VFX Artists React to Bad & WORSE CGi

[@Artillect0]

You should do a challenge to see who can make the best worst VFX shot

[@BradyBaker-t7b]

lol that would be so funny

[@ich1234577]

Bring in the Nephews!

[@CNC-Time-Lapse]

... whose nephew can do the worst VFX shot.

[@chrys9256]

It's not really a challenge if you're competing against the guy who made Avatar 2 before James Cameron.

[@carlosfer2201]

it's crazy they haven't yet

[@DragonaxFilms]

"There's style to thi-" >dead silence Got a good chuckle from that, thanks Wren 😂

[@beaudanner]

_"they should have hired REAL nephews"_ That got me so good 😆

[@geekfan4086]

What about nieces!

[@bryanferratt6598]

​@@geekfan4086They're too "Tyrese" for that 😊😅😂.

[@BelairPedicab]

I love how broken wren is in this episode. Neil Breen broke him and he never came back.

[@hyteclowlife]

Such is the power of Breen

[@friendlybane]

Self aware artists can't make Good Bad movies. Most of the cheap CGI horror movies are made by self aware people, so they feel bland. True Good-Badness comes from a mixture of overconfidence, incompetence, and lack of self awareness.

[@Redfern42]

Basically, you need an "Ed Wood" type who is earnest in his endeavors but falls short due to time and resource constraints.

[@friendlybane]

@@Redfern42I've seen a lot of good stuff that was made with limited time and resources. There are lots of decisions that are not affected by those limitation e.g. whether or not to excessively use dutch angles. Good Bad artists make bad decisions in almost every scenario.

[@TimTE01]

See ‘The Amazing Bulk.’

[@eyespy3001]

The only perfectly executed intentionally good/bad movie ever made was Showgirls. I will die on this hill.

[@Trash-Bandicoot]

Genuine attempts, even if they fall short, still have some charm to them. Whereas intentionally bad things often feel void of sort of real emotions

[@McCallahanIndustries]

You guys are gonna have a field day with Ferrari (2023). Hahaha

[@madjangler]

I kind of can’t believe you haven’t done any Doctor Who episodes. Since 2005, every season has excellent examples of good, bad and interesting effects. Great for talking about working under a budget!

[@Warlock_UK]

Yeah, the recycling bin eating someone in the first season (might be episode 1) :D

[@zlobzor]

Yiiiiiiissss! Though it's not just the modern ones. There are some nifty effects in Old Who too. And a lot of fades & bubblewrap.

[@SacredFeline]

The casino morphs gave me heavy Doctor Who vibes

[@qwertyuio404]

They better look at the janky cgi from series 3. _The Lazarus Experiment_ and the cgi dobby doctor from _Last of the Time Lords._ Oh also, jumping ahead to series 13, that one scene in _Legend of the Sea devils._ the jump. when they use teleportation elsewhere in the episode. that one Sea Devil just reeeeally wanted a janky jump. For really good cgi I guess there are more recent episodes. Idk beep the meep looks pretty good, as does the sequence in the toymakers realm. The vortex started to look really nice in Twice Upon a Time and has looked great since. I guess the pting in _The Tsuranga Conundrum_ looked neat. Ooh what if they also go over the classic series visual effects? Like the floating triangle in _The Five Doctors_ (and perhaps even the cgi swirly cone replacement in the remaster), or the weird cgi ball thing in _Time and the Rani,_ or the dinosaurs in _Invasion of the Dinosaurs_ and of course they just have to watch _The Web Planet_

[@andybearchan]

Every episode has a limited FX budget. They can only have so many shots. Get the most out of each shot.

[@Mekose]

The Bad CGI Gator segment reminded me of an episode of King of the Hill where Hank Hill purposefully tries to make his house fail an inspection for insurance reasons or something; but the inspector sees right through it and commends him by saying that it would take a true craftsman who knows his stuff and takes care of his home perfectly to create such a "bad" condition for his house.

[@AbsoluteTravisT]

Check out the glass they're talking about at 16:27, the glass itself gets locked into the plate but then she picks it up so it doubles!

