The Godzilla Minus One Scene You Won't Believe is Real (or is it?)
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- 🎬 In today's episode of Behind the Reel, we're analyzing the scene that has everyone guessing. From the technical brilliance to the budget constraints, we uncover what makes 'Godzilla Minus One' a standout in the world of special effects.
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I just finished watching an official video from Godzilla's VFX team, I think it's safe to say that this shot was 100% CGI. I'm honestly glad to be wrong, because I'm more and more impressed with how much they were able to do with such a small team. It's a great video if you want to watch it can be found here: czcams.com/video/T4pi1F25sxg/video.html
czcams.com/video/XnKSR94LQ9Q/video.htmlsi=CTORufYMNpmuR1Qh there's the closeup shot at 1:45. Confirmed CGI at this point.
I am Japanese. We still can't compete with Hollywood in terms of scale and action, but VFX and CGI are just a stone's throw away! I'm sure in 10 years Japan will start making movies that will shock even Hollywood! This time, "Minus One" is expected to earn 100 million dollars worldwide! Considering the production cost of $15 million, it was a huge success! The budget for the sequel will be doubled ❤
I really hope there is a sequel with the way it ended! I think Godzilla Minus One proves that Japan can compete with Hollywood in terms of CGI. I saw yesterday where Minus One is on the shortlist for the Academy Awards as well! Thanks for watching!
I think Godzilla Minus One certainly puts a lot of Hollywood movies to shame nowadays, it’s very worthy opponent. But certainly the best Godzilla film by far 👌🏻
It’s the best Japanese Godzilla film ever!
It won't take 10 years my friend, you are already much closer. This one film has shown everyone that modern Hollywood is lazy BS. We are over and done with the superhero social commentary and bloated franchise reboots and sequels. Have you seen the trailer for the upcoming American Godzilla/Kong? It looks terrible, Godzilla running like a person in one shot, the baby kong... Minus One is already far better than that film can hope to be.
If this film doesn't win an Academy Award, then the whole award organization is a money-grabbing waste of time! Not to mention how phony and biased it is!
Godzilla Minus One was hands down the best movie of 2023!
Let me share the info from Japan; that “Jaws-ish scene was made by the youngest 25 year-old creator of the team of Takashi Yamazaki. He was good at making the moves of water from his teenagers, and was hired because his remarkable talent. Yamazaki said,”My younger creators can create surprisingly wonderful things than other older ones. I’m always surprised at their works because they are beyond my expectations. They have powerful energy to creat much better things all the time.”
That’s definitely helpful, but that still doesn’t rule out that one shot, it’s possible they were referring to the wide shots and not the specific extreme close up I was mentioning, but this is good to know! Thanks for watching!
Math. 316 - 15 is not 311
@@kewrock Unbelievable. Ok math geek...!!! You REALLY needed to post that to make your point...(g)
@@tomtalker2000 😁😆🤣
The close up shot is a practical effect, the wide shots are CGI...
Our visual bias towards Goji being done practically is pretty strong. It's clear this movie has done a good job to capture these moments that make him feel suit-like while being fully CG. The wobbling dorsal plates on Odo island, the stiff, automated walking through Ginza, and the water shots like this. They maintained the vibe while also bringing it up to date
I think it's CGI. I animate fluids on a small scale (product shots, ads) and the realism possible with even just Blender and Flip fluids is insane. In my opinion, 99% of the way a CGI shot turns out has nothing to do with budget or software (whether it's Realflow, Houdini or what have you). It's about how passionate the director is about the shot. We see the proof here. Because the director is also the VFX supervisor, he is pushing the quality to the highest level in every department; he's even personally pushing pixels and managing node trees. He and his team are investing the time it takes to get things PERFECT. This photorealistic marvel is proof that the old adage is correct; it's not the captain, it's the boat. And I think the lesson for Hollywood is that VFX movies should be directed by VFX directors, people who can operate as generals but still fight in the trenches if necessary. Stop throwing money at it. Start caring about it.
