VFX Artists React 93: Star Wars X-Wing, The Polar Express
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00:00 On This Episode...
00:22 Vessi
01:23 Intro
01:52 Star Wars: X-Wing | A Star Wars Fan Film
07:51 The Reset: Verizon Commercial
13:09 The Polar Express
17:58 Outro - Zábava
Thanks for watching my fan film! Glad you guys enjoyed it. I've been a fan of this series so it's quite a pleasure to show up on it.
Is NobleEngine a 1 guy team or multiple guys team?
@@PitchforkStudios lol. "Multiple guys".
It's just me guys. 🫡
You did some fantastic work, I actually found your film through this video! Wish I'd caught it before!
@@nobleengine Is this based on X-Wing Book 3: The Krytos Trap?
I always get to the end of Reacts episodes thinking, "wait it's over..?", and then realise nearly 20 mins has elapsed. An absolute classic YT series, lads
Same here. I could happily watch a feature-film length version.
@@davidstorrs Actually I think the reason they feel so short is because they're in that golden length of about 20 minutes. If it was 2 hours it would feel 2 hours I think.
Yeah the 20 minutes just aren't enough for me😢
Sad thing is, I don't have money to subscribe to their website after I already used my free week.
lol i feel you
entire playlist feels so short for some reaosn
We all have beautiful hearts.
Please don't misunderstand each other.
please Trust each other.
I was on the team that worked on the Verizon ad. It was so cool to hear you guys talk about it. I’m a huge fan!
T5
So does that mean you WERE inspired by Corridor's glitch videos? Just curious. Like they said, they don't own the concept.
i think its so important that you guys point out that the star wars film isn't just 'one guy in his bedroom'
the feeling of 'we'll they're doing that, so what's the point of me starting now?' can be overwhelming and im glad you guys can vouch for the little one man projects while still appreciating the work that studios (or even small teams of friends) can put in to make something truly incredible
Yee, anyone can learn to do it. Their mention of the Rebelway stuff for the Star Destroyer rising up out of the ice thing is just an example of how to learn. It takes dedication and a yearning to learn and apply it to your own artistic vision is how you start.
The classic couch trio episodes deserve their own playlist
@Don't Read My Profile Picture since you said not to I will respect your wishes 🤗
Atleast it ain't the black one ;)
Clint was in the original trio, before Sam iirc
@Baris Isler hm but consider this: nobody liked Clint.
@@StewartFletcher I liked Clint ;(
I like how Niko struggles to see the error while the others laugh at it, just like how the kid in the movie can’t hear the sleigh bells like everyone else until he b e l i e v e s.
Do ya?
Reminded me of Wren refusing to believe transformers had that goofy smoke puff lol
im crying
I'm with him. I was looking at the roof of the train and the background, expecting like a random elf spawning there or something.
I mean I totally couldn't see it until they pointed it out
You guys should look at Melies "A Trip to the Moon" (1902). It was the first movie to tell a story, use storyboards, as well as the first to use various visual and practical effects. This guy single-handedly created a generational leap in filmmaking
It isn't based on the X-wing game, but more based on the X-wing novels by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston. It follows the adventures of Rogue Squadron post-Return of the Jedi, where Wedge is having to rebuild the squadron from scratch in order for the Alliance to have its hero squadron again. It is, honestly, a really great book series, and the adventures that they go on are pretty nuts. They even figure out a way for the Rebel Alliance to bust through Coruscant's defenses (primarily taking down the planetary shield generators). The super star destroyer that rose out of the cityscape was actually a high-security prison ship, which was designed to be able to bug out like that if the planet was ever taken. Unfortunately, the buildings above it were... very much inhabited, and basically, everyone in the area just got completely wrecked. Really goes to show how much the Empire cares about its citizens, right?!?
What's this "care" thing? Can you buy it? If so, it belongs to the Empire. [yoink!]
"I think they probably saw that and were like, 'We gotta do that.'"
Probably not, actually. X-Wing is a series of Star Wars books in addition to the game, and a plot point in one of them is a Super Star Destroyer, Lusankya, buried beneath the surface of Coruscant and used as a prison. In the climax, an X-wing pilot escapes from the prison, so the villain breaks through the city with Lusankya to get away before he can lead New Republic forces back to it.
