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First of I want to congratulate you on the 3rd anniversary of the podcast! I've been listen and watching this since not that long ago but knew about you before finding the podcast, through the Before and Afters articles and Hugo's streams on Nuke. I really enjoy watching you guys talk because I feel like i'm part of these conversations, the shared opinions and some experiences. In this one specially with Hugo talking about video clubes being the norm and Blockbuster coming on the late 90's, and also the behind the scenes documentaries being one of the biggest reasons to be working in this industry. For me it was the behind the fxs of Empire Strikes Back, where it showed the history behind the FXs and the magic in movies and in particular children making movies with clay or household items. It meant not only that movies were made, but also that I could be making them. Then comes the reality of living in a third world country and the complications of having no budget, but we make what we can with what we have jajaja. Thank you guys for all your work!

GUYS THIS IS LONGER THAN THE MOVIE :D

haha, I watched it on VHS, 200% pirate version and I loved it! And I watched it several times. Borrow from the near videoteka...and we had to returned the VHSs' rewinded...

27:25 this is probably one of the best uses of blue screen I've seen in a movie! The lighting and shadows on Keanu match up perfectly with the background footage, which is of the incredible elevator shaft model! This movie utilized so many great filming techniques like rear projection, matte paintings, miniatures, visual effects, and dangerous stunt work which makes it one of the best action movies ever made! Thanks for this super in-depth and informative podcast about this amazing movie!!

Happy Anniversary guys!....so glad Ian got those wedges, pretty sure I remember hearing that episode of FXGuide podcast where he was told they had been thrown out!

Weeeee ^^ I love these retro episodes. Looking at petabytes worth of fluid sims is great and all, but these 20 to 30 year old films in my experience are much closer to the everyday VFX work and hold far more ideas on how to solve a shot than massive LED volumes and the latest and greatest in performance capture. What do you think about doing an episode on how the effects in a somewhat similar environment developed over the years? Thinking of the Batman films from 1989 till today or the Harry Potter series Great podcast, thank you so much for sharing these insights! Greetings from Berlin

Congratulations! I love your show.

The extras back then were an investment in your audience and not know it.

I was 21. It was new to us. Sandra was the hottie next door. It was new it was entertaining.

Dolls for males. Not action figures. Grown Man. Deal with it. Yo Joe!!! COBRA!! Deceptions ATTACK!! Autobots!! Transform and rollout! Not that I saw Robotech or anything else like that when it first aired.

Congratulations on year 3 of the podcast! Thank you for educating and entertaining us through the podcast 😊

ThankYou !!!

One thing movie streaming services should add are the menu and the available videos including behind the scenes.

thanks

It is inspiring to see how you can use Nuke to create those kinds of visuals, thanks Hugo for sharing the process behind

This is such an inspiring film for VFX, I work as a comper in London and I would love to know how to get to work on set for something like this!! it's such good work!

love your podcast as always. Can’t wait for you guys to talk about Mad Max Fury Road & Furiosa 😍😍

Never Screen, Only Plus. (Screen is only useful for combining mattes). If you find that screen looks best, I recommend fiddling with other areas of your comp so that Plus looks best.

I PUT A BACKGROUND IMAGE AND A CAR ,THN THE CAR IS LIKE TRANSPARENT ON THE BACKGROUND,HATS I DO TO SOLVE IT,I AM BEGINER IN NUKE.CAN YOU HELP ME?

Irridescence is the word you were looking for at 4:38

Cats is still the only film I’ve heard about so far where the VFX studios were doing “Midnightlies” review sessions.

Love the experts: You need to render local??? Dude did you ever worked on a movie in a team of 200-400 artist? Did you ever heard about online Renderfarm? You confusing more then helping people....

great comp technique!!

I think it's simply the film industry attempting to wallpaper over sh*t directors by creating a strawman in the form of fictional backlash of CGI use. I don't see any issue with CGI. I have an issue with the lying about it's use... there's no need for that.

The benchmark test would be to replicate the shots in their promo.

this gets more relevant by the day

thank you for this video Hugo 1)when would you use gain vs multiply if they essentially do the same thing? 2) how would control the fall-off of using lift (like a toe)? I'm coming from a photoshop background so I would set points in the curve to limit the area the lift affects. I guess I could do this in the colorlookup node but I'm curious what the workflow would be for something like the grade node? would you essentially have to use lift in combination with gamma/multiply to preserve the upper values? Or would you just use colorcorrect for that?

As a former graphic designer, that intermission video with the client over the shoulder is causing me physical discomfort.

thanks

Have you thought about doing procedural displacement with noise instead of using stock footage?

"Some of the best shots ARE simple comps." -Hugo, I couldn't have said it better myself.