Vfx artist here, and I think you are right, practical shot. The reason Hollywood vfx cost so much is the number of people and studios involved. Movies like this and everything everywhere show that if you just let a small group do their thing, Magic happens .
It's likely practical effects that are also enhanced digitally. Either way, I was completely captivated by this entire scene. It looked so damn good in the cinema on a massive screen.
I think people forget his good cgi can get when people aren’t overworked and are passionate about the things they make, there are still examples of great cgi that pop up here and there, and this I believe is one of them. I went and watched it in theaters and while I was enthralled in this sequence, nothing stood out to me as being practical and not cgi, even with as good as it looks
I’m going with practical cause they could have panned out to the whole monster but just keep that small portion of the face in shot without moving it. A miniature maybe but still a real cast being drug through real water????
I also love the fact that they made Godzilla a sea monster again! :)
Quality 👌🏻
You’re too kind my guy!!
Actually the director confirmed that -1.0's budget is lower than 15 million, commenting: "I wish i had that much money making the film"
It’s crazy how good the movie was. Absolutely ridiculous how much better it is than the recent Godzilla movies
Yoooo what’s up buddy!? Yeah I was blown away honestly, the movie was fantastic!! Hope you’re doing well!
TOHO knows what they are doing, when it comes to making a Godzilla movie. Hollywood does not.
@tonylester6820 I agree but I must also play devil's advocate that I also like seeing godzilla as a antihero, a nuetral force of nature that balances the natural order instead of a harbringer of destruction [which I also love] both work but I agree minus one has a way stronger narrative with a excellent human cast of supporting characters but as a godzilla fan I still have a soft spot for monster verse.
I have a book series that I wish would be adapted to film. Godzilla Minus One gives me hope that it could be done right (and affordable)! It was by far the best Godzilla movie I have ever seen.
1:00 Wrong! "Godzilla King of the Monsters" did not premiere in 1954. It's the 1956 safe-for-Americans re-production re-edited version of the original film, with the Japanese lead actor edited out, and USA shot scenes of Raymond Burr edited in, while also removing the original film's socio-political themes of American nuclear arms testing/weaponry and it's consequences, as well as military weapons escalation. This neutered version was the reason the real movie was not available to be seen in the UK until 1998, nor available to be seen in the USA until 2002. The original movie, "Godzilla"/"Gojira" (the name can be rendered either way: 'Go-Dzi-LLa' or 'Go-Ji-Ra', it's the same) "Godzilla" premeired in 1954, less than a decade from the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
[BTW: The term "King of the Monsters" has never been used in any Japanese / Toho Studios film. "Godzilla: King Of the Monsters" has only been used as the title for two American films: the 1956 safe-for-Americans re-edit; and the 2019 Hollywood film (as well as: a 1970's Marvel Comics Group American comic book series; and a 1987 Dark Horse American comic book; and a Trendmasters comic book in 1994). ]
And a couple of Kodansha comic books in 1992.
Time and time again, we've seen that a limited budget is often a good thing. If Spielberg had a bigger budget for Jaws and we saw more of Bruce, would it have been as scary? Would Williams have had to compensate by making that intense soundtrack? With the limited budget, they had to get more creative and it paid off, just like a lot of low budget indie films and Minus One.
To your topic, I think you're right. The close up is practical. It looks like they sprayed the model with water to make it glisten and less rubbery looking. Water probably wouldn't really be continuously streaming down its head at this point, but for that shot, you'd be focused on the mine in its mouth.
The specific shot you were talking about is half shot CGI along with practical. The bomb is practical while the Godzilla is CGI it was stated by the director in an interview 😊😊😊 so you were pretty right
Can you link me the interview, I’d love to listen to the clip, thank you for letting me know!