Correct, but they still could’ve been inspired by the ice breakthrough and been like “We gotta do that!”
That's probably the in-universe reason for using Coruscant, but them choosing to recreate that in a 3d film wouldn't have been possible if they didn't see the sim that showed how it would work. You're misunderstanding what they mean by inspiration.
If they hadn't seen the sim, the whole film might've been about some other place in the SW universe.
The Star Wars fan film made me so insanely happy, just because it was so good. Also, the Super-Class SSD is the Lusankya, from the Michael Stackpole X-wing series.
Yeah, this was Book #3 iirc.
@@Tetsujinhanmaa Yeah, it broke out of Coruscant in book 3: The Krytos Trap
Yep, that's what I thought about.
I see you’re also a person of culture
I was going to nerd out about this, but figured it might not be intended to be the Lusankya since I haven't watched that video yet.
Sam was killing it in this one. the cloud part was some crazy attention to detail.
The X-Wing short is based, in part on the X-Wing novels by Michael Stackpole, in particular, when the New Republic captures Coruscant, and the SSD Luskanya launches and escapes.
2:03 Just as a bit of trivia, flying through the logo is almost certainly a reference to the original X-Wing flight sim from the early 90s, which did roughly the same thing with its logo.
Yeah it's a smart reference to both the video game series and the books this battle comes from.
The sliding elf def feels like an old bug I ran into during my thesis project in 07, and that's related to old school Maya 7 and below. I had something around 100 soldiers instanced i,n using at the time, the wonky instance import tool, and every so often during render, one soldier didn't take the animation that was imported, but all 99 or so others, just fine, despite on the dope sheet, and graph, showing that there was indeed data animation. Probably something related to Maya's way of handling memory and maths.
My moment to shine has finally come, I actually found a glitch in Polar Express before this video came out! Okay so near the end of the movie when the elves are helping the kids out of Santa's sack, the shot pans back and they didn't render the kids in that shot so you just see elves miming the actions of helping someone out of the sack.
Warrior Nun has some awesome VFX! My favorite would be S2E1 the amazing Lilith fight!
I swear that Star Wars scene was based on the X-Wing novels. It looks like the Lusankya escaping Coruscant. I could be wrong though.
You're correct homie
@@nobleengine Nailed it. Love your work. 🤘🏼
I'm so glad you guys covered Polar Express again😊 Ive been studying this movie for ages cos I find it so fascinating. There are actually quite a few glitches in Polar Express. Sometimes the characters "twitch" slightly as a result of noisy data being applied to the rigs/blending between performance capture beats. In the ice scene during the first closeup of the ice breaking, some of the ice particles remain static while the large chunks underneath move- most likely misjudged timing when that particular sim was baked. There's also a scene where the lonely boy finds his present. In the shot where the camera pans over to the label on it, the boy has no performance capture data applied to him, so he just sits still like a statue. Hope that helps🤟
X-Wing is perplexing. It's like the animator heard about this iconic scene from the X-Wing series from their friend but didn't read it themselves. There were only two star destroyers to defend the planet because they had unleashed a virus on the non-humans and planned on abandon it to the New Republic.
The books makes it clear that you CANNOT jump to hyperspace from a gravity well, something that was ignored here and in recent Star Wars movies. Still an impressive work and I'd hope to see more like it.
Hey Corridor Crew! It really is just one guy who made all of the X-Wing film!! And he spent YEARS on it, working just from his own computer at home! (Though his friends did help with the acting. 😁)
That Star Wars scene is from the "X-Wing" books. That's Ysanne Isard taking off in the super star destroyer Lusankya.
For the next Animators React, you could talk about TIE fighter, another huge Star Wars fan project : 7 minutes of intense spaceship battle, animated in the style of 80's animes, done by one guy over 4 years of work in his free time. And there's a lot to talk about regarding the way he sometimes made his life simpler by using 3D to animate ships and helmets, but did it in a clever enough way to make it blend perfectly with the 2d footage.
