The verbal "skips" at the beginning really got me. Well played fellas.
@bronsoncarder24912 жыл бұрын
Reference to Epic NPC Man? lol
@qwerttzizzi2 жыл бұрын
Timestamp?
@MumrikDK2 жыл бұрын
@@zelig1799 Yes. They see what viewers actually watch.
@jamesmule2 жыл бұрын
@@zelig1799 Yeah, that's part of the video analytics, afaik. There are also browser addons and apps that might skip those parts automatically.
@markofthearc2 жыл бұрын
Also, the new feature on mobile can show you were people have selected a portion of a video of the most; so they probably noticed the first minute was skipped?
@christianstoneroussesu45842 жыл бұрын
Love when y’all have guests on the couch, but nothing matches the chemistry of the OG 3. Y’all never miss with these episodes
@spunkymaniac93122 жыл бұрын
Especially that they can be sincere when there's no guests, they can criticize the bad stuff , which would be absent with guests
@ZeroTooL882 жыл бұрын
I love sam but for me Clint is one of the OGs
@mikekaye38742 жыл бұрын
@Christian I was thinking the same thing. - Toronto, Canada.
@legodbrez42022 жыл бұрын
clint OP
@TheBrokenSword2 жыл бұрын
The legends themselves!
@Aaragoorn2 жыл бұрын
I watched "I Married a Witch" (1942) recently, and was very impressed by how well the effects held up. Would love some more old timey movie reactions~
@anna_in_aotearoa31662 жыл бұрын
The insane practical creativity of old pre-digital special effects never ceases to blow my mind!
@ordinarryalien Жыл бұрын
I want to hear them talk about late 1800s and early 1900s movie effects.
@kieran4612 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the crew really trying to figure out how things were done again, especially how they describe why and why not certain things were done. Feels like its been missing lately.
@DeRockMedia2 жыл бұрын
ya...its like when i was a kid and would try and figure out how each effect shot was done...cgi is too good for me to figure out,but its fun when vfx guys can break down how things are done by the craft itself
@shweetnectar2 жыл бұрын
theres been a lot of guests recently, and you dont need to do much guessing when you have the guy who's like, "that was shot in my bathroom" on the couch lol
@StuartQuinn2 жыл бұрын
I really love the old school VFX react episodes like this. No guests, just the OG guys trying to work out what's going and and giving their arguments.
@workemail8723 Жыл бұрын
Like the current episodes?
@workemail8723 Жыл бұрын
I also like how they teased at the end about getting another guest 😅.
@gustonzimasheen2 жыл бұрын
I love all the practical FX in The Blob. The scene of the blob moving around in the jar is also practical ofc, with a fake hand holding a jar.
@Tom_Van_Zandt Жыл бұрын
Also, the part where the guy gets forced down the sink drain is a practical effect...they didn't really film a guy being forced into a small hole.
@g.l.o.w.s.s69002 жыл бұрын
Again, REAL STEEL!!!! Such a good movie with some meaty, weighty robot effects that I would love to see covered!!
@spyro2572 жыл бұрын
REAL STEEL... but, YES!
@israelmaureira56612 жыл бұрын
Yes please
@mrsitzer_2 жыл бұрын
I second this!
@thomassnyder90202 жыл бұрын
Yes please
@jackychang91482 жыл бұрын
REAL*
@enriquegonzalez26742 жыл бұрын
I love how they honestly didn't know how the rings of power effects were done and talked it through, those are always my favorite clips. Just being able to see how their gears turn in a vfx artist mind is so interesting to me.
@gorillasblue2 жыл бұрын
Completely agree
@kevinthiago4132 жыл бұрын
the show is not that good, but the efects are
@rvantong2 жыл бұрын
They spent everything on the effects they forgot about the writing
@AmaraJordanMusic2 жыл бұрын
I agree, the mindset is so interesting to me!
@zxbc12 жыл бұрын
@@rvantong Standard these days.
@kareningram60932 жыл бұрын
I love learning about digital effects because I find all of that so fascinating, but I also really love it when you guys highlight practical effects because it makes me wonder how somebody could even come up with some of that stuff. Those blob silk blankets and the miniature work? Mad genius levels of ingenuity right there.
@seonor2 жыл бұрын
I would really like you to talk about the effect work in Everything Everywhere all at Once, especially how they could achieve so much with so little. Also the fight and stunt work deserves to be on Stunt people react. You could probably get guests for both shows from the movie.
@k03hl3r2 жыл бұрын
I think they could do an entire episode on just the Daniels' work in general, including their music videos. If they guested on that, I would flip out.
@amos.rand_vfx2 жыл бұрын
Yes!! I've been waiting for this since I first watched it when it came out.
@reezlaw2 жыл бұрын
+1, what an awesome movie, and I love the creativity a lower budget will force producers to have. It's easy to have a show look stunning with a billion dollar budget
@balea24322 жыл бұрын
Deadlines Inside the Ring interview about Episode 8 actually confirms that they used motion control cameras to shrink the actors!! Really interesting to see how much knowledge the Crew has when they analyse scenes like this and guess everything right
@godzilla234ful2 жыл бұрын
If only the writing was as good as the visual effects
@eve-llblyat25762 жыл бұрын
@@godzilla234ful or the aesthetics. Looks all like a videogame, not realistic. Lenseflares, goodrays, bloom, eluminated fog.
@sqlevolicious2 жыл бұрын
@@godzilla234ful The writing is great, you are just on a blind hate wagon
@jamiejoe48022 жыл бұрын
@@sqlevolicious The writing is dreadful please go outside
@derrickbillings86542 жыл бұрын
@@jamiejoe4802 the writing is fine, go touch grass your own self
@josiahdegroot53412 жыл бұрын
I actually worked on the once upon a time set at the very end of the show. A concrete company I was working for got hired to re-coat the green paint. The entire HUGE warehouse was a green screen, except for the roof and one wall. Two weeks until the show was getting cancelled and they decided to spend 60k to redo the paint because it was cheaper than paying the CFX guys to fix the problems in post.