@@BenFarmerCreativewell no. CZcams comments changed and links in comments are impossible now
The movie is just so damn good that even if we split hairs on what's CGI or practical, the magic is so, so apparent. And apparently the director also said the budget was less than $15 million (but still way more than 1 billion yen apparently). After I left the theater and basked in the glow of this movie, I immediately canceled my Disney+ subscription
@@MrGawbeats This may the most beaufiful YT comment of the year 2024.☢
In the theater; I thought it was practical.
The movie cost LESS THAN 15 million according to the director.
Most likely based on his usual budget, likely it’s closer to 10 million USD…
Corridor crew did a video about this movie where they spoke with the director, he said they had like 500tb of waters sims or something ridiculous like that lol. Unlike shin godzilla they didn't even build an animatronic puppet for this movie so I'm inclined to believe it is a fully cg shot. They already had a reallllly good looking cg godzilla model so may as well just do another water sim instead of making a puppet, especially considering the budget of this movie.
Also, if you look the lower jaw under the teeth there a few moments where the foam has some weird interactions with his skin and gets stuck in his scales and it just looks a bit off. Now I'm not expert on water displacement or giant lizards so could just be me, but that combined with the other stuff I've heard about the development of this movie makes me think this is cg. Either way, interesting video!
Even the first time i thought it was a solid model.
Three questions to ask:
1. How big is it? My guess is about 12 to 15 feet wide.
How was is mounted/shot? Real ocean or lake, Mounted to the bow of a ship, or off the side catamaran stye.
3. look at some of the front shots looking head on. some of those shots look like the same head. And why not shoot it both ways? it's actually smaller in frame. Are they using the practical head /plus digital spiked back and plenty of white foam to cover seams?
I hope there's a full behind the scenes with the BluRay release.
it’s great news if tokusatsu still delivers fantasy
I was wondering that myself when I saw this amazing movie. It does indeed look like a real "practical" mockup that is traveling through the water. The rest is VFX.
I think it's possible the scene is 100% CG, just with some massive particle sims, and very meticulous lighting.
The the way the foamy water jumps forward of his lower jaw doesn't look quite right, the way the water gets shaken off the ball in a more uniform way when it hits his teeth, etc.
The way the water kind of wraps around the ball with a pseudo-random patterning, and keeps respawing itself, like a particle sim would.
And the specular highlights in the water dripping off the scales. That looks like a sim, and almost like there's aliasing.
I could be completely wrong, and it's a composite miniature of most of the head, with CG water effects added.
The "wake" looks very realistic, at least. So maybe a "big" miniature head being dragged through a water tank.
Then the ball, the water on the ball, the glistening water on the scales, and the white water in front of the jaw I think is CG.
Or, I'm completely wrong, and it's almost all practical, apart from some added water effects to make it blend better with the fully CG monster. lol
The more I look at the scales at the back, and the fleshy part at the corner of the mouth, the more it looks CG.
It has that kind of lighting and very slightly "washed out" look, but then the live action stuff has the bleach bypass look, too.
When the ball hits his jaw, and shakes all of the water off, the ball doesn't look wet at all, and hardly reflects any ambient light.
There is also some muscular movement under the skin/scales. The specular hightlights are screaming "CG" to me.
The water at the back of the jaw also turns more blue/green when there is a higher density, but that could just be the colour grading.
I'll go out on a limb, and say 100% CG. Just a very very long render time. lol
Seen it twice. It’s emotionally awesome!
It's well thought; the story, dialogue, it makes sense. Hollywood has been more focused on sending "the message", that they're doing expensive movies but the narrative/creative is being done by amateurs...
But then there's also The Creator and Rebel Moon, whose writing is just bad, beautifully presented but just bad. Did the (real) writers just never made it back from the strike. 😅
Practical or CGI, either way it is a VFX shot! Completely awesome movie. The shot of the fighter landing at the beginning, some of the closeups under the plane, it looked like a practical model with a not so good composite into the landscape. Then again, with the experimental plane taxiing for take off, some of those shots looked practical with not so great compositing. This movie is an homage to the original and I wonder if they did some practical shots, deliberately making them not quite perfect as part of that homage.