Crazy to consider all the classic Gundam anime had to hand-draw all the ships and mechs without any aid from computers
@@LordJagd idk anything about gundam, or really even vintage japanese animation techniques and workflows. Well actually on that channel of the guy who made that tie fighter fan short OP is mentioning, he has a video about achieving that style and an actual animator from that period commented on some things about that.
But even without computers they could have still used actual reference footage, whether turntable&posing, stop motion, and/or rotoscoping for complex mechanical objects like a gundam.
I love that short. gonna go watch it now.
I'm always happy to watch VFX artists react, even if you don't have a big guest on. Chillin with neat, educated people as they look at vfx is more than good enough
Jesus you guys have nailed the first 20 seconds. It's so good. Like focus group, excel document, flow chart good.
The X-Wing clip adapts something from the old X-Wing Books from the pre Disney Era. The thing with the Super Star Destroyer is from the Book "Krytos Trap."
Maybe that Star Destroyer debris was kind of like the tablecloth trick, where the ship went so fast it left the debris perfectly still haha.
That's what I thought, but the issue with that is there needs to be a layer of air or something between the layers there.
I was thinking more Roadrunner Wile E Coyote dust cloud haha
But I too think there needed to be a matching vector of dust especially since debris enveloped the star destroyer on all surfaces and angles.
It would, however, transfer a shitton of momentum to the debris, pretty much vaporizing it. It's a cool shot, but it kind of looks silly when you think about it. I'd prefer seeing some of the debris flying off, while some staying still.
that works because the table is completely flat
Love the guests, but also love having all the guys back on the couch!
Every single one of your videos is exciting to watch, informative and inspirational. You're all delightful.
you guys should also take a look at the expanse scene where the guys tries entering the ring at high speed for the first time. It goes along with what you were saying about what would happen to the human body experiencing rapid changes in speed.
I always love to see the Corridor Crew’s reaction to all this content while sharing insight about the scenes! 🔥🙏
Your videos are perfect for taking a quick break from producing music. Awesome stuff in general!
I think Ami Yamato would make a good guest for this show; she seems to know a lot about VFX, you know, with the way she edits herself into movie scenes and stuff. You guys should invite her; she said she'd be down for it!
Agree
Hey, for a star destroyer to go that fast to leave the debris behind.. they had to hit ludicrous speed.
I'm glad you guys got a chance to review the Star Wars fan film. I was blown away the first time I watched it, and wished Disney would do something similar with the Rogue Squadron IP.
Development Hell.
Return to Oz would be so interesting to look at. It has so many things going on. Like emotive heads with no bodies, stop motion, puppets and so many other things
I have been waiting for so long for them to look at Star Wars X-Wing, so glad they did! It’s phenomenal!
And again.. awesome video!!! Have you guys ever reacted to 'Loving Vincent'? An hand painted movie with oil paint in Van Gogh's style, absolutely beautiful movie!
I think they did, but it was like a year or two ago
Cheers! Easy enough to find out
That fan based X-Wing short reminds me of something Disney would use on one of their rides at a Disney Park.
Thank you for putting the ad near the start, always felt weird having it at the end
Thanks Wren for starting to explain the logistics in CG animating. You were talking about servers and farms. It would be could to hear some more of that
Seeing the Lusankya rising out of the city was one of the things I had always needed in life, and holy shit did it not disappoint.
Hey I have some suggestions!
You guys should explore the special effects of movies that combine puppetry with computer-generated effects. Movies like Isle of the dogs by Wes Anderson, or The neverending story, or the labyrinth with David Bowie, maybe even short circuit with the robot puppets!
i second this
I'd love them to look at the 90s Gamera movies. The third one has some cool combinations of CG and suitmation. Especially in the flying scenes.
Great idea
I'm like 90% sure they've covered Laika's work in the past, like Kubo & The Two Strings. Although I couldn't begin to tell you what episode. Has anyone ever made an episode guide?
I’ll throw my vote in with this one!
Just what I needed after my first day at my new job. Just some bois on a couch looking at stuff. Perfection
I love watching Blender just get better and better, and more and more use and love.