@Hedgemonkey52 жыл бұрын
The Blob is just such an incredible film that doesn't get enough recognition. The effects, the filmmaking, everything about it is really solid.
@NicolasConnault2 жыл бұрын
The Blob isn't though... it's pretty squishy
@felipeaguena5289 Жыл бұрын
Eh, I appreciate the Blob but it doesn't reach The Thing levels
@Justmyhandle2 жыл бұрын
1988's The Blob is one of the best horror remakes in my opinion, not just for the improvements on effects (which were pretty much inevitable with technological advancements) but how it handles the plot & characters. It was also the first horror film where I saw a child killed onscreen, and horribly at that. As a kid, up until the sewer scene, I was only fairly impressed at what I was watching. When that poor boy appeared half-melted though, THAT was when I thought "Holy f***, this movie goes hard!"
@DeRockMedia2 жыл бұрын
i remembered the original...and thought "this is going to be cheesy fun"....i got a truely horrific body gore movie and loved it! imiss the practical days, cgi is gorgeous but i imagine all the physical work put into a single shot
@Redfern422 жыл бұрын
You just nailed why I find this remake so disturbing. It seemed to me growing up (born 1962) there was some unspoken rule that you didn't let innocent kids get killed in horror films. At least I could not recall any films doing that (though admittedly what films I saw were arguably limited). Then this film hits the screens (I saw it on HBO) and there's the daring escape sequence with the young woman with the kid in tow, a bit like Ripley and Newt in "Aliens" released 2 years earlier. Then... *SHLORP!!!* ...this kid is not only grabbed, but they show him graphically melting within the goo! I felt like some "sacred law" had been violated! I've seen more graphic gore since, but I've never gird my loins to watch this film a second time because of that kid's grisly demise. I felt similarly when in "Alien 3" we learn that Newt was killed. While not shown, merely mentioned, it just made Ripley's efforts in the prior film all for naught.
@findingsolitude46442 жыл бұрын
I'm off to watch it again.
@Justmyhandle2 жыл бұрын
@@Redfern42 Agreed, and you nailed one reason why I don't hold Alien 3 among my favorites in the franchise. There are several reasons, but killing off Newt struck me as a major waste of a character and creative misfire overall. The film's biggest accomplishment in my opinion was its masterful sendoff for Ripley (only for her to be resurrected in the 4th entry). I never hated 3 though, and I understand why it has its fans.
@jake84732 жыл бұрын
It's probably my favorite horror movie of all time, much less remakes. It's immaculately written, in terms of character, plot, pace, and set ups and pay offs. And on top of that amazing script, you also have masterful, fun effects like these. Even when the effects don't quite work, they're still more fun than embarrassing. And while the kid getting killed was jarring, it's far from the only death that "gets" you in this way. So many movies do stale characterization to try to get you to "feel something" when the character dies. But you can usually spot the kind of characterization that's trying to get you to "feel something" versus characterization that's genuinely setting up a character for the rest of the film. The Blob fooled me every time into thinking, "THIS person is safe." Nah man. It also reminds me of Tremors because all of the characters do what I would, as a viewer, consider the "smart thing" to do in that situation. And they still keep getting into deeper trouble. That's when things get really scary for me as a viewer. I love to see it get some love from the Corridor Crew and in the comments here.
@CriticalNobody2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see some effects breakdowns of shots in some Bruce Willis movies. In Red, there's the wonky scene where he gets out of the car while it's moving and A Good Day to Die Hard when he's holding onto the helicopter at the end for example.
@Lord_Tetton2 жыл бұрын
Just to add regarding the use of a big dude at 10:33 I do believe this was the case. I'm fairly certain he was played by the tallest man in the UK, Paul Sturgess. He's a massive 7ft 7inches! He tweeted about being in the show and even shows the scene Corridor are looking at!
@averyboringusername2 жыл бұрын
I'm also siding with the big dude theory just now. If you look at his left leg at 11:19 and then 11:22 they look different to me. Admittedly it is slightly different parts of the leg that are exposed.
@ThePandaSupreme2 жыл бұрын
Ya also the other actor is a child who is like under 5 ft tall so I don’t think they had to use vfx on this
@krispeekornflex2 жыл бұрын
You just ruined their professional rambling.
@osirex54952 жыл бұрын
@@ThePandaSupreme a child 😂 Wouldn't call a 28-year-old a child
@osirex54952 жыл бұрын
Paul Sturgess was a body double yes.
@DeeVeeTV2 жыл бұрын
19:00 This is why some modern CG shots falter. Scenes aren't planned or designed around the effects. Especially as more and more of production on these massive franchises become automated and inexperienced directors and such are tasked to make these giant things, VFX crews are expected to fix it all in post. You couldn't do that in the past so every shot HAD to be planned out (if they were doing it right) months in advance and everything coordinated to make sure the shot went right because sometimes you only had one take to get it because the prop or set or whatever could be destroyed during the shoot. Now VFX houses are handed some footage with little to no reference and then asked to add things in, change them a trillion times, up to days before release. It isn't because CG is worse than practical, it is because CG is used as a crutch for shoddy film making and planning.
@judahsilverman22912 жыл бұрын
This 💯
@Devilman6662 жыл бұрын
This right here.
@TheKYRw2 жыл бұрын
This is the best trio on this series in my opinion. Wren with the excited reactions and great information, niko just constantly happy and goofy and super insightful, and Sam always absolutely hilarious and super smart. I love all the guests but it’s so nice when we finally get one with these 3!