@ 1:21 Your math isn't "mathing" 🤣
Close up looks practical to me. Notice the water displacement and waves are a bit more dramatic in the wide shot? To me even the best CGI artists always over embellish small details to some extent. Probably in the pursuit of realism.
I say it's practical judging by how stiff Godzilla is in that shot.
I feel like the explosion shot was CGI and the scene before was pure physical affects.
Just glad you're calling it out... I've seen this movie a handful of times, and I keep looking for a definitive tell... The translucent parts of the mouth/gums look so natural I thought it might be a model too... But I'm just not sure.. regardless of the method, it is very well executed.
Really hope GMO gets that Oscar nomination for best VFX! #FYC
I thought that part was practical when I saw it in theater the first day it came out. Still think that.
It's not practical. It's fully CG. As good as it looks, I can't believe you can't tell.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this! I’m happy to be wrong if that’s the case!
What gives it away and makes it so clearly CG to you? I would love to know because I agree with the video, to me it looks practical.
@@cataclysmicbane9068 I appreciate it, I’m interested to hear as well!
Yeah confirmed it was all cgi! 🔥
@@marcoscarrillo9177 how is it confirmed?
My only question is how did they get the water to look and act like it’s on a large scale especially if it’s 100 percent practical?
Great question! This has been done for years in the world of miniatures in film, it’s all about setting the camera up right and matching the scale of objects, and colors to the previous shots correctly. I’m sure I’ll talk about this in a future Behind The Reel, thanks for watching!!
I think the water could feel heavier, but many practical shots do receive CG touchups, so this could be a practical Godzilla going through real water with some VFX touchups
I don’t know, but that scene shortly after where Godzilla destroys that warship was absolutely INCREDIBLE on the big screen!!!
Retired USN here. Seen a fair few explosions in the water. If you look at the water when the mine is detonated you'll see that it spans a large section of the screen. Serious underwater explosion (or faux very good fake). BUT the mine went off in his mouth. The sum detonation is too large for that mine, and too much of the surface is churned. Still a great shot. OMFG! was my first viewing reaction.
Keep these coming man! Love this one!
Thanks bro! Glad you’re enjoying them!!
I'm thinking it may not be absolutely a practical shot or utterly digital. Very likely the cut of the heavy MG firing off the back of the boat looked quite real. Enough that it probably was an actual boat out on the water going pellmell dragging a edit marker like a semi-sunken raft to get the water displacement "about right". While the earlier shot of the seamine in Godzilla's mouth was not necessarily a miniature. It could have been a third scale being dragged along by... The boat from the later shot.
My very first thought when I saw it is that it's practical. If that was CGI, I will take my hat off to how they pulled that off.
I worked on this movie.
There were no special effects. Godzilla is real.
👀👀👀 thanks for watching!
So where does he go after filming the movie? I would love to write him a fan letter ^^
@@RL-DarkSparkI believe that he is a 7,4” tall lizard who is a star actor in TOHO’s movies starring himself, so I believe you can see him roaming the streets of Tokyo.
I thought the same thing on the close up scenes. It looked different.
I hope there will be a behind the scenes on CZcams
It was actually far less than 15 mill. The director laughed and said he wished he had that much. The 15 mill number was just some online journalists guessing and it stuck for some reason on most sites. I wish we knew the real number
Computer graphics.
I think the water sheen on the scales is a displacement shader augmented by fluid or particle simulated droplets.
The white-water on the explosive mine in G's mouth reads like a flip or particle sim since there's no source visible from the front end of the spherical shape. Water isn't riding up from the tongue onto the mine or anything like that. Near the end, the mine appears dry with no specular or gloss on it. Looking forward to the Minus One team participating in the Visual Effects Society live stream on January 10th, and the presentation at the VFX bakeoff on January 13th.
can't wait to go view it!
I am HUGE Godzilla fan and I thank you for your review. Agreed.
