Back to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
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Time to step away from viral videos and discuss some historically epic VFX work. In this episode, Captain Disillusion dives into the tech Industrial Light & Magic used to create the diverse visuals of the Back to the Future trilogy.
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Unless otherwise indicated, all footage and images used to illustrate this video essay are property of Universal Pictures and ILM.
Intro theme by Hachik0 ( / snijboer )
DeLorean 3D model by Chris Kuhn ( / kuhn-industries ) - Zábava
I am baffled that this man doesn't have his own show on Netflix or somewhere.
Legit same
TechXtra I know right? Robert Zemeckis should have a show on netflix
captain d is lit
Please don't try to ruin our cap.
He does. It’s called “captain disillusion” and it’s on CZcams.
As a big fan of practical special effects in 80s films like star wars and bladerunner, thanks for making these episodes! :)
A verified channel, without many likes, impossible.
@@16taha7b8 hahahahahaha tru
Wait simple history likes animation?
didn't quite expect you here
@@arvojustice they literally make animated history
"So he made Who Framed Roger Rabbit real quick"
Amazing line delivery
This channel has the strange effect of making me believe that I can create. The tone is welcoming and inclusive with just the right amount of tongue and cheek commentary. Thanks for making me believe I can be a creator.
Michael Gangnath that’s what’s so cool about D. I have a feeling that he would end up like Bill Nye, a universal figure of information
Same here. So much so that I went ahead and downloaded all of the tools I needed, then proceeded to really put the work in...
...and realized just how shitty I am at this stuff.
YES. YES. YES.
Everyone’s bad on their first day. The Captain’s been doing this for years by this point.
@@brettvv7475 keep up the great work. If you ever post anything you want to show off, comment back here and I'd love to check it out! :D
Yes, Star WarSSS, plural.
Just f**ing great. I could watch this all day.
Star War S comes somewhere in between Star War I and Star War V.
never seen action movie kid swear lol, tho he did censor it
AaronThePerson - whoops - that was supposed to say FX-ing great.
Sounds like an air leak in here. Walk THIS way < > < > < >
Action Movie Kid SAME! JUST FOUND HIS VIDEOS TODAY. HE IS A GENIUS AND INTERESTING! EDITING SKILLS ARE SUPERB. THIS GUY NEEDS HIS OWN SHOW ON TV! KINDA LIKE NOVA,BUT FUNNIER. I HAVE A.D.D. REALLY BAD,AND CANNOT FINISH WATCHING ANY VIDEOS TOL THE END. SO FAR,IVE JUST WATCHED 3 IN A ROW!LOL
Love the addition of the old CZcams logo transforming into the new one at 8:49.
8:48 for those who don't want to go looking for it
Wait, where?
i hate the new layout...
That's an official graphic/gif, I think
AnUntitledPicture yeah I think he just took the gif that YT provided when they announced the logo change
For those of you wondering 3:05 that’s a Diamond Select 1/15 Scale Hover Conversion Replica. It even has flip down wheels, Sound Effects, and Flux, Headlights, and Thruster Lights. Very cool toy.
LOL! "I used to be a kid, now I'm a crazy guy. The Trilogy has a way of staying relevant to me." GOLD!
im blown away! thank you for the deep insight into early VFX.
This really isnt "Early" vfx
@@davidbanan. I think he meant VFX from the past, also please expect things to have at least some imperfections, also the comment is from 2017.
Wabi Sab-E!
The distance between me and screaming like a total fangirl is about an inch of will.
A new Captain Disillusion video? A new Captain Disillusion SERIES? AM I IN HEAVEN?
The Doctor. simply The Doctor. This is way too good for us mortal.
The Doctor. simply The Doctor. Captain D needs to be known to the mainstream
The Doctor. simply The Doctor. ikr except im gonna hate having to wait a month for the next video
I only found this channel recently, but I ended up watching many of the videos he already put out. These are so well made that whenever I watch them, the videos gives me have a stronger drive to produce the best content I can offer on my own channel, despite being limited in resources.
DID I DIEDED????
You should do a series where you go back to old fake videos and edit them to make them more convincing
And then He could debunk them in the future again!
@@marving.8868 "I make my own economy" -Soos
I would SO watch a remake of Back to the Future. It would be a nice break from all the marvel stuff. Don´t get me wrong, I´ve been a fan since the comic books for X-men came out, but even I have had enough of the same old stories.. If we have to reheat old narratives, why not this one?