@jordanfelt5978 Жыл бұрын
I could not agree more with this!
@darthbek2 жыл бұрын
I was 10 when The Blob came out (thanks, Wren.) and it -terrified- me. I had nightmares for years about it. Thanks for bringing that up again. (
@SwervingLemon2 жыл бұрын
It was a CIA-funded propaganda film to make kids filthy by scaring them away from anything with a drain. It accomplished it's goal, briefly, but nobody who requested it could remember why. Also - are people using strike-through as a substitute for underlining for *emphasis*? Edit: Well, since we can see *bold* doesn't work consistently...
@MysticJhn2 жыл бұрын
I don't remember if you've covered it before, but with this being October and Halloween is coming up, a perfect movie for Corridor to look at, review, or even practical vs CG episode would be Beetlejuice. If I'm not mistaken, all the effects in Beetlejuice are practical or composited stop-motion. You could bring in a stop-motion expert to talk about the effects in Beetlejuice and how it compares to older stop-motion movie effects and any newer, modern stop-motion effects. Another idea would be one of those videos where you see if you can recreate, or even make a better version of, all the different practical and stop-motion effects while maintaining that famous Tim Burton aesthetic. The sand worm scenes would be particularly excellent to try and improve with CG because, while still fun looking, and probably very good effects for the time, the sand worm world scenes don't really hold up to modern standards and are clearly green screened. Could your crew do the sandworm scenes better today using modern CGi without changing the design of the sand worms?
@Rossatron2 жыл бұрын
I would say that at times the puppeteering of the balloon in 1956’s The Red Balloon would be worth looking at. It’s a real head scratcher at times to work out how they’re doing it (and how you can’t see the strings).
@TheJaapS2 жыл бұрын
I just saw the last two episodes of House of the Dragons and I was pretty amazed with how they did up the king. It took me a while to notice that it was CGI. It's really amazing and I'd love it if you guys took a look at it.
@96miffy2 жыл бұрын
I know it was cg. Because his face was skinny and Paddy has a double chin and thick face.
@96miffy2 жыл бұрын
But they did a good job
@NukeMarine2 жыл бұрын
They should do that shot along with the wounded sniper from Boardwalk Empire to show how the technique advanced over 10 years.
@Werewolf9142 жыл бұрын
The real question is which is better that HOTD effect or Two Face in the Dark Knight?
@hey_brandon2 жыл бұрын
i'd imagine because they waited until the finale of rings of power, they're gonna wait until House of the Dragon is over to cover it.
@andrewg31962 жыл бұрын
In Rings of Power the orc dog/wolf thing is a great example of how difficult animation is. It would interesting to compare it to all the static vista shots they do and talk about how it's almost easier to make an entire city look good because it's static than it is to make an animal look good because it has to move naturally
@AWSVids2 жыл бұрын
Movement is always pretty much the only thing giving away most CG these days. On pause, today's CGI usually looks perfect. As soon as it starts moving, it tends to be too smooth, often too fast, and lacks the really subtle nuances of real-life physics. When you look back at Jurassic Park, it's the opposite. On pause, you can see a lot of flaws in the texturing and lighting. Sometimes the compositing isn't perfect, with the feet looking a little floaty on the ground and stuff like that. But in motion... the dinosaurs move so believably like real animals, that it convinces you, despite the flaws in other areas that your brain can more readily ignore or chalk to some kind of picture quality issue or something. But with unrealistic motion, your brain doesn't have any excuses and it just doesn't look like anything that exists in reality. We only see fake movement that doesn't obey all the laws of physics perfectly like that in animation/cartoons, so it instantly rings as being animated. The way they were able to achieve that on Jurassic Park was a combination of concentrated expertise due to ILM being the only game in town at the time, all the world's best experts in CG were working on that movie... along with the time to be able to spend on the shots, since they had like 2 years to work on only 50 shots... as well as the fact that they used physical armatures of the dinosaurs with sensors on them to animate. This gave an actual physical input for the movement, so it couldn't not obey the laws of physics. It wouldn't stretch the legs or back in a weird way or be too jello-y... it was a rigid armature, which is the perfect way to capture the confines and movements of an actual skeleton-supported body. You don't get that kind of input when you're animating free-hand through a mouse in abstract 3D space with no real physical confines to control what you can and can't physically make the model do. I feel like the practice of using a physical armature to animate CG creatures needs to be used more.
@antonliakhovitch83062 жыл бұрын
@@AWSVids As far as the physical armature is concerned - I'm pretty sure all of that is entirely false. You can *absolutely* have a rigid armature when animating with keyboard and mouse, and it's how most 3D animation is done. It's extremely easy for a computer to constrain that skeleton so that the joints all stay together, bones don't stretch, etc. The issues appear when you try to link that rigid skeleton to a bunch of floppy skin. The reason the physical controller worked well for them is that they were able to hire existing skilled stop-motion animators. However, the physical controller doesn't guarantee that the dinosaur follows the laws of physics, either - it's up to the animator to make sure that gravity, momentum, etc apply in a believable way.
@cadefoster64852 жыл бұрын
I hope they talk about the warg too- personally I think the animation was perfect on it, it's just that the design is so weird it makes you feel like something is wrong. Curious to see their takes
@ge27192 жыл бұрын
@@ramonandrajo6348 why what?
@Xfacta124822 жыл бұрын
Whats funny is that Peter Jackson put a perfect version of those on the screen 20 years ago and Amazon is just like, nah...
@Ragnarok262 жыл бұрын
18:44 I also really like how when the fingers twitch you can see a little blood spurt out of the back of the stump. Super small touches like that, your brain subconsciously picks up on, really selling the realism as they mention from time to time.
@xodiaq2 жыл бұрын
The uniform noise trick is a go-to for graphic designers, too.