This would be cool if it were an interactive art piece where you and your friends could dance in front of a motion capture device and have these filters applied and projected on a screen. As a prerecorded performance, it loses something. I strongly advise the dance group to do a live performance with this enhancement and then have volunteers from the audience try it out. Encouraging more people to dance through visual art an animation!!

Awesome make more art tutorials

cool

I worked on this movie in the VFX division at MPC and I can tell you I always call it the Vietnam of VFX. Whoever worked on it has scars for life to the point some people would refuse to even chat about it even today. The worse experience of my career… so far.

I was wondering if the butthole thing would be mentioned. Originally I heard one person was tasked with painting them all out of the shots but apparently not true. I also heard that it was under tail around the butt area that the UV's ended and rendered like they had buttholes. Butt, apparently that got fixed early in development. Would love to know the actual story though.

Man, I love this podcast.

No disrespect to Oren and Greg, who did a great job, but credit should also go to the colourist and colour scientist(s) who definitely helped create the look of the film.

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To celebrate spring my Nuke compositing courses are 50% Off until the 1st of June. Don’t miss this offer. Use the promo code SPRINGSAVINGS during checkout: hugosdesk.myshopify.com/discount/SPRINGSAVINGS There are two courses available to buy: Nuke Compositing course: 👉Access to 150 classes (already available, extra classes dropping soon) 👉More classes soon! 👉50+ hours of training The Workshops course (pre-order): 👉Real Production Workshops (some classes already available. More classes dropping during 2024) All courses include: 👉Student license path available (paid separately) 👉Showreel material (200GB+) 👉Private Discord (2200 students) 👉Fully endorsed by @TheFoundryTeam I hope you can join our amazing community of 2200+ students. #vfx #compositing #nuke #foundry #cgi

To celebrate spring my Nuke compositing courses are 50% Off until the 1st of June. Don’t miss this offer. Use the promo code SPRINGSAVINGS during checkout: hugosdesk.myshopify.com/discount/SPRINGSAVINGS There are two courses available to buy: Nuke Compositing course: 👉Access to 150 classes (already available, extra classes dropping soon) 👉More classes soon! 👉50+ hours of training The Workshops course (pre-order): 👉Real Production Workshops (some classes already available. More classes dropping during 2024) All courses include: 👉Student license path available (paid separately) 👉Showreel material (200GB+) 👉Private Discord (2200 students) 👉Fully endorsed by @TheFoundryTeam I hope you can join our amazing community of 2200+ students. #vfx #compositing #nuke #foundry #cgi

To celebrate spring my Nuke compositing courses are 50% Off until the 1st of June. Don’t miss this offer. Use the promo code SPRINGSAVINGS during checkout: hugosdesk.myshopify.com/discount/SPRINGSAVINGS - There are two courses available to buy: Nuke Compositing course: 👉Access to 150 classes (already available, extra classes dropping soon) 👉More classes soon! 👉50+ hours of training The Workshops course (pre-order): 👉Real Production Workshops (some classes already available. More classes dropping during 2024) All courses include: 👉Student license path available (paid separately) 👉Showreel material (200GB+) 👉Private Discord (2200 students) 👉Endorsed by Foundry I hope you can join our amazing community of 2200+ students.

To celebrate spring my Nuke compositing courses are 50% Off until the 1st of June. Don’t miss this offer. Use the promo code SPRINGSAVINGS during checkout: hugosdesk.myshopify.com/discount/SPRINGSAVINGS - There are two courses available to buy: Nuke Compositing course: 👉Access to 150 classes (already available, extra classes dropping soon) 👉More classes soon! 👉50+ hours of training The Workshops course (pre-order): 👉Real Production Workshops (some classes already available. More classes dropping during 2024) All courses include: 👉Student license path available (paid separately) 👉Showreel material (200GB+) 👉Private Discord (2200 students) 👉Endorsed by Foundry I hope you can join our amazing community of 2200+ students.

Perfect ❤❤

Worked as a compositor at Mill Film for around 6 months on Cats. You guys are pretty spot-on with conditions, grid warps and compositing challenges. Very rough project, all over the place, worst show I worked on in 10 years. On the plus side, it's quite the project to namedrop in a discussion to make heads turn lol. Great episode!

watch the video by @Sideways about the music. it's a good analisys

Horrendous is accurate

I worked on this film. Was brought in as a roto Anim artist my first day in a training program. The dancing never once did tposes or anything to allow syncing. So all the dancing had to be manually rotod in 3d frame by frame. By people who never did it before lol. 1 week of training 😅😢

I think its important to know how much pain and suffering went into this film from the side of VFX workers. This for many of us was our entry into the industry. This film was made abusing a LOT of junior artists, unpaid overtime, 12 hour days, many artists on visas were abruptly let go after cats wrapped. Mill Film halved its employee count after this show. Many experienced and non-experienced artists wanted to quit and did quit the industry. Technicolor is a crooked company.