He doesn't edit other people's work like that....he just makes a new video himself replicating it without replicating the same mistakes.
@@Ludifant marvel is more of a fanatic-comic hype or a trend if u like rather than really good movies, with dc it toke a really big pile of shit for community to backlash with suicide squad , after iron man 1 there wasn't anything extraordinary in cinematic-point of view, even the joker of DC who made it really good in sales, its not about how much we love a story or a character but how the whole movie is performed, eg, i would rather NOT see another btf go down to the road as Terminator 7, (nothing to do about feminism conspiracy theories like some claim also for end game which i also didn't like it that much) even tho still i am huge fan of mcu
"I used to be a kid,... now I'm a crazy guy"
Haha
This is a fantastic idea. Too many people think VFX and CGI is just a cheap half ass measure instead of an art form itself, really hope this series gives people more of an appreciation for it, even if this particular video goes over mostly practical effects itself.
A two parter of Captain Disillusion, about one of my favorite movie franchises? Dang Captain, you really know how to soften the blow of the summer ending.
my summer already ended.
Spring started today
In my time zone, summer hasn't ended in 17 years.
> New Captain D video
> Film Theory on Death Note
> New CinemaSins video as well
Have I died and gone to CZcams heaven?
Clearly not if you're watching Matpat
2:57 -- I might be wrong, but I think the floating jeans ad is done with analog effects. I've watched that whole Robert Abel & Associates reel multiple times, it's gorgeous and bonkers.
Omfg, my favourite remix-maker on my favourite answer-giver's channel 😂
Hey, super-rad internet celebrities can interact too, y'know. *fanboys unashamedly*
Neil, you are also gorgeous and bonkers
WICKY WICKY WOAH WOAH WOAH
neil cicierega........
As a 35 year old man, your mini tribute to Bob Zemeckis really hit home for me. It was absolutely beautiful. I had to go back and watch it twice and I had to hold back the tears both times. You’re very talented.
Holy crap! I had no idea Robert Zemeckis had such an extensive filmography. Thank you Caption D
*CAPTION* D XD
Yeah I'm sort of embarrassed I didn't know he made all of those films. Great by the big D to give the him the credit he deserves (aside from his Oscars ofc).
Ok so this series is a wonderful addition to the channel, Captain.
*addition
was*
@@mamabird9638
*OP:* _"...addition..."_
*You:* _"*addition"_
*Me:* _"Huh?"_
rip lol
Really interesting insight into Back to the Future, I didn't know a lot of that. Zemeckis really is one of the un-sung visionary directors of the last few decades. Although his venture into facial capture and motion capture for Polar express - A Christmas Carol was a little misguided. Unfortunately they never really managed to break the uncanny valley, while other films using better techniques proved this could be done even before the polar express was released.
"I used to be a kid. Now, I'm a crazy guy."
Yup. I can relate.
"I used to be a kid" - VFXGuy
now I'm a crazy guy!
yum
"The earth is flat" - Idiots.
Two years later, this comment is just as universally relatable as when it was first written.
hey, sometimes you ain't so lucky.
noticed you used the SNES games ost in the background
heeeey
Shezes!
Oshit Shesez!
Hey, you're Mellow Mike.
lemmingscanfly5 What's up Mellow Mike
So you are telling me that Back to the Future is fake??!!!
Dw man he's totally lying. Back to the Future definitely happened.
@@hhaidar121 I want to think that but now I doubt.
@@RB-ej8wk csip
Blasphemy!
It’s not fake, it just happened in an alternate timeline 😉
I don't know how you fit this much production into one little YT video. Insanely well done. Look forward to more in this series.
I really love this new in-depth look at movie visual effect work. Long live the D.
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Those of us who are old enough remember a show on Discovery Channel in the 90s called "Movie Magic."
Like the Capt said, the late 80s/early 90s was a transformative, innovative time for special effects, and that cable show was a behind-the-scenes look at how a lot of visual effects were accomplished.
... Looks like at least some the episodes are here on CZcams!
I think that if you would've spent just 5 seconds explaining how optical printers work, you would've blown everybody's mind.
Making this kind of video is a great use of the established character and style. It was nice to see how well it worked and I hope it pushes you towards the ammount of subscribers and viewers that this channel has always deserved. Every video is a treat. Thank you.