[@TheFandomPaladin]

Oh you're right! Well spotted!

[@larrywagner1432]

With Neal Breen we have a lovely union of So Bad it’s Good and VFX reacts! Love it!

[@Sumaleth]

Challenge idea: have the participants make Zach King-style visual effect sequences. Maybe in teams of two? Or individually? Judged by Zach King if he's up for it.

[@donaldowensiii7478]

Fantastic idea omg

[@tomiwaaina5499]

Love this!

[@jadenbishop2297]

Please upvote would love to see this!!!

[@VladislavGruzinov]

Fire idea

[@BradyBaker-t7b]

Yes

[@xGamermonkeyx]

That bad GCI gator is a really interesting one because it's very clearly the artists riding a very careful line of fulfilling the brief while also adding in enough competency there that they can say "hey I did the DOF or compositing on Bad CGI Gator" and it's actually a decent piece to put in your showreel lmao.

[@KSchawacker]

I live like 45 minutes from Morongo and have seen their MCU play out in real time watching local cable TV with my parents. Glad these nightmare morphs are getting started. I can't be the only one traumatized by these. 😂

[@bryanferratt6598]

To me, they look delicious 😋.

[@stoneysdead689]

4:36- You and I have the same goals, my brother from another mother. I've bene laying all my life- over 35 years- but I signed up for some classes, I'm self-taught- and it shocked me how much my playing improved already. Learning arpeggios and how to turn scales and chords into arpeggios and then reverse engineer them back into chords and scales- was a huge breakthrough for me. It allows you to play over changes instead of just hanging out in a scale and it forces you to really get to know the neck- every note, without taking time to work it out. Idk who you're working with, but Rick Beato and Tim Pierce have both been a huge help to me- they're amazing teachers.

[@MFKitten]

I think the bad cgi gator needs to be thought of as if it actually exists in-universe as-is.

[@danielportillo1349]

That legit makes sense..... like it exist in that world as a real killer Bad CGI Gator....legit makes it better imo.

[@emosam07]

Bad CGI Gator does not apply to natural physics, Bad CGI Gator can walk on air

[@Roxfox]

That's definitely what they were going for. It's also how you should think about things that are both stylized and realistic at the same time, like that painterly part in Love, Death & Robots. It's not a stylized representation of a real thing - Instead imagine a different universe that really looks like that, where materials appear as if they were painted by hand, and you're bringing a real camera there to film it. Bad CGI gator really exists in its universe, so it obeys things like lighting, perspective and occlusion. Just so happens it's a physically implausible, supernatural entity that looks like a badly animated 3D model.

[@MFKitten]

​@@Roxfoxyeah! He physically exists AS A CGI POLYGONAL MODEL

[@mrb2349]

I, for one, welcome our Bad CGI Gator overlord.

[@AAvfx]

The only channel I keep checking from time to time, because KZbin doesn't show me you new uploads for some reason!

[@MarkArandjus]

Thank you, Corridor. Every time a human being learns about Neil Breen, the world becomes just a little bit better. Thank you.

[@LuisSierra42]

I learned about Neil Breen from Pewdiepie

[@buryurhedinthesbawls]

​@@LuisSierra42me too!

[@ruken04]

I see your Neil Breen, and raise you a Bill Zebub for truly, horribly bad movies.

[@RLanceHunter]

Neil Breen is the bad-movie equivalent of the band The Mountain Goats. Just been plugging away for years in obscurity, only known by the true connoisseurs; but universally loved so much that nobody minds that they're now getting fairly popular and the old fans appreciate all the new ones.

[@09juliancarr]

I knew him from @spaceice - definitely worth a watch!!! Apparently Neil Breen believes he is a superior Spielberg and is not in on the joke at all!!!!

[@SandarianMD]

I absolutely loved the amount of mental brick walls Wren went through in this video 😂😂 Wrens a fantastic human being

[@EightThreeEight]

Wren looks well and truly disturbed throughout this episode.

