJaxDS]

Wait WHAT. I love that movie and seen it a million times but I totally missed that!!! Need to rewatch.

[@elitely6748]

He's so right that volcano scene scarred me for life I stopped the movie there and never resumed it again to this day. Edit: *he just made a pun "burned into mind"

[@rcohensartwork3640]

I carried on with the movie as a kid but I Remember seeing that scene and thought it was so realistic and heroic at the time.

[@elitely6748]

@@rcohensartwork3640 Awesome, u have courage back then

[@KaySan666]

@@rcohensartwork3640 I remember beeing really sad for the guy. and i think that this scene is the reason why i haven't rewatched the movie yet. Its similar with that Stallone Movie where he's in the Holland Tunnel thats collapsed. I hate it when they kill good guys simply to show how dangerous something is.

[@rcohensartwork3640]

@@KaySan666 I think the deaths of heroic characters was a big 90s theme at the time. I didnt feel like it was to show how dangerous it was, to me he knew he wouldn't make it and thought the other guys life was more valuable then his own. Its one of those movies I havent watched in along time so I'd have to rewatch it.

[@KaySan666]

@@rcohensartwork3640 i agree i think that was a trend back then, but i do think it was a plot device to to show the dangers that await. To show that no one is safe, no matter how good of a person. Whether thats the nice TV station boss in Independence Day who gets killed on his way to his mother. the traffic cop in that Stalone movie, who demands to be left there because he'd only hold the others back, or this guy who sacrifices himself. These scenes do nothing more than visualize the stakes that at risk. Their death or survival wouldn't change anything in the movie

[@ionbusman2086]

Watched Dantes Peak for the first time last night and was blown away by the effects! Especially when the truck gets stuck trying to cross the solidifying lava

[@akilahcopeland8815]

Unrelated: Watching action films on Amazon Prime, cause Tom Clancy's Without Remorse became available today and I have been waiting seems like a decade lol Decided to follow it with Tom Clancy's The Division: Agent Origins and was immediately taken aback with delight to see the Corridor Digital logo in opening credits! Gotta say, this is the first time I have unexpectedly come across your work outside of your KZbin channels. Super stoked 👌 Love everything you all do ♡♡

[@TimWing23]

Always loved the 90's disaster movies. Twister, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Always two there are: a master and an apprentice.

[@cobalt2506]

I love deep impact

[@jp3813]

Independence Day, Daylight, Hard Rain, Titanic

[@DigitalNeb]

Imagine being the stunt driver tasked with driving that RV like he was trying to escape a volcano. Damn that must have been fun.

[@ZesPak]

"ok, now you're going to jump it and we're going to put explosives in the back of it."

[@michaeltyrrell3381]

go watch 1puglife winnebago jump

[@clanch2544]

Great stuff as usual! Learning a lot here. Anyway, I don't know if you've covered this one: SUPERMAN RETURNS (space plane rescue and Luthor’s island to climax sequences).

[@RubyRuben1128]

One thing that stands out to me about Dante’s peak is the unstoppable destructive force isn’t lava it’s the pyroclastic flow

[@Mackinstyle]

The visceral scene burned into my mind was the "row row row your boat" grandma melting in the acid lake.

[@beloit9115]

Indeed. I was a Dante's Peak lad myself. That and Twister.

[@AxeKick80]

Yes! I had forgotten pretty much everything about this movie but that one scene has stuck with me all these years. That was brutal and disturbing.

[@septemily]

YESS 😭

[@leelanzini]

Animators react to The Adventures of Tintin (2011)? It really looks like it was made on a PS8! So amazing!

[@Fakan]

They've talked about it before when discussing one-takes. Sorry I can't remember the episode.

[@NeonThunder11]

Great episode guys! Love it

[@AdventuresofaGeek]

I personally think the Grandma dieing in Dante's Peak isnt as brutal but hits harder. But whats insane is that they don't really acknowledge it at all for the rest of the film and at the the the kid at the end is like "hey are still going to take us fishing" tf

[@PTNLemay]

that definitely marked 10-year-old me. What was it that go her? She had to wade through an acid-ized river or something?

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

@@PTNLemay Correct - she gets out of the boat the main characters are escaping across a lake (turned acidic by sulfur from the volcano) on to push it to shore.

[@WilliamFischerOfficial]

Freddie episodes are the absolute *bomb*

[@iliaskatsa]

Indeed. I just wish they give him shoes before the episodes because it's annoying to see his toes every time they invite him.

[@savado]

@@iliaskatsa Not everyone is podophobic lol

[@salami_lid7614]

@@iliaskatsa you not rocking with toes⁉️

[@pwl2992]

@@iliaskatsa just dont look at his feet

[@skapreme]

I love his input, great guy, especially for this series

[@ChristianVaerum]

The clip where Gollum catches a fish in The Lord of The Rings.