@ge27192 жыл бұрын
it should be a go to for anyone who works with images and wants to make anything have one cohesive feel. especially if it anything bringing together multiple things from multiple sources.
@itsWatty2 жыл бұрын
The Blob has some amazing practical effects, one of my favourite 80s horror movies.
@meistheunknown Жыл бұрын
Videos like these really allow you all to showcase your knowledge as VFX artists. Certain videos show why Niko and Sam are the bosses. It's great they can still educate their super knowledgeable staff and stil be educated by them in some areas too!
@milesfinch2 жыл бұрын
It's good to see the 3 go to's getting stumped on a scene. Always learning, always striving to improve. Love these guys and girls.
@John-Doe-Yo2 жыл бұрын
I wonder when they’ll start getting steady work for big ass blockbusters
@BDeerhead2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see you guys evaluate the practical and non-practical effects of the first Tremors movie. I'm curious how they managed to simulate these giant monster worms digging the ground out from under entire buildings.
@sircdrom2 жыл бұрын
Love that you reacted to The Blob. A very underrated movie with a lot of cool FX in it. I hope you treat yourself (and us) to the phonebooth scene in the future too :)
@gemmalouisewilson7662 жыл бұрын
My boyfriend has watched your channel for ages and now I’m hooked too. I always say how much I’d love to see an episode of 90s witchy shows/movies with VFX such as Charmed, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Hocus Pocus. Also 90s music vids like Shania Twain - I’m Gonna Getcha, TLC - No Scrubs, Crazytown - Butterfly. Thanks ☺️
@Thisdown2 жыл бұрын
Could be a good theme for Halloween
@esaedvik2 жыл бұрын
Just re-watched The Blob a few months ago. That movie aged so well, so many good practical effects. One of my all time favs.
@markbarthel98352 жыл бұрын
"This is from 1988. This is before computers were invented"! I'm pretty confident that was meant in good fun, yet it hurt my soul as I was a junior in high school.
@jasonblalock44292 жыл бұрын
I'd still love to see you look at 2010: The Year We Make Contact someday. It has some amazing CGI for 1984 - especially its downright flawless fluid-simulation Jupiter - but hardly anyone talks about it. Not to mention plenty of great practical model work, and even some wire work for the Zero-G scenes. It's a real all-around showcase for VFX in general at that time.
@johnsensebe31532 жыл бұрын
I just mad that the video screens are no longer flat, even on _Discovery One._ The aliens must have replaced all of them between movies.
@jasonblalock44292 жыл бұрын
@@johnsensebe3153 Yeah, but at the same time, it's understandable why they wouldn't want the hassle of doing flat screens when most people won't notice. 2001 had to rear-project all its screen images, which added even more complexity (and cost) to the sets. It's so much easier to just use regular TVs and play video on them.
@johnsensebe31532 жыл бұрын
@@jasonblalock4429 I know, but it bothers me that they look different. It would have been fine on the Russian vehicle.
@StacyODell2 жыл бұрын
"This was made in 1988, before computers were invented" LOL Wren, you innocent child
@esaedvik2 жыл бұрын
In a VFX sense, it's true. That's what he meant.
@chainsov2 жыл бұрын
@@esaedvik Tron (1982) would like to have a word 😁 Heck, CD even made an episode on the first CGI character from Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
@esaedvik2 жыл бұрын
@@chainsov Ok, you got me there, wow my memory is iffy :D (and yes, I was born before '82, so I have that as an excuse :D)
@SirWrender2 жыл бұрын
Also I was being facetious lol
@StacyODell2 жыл бұрын
@@SirWrender oh sure 😉
@billgaudette55242 жыл бұрын
When the stranger falls to his knees @5:02, you can actually see a border of the matt at the lower left portion of his cloth robe. It's a vertical line that gets cut off, so definitely not an in-camera effect as far as I can tell.
@jackychang91482 жыл бұрын
Attempt 59 Chronicle Telekinesis Scenes.
@kylerroy38332 жыл бұрын
Get this man his Telekinesis scene!
@delitatactics67212 жыл бұрын
There not doing this to spite you at this point
@Plague142 жыл бұрын
bro really needs them to react to wires and green screens 🤦♂️
@jackychang91482 жыл бұрын
@@delitatactics6721 Right? Just kidding. I'm sure they have many, many plans.
@jackychang91482 жыл бұрын
@@Plague14 There's more than just flying scenes. And it's not like they haven't reacted to wires and green screens. Ya jerk (this part is a joke).
@DiabloMan1012 жыл бұрын
Check out the Canadian show Sanctuary. They were ahead of the curve for a lot of VFX's for a tv show. also one of the first shows ever to use RED cameras
@MJKola2 жыл бұрын
Could you talk about the mirrors in the Kenzo World video (by Spike Jonze) and how the camera doesn't show up but captures the Margaret Qualley from multiple angles w/o showing up in any of the mirrors? (around 1:52)
@jjoploo2 жыл бұрын
9:22 god Niko should have a class or write a book. This is just so so fascinating to me, even just as an illustrator who's interested in how to make paintings look more realistic
@bond16062 жыл бұрын
Would love to see you guys cover the VFX from the Hunger Games movies, especially the acid fog in the 2nd film
@generalrak14752 жыл бұрын
With Halloween coming up you guys should do Casper I've always thought the ghost effects were really well done especially for 1995
@dangaud2 жыл бұрын
You guys literally zoom in on the roto's soft edge going over the BG plate at 8:48 , right next to her right foot in lower screen right. I'm surprised no one mentions it, you three are usually on it with the obvious roto mistakes. So yeah, it's definitely a motion control comp for that particular shot. I really dug The Blob breakdown. I love how you explain how they did it in the 80s!