Btw it’s now confirmed that it was less than $15 million, the director has confirmed he wished it was up to $15 million
Thanks for the heads up! I was going off of information I had at the time of filming, even more impressive to do this movie with even less money! Thanks for watching!
Such a great movie. I remember seeing Godzilla Vs King Kong when I was a young lad. This movie reminds me of those Japanese productions back in the 60’s and early 70’s. I’m 59 now!
59 a here as well, and I have been waiting my whole life for The King Of Monsters to return ever since I saw the (Americanized) original with Raymond Burr. Finally, the King has returned to the screen. Oh, no, there goes Tokyo, go, go Godzilla!
The bugged out, psycho eyes made it scarier😂
I thought it was practical effects myself . It just looks so real , as far as an object jetting through the water. But then again, I could be totally wrong what they did here with this movie on a 15 million dollar budget just blows my mind , and I'm just talking about the special effects , let's not even get into the academy award winning performances of all these actors and actresses, completely amazing.
I really enjoy the topic of special effects! I don't know if it is modeling or CG for me.
This film looks greta as hell! Many people can't tell if it's CG or Practical!
I wouldn't be surprised if it's all practical from the looks of it
Are you suggesting they filmed a real atomic dino kaiju?
1,000% lol
Its defo a practical shot.
This "JAWS scene" or what was similar in style. Also held my attention throughout the entire moment. And much like yourself i was thinking the exact same thing. Was this CGI or an actual model going through the water. I'd like to know if we'll ever get to the bottom of that. But i suppose that's movie magic for you. Kinda nice to keep yourself guessing.
I'm beting on practical effects. Take a close look and see it's a model rushing across the standard Toho pool.
Toho decommissioned their filming pool years ago. Sometime after "Final Wars", I think. Long gone!
(Another pool may have been used for "G -1", but Toho's pool is history).
I think they made a full size Godzilla head for that shot and towed it behind a boat.
I think the first shot is practical and the second one too, blended with the boat and man shooting part. For the close up of the head and the texture of the water, you can imagine a giant head of Godzilla that could have been place in front of a boat.
Toho DID build a giant Godzilla head that was driven around Japan on a flatbed to promote the film....I've wondered if it was built and shot for that sequence.
Oh snap I didn’t know that!! That might confirm it for sure! Thanks for watching!
I saw this in Tokyo, I took a picture even. But I don't think it's the same model. It fits in a truck, I don't think the movie model would.
Water is typically used to make CGI look more realistic because it hides flaws same with CGI being done at night. That is why Jurassic Parks biggest T. rex scene was at night in the rain.
There is a realism I haven't seen in a long time, whichever technology is used. I guess sometimes all you need is a prop
"Blade II"(2002) blended CGI, hand-puppetry, animatronics, 'reverse-gags', (and maybe more?) to off-set the 'visual comfort zone' of the 2002 cinema audiences...keeping us off balance. In cinema: We didn't know HOW the visual FX were being done! And that helped us audience-members suspend disbelief, and be a bit more shocked/scared by the 'Reapers' and their bites/tongue-attacks.
(At the time! / 2002). It will be interesting to someday get the definitive scoop, and find out if a similar technique 'blend' or 'cocktail' was used in "G -1".
Honestly it’s like how first 2 Jurassic park movies look better than world movies. The cgi was so good in those movies.
The movie was excellent! Nit-picking should be directed at the films from Disney and Marvel!
I agree 100%, I've talked about this shot many times but nobody seems to believe me when I say it's practical.
I’m glad you agree, when I saw it the first time I did a double take and said to my friend, I think that’s practical! Thanks for watching!!
Wow - I just asked about this yesterday in the comments of another video. Ever since seeing this clip from the film, I've been trying to figure out what, if anything, was practical. Even the wider shots of him chasing the boat look really convincing to me. But has anyone found a definitive answer? For all the press _Godzilla Minus One_ has had because of its great success, surely they've spoken about it?
All the Godzilla effects are fully CGI in this movie.