[@Isnogood12]

Like I said in another comment, he went from mental gymnastics to mental parkour before he ended up hitting a mental brick wall.

[@SkyJUSTIN6]

I just don't think he had anything interesting to say.

[@Isnogood12]

@@SkyJUSTIN6 He doesn't have to SAY anything for him to react. And his reactions were amazing!

[@titheproven954]

I think this broke him. He just was not ready.

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

1:19 - While Piranha 3D deserves its cheesy crown and would wear it with pride, I resent it being shown alongside movies with low effort/super cheap CG.

[@theboredengineer2612]

I think getting young amateur cgi artists to do "bad" cgi in a film is actually a great idea. I'm sure they would learn so much about the film making process that they could carry forward in life.

[@jennareynolds1403]

Totally agree. The best way to beat writer's block is to title the page: "Worst Version of this Idea" and write in comic sans. Lower the bar and just start.

[@jmalmsten]

It reminds me of how acting really drunk is really hard. Because drunk people don't act drunk. They are trying their damnedest to look sober. So the best way to act drunk is to try to act like a drunk person that tries to look sober...and failing unwittingly. The same goes for good bad acting or CGI. Anyone can do it badly. But the pure gold are when you find the people who earnestly tries and still fails spectacularly. And for that, you need the relatives with less talent than drive.

[@JormungandrTheWorldSerpent]

I would love a movie that had a bunch of big name action stars and it’s excellently written and shot, but it’s the director’s actual nephew who does all the vfx.

[@ClarissaMetall688]

Thank you for covering that commercial! It's so freaky! Also, when the guy blinks(seated at a slot machine) it's completely uncanny valley! I think it's Mystique just wanting to have a good time! 🤣

[@srpratt1]

Seeing Wren's introduction to Neil Breen just made my whole weekend!

[@langleymneely]

The noise they keep making every time there’s a morph/transition in the casino MCU commercials almost made me choke on my food from laughing so hard! Like they are powering up or taking a dump! Urrrrrrrrghhah! 😂🤣

[@LucidRobYT]

NEW SHOW IDEA: Make Bad CGI Gator worse- then do other movies and make good CGI/VFX intentionally bad and share what you did intentionally that amateurs do accidentally. 💁🏻‍♂️

[@DragonaxFilms]

I'd love to see this.

[@cleverusername8319]

I'd also like to see that

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

This is fantastic

[@feralkitty33]

Can you do Dead Like Me S2 E14 around 32 minute mark where the glass pane kills the musician? Looks like a blend of practical and digital, but would love your eyes on it.

[@StormChaserJeremy]

I'm so happy Tim and Eric somehow found it's way here. I love them so much

[@upshotMusicTV]

This is one of the best episodes! Gotta have these 3 back on the couch together again! The chemistry is unbeatable!

[@zeo278]

Finally Tim and Eric get their well deserved recognition

[@AlphaNovaOfficial]

CGI industry icons 🙏

[@Momon143]

The whole sketch is great, the host does an incredible fake-laugh that I still often think about to this day

[@torrence-carmichael]

probably dj dougpound to thank for grum

[@harvesterofeyes8813]

That's Cinco video cube quality for ya!

[@trashpandaqc]

totally clicked this one for Grum! though his dance moves got nothing on Tayne.

[@Itsyaboysho]

Sam's face when he's laughing is so funny, it always makes me laugh everytime. It's so infectious lol

[@swisskristin12]

Their reactions to legitimately awful vfx are so pure and enjoyable. I had missing these, thanks!!!

[@GazGazzersson]

I do believe the VO on the Morongo Casino commercials is by none other than famed rock/jazz rummer Gregg Bissonette

[@CoolPaDuke]

In Big Shark, when you said "the scene where the street is flooding isn't the worst", I'm surprised nobody mentioned that it looks like the water is splashing backwards.

[@lunondisposable5382]

Bad CGI Gator has the same problem as Velocipastor: the main foundation of funny-bad movies is "an earnest attempt that doesn't work out." If you're trying to make it bad on purpose, it's really hard (if not impossible) to turn off your subconscious artist brain to make things a bit better than they otherwise would be from a non-artist. It's very common for an expert to overestimate the average person's knowledge of their subject, and it shows in Bad CGI Gator.