@lambertschulz2 жыл бұрын
Yes! I searched for that comment before commenting on it myself :D He is clearly comped in. You can see the slightly blurred seam around the robe on both sides.
@AleksandarPetrovic242 жыл бұрын
+1
@SirWrender2 жыл бұрын
It’s important to note that it’s a little hard to see details when we’re on the couch. We’re also not seeing the zooms and freeze frames the way they people are in the final video. Also, there’s a good chance we did see and mention something but it just didn’t make the final KZbin cut. The website cut goes into this scene a LOT more
@dangaud2 жыл бұрын
@@SirWrender Yeah I figured! I wasn't dissing by the way Wren, I love the show. Not sure what's your setup as we only see you guys on the couch, but definitely a big ass screen would be beneficial for review. I know it changed my own workflow when I got a 4k projector to review shots on a 100inch screen. Also, now I want to see the rest. Guess I'm buying a Corridor Sub now. 😂
@adampetery29652 жыл бұрын
@@SirWrender sorry to bother you but I just wanted to ask if someone is trying to scam commenters in your name, or is it really you guys from a new account?
@Legend-nb5kt2 жыл бұрын
Two movies I'd like you guys to react/talk about: Welcome to Marwen and Hereditary. And again, thank you for giving us this amazing series!!
@BobsCycl3ShoP2 жыл бұрын
Great episode, loved the detailed discussion about the size difference effects in Rings of Power especially. One thing I wouldn‘t agree on though is the advice how to work around mblur issues on greenscreen footage, as ramping up the shutter speed obviously reduces mblur, but it also then makes the footage look stuttery and less „cinematic“ wich you really don‘t want. You‘d rather want to invest some more time into keying and try to use additive keyers to get that extra semi-transparent detail back on the edges :)
@LogicalNiko2 жыл бұрын
The cool thing about the era of horror pics with practical effects like the blob was that many times the script of the movie was written around concepts of the f/x shots. They had the idea for a shot and how to pull it off and molded the storyline to from the beginning to set up that shot. Not too many other movies started as just a bunch of effects artists with room to innovate.
@KenSahaja2 жыл бұрын
and they recognize EVERY shot COUNTS. even small ones are planned to the teeth. they don't reduce effort just to put more on another.
@browninplay2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the breakdowns and behind the scenes stuff from the Rings of Power - more than I do the actual show. I'm still watching it just for the effects at this point, I love this sort of thing
@bobbyblazini2 ай бұрын
That's literally what i do to the intros on everyones vids. I appreciate the work done for me. Thank you
@generichouse2 жыл бұрын
I love the call back Sam made to the trouble they had, not hiring someone to do playback.
@amm112352 жыл бұрын
After Rings of Power, doing House of the Dragon would be great! Some great dragon scenes, but I also put forward the Ep 8 Viserys scenes - reminiscent of Gus from Breaking Bad
@Hitacho252 жыл бұрын
hbo didn't pay them, amazon did
@funtourhawk2 жыл бұрын
@@Hitacho25 I almost spit my drink out when Sam said it's "really good" and...."oh I'm so excited to watch it"...wonder how much Jeff cut them outta the billion dollar budget lmao
@HRRRRRDRRRRR2 жыл бұрын
@@funtourhawk What makes it bad? Answer without going to Reddit to get some extrapolated explanation from a book you haven't read.
@puneetmishra47262 жыл бұрын
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR it's fkin boring.
@MightyMoose12 жыл бұрын
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR he got you there Frank....
@hopster812 жыл бұрын
love the way you guys bounce ideas off each other
@AJtheAnomaly2 жыл бұрын
I feel bad that I feel absolutely nothing when I look at rings of power footage But man when I look at the blob that movie blows my face off
@rockomax42842 жыл бұрын
In my opinion they overdid the VFX on that show. I wish they focussed on story and character instead.
@CuivTheLazyGeek2 жыл бұрын
@@rockomax4284 Yeah, they forgot to use the budget on competent writers and blew it all up in favor of CGI
@Xfacta124822 жыл бұрын
@@rockomax4284 Good VFX and a well written story don't have to be mutually exclusive.
@LordJagd2 жыл бұрын
The VFX in the original Jackson trilogy were always to the service of the fantastic story, and many times were done totally practically. This show has a very boring story so the VFX has no impact besides their technical quality.
@ProxyDoug2 жыл бұрын
It always feels like I'm watching a talented artist post on ArtSation, it's pretty, sure, but there isn't anything there for me to sink my teeth in. At least the point of the ArtStation post is the aesthetic.
@doesthisurlwork2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see you guys react to the practical effects from "Videodrome" by Cronenberg, or anything by Cronenberg for that matter (Naked Lunch is my favourite). It's often a little more disturbing, but might be a good idea for a Halloween episode? Keep up the great stuff!
@ge27192 жыл бұрын
THE FLY! 🤮🤮🤮 🦶 or did they already do that, i cant remember :P
@najrenchelf2751 Жыл бұрын
10:35 - the way Wren says "huge man" right here is... it's so funny, dude! 😂😂😂😂
@BaronVonBielski2 жыл бұрын
For all the story issues I have with rings of power, they really did make a beautiful and other worldly looking show. It’s as fantasy as it gets. No cgi orcs is something i love. Too bad the story didn’t live up to the visuals.
@MifuneYoutube2 жыл бұрын
There are no issues. It’s amazing!
@Minicheche2502 жыл бұрын
Yep
@AlexAnteroLammikko2 жыл бұрын
Yeah exactly. The writing and most performances are so bad that all the other setup is kind of ruined. Because visuals are only there to serve teh story and so without a story you don't really have anything. But great content to analyze for VFX artists for sure.
@Ambar422 жыл бұрын
Found it really weird how everybody complained about the look and vfx when the trailers were released. From the beginning I was like: this isn't bad. What's up with you guys? And now they all admit it does look good (which still doesn't make it a good show).