This movie was absolutely insane 💯
No CGI for Godzilla?! That’s freaking incredible!! I thought for sure 100% at least some of the shots were practical. That is unbelievable! And only a 15M budget! WTF is Hollywood doing!?
I think there is an apparatus or at least an appliance being towed in the water for the effect. Is it just a frame or a whole head? If it is a whole head there must be plumbing for the water and counter ballast. Remember, it has to act like there is a lot bigger thing behind it and a lot more water being dumped up top--just to match the other shot. It fails to sell that but in doing so it does sell that you are seeing something real.
There is some genius holding this together.
Did he just say that godzilla minus one is a bad movie
Looks like they found a real Godzilla & filmed it
I think it means they did a damn good job 😂
Its a model. For one, it a solos shot, so there's nothing around it to determine it size. Second, you can always tell by the fluidity of the objects that surround it. The displacement of the water is a good example due to its natural flow and discontinuity. In addition, there's the stiffness of the model. The realization of its limited 15 million dollar budget.
I saw a Japanese image (from one social medai or another in Japan) of a boat-chasing style water swimming G-Minus One, sorta set up on a cart or trailer or something similar (a vehicle?) which may have only been for city/street promotion...it might not have been used in the production. (But just imagine! IF it was the 'ocean-going' water prop, mounted onto a wheeled cart or vehicled to be showed off around Tokyo). I can't find it again, but it will turn up, no doubt.
Based on the scale of this Godzilla, I don't think it's super unreasonable for them to have built a 1:1 model of just his head. The Godzilla head in Tokyo, while based on the taller Heisei Godzilla, is of roughly the same scale as Minus One, being around 50 meters in height.
That is an interesting theory as well, and wow I would love to see that 1:1 scale go somewhere and be on display! Thanks for watching!
I haven't heard anything about a full-scale prop. If they were going to tow it, they would need huge equipment, and I didn't see any such thing in the filming scenery. If there was, it would have been on display. I consider myself a young genius at work.
As far as i know there is an interview with the director and they did not use any practical effects (apart from set building and some fires etc.) - godzilla is always cgi. the main reason surely beeing money, any practical shots of this scale take a lot of time and people. the reason that shot looks so real might be the same reason - apart from the water interaction its very static and limited. there is no jaw movement etc. - so the style is very reminiscent of a practical godzilla head beeing towed through the water. it looks more real to us that way. it probably wouldnt if it had 10 times the budget with many fancy details added.
I'm inclined to believe that the close up of him in the water is real, it feels more "static" as it's just straight movement, so would be a lot easier to do as a "miniature" (still big but not as big as the real Gojira obviously) than to do in CG
I think the head is real in all shots tbh, the way it's just looking straight ahead without much movement, only up and down
I think the body is added with CG (as well as effects and such)
That’s a good theory! Yes that’s also something I noticed even after making the video, you get a quick glimpse of his eye and it doesn’t move at all.
I do think in the wider shots it is still CG, that menacing blank stare, almost like a shark with their blank stare, I think was intentional, but I’ll look at it more and see. For sure the body and some of the water is CG, but I’m hoping for a reply from the VFX team to get an answer! Thanks for watching!
Graphically it reminds me of the 1970's jaws scene.
Another youtube comment 2 months ago from @CBright7831 said "In 1975, Steven Spielberg cited Godzilla as an inspiration for JAWS and now we have Godzilla in a scene that was clearly inspired by JAWS. It's a full circle moment." Bloody interesting! (And interesting bloodness!)
The greatest Godzilla movie ever
I really don't care. I was fully invested by this point.
This is how the ocean scene is made. I do not know if there are subtitles. Sorry.
czcams.com/users/shortsxRAHhWD789Y
Pretty obviously practical, enhanced by CGI: a model head, with a non-articulating jaw, being pulled through water, with the displaced water flow scaled up and textured according to the hydrodynamics required for verisimilitude.