[@draconocor1309]

They already did it! Check the Lord Of The Rings edition of VFXAR

[@reaper411b]

Bro they already did that, idk how to copy and paste the link here, but it's the lord of the rings part 1 react video, both of the 2-part'ers are awesome, you're welcome ;)

[@hzrds7191]

@@I_d_k_101 the scene of him catching the fish is from The Two Towers

[@logandraper]

They did that one

[@CrippledMerc]

I remember in the 2nd grade I somehow got in the habit of getting a special vocabulary card with a harder word than any of the other kids got. One time my word was dinosaurs, and another card I remember getting was Volcanoes. I don’t know why I remember that so vividly but I do.

[@daveh3997]

Dante's peak was filmed in Wallace, Idaho--a hard-rock silver mining town surrounded by granite mountains. The nearest volcanoes are the cascade range over 350 miles away. Anything remotely volcano-like was some sort of special effect.

[@starryagent9936]

The town stuff was. The scenes at the summit were shot on Mt St Helens, a real active volcano, in Washington state with USGS supervision

[@aapur]

2012 was an okay movie story-wise, but visually that movie was a goddamn treat. Hats off to the VFX team

[@ceresta1732]

Fun fact, the reason 2012 was made (aside from the obvious timeliness of course) was to showcase the crazy new particle and fluid simulation technology that was only then becoming realized. I don't care for the characters or story, but I've spent hours watching those effects shots frame by frame.

[@gavgraham]

The VFX team thanks you!!

[@Y2KNW]

2012 is some of the best disaster porn out there.

[@AnakinandPadme1231]

Thats probably the reason i watched it

[@aapur]

@@ceresta1732 I did not know that! That's incredibly cool

[@108asf]

Freddy: Look at this idiot who made a theme park in an active volcano Niko: *remembers his last hawaiian vacation

[@kazeespada3570]

Yeah, but Kīlauea is a shield volcano who spits out slow lava flows. Vs the volcanos shown in movies tend to be Stratovolcanos because they make bigger explosions.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Kaze Espada, Hawaiian volcanoes have erupted explosively in the past, but very, very rarely and nowhere near the scale of most stratovolcanoes. Mostly, Kilauea is pretty safe because it’s the most monitored volcano on Earth. If it’s a little stinkier than usual, they don’t let people near the stinky zones. They know what it’s likely to do a few weeks before it happens, including that big rift eruption in 2018. There’s a reason nobody died. Well, also the lava fronts are slow enough you can outrun them by walking. The real danger is getting surrounded or hit by lava bombs, which hurt since they’re still heavy hunks of rock.

[@chibatadayoshi278]

A rich dude in Indonesia building theme park on the foot of active volcanoes as I write this. Not one, not two, but on the foot of three active volcanoes.

[@someweeb3650]

@@chibatadayoshi278 Didn't a huge erruption just happen in Indonesia?

[@chibatadayoshi278]

@@someweeb3650 Well, Indonesia is so vast, as vast as Europe, the theme park is in Java island and the last huge eruption is in Sumatra island, like 2000km away.

[@Zepheren]

I know it's not salmon related but just watched Odd Thomas and I would love to see the guys review any of the CGI scenes in it!

[@andrewmurray1550]

I know a great do-over scene - when that winnebago jumps the disintegrating road, replace that with the A-Team van!

[@samfutch8994]

You were not lying about that volcano scene. I'm 29 years old and I regularly think about it when anyone references lava. And the man was praying while carrying the other guy.

[@TylerZed]

"This scene is BURNED in the mind of any kid that watched this in the 90s." This is startlingly accurate.

[@FlauntRyan]

yeah he just read my mind

[@adamcarroll9613]

The funny part is that you wouldn't sink into it like that. Your body would do something more akin to what bacon or cold water does on a skillet, since the molten rock is more dense than your body. You'd just start to sizzle and slide around on the molten rock and getting some really horrific burns.

[@FlauntRyan]

oh man thats awful

[@jdjm4310]

You guys need to react to the new episode from Love Death & Robots Season 2 called "Snow in the Desert" is just INCREDIBLE

[@TheDuvanator]

For sure! It's the best compelling CGI short I've seen since Syama Pedersen's Astartes Project. Here's a link to the trailer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmjGcmabrc-ie9E

[@PanPhobicProdigy]

They said a long time ago they would do the first season but never did, I think somethings up with it.

[@jdjm4310]

I hope they do some day. It would pretty interesting

[@francescodaffra8275]

Hey guys! Great video as always! As a late '80 kid, I loved Buffy The Joss Whedon Show...so can you show how they made special effects, on from human to vampire transformation

[@Xycron]

Excuse me did you just insinuate that Jason Isaacs is a discount version of someone else?

[@vanerek]

let's be honest he's a discount version Gabriel Lorca

[@PPPPPPPP8]

Why do these guys dress so badly?

[@notahotshot]

No they did not insinuate it, they said it outright.

[@kuhpunkt]

Right. He's so great. "Awake" was such a fucking awesome show.

[@mystroceo]

I GOT A HELL OF A CHALLENGE FOR YOU GUYS. CAN YOU DO SPAWN? THAT HAD SOME OF THE WORST CGI OF ALL TIME. THE END PART WITH ALL THE SPAWNS VERSES THE DEMON IN HELL.