@sam84042 жыл бұрын
@@MifuneKZbin you can't tell someone they don't have issues with something.
@rjs79872 жыл бұрын
Saturdays with new videos are like waking up for cartoons as a kid
@TheVRtist2 жыл бұрын
The yogi proves that sometimes it's both the actor and CGI and not just CGI
@mr.lordelliott0172 жыл бұрын
its so crazy how knowledgeable you guys are
@blondafro41122 жыл бұрын
its theire job to know this...
@sam84042 жыл бұрын
@@blondafro4112 your point? Nobody said otherwise.
@adamtennant49362 жыл бұрын
@@sam8404 The point is that it's not crazy. It's required knowledge for us VFX artists, particularly so if you're at supervisor level. 🤷♂
@sam84042 жыл бұрын
@@adamtennant4936 yeah but that doesn't mean it isn't impressive to people not in that field.
@adamtennant49362 жыл бұрын
@@sam8404 True but you can say that about any specialist technical field.
@NukeMarine2 жыл бұрын
While The Thing, The Fly, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) are the better remake films of the 70s/80s, The Blob is way up there with them and surpasses in parts in a lot of ways. It worked as it was a force of nature, people that died weren't being stupid, and there were terrifying moments like the waitress stuck in the phone being told the sheriff is already there when we see him. Plus, as pointed out, there were SO MANY creative special effects through out the movie (remember reading about them in Fangoria magazine at the time).
@jake84732 жыл бұрын
Those other movies may be better, but I certainly rewatch The Blob more than I watch them. It rewards repeat viewings by being incredibly cleverly written and thoughtful about all its details. There isn't much of a theme or larger importance to the movie that The Thing, The Fly, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers pulled off, but it's as good as "genre" movies can get.
@stervil98702 жыл бұрын
Wren saying "huge man" is the best thing that has happened to me in my life.
@maksyo_official Жыл бұрын
was looking for this comment hahaha - replayed it so many times lol
@johnnythesnow2532 жыл бұрын
I would love for you to check out Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman. It's an absolutely underappreciated gem with phenomenal vampire and werewolf designs and the VFX still hold up to current standards. Plus it's spooktober, so quite fitting.
@zub24252 жыл бұрын
I literally love that movie and would LOVE to see Corridor Crew dissect it!!
@melonthetrue61602 жыл бұрын
Aren't they already check it out? i remember they keep mocking how bad it is.
@captainwolf93642 жыл бұрын
Yes please! That’s still one of my favorite movies ever and I would love to see them cover it.
@macklinillustration2 жыл бұрын
VFX wise it's really good, plot though oof.
@sqlevolicious2 жыл бұрын
That movie was complete garbage except for some of the VFX for that time.
@Auton7102 жыл бұрын
Another great episode! I would like to make a point regarding the grain comments. You are right the grain absolutley has to match. And your suggestions are close but not quite right. It's common practice to denoise the plate first, work as normal comping elements, then at the end pull a difference key or use the mattes of your comped elements to only regrain the parts that have changed. Its always good practice to only grain the parts that have changed and putting a overall grain over the top of un-degrained work would not work, especially when it comes to QC.
@suntanironman2 жыл бұрын
New thing to do for the show: “The Last Starfighter (1984)”. Anything from that movie would be great to learn more about (I love this movie so much), but specifically the ‘Melting Ice Cream Caves’ scenes would be great to get your thoughts on. Depending on which version you are watching (slightly different movie edits have been released over the decades), that would start at about the 1 hour 6 minute mark. If you are wondering what I mean by ‘Melting Ice Cream Caves’, if you watch you’ll instantly think “Ohhhhhh…. yeah. I get it.” Such an amazing CGI-heavy movie done more than 38 years ago. I can’t even guess as to how many times I have watched this movie from start to finish. I want to learn more about that one scene, but please don’t only do that one not-so-great scene. It would be such a shame if all the amazing scenes were ignored and only that one scene was focused on, lol.
@davidstorrs2 жыл бұрын
A: Love seeing you guys together. You always bring the delight, and I'll keep watching as long as you keep making videos. B: I am having all the feelings about the fact that we are now at a point where **expert-level** VFX artists aren't sure if what they're looking at is a human being or not. I am simultaneously amused, scared, despondent, and probably a few more things. :>
@ooiiooiiooii2 жыл бұрын
They aren’t “experts” Wren thinks computers weren’t around in 1988
@PengyDraws2 жыл бұрын
@@ooiiooiiooii When he says computers he means computers capable of being used in movies.
@michaelplotnikov64492 жыл бұрын
Nice to see onc on the show. Could you guys take a look at the evolution of vfx on onc over its years (not including first episode of season one, as it was a pilot and some very decent looking shots for season one)
@guitarman4162 жыл бұрын
Watching ROP right now too. Would love for y’all to get a VFX person or producer from the show to come on and explain some of the shots. Loved guessing along with you! Love the content!
@sqlevolicious2 жыл бұрын
Too many racists hate that show, I'd love for CD to promote the show more, it's a fucking amazing show and blows everything out of the water right now. Cherry on top for making racists cope seethe & mald, lmfao.
@genoburkhard63942 жыл бұрын
This is a favorite episode...practical combined with digital.....or, just surprise puppets! Good work CD!
@SpikeXtreme2 жыл бұрын
When the corridor crew are scratching their heads to how Rings of power was shot you know its got to be worth watching.
@hexcodeff66242 жыл бұрын
it really isn't. unless you want to know how much of a shit show can be made out of Tolkien's work.
@tellyheadlol42582 жыл бұрын
@@hexcodeff6624 It's a good show on a technical level, the casting is great, the acting is good for the most part aside from some awkward dialogue. It is good.