[@redshirtwookiee]

Im so glad you looked at a Neil breen film finally. As a red-letter media fan, its genius.

[@nonjabiznas]

Neil Breen is a legend. I have had many movie nights heckling his movies with my friends over the years.

[@cjkalandek996]

Wren just looks like he's having 3 near mental breakdowns throughout the whole video.

[@Isnogood12]

Well this is the pilot for VFX so they had to go hard with the clips!

[@lazyken6468]

@@Isnogood12pilot?

[@SusiLarew]

Seeing you guys react to Grum made my day. I sing Grum's crackers and snacks song all the time, and seeing it here KILLED me.

[@Recks37]

Here’s a weird Stunt video request: ‘The Man from Snowy River’. The coordination involved with the horses is nuts, especially in the final act of the movie. Would highly recommend this one!

[@QuincyKane]

Good suggestion!

[@Evergreenoutsider10]

YES!

[@ixy291]

If they could find a guest who is involved in horse stunts, and all-horse stunt episode could be really interesting.

[@dener-7412]

Keeping up with the commercials and so bad its good cgi, theres a pretty popular Brazilian meme of a bagged milk mascot called barriguinha mole, and it is a masterpiece, you should definitely react to it

[@ArcaneSpell]

This was remarkably respectful to the creators of that content, you guys were awesome, this video totally nailed it. You picked those samples perfectly. Fun, lighthearted, and amazing analysis.

[@crosbycruz495]

The vfx artists who made the morongo commercial are probably so happy someone watched the entire 4 part series

[@islandadaptor]

I got to see the premier of Big Shark with the man Tommy Wiseau himself in the theater. It was an amazing experience, everyone was laughing and having the best time and he seemed to really love it. The movie is also genuinely hilarious.

[@nicolasneves9590]

recreated mirror seen from "contact" in Berlin Show??? Can you guys react to Berlin Episode 2 around 29min, there's a scene that turns out to be a reflection and it reminded me of when you guys reacted to the scene from contact and it blew my mind in Berlin. Simply because I was never expecting a scene like that from the show. Berlin is chasing after a woman and the camera is like right in front of him as he walks down an entire hallway, just for you to find out it is a reflection when he reaches her. I've watched it severoul times and it still boggles me.

[@mintyglitches]

wrens distraught face at the neil breen clip was phenomenal

[@Vikramjeetsingh2004]

Remember the mirror scene in Contact? There's an 'homage' to it in a new movie, Consecration, starring the very same actress! It's at the very beginning. Check it out!

[@jokool_aid]

I don't think I've ever seen Wren be broken so many times in one video. 🤣

[@Jordanllam]

Saw this commercial live when it first aired. Always thought it would be hilarious if you guys talked about it 😂 well played

[@karim6651]

Neil breen is the goat, we need a lot more of his movies on here

[@TheHorde177]

Appreciate his breenius.

[@notgavincrenshaw]

I will never forget watching twisted pair in theatres. What an experience.

[@ComicBookNostalgia]

"Real Nephews" that landed so good there has to be a massive amount of truth to it

[@Thoran666]

Bad effects are the best effects. Because someone had to look at them and and go "It's good enough".

[@edh615]

The manager only

[@jakejuracka]

Man, I sure love this new series, Veefex! I hope you guys keep making more of them!

[@George_vv]

I thought Grum was Gather's Pond...

[@BSJDynasty]

6:45 the flooding animation seems to be played backwards though?

[@SailorCameron]

The worst are still better than what I could do tbh.

[@GummiSosa]

Are you someone's nephew?

[@youngwang97]

​@@GummiSosaVFX Artists react to nephew effects

[@Vyzion2020]

Honestly thankyou guys That "real nephews" line just killed me.... im actually crying at how funny that was.

[@KazikoWhite]

Challenge idea: Make the artists' nephews produce shots with the artists' direction.