God, I love hearing about old visual effects. The sheer amount of work and creativity this stuff required to get right is nothing short of incredible.
Excellent as ever. I always like your videos before they even load because if it wasn't excellent I know you wouldn't bother uploading it!
good for you, no one else gives a fuck though
Default Hero - Well, at this moment 9 actual fucks have been given. Mine being one of them.
Ironically, I think this works against what Captain D would want. Love with your heart, use your head for everything else. Do not let your heart guide you into marking this as a good video before you've watched it. Retain the mind of a skeptic - watch, decide whether you like it or not based on its own merits, and like or not based upon that. I believe that a valid, non-toxic criticism means more to Captain D than a thousand unmerited likes ever could.
roguishpaladin
Sounds good, doesn't work.
Content creators compete fiercely for attention & the algorithm is watching.
Bring on the likesss
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i want more of this
I watch this from time to time and it always blows me away just how amazing both BTTF and Captain D are. What a happy way to spend time! Thanks D man!
9:34
“Cartoonish characters and people share the screen for the first and last time in history”
- 2021: Are you sure about that?
Captain, I want just one video where I don't feel like a dick for only having $3 to give to you. Great work as always! Absolutely fuckin brilliant.
Yashendra Shukla well with the great quality content he puts out i think you're gonna wait have to wait indefinitely
love it
Same
"I used to be a kid, but now I'm a crazy guy." Brilliant! My new life motto!
How i never knew about this channel existence until now and how this channel is so underrated
Glad to see you're gaining subs, Captain D! You definitely deserve a lot more views than you get, and they're certainly on the way.
Captain D., the DVD extras of the 21st Century.
I was a kid in the 80s and would take the glass screen off our family TV to provide "protection" for the camcorder during filming. My dad just loved that.
I get a real 'Flight of the Navigator' vibe from your room and your table.
I approve.
Really glad to see you take a turn at a "review" type show aimed at VFX. Looking forward to seeing more content like this. There are so many great channels for review of the actual story of a film, and some channels have a great discussion of editing (RIP EveryFrameAPainting) but I can't think of many VFX breakdown shows that cover the topic in such an imformative, passionate and straightforward manner.
Thanks, Captain.
Thank you Captain, for an entertaining and educational tour through the technology used in the classics we all love.
I hope that one day I will be able to explain my field of expertise with as good a level of accessible and enjoyable material as yours.
3:39 when puberty hits
This was awesome. I'm looking forward to part 2. Hope I don't have to wait 4 years ;)
ok
wait what cwc here wha????
It has been 4 years
@@peace_44880 that is not an acronyn you should use
I love the moment when you slap the audience repeatedly with Zemeckis.
Yeah, sure, Back To The Future. I mean they were good and all, but heck - I've seen better movies. So what else? ... Roger Rabbit inbetween? Wow that guy is ... And Forrest Gump... And ... HOLY SHIT! THAT GUY IS A FUCKING MOVIE MACHINE!!!
and all those others like Castaway.
Soo.. What about Space Jam!?
Too bad all his movies in the past fifteen years have been vomit inducing uncanny valley trash.
SwollenHero 'The Polar Express' was pretty good. Still my second favorite Christmas movie (my favorite is 'Arthur Christmas', aka the only Sony Pictures Animation film I have ever liked).
Your first favorite should be 'Earnest Saves Christmas'.
So a snake walks in to a bar...
The bartender says, "How'd you do that?"
ooooooooooh
there are so many possible outcomes of this joke
its unbelievable.
This and the second part are the best videos you've ever made. Love them. I'm a huge BTTF fan and learnt so much. Thanks!
6:29 a back to the future Easter egg in a back to the future video, very subtle, well done
_Even if you don't use them, VFX are worth learning about, cuz they're just plain cool!_
Yes! I know I won't be using VFX anytime soon, but this is exactly why i want to learn everything about them!
Mint episode, and i mean it. It was crisp, it was awesome, it was amazingly well put. And, well, when one of my personal heroes is acknowledged on screen...not much i can say besides all the above. It was great. Cant wait for part two, and hope, and beg, for more of these, because you're great at making them.
It's gotten to the point where if I accidentally like one of your videos before I watch it, I'm confident just leaving it there even if I get distracted and walk away. I know it's found a good home.
Honestly ever since i found you a few weeks ago, you have been one of my favorite youtubers because of the obvious work and effort in each video
Great vid, Captain D! Nice to see you switching things up. Keep up the GREAT work!