@richardashton5015 Жыл бұрын
I gave it a watch and it's cultural vandalism of Tolkien's work and world.
@t.j.higgins99392 жыл бұрын
Some things that would be cool to look at could be some of the practical effects in the original 1987 Hellraiser. Some of the effects of Frank when he's all slimy and gross are insane. Another cool one would be some of the shots from Hollow Man, one that comes to mind is a point where the Hollow Man himself is invisible, but throwing up some very convincing puke and it looks like its coming out of nothing. anyway this was a great episode I love when you guys look at old school practical effects
@cgonzales1152 жыл бұрын
i was doing my usual youtube jumping and came across something that im surprised you guys haven't looked at the 1997 tv mini series The Odyssey maybe some day you guys will look into the good and bad they did in it.....always love watching your stuff....
@flibbidygibbers28142 жыл бұрын
In that Rings of Power scene there is a compositing line to the right of her foot that moves right as she does when the wizard moves backwards towards the log. It looks like it's comped but not around the silhouette. I think they basically drew a jagged line down the middle and filmed it twice with different sized backgrounds. If you watch closely when her feet start moving to the right of the screen, about 1 foot length ahead of her you see the stick and leaves on the floor morph with the line moving right.
@blobjorn32482 жыл бұрын
Man, it's disappointing that most of the budget went to the visuals and none of it went to the writing
@JamMastaJew Жыл бұрын
I just made a comment about how the big guy is definitely comped because you can see a line in the dirt next to his foot where the dirt is moving at different speeds (because of the scaled motion control). If you see the same around the girl, then I would say they're both comped in. There is probably a normal shot with no actors, and shots of the guy and the girl (with appropriately scaled motion control) both comped in. So instead of making one character hugely different from the rest of the rest of the scene, they made both characters slightly different from the rest of the scene. Having a less exaggerated difference probably helped make it more believable.
@HunterLynch3332 жыл бұрын
More Rings of Power!! Love that show
@kipol123452 жыл бұрын
So I'm not sure why it was this episode (instead of any of your other amazing ones), but this is the episode that made me join your website. Amazing work as always!
@criticalbil12 жыл бұрын
Love to hear your opinion on the shot in John Boorman's Excalibur (long before CGI) when a nude Lancelot pulls a sword from out of the side of his torso. How did they make it so convincing??? 😳
@BlueScarabGuy2 жыл бұрын
This is a really good episode, lots of great stuff to highlight. Honestly, I think THE BLOB (1988) might be like...top 5 special effects ever put to film. The Thing is brilliant but its designs are so specific in their grossness that on some level you know it was made by an artist. But the Blob is equally well made but so abstract that it feels like it must just..be real.
@HighTechWizard2 жыл бұрын
I always liked the CGI of Once Upon A Time because it doubled as a narrative device to help the audience keep track of scenes in the real world and the fantasy flashbacks. The sound effects were also critical for that structure to work so well. Ironically, I would say that the narrative to CGI quality ratio of Rings of Power is directly inverse to that of Once Upon A Time.
@dad_jokes_4ever2262 жыл бұрын
10,000 VFX shots in Rings of Power ... I just have an image in my head of some cold dank warehouses filled with VFX artists chained to their desks and some big mean dudes with whips shouting at them : " MORE , FASTER , NOW !!!"
@adamtennant49362 жыл бұрын
Churning out VFX artists in the breeding pits to work for the dark lord Amaz(saur)on.
@itsd0nk2 жыл бұрын
Like the orphanage scene in Blade Runner 2049 lol.
@MattFrasers2 жыл бұрын
Yo dudes, I had a thought, what about an episode where you look at the visual effects in music videos? I get the music would have to be muted on YT but they had some ambitious effects back in the day! My suggestions would be Linkin Park's In The End, Evanescence's Bring Me To Life and Eiffel 65's Blue, though I'm sure there are some other cool and wacky ones out there too!
@ashiqkv2182 жыл бұрын
Ohh I remember the Blob, saw it when i was about 7/8, lost my appetite for 3 days straight. I was even scared of the cover art for a while. The production did a really good job.
@nickverzic72602 жыл бұрын
Still waiting on them to cover Shin Godzilla (or any Toho Godzilla film, for that matter). An amazing mix of puppetry and CGI!
@nickverzic72602 жыл бұрын
My god the KZbin bot problem has gotten so much worse recently.
@godzilla9282 жыл бұрын
me too
@TinPrince2 жыл бұрын
I would absolutely love to see you look at the film Evolution! Lots of janky early CGI and affects and some cool monster designs!
@_TheViewer_2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see some on the old Hellraiser by Barker and the new on in comparison. HUGE THANKS to everyone’s work and effort on this !
@DjTomcat142 жыл бұрын
Episode 6 of rings of power the explosion at the end! Be really cool if you guys took a look at that! It was incredible
@JamMastaJew Жыл бұрын
The big guy is comped. On the close-up at 8:44 ("Look at his foot!") You can see the ground just to the left of his foot/robe is sort of moving at a different speed from the rest of the ground and then it's blended with the rest of the ground. Like they did the camera motion control Wren talked about just after, but I'm positive it's the guy that was comped. The parallax of the different camera movements makes the ground move at different speeds right next to the foot. Very slight. I can only see it in the zoomed-in shot of his foot.
@MrGreenAKAguci002 жыл бұрын
Your reaction to the RoP Fx stuff managed to make me feel less awful about it. Thanks. It's still shame that the script was the way it was though.
@ethanlinser78072 жыл бұрын
This show is the reason I am passionate for movies and shows, this is my favorite episode😭
@PhilGerb932 жыл бұрын
Now that's just sad
@sam84042 жыл бұрын
@@PhilGerb93 why is it sad to be passionate about something?