[@Saimeren]

15:47 "I'm right but I can't prove it." Same's energy is just Reddit. "I am the authority of the internet!"

[@CodyVibbart]

I'm stoked that you highlighted Neil Breen. If you want more bad CGI films, watch The Exigency

[@andrewjorlin]

No nephews were harmed on the production of this video.

[@fekkakidriss6562]

You should make a video with neil Breen. Let him direct a 5 min video with you guys producing it and doing the vfx. I think it’ll be great concept

[@MichaelRainey]

Ooh, compare the owl from Labyrinth to like Hedwig from Harry Potter to show how good the effect had gotten.

[@hyteclowlife]

Eyes on Breen

[@ndroot]

At 16:28 her glass is still in the background plate! Even after she picks it up. Amazing.

[@aaronsangha3045]

Recently found out that Labyrinth had the first attempt at a photo realistic animal during the opening credits. Definitely think they should react to that

[@Isnogood12]

Labyrinth has always had a special part in my soul. It's got so much imagination and for the time new ideas (nobody knew about contact juggling back then) and the effects and the puppet work, the songs, DAVID FUCKING BOWIE, The Bulge, all of it.

[@ahumanmerelybeing]

Can they have a set designers react show? I would love to see them talk about all the optical illusions in the movie, like when the camera pans and suddenly at the right angle you can see David Bowie's face in the rocks.

[@zelly4914]

Would really love to see you guys talk about how the really old stuff, like Metropolis (1927), was made.

[@graduator14]

Neil Breen is the Leonardo Davinci of our era! He does it all!

[@paulstanley7292]

my favourite one from recently was in Nine Perfect Strangers. Melissa McCarthy is driving to a wellness retreat and wearing mirrored sunglasses and they completely forgot to remove the cameraman and the full rig from her glasses. However, cut to like 5 seconds later and the cameraman is replaced with a road that looks like it's out of 1980s Atari Pole Position, just flat green either side with a grey road in the middle, and this doesn't change even though she's then driving through the woods!

[@aubreychampagne698]

Y’all should look at the first chronicals of narnia. Specifically the part where the goblet of hot chocolate turns into snow

[@oldmanpence4803]

Omigod you guys, Neil Breen Twisted Pair, this is the Corridor Crew/Red Letter Media crossover I have been waiting for! Best wishes for 2024, everyone!

[@decouvrir-la-musique]

You should do a nephews competition! Each corridor member gets a nephew and has 2 hours to do something! It would be INCREDIBLE

[@teamtripledent31nextgentls94]

You've made multiple rated R versions of movies but haven't you tried making "matilda" rated R because I noticed some scary scenes in the movie that could be perfect for rated R horror.

[@thomaspleacher2735]

7:59 This part killed me. XD

[@PoucoHabilidoso]

Wow when you said commercial I thought you were gonna show the best Brazilian animation of all time, Dollynho !

[@KayinAngel]

Neil Breen is the only real human breen. The reason his garbage rocks and pseudo fake "bad movies" like bad cg gator or sharknado etc do not rock is because he's not in on the joke. Even that new Wiseau thing is him winking at the camera saying "ha ha it's bad so it's funny right?". But Breen is honest. This is his art, and he believes in it, and it's fucking incredible.

[@Dennis.Miller.Jr.]

I grew up 30 minutes from Casino Morongo and have seen that commercial a thousand times. Thank you for the nostalgia.

[@advikshan]

10:44 What has this series become

[@MinktheStorykeeper]

I don't know 😭

[@NicholsonStudios]

This was a blast!!! For Animators React I would LOVE to see you talk about Blue Eye Samurai!!

[@an1k3t.k]

The vfx aren't bad, they are just ahead of the time.

[@thelegendary_gamer1580]

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[@DRDFMGV]

Hello, I was wondering if you guys could feature a show going over how they did the special effects in movie such as Samson and Delilah in 1948, Ben Hur, the 10 Commandments, etc. around the time where Cecil B DeMille was making his movies.