1:32 i’m imagining that people from the company saw this and went “yeah pretty much”
Wow this is really fantastic! My gratitude and admiration to the patreon supporters for helping this happen. And of course, to the Captain and his team as well. Incredible work. This is my favourite video on the channel yet and that is seriously saying a lot.
9:15 hits so different
Who framed Roger rabbit is one of my all time favorite movies and this really gets my heart strings playing
I'm so glad you're diving into the creation of this movie CD! This was literally a formative movie for me. If not for this film, I might not have the interest I currently do in science, technology and sci-fi.
I mean, I still might've wound up loving science. But no other film made me want to be a *mad* scientist like Back to the Future did! It made me want to figure out how to travel through time so I could go to the future, have adventures, wind up going *back* in time to fix the mistakes made in those adventures, and generally muck about with space-time.
(No seriously. I wanted to be a mad scientist when I was a kid, just like my hero Doc Brown.)
Wow. Wish I had seen such a great in depth VFX / movie video essay before. Keep up the hard work n the amazing stuff coming x
I just came across you’re videos a few days ago. You have some of the smartest content I’ve seen on CZcams, in so many ways.
Brilliant.
The amount of work and attention to detail that go into each and every one of your videos is amazing.
By far the most under appreciated youtuber, you deserve many millions of subs!
6:23 dantdm back ground music
Blade Runner and The Thing still blow me away with it's practical effects.
Hi CD, I just wanted to let you know that about two days ago I began to have a migraine and so locked myself up in my favorite dark room. I my grief, I found your channel on the internet and - well... over the past two days I have managed to watch every video you've ever produced on this channel. I didn't realize it till the suggestions for new videos stopped being new. I freakin love your show more than a lot of the stuff I watch on CZcams, or even on any other streaming platform. It has sincerely made getting through this migraine a thoroughly awesome experience. I hope you keep up the great work! Hella excited for the next episode!
Honestly LOVE this addition Captain. I was just thinking from your last video how it was so much story and not much explination of the "mechanics" of VFX. I think this format is so cool and satisfying, exactly the direction I didnt even know I could hope for. Good work :)
Honestly most talented channel on CZcams.
I think it's a good thing for you to do other things so more people can see this amazing channel
CaptainDisillusion A man after my own heart. One of your best pieces yet. Keep it up, friend.
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! What an amazing video! Back to the future movies are some of my favorites but, @CaptainDisillusion you just made me appreciate them so much more! Now i understand how much these movies revolutionized the movie industry. I am completely baffled at how good this documentary is, I just found this channel 2 days ago and have been on a Constant Captain Disillusion Binge. Somebody needs to give this man his own TV show or Netflix show! Thank you @CaptainDisillusion for some of the best content i have EVER seen on CZcams!!!!!
Well, you've done it, you've somehow created a brand-new show that I think I'm going to enjoy even more than watching you disproving viral videos of visual trickery. Zemeckis is god; CD is a close second.
This makes me miss the old style visual effects before CGI. Don't get me wrong CGI is a great tool but I also like miniatures and stop motion and stuff like that, they have their own charm.
jhhwild I agree, you can still spot those visual effects in some new movies/tv shows though. They aren’t obsolete :)
Watch the first evil dead If you enjoy stuff like that
Considering the timeline, I don't understand why some people can't themselves consider that the Apollo Moon missions were faked...czcams.com/video/oBSpuZDKaKI/video.html
I'm not suggesting techniques would have been the same, but rather just pointing out ingenuity from decades earlier.
@cmichaelson1 Nothing's been debunked except every single piece of so-called "evidence" that you think proves men have been to the Moon.
Leaving Russia aside for a moment, Japan, China and India have all sent probes to the Moon and none of them have produced any convincing evidence of NASA's alleged Moon landing sites on the Moon.
NASA's 2009 LRO images, despite having better camera technology even all those years ago, are blurry, pixelated, therefore easy to fake, don't qualify as third party evidence, and depict the shadows of flags that would have disintegrated many years prior in the harsh lunar environment.
Back to your "Russia" claim - You are not a spokesperson for Russia. Russian state television has broadcast many programs over the years that suggest the Apollo Moon missions were faked.