@PhilGerb932 жыл бұрын
@@sam8404 Don't play dumb, that's not what I meant and you know it
@sam84042 жыл бұрын
@@PhilGerb93 no I really don't.
@PhilGerb932 жыл бұрын
@@sam8404 Now that's just sad x2
@danielvalvo55622 жыл бұрын
You guys gotta check out “What we do in the shadows”! The effects aren’t the best, but for what it is I think they’re pretty good. A TV show done right
@telecastersRthebest2 жыл бұрын
The Rings of Power may get a lot of flak for its story, but there’s no denying how beautiful the cinematography is. Truly a feast for the eyes.
@BlackEagle3522 жыл бұрын
Rings of Power is indeed an amazing and beautiful demo reel. Expensive too!
@BlackEagle3522 жыл бұрын
Rings of Power is indeed an amazing and beautiful demo reel. Expensive too!
@hexcodeff66242 жыл бұрын
It looks pretty bad. Not one shot is in any way inspiring or inviting of the eyes. There is no shire that you want to spend your childhood in. There are no Dead Marshes that make you fear for your feet. There really is nothing in this show making it worth while.
@lal122 жыл бұрын
No the cinematography isn't great. Yes there are some perfect VFX shots in it, but that in itself doesn't make the cinematography great. Some VFX shots are even horrendous, a lot of their stylized stuff doesn't really work and there is enough scenes where you get a video gamy vibe from it.
@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat2 жыл бұрын
Who cares? Why watch a show with a bad story? Especially when it makes the good films worse.
@alexdazhan32702 жыл бұрын
Love the reaction shows, along with EVERYTHING ELSE y’all do lol. You all have to check out “Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky” some of the funniest practical effect ever!
@kanarokan60602 жыл бұрын
I love all the guests you guys have, but when you three just sit and talk its just different. These are my favorite.
@guntertorfs64862 жыл бұрын
Could someone please SFX the middle guys' voice. It's pretty annoying.
@hartmanus942 жыл бұрын
Rings of Power has one shot of crowd where you can see particular people copy/pasted in multiple places so clearly.
@benjels24212 жыл бұрын
Truly embarrassing. The VFX are lazy, just like the writing. Possible the worst series to even be produced given the source material it is defiling.
@yagsipcc2872 жыл бұрын
@@benjels2421 Makes me sick tbh oh yeah rememebr you are the problem for not liking it and not the clowns who spat in the face of the man who created it nor the fans who have loved it for decades...
@v.c.98642 жыл бұрын
*all of the crowd shots
@CdrRogue2 жыл бұрын
Like 99% of shows with large crowd shots do this. You'd be surprised.
@v.c.98642 жыл бұрын
@@CdrRogue yeah it's quite common actually. But you'd expect better with 200M budget though
@mythicalsalmon36212 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the Rings of Power videos!!!
@richardashton5015 Жыл бұрын
You will have to wait a long time, because no one cares about it anymore.
@brightskyguy2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see you guys look at a show that went for years and how the effects changed. Like supernatural or stargate, how 10 years of a show changed how vfxs were done
@mandoman39812 жыл бұрын
I actually just had a lot of fun doing a practical shot of an invisible person splashing through water, and I'd love to have you guys look at it. I personally think it came out well and I'd like to see if you can tell how we did it.
@zarkthelark2 жыл бұрын
I find it crazy how much ROP poured into their VFX budget and yet they didn't seem to give a crap about making any of the story loyal to the source material. Its as if visuals were the only thing they cared about.
@Avatar23122 жыл бұрын
Having read the whole bunch of Tolkien, I still like the movies, and the series. Why not? The movies disregarded like half the lore of the books - so what? Don't care. I am still entertained. I don't want to be "Tolkien-Iran".
@inanimatemist86102 жыл бұрын
Well they couldn't use most of the silmarillion since the tolkien estate made it off limits for now, so it's mostly based off of the appendixes from the lotr books
@sonofgondor16962 жыл бұрын
@@Avatar2312 If they did not want to follow the source material, they shoudn't have even made a show about lotr in the first place. I hate almost every change made by peter jackson but those movies, excluding the 2nd and 3rd hobbit movies, are still a hundred times better than the amazon show which is just a terrible, expensive mess with just the names of a few Tolkien characters and places thrown in.
@ttrev0072 жыл бұрын
i could ignore that it was not following the source material but the writing is terrible so its not even a good story and the characters are unlikeable.
@Avatar23122 жыл бұрын
@@sonofgondor1696 So. Tolkien-Iran.
@BooneDavey2 жыл бұрын
Okay I just finished the new live action Pinocchio & imma need you to react to that... I almost didn't wanna finish it until I just settled for trying to find all the vfx that looked weird. 😅😭😭
@FasterthanLight112 жыл бұрын
10,000 VFX shots can't save ROP from bad writing
@MetalGamer6662 жыл бұрын
The Rings of Power is a perfect example of how a lot of money and good effects doesn't make a show good. The Rings of Power fails in its writing, directing, and editing, and it's barely mediocre. I was either bored out of my mind, or annoyed that the plot made no sense. So disappointing!
@MetalGamer6662 жыл бұрын
@AnonymousNoname It's possible to "empower women" or whatever, and still make a great show, but Rings of Power is just a failure all around. It made me really dislike Galadriel, and a lot of the other female characters. I basically only liked Eldrond and the male dwarves. In House of the Dragon I find most of the characters really enjoyable to watch! Yes, including the "empowered females".
@adriancabrera88432 жыл бұрын
You Guys need to seriously consider doing a Star Trek episode!! You have multiple generations of tv and movies to choose from spanning any and all forms of sfx! I highly recommend doing the DS9 episode “Trials & Tribble-ations” where the modern crew go back in time to the OG series and they are actually seamlessly inserted into an old 60’s episode!