[@nalbis]

would love for you guys to check out the work of nobuhiko obayashi (from house, to his late career) effects that lean heavily into the artifice and disobey reality, but in a way that makes it beautiful

[@spencerdukestv]

I love when good work gets noticed. Good job guys!

[@Drysart]

This just makes me want to see "Morphin' Corridor Universe" where you have a competition between members of the crew to come up with parodies of the Morongo spots.

[@TheBluemindedGod]

I just realized Jordan totally got me in the beginning saying they were going to look at the MCU. I thought it was a scene from one of the many MCU shows I haven't seen.

[@andrewmason3563]

I just finished the Echo series and there is some fantastic special effects detailing a bird in episode 5, right at the start. Looks totally real and would love for you guys to see it if you haven’t!

[@wowmedialtd]

Apart from trying to hide transitions I haven't used a morph as a VFX for years. But 25+ years ago they were ubiquitous. The problem was that directors had no idea how to shoot for it. My favourite was when a client arrived with a digitape where he'd filmed a lady in a green dress with long green gloves against a blue screen. She walks into shot holding a glass then puts her gloved fingers in it. The second shot was green liquid being poured into the glass (against blue screen). In the 5 hours the client had booked, he expected to walk away with a shot of a chrome terminatoresque girl who pours herself into the glass.... That's just one of many, many CGI fail stories.

[@mateobach6794]

Love this channel, keep on doing what you do best! I’d love to see a section where you react to real good AI art vs. human digital art and try to tell which one is which!

[@baschz]

Real nephews! ➰🤣 The bad gator one is exactly how I feel when I see supposed kid's drawings in movies; they almost never look like kid's drawings. Because you can immediately see the skill of the artist who made it. Probably mostly to still quickly and definitely communicate the point of the drawing. It bugs me though 😊

[@BricksterT]

The cgi in Spiderman Lotus was incredible, rest of the "film", not so much

[@sophiawasylinko8448]

Thanks to the Steven Seagal-John Wick film you guys did, I discovered (and got hooked on) Space Ice's channel. He introduced me to Neil Breen, who I was pleasantly surprised to see here. Thanks so much. Also, with each video I watch, I'm amazed at how bad Seagal's films are. Just...bad.

[@jmalmsten]

Neil Breen deserves his own whole series of episodes. Heck, you might even be able to score an interview where he can show off his latest film. Because he's the real human Breen. And the real hero.

[@TheMattyPlant]

I think Grum unlocked a childhood nightmare in Wren, that was a very uncomfortable face 😂😂😂

[@hossg1082]

The entire beer coming out of the water at 7:04 being half full and still containing beer is hilarious.

[@lasergunfactory3038]

recommending SPACE TRUCKERS - Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Robot Jox), starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff - about dudes driving a truck in space. - only saw trailer, but the memory lives on.

[@wargamingpastor]

What you want is a contest where each crew member makes a couple of bad vfx shots and then you mix in a load of genuine bad shots from movies. Then get people to call out which ones come from crew members and which ones are genuine. Last crew member standing wins. There’s an art to genuine but bad vfx.

[@within_the_sky2356]

Corridor may have already done a few spiderman videos but now we need Bad CGI Spiderman

[@eliteextremophile8895]

On bad gator, the first shot analyzed, what makes it actually work is the sound effects of its stubby walking. It just works.

[@augusto_tr]

You know it’s Saturday when Corridor Crew uploads. It’s a strange feeling, but a nice one.

[@Paul83121]

This is great! You guys really should do more bad CGI/VFX like this. Most "good and bad" videos you do almost all include only good nowadays, That's amazing as well of course, but this stuff is just hilarious

[@AndyGilleand]

I am fairly sure they were not intentionally trying to make a parody of bad cgi creature movies. They just werent happy with the cgi halfway through post and decided to lean into it and rush the rest or something.

[@LektroQuinn]

14:55 I could cry. it's so funny. Such a good meme template 🤣 "Is this the last one? NO! WHAT?!" 🤣

[@masonlexioneill2386]

i am so glad someone finally gave time and eric the regoc they deserve