I mean shin Godzilla looks like practical at some moments and apparently it's 100% cgi so if they took the experience they got with shin Godzilla to make this one then it's probably cgi
Looks practical but the head is not really to size , it would have to be bigger , maybe heavier to make the water look truly pushed by a monster that size . The speed is also key .
I'm Japanese. Unbelievable to say but it is definitely CGI. There has been NO REPORT saying that they used practical shots in the movie EVEN AMONG JAPANESE MEDIA. We had full-scale head prop in advertising they put it on bus and run among some cities in Japan, but that was too big to float on water and move with such fast speed. That is practically impossible with $15M budget.
I think the reason water splash is less in the close shot is because they aim to show the detail of Godzilla's mouth clearly. They seems give more advantage on good appearance than scientific correctness. That is why Japanese anime looks strangely real and unique. They used same method on live action film.
The monsterverse still has incredible vfx work across the board so idk what you’re talking about…Kong skull island is the standout but godzilla vs Kong as well…amazing work…
I don’t disagree that there is some incredible VFX work in those films, that one shot in Godzilla vs Kong that they showed in the trailer of Kong jumping and roaring with his axe was one of the best shots I’ve seen.
I should clarify more that I think it’s the consistency with this film over the monsterverse that blew me away. There are still a few areas in the monsterverse films that didn’t get all the attention they should have. Most of that comes from the wide variety of VFX companies that are used to make these films. It’s consistent in Minus One because it’s one VFX company and one VFX supervisor that made sure everything looked the same.
Some "Hollywood vs Japan" thoughts on $15 million "Godzilla Minus One" vs Legendary's movies.
Planning: Any VFX heavy film is going to go through a ridiculous amount of pre-planning, but Hollywood is far more likely to demand massive changes to a film between test screenings and release. Zach Snyder's "Man of Steel" threw away a completed sequence which cost $25 million. "Black Panther" restaged the entire climax battle a month before release (which is why it didn't look good - a rush job). Stupid "Cats" LITERALLY opened in theaters with temp VFX and infamously released the actual final edit after the film had been out for two weeks.
Japan doesn't do this.
Studio Interference: Japanese studios are far less likely to have studio heads step in and make poor creative decisions during production. The scene in the 2016 "Ghostbusters: Answer the Call" where the girls mock online reviews was a studio mandated re-shoot after its own trailer was panned. I wonder what scenes of plot development, character growth, or actual jokes were cut for that scene. Also in that film Slimer and Mrs. Slimer steal Ecto-One because (again) of studio mandate. Sony was intending on doing a cartoon about the two Slimers in the Ghost Realm, so those movie scenes got added to set up the spin off. I have no idea why that film's climax sets up a dance scene that never pays off... But will assume some of the studio mandated scenes cut into run time.
Japan doesn't do this. The director makes the movie.
Software and gear: G-1 used Blender. Blender is free. Hollywood films either use expensive commercial software which costs thousands of dollars per workstation, per year, or custom software requiring running one's own software development studio.
Paychecks: You brought up "Infinity War." Well, Robert Downey Jr. made $50 million. Several other actors were in the $10-$20 million range. Some in the $5-10 million range, some in the $1 million plus range, with only day players working at scale. That "$316 million movie" was more like an $80 million dollar movie with the rest of the budget being cast.
Millie Bobbie Brown, Ken Watanabe, Vera Farmiga, Kyle Chandler, Zhiang Zhi, Bradley Whitford - none of these actors work for scale. They were probably over $2 million each. Which means just those six actors were almost the cost of all of G-1.
Oh, and Japanese VFX artists don't get paid as much as their American counterparts. A junior VFX artist is Japan might make under $500 in a MONTH.