Why hasn't Russia used one of their Soyuz spacecraft to send a man at least looping, and perhaps orbiting, around the Moon by now, to at least have that "2nd nation to do it" status and distinction, as they were allegedly just on the brink of doing back in the 1960's with their Soviet Zond program that sent living specimens of animals and plants there and back?
Think about it. NASA used to test the survivability of space flight, when even just going below what is considered low Earth orbit, with chimpanzees. Then, the Soviets sent living specimens to the Moon, but decides to not send people there, and the Americans do absolutely zero practical, biological testing, but decide to go ahead a use their Apollo 8 crew as the "guinea pigs," or "lab rats"?
I dont
I wasn't ready for this video to be over. Great work Capt!!
Wow!!!!! I never knew just how much effort went into making this movie. This video is incredible. Thank you Captain Disillusion. You are absolutely brilliant.
Wow...your production is in the top of the 1% club. You should be working in Hollywood dude.
1978... not 76... 1978 was the year Dykstra and team won the oscar for the Dynaflex that was created in 76 for Star Wars (released in 77) and then the oscar for that work in 78.
Rob Stewart I was looking for this comment so I didn't have to repeat it!
Yup.
Without a doubt one of my favorite you tube vids of all time. I swear I've seen this at least 20 times.
I just looked at the Captain's subscriptions, it's almost a half a million, now. I think I found him like near ten years ago and he was under 20,000 subscribers. This is really great to see. No one deserves it more than the captain!
And 6 years later he’s almost at 2.5 million!
The camera on the right at 5:57 looks a lot like GLaDOS from portal
31 days till the next episode of Captain D :(
Just found your videos about a week ago and have binge watched all of them. I can't get enough. In addition to the effects, the writing and character development is phenomenal. Also, I'm a BTTF fan!
this is my favorite so far. I have always enjoyed you're videos now this lends a whole new understanding to how and why visual effects are done. please continue this series it's nice to semi understand how some visual effects are done. Thank You!
My fap can wait, This shit cool.
魔法のたいこシェフ put that on a tshirt. profit
I feel like you wrote this comment with one hand tho
This is the very best way of honouring a real creative hero. I feel like I've just watched a Nerdwriter1 video.
This is one of the best videos I have seen on CZcams in a long time. I have never "looked forward" to a CZcams video release before this.
As always, I love it. Your content is the highest quality of any I've ever seen, rivaled only by a few other channels on CZcams. Here's to 500,000!
Wait, how am I meant to love? What do I use for everything else?
this is part 1, so it's technically not over yet
Jackalope Animations It is, you just don't know it yet. 😈
Love with your head and use your heart for everything else
-I know it's incorrect, that's the joke-
Instructions were unclear. Attempted to love with my knee and use my little toe for everything else. Was arrested for driving with my foot. Bad experience 1/10.
ok he didn't do it in part 2, I am officially lost
capD, your patreon end card is messed up... love your work you inspired me. keep it up
This views like one of those cool shows they used to have on Discovery 10 years ago. Something the likes of How It's Made. I really like it, CaptD. You're one of the few CZcamsrs of whom I watch every single video released.
This is some of the best content on CZcams. Thank you so much!
5:35. How could they win an Academy award for Star Wars in 1976, when the movie wasn’t released until 1977? Proof time travel exists!
How else does the captain get this footage.
Hey Captain Disillusion, love the vid as usual. I was just wondering, what music are you using during the ending montage of Zemeckis' work? Approximately from 9:10 to 10:08?
Looking forward to the second part. :)
Real talk though, that music was dope, and I'd love knowing where it came from, if nothing else the music library or the composer.
Darude sandstorm
One of the best episodes to date. Keep up the amazing work Captain D!
I'm so impressed at how hard it was to do all of this.
Thank you for helping us to appreciate the quality.
Love ya Captain D
I love a long D. And the captain even has enough stamina for two sessions!
Thats what she said
I just randomly stumbled across this channel and am blown away, the production value of these videos is amazing you are a wonderful creator.
captain... we don't deserve you... what an ancient god of youtube!
5:27 more like star warts
how dare you
they used real dinosaurs in jurassic park
Thank you so much for yet another great video!
It keeps amazing me how much detailed and yet still fun your video's are each time
you make one. Just keep them coming please, i for sure will keep watching them.
thank you,
Leon
I've always been interested in VFX but have for some reason never understood the basics. Relating them to these kinds of films really helps me. Thank you so much. I really look forward to continuing this series.