[@BiohazardEXTREME]

You don't have to feel bad for the extra. Before I got into acting, I did plenty of extra work, and let me tell you, I would've loved to be the guy who tells his friends, "I had a death scene". That's the coolest thing an extra could do.

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

@sehhi vooty what

[@JustapErson]

I think in a disaster movie, surviving would be far cooler than dying.

[@BiohazardEXTREME]

@@JustapErson That would depend. If it's a memorable death scene, I think it's way cooler than surviving and just being another body in a crowd in the background.

[@smileyp4535]

Yeah really, obviously people want to survive irl but this is fiction, if you're gonna die for fake go to Valhalla! Be that one extra that people point at and go "whoooooa"

[@grimsladeleviathan3958]

@@BiohazardEXTREME If you die in lava in the background, but you keep your thumb up, and after editing they actually keep it in the movie. Who needs heroes

[@oneheadlight8000]

I was just going to ask if you ever reacted to Freddie’s FPS cod type videos back in the day.. now he is on the show!

[@radicaladz]

I'd really like to see the Crew take a look at the Evil Dead movies/Sam Raimi's films at some point - from his low-budget roots to making blockbusters, he's got a long history of using cool filmmaking techniques such as improvised low-tech camera rigs like the "shakey-cam" and "ram-o-cam" as well as CGI, rear-projection, stop-motion and other in-camera trickery, and he also has a lot of cool/hilarious stuntwork, even when it's just him having Bruce Campbell get the shit beaten out of him in the Evil Dead Trilogy.

[@Tragicalful]

That scene from Volcano is literally the first thing that comes to my mind whenever there’s a “worse way to die” conversation.

[@emilyoliver5358]

The Yellowstone explosion in 2012 was said to be the most accurate depiction of what the eruption would actually look like. It’s not 100% correct but it’s so dope to see that it’s almost accurate and that scary.

[@Sky_Guy]

If only every human being within a hundred miles wouldn't be pulverized, set on fire, and blinded by Yellowstone's eruption. Science really should be more accommodating to the cinematic aspects of natural disasters! smh

[@stefjames95]

Apparently the explosion in 2012 is about 1/4 of the size of what Yellowstone would erupt at. I think it would be much larger

[@emilyoliver5358]

@@stefjames95 that only makes it that much scarier 😬 Earth is scary

[@Sky_Guy]

@@emilyoliver5358 Wanna be absolutely floored by the destructive power of Earth's geothermal activity? Look up flood basalts. Apocalyptic shit.

[@Bongo_Dong]

I love how all their reaction videos are 10% of vfx deduction while 90% ismaking fun of the extras

[@LewLaps]

Idk if you have done it already, but the train crash scene from Super 8 is dope I'd love to see a breakdown!

[@3dberserk1]

You should react to Werewolf transformations. American werewolf in London, Harry poter, van helsing, Love death and Robots, The order 1886, Wolfman, etc

[@No_Treading]

I still get chills from that scene in Volcano when his shoes are melting walking through the subway car and then watching the lava slowly dissolve an entire grown ass man. Takes me right back to my childhood. Legit gave me a couple nightmares as a kid

[@FanNotANerd]

I'd love to see a breakdown of the sinking of the HMS Endeavour from At World's End. That whole scene is cinematic perfection.

[@rodneyschmidt3652]

Seriously, 2012 had some of the most outstanding VFX shots... Tsunami over the Himalayas while a monk sounds the bell for the last time... The entire west coast tilting and sliding into the ocean... Gorgeous

[@JonOfNoTrades]

Shout-out to Wren for calling that composite helicopter shot from 2012. Niko and Freddie were both saying full CG but Wren totally called it!

[@Brandon01.]

I would love for y'all to go over the scene in John Wick 3 where he is walking through the glass doors at the end. I have watched that so many times and have no clue how they did that.

[@purplevertig0]

low-key need a whole episode on crazy reflection tricks

[@Temujin.Thinketh.]

@@purplevertig0 Great idea!

[@jalin8039]

that would be awesome, reflections in vfx are so mind boggling

[@caseyberger15]

Love these and longtime subscriber! Can you guys do a breakdown of THAT scene where Legolas gets onto the horse that one time? With the Rohirrim and Weta using a digital double? I bet you guys could remake that scene to look a lot more smooth nowadays. And any other LOTR stuff you think of!

[@frederickcaligari9725]

Would love to see you guys react to both ghost rider movies. the transformation sequences especially. Keep up the great work.

[@Xeno1001]

“Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” directed by Zack Snyder, 2010, day 118.

[@xander3148]

Yes, I remember whatching that film in 3D and it was one of the best films for 3d I've ever seen

[@DogeCoinInvestor]

Holy fuck I forgot that existed

[@nome9752]

man i remember watching this movie once when i was a kid, loving it and never finding it again because i did not see the name, honestly i really did not expect the guy who directed dc movies to be the one who directed this one

[@LevCallahan]

Dude. Dante's Peak. I'm so glad it's finally getting the recognition it deserves.

[@mikaylazmolek5878]

I would love to see two scenes from annihilation- the bear attack scene and the final fight scene between lena and her weird clone thing