On a union film union drivers make over $50/hour. This starts from when they pick up the truck, continuing through load in-load out all day, until the truck is parked at night. Film sets can often run 14-16 hour days, which means the driver - who is payed full rate to sit around on set all day - blows through time-and-a-half straight to double-time almost every day. Most drivers make the equivalent of 20-22 hours of "base pay" every work day. That's $1000 or more per day per driver. If you have a 60 day shoot and a mere 10 trucks that's over $600,000 to truck drivers. (friends I've had who have that job call it easy money, because they're really only working 4-6 hours a day, at most. Rest of the time is hanging out, napping, etc...)
So, let's add this all up. G-1 didn't pay its actors millions. It didn't have studio interference leading to costly reshoots, and discards of (expensive) completed sequences. G-1 used free software for VFX work instead of software costing thousands of dollars per workstation for hundreds of workstations and render farm machines, and it paid the talent and crew a hell of a lot less than their American counterparts.
And the bottom line is much more of G-1's budget ended up on-screen than in the pockets of the cast and crew.
Although you can see water shimmering on his body none of it is dripping down and the scale would say it isn't miniature. I'd guess it's CGI. I'd love to know what shots of the monsters in KOTM looks "dated" to you, I'm really curious. I'd even say that some shots from GvK were less believable given the speed that they move.
It’s not cgi, as it is Godzilla and Godzilla is real duh
I think it's real, not because of water on the skin or anything like that but simply because the parts are not moving. If it was VFX, the animator would definitely have put some flex into the jaw, some SSS into the buccal membrane. The water running down the head, in opposition to being the thing that convinces you it's real, is the one element that makes me think I could be wrong and it's actually CG. All the water seems to be moving as if the head has just breached the water only seconds before, rather than as if it's been out of the water for some time and zooming horizontally.
When comparing two similar films, and one has a budget of over a hundred million and the other one only has a 15 million dollar budget, one has to ask the question of HOW exactly did they make -1 for only 15 million dollars.
I've worked on some pretty big VFX movies (Avengers FW and EG being a couple) and I'd really like to know how they did -1 for only $15 million.
You can save a LITTLE money by various means, but not that DRASTIC of an amount.
My questions are things like was the crew paid properly for their time and talent?
Quite honestly, I don't get this whole budget comparison thing......
Was your ticket price any less because of their smaller budget?
No.......?
Thats right. Ticket prices don't vary on the budget of the movie that you are going to see. You pay the same price for a simple Rom-Com as you do for a big VFX heavy tent-pole.
And don't think that a future trend of smaller budgets is going to bring ticket prices down.
Like anything, it's what the market will bear.
Since this channel seems to be for VFX interested film makers, then you SHOULD care and wonder why this movie was made for so little money. Bragging about how little money was spent, translates into lower pay or fewer employees. That means if you get into this, less pay or fewer job opportunities for you on other and future projects.
A $15 million dollar budget is not a good thing economically, and it's certainly nothing to admire.
Godzilla Minus One was a good movie because of it's writing and it's story. Not because of it's budget.
I felt this was a Godzilla built over a boat. It just has the look of a practical effect, especially the face and unblinking eyes.
If that shot is practical, Godzilla's head would have to be life-size. Could a $15 million dollar production afford to build such a thing? Especially if it's only going to be used for ONE shot? If you build it, why not use it more? From the way the water reacts, I don't see how it could be miniature.
My vote is that it's CGI.
Great video BTW.
It looks like a real Godzilla model being towed by a boat. It did not look like a real Godzilla swimming in the water.
Oh yes it did look just like real Godzilla swimming through the water. Find Godzilla and prove me wrong!
@@RoySATX it did not... Not even close.
I fully respect your opinion about avatar in my opinion great movie and especially the water effects
Yea that was the only thing I disagreed with him on
I think it is a practical effect; but, digitally enhanced.
It's obviously real life godzilla
Hard to say. The lack of water in the lose up shot may have been a creative decision so we could see the mine in the mouth. The lack of jaw movement and model like nature of the closeups could also be a product of the budget, with the CGI being used to make the limited action realitic, aka water effects. Regardless, the scene and movie were incredible. I can't wait for the release to blueray.
Its real. they built it for that scene , i think.