The polar express is one of my favorite movies of all time and I personally think the animation holds up really well. I’m glad you’re finally taking a look at it
Definitely one of my fav Christmas movies as well, yeah the animation is wonky at times but doesn't take away from the wholesome and emotion of the movie
They already took several looks at it!
I have a couple of suggestions for things you can look at and they're quite different. Futureworld (1976) has a shot containing some very early CG shown on a computer. The other thing is music videos; there's a lot going on in Falling in Reverse's "Watch the World Burn", and maybe you have some takes on some of the new Rammstein videos, Zeit, Adieu, etc. They've come a long way from Benzin.
Have they done the OG CGI Shot from ‘Westworld’ yet?
Yall have no idea how much i love this trio
I was on the creative team for the Verizon ad, so cool that you guys gave it love!! I had a lot of fun on that project.
There’s an AMAZING teleportation scene at the end of S2 E1 of Warrior Nun that was done on a very small budget! It’d be so cool if you guys could react to it!!
Yeah, that one is pretty awesome! So is the one at the beginning of S2E7.
Ooh I need to watch season 2. I expected that series to just be goofy nonsense. It surpassed my expectations.
Oh yes, please do this scene, it's really awesome !
@@zlobzor Right! If you were surprised by S1, then S2 will blow your mind.
@@zlobzor S2 is amazing!
Love seeing these three on the couch again. ☺️ warms the heart
3:12 Makes perfect sense, same phenomenon as pulling a tablecloth out from underneath a fully set table
These are my favourite episodes! No guesst, just having fun with all sorts of different CGI scenes.
The longer time goes on, the more Sam and Niko look like brothers. I don’t know why that’s to wholesome to me.
I love how you go into detail about how different visual effects are made. Have you heard of Warrior Nun? There is a scene in the beginning of S2E7 that would be awesome for you to analyze. The VFX was done by The Embassy. Thanks!
Yes! Warrior Nun has fantastic VFX on a budget!
Doesn't even look like it's ON a budget!
to be honest! VFX show always my best video clip from Corridor Crew.... You guys teach us a lot... Thank you for begin alive!
Sitting here, eleventh hour rotoscoping before deadline tomorrow, and the walkcycle-less elf just made my day/night
Its always fun to see the OG boys, and share new stuff that comes out looking so photo-real! Of course as well looking at some classics. I don't know if anyone covered or went over of how the VFX in the GOTG: Christmas special with the space-dog cosmo. Seriously, it looks so real I don't know if it is or isn't. it would be awesome to see how simple or complex of how it was done!
I’d love to see vfx and/or stuntmen react to old Akira Kurosawa stuff. Throne of Blood’s ending, the arrow gags and sword fights in so many of his movies, the castle burning (and battles) in Ran. Some of the best pre-cg stuff ever is in old samurai films and it flys under the radar (plus it would be a good excuse to talk about how it influenced Star Wars, lol)
It would be AMAZING if you could comment the Teleportation fight scene from Warrior Nun 2x01 (starts at the 38:00 mark in the episode). Another cool VFX scene from Warrior Nun is in 2x08, starts at around 41:40.
YES the teleportation fight is so good!! Please react to it!
the Starwars short reminds me of the fan made Star Wars Tie Fighter short that was just friggen amazing.
That star wars fan movie is better than some of the actual movies
That battle is also lifted straight out of the old Rogue Squadron book series, with the Super Star Destroyer rising out of the city, so it’s based on what used to be canon.
@@TheUnmade that's crazy thanks for sharing
As someone who works in retail sales at Verizon, seeing this 5G home ad was amazing. Showed all my co-workers it and had a good laugh at the analysis!
Oh arent you special.
Too bad the only thing good about Verizon 5G is the commercial.
TMO is dominating 5G coverage, bandwidth and speeds.
@@corydinsmore1117 yes he is
Last VFX artist React, I suggested that you look at JUNG_E, the very recent Korean movie. I was very impressed by their effects. It wasn't the action pack movie I thought of from the trailer, more of a psychological thriller. Good movie and good effects from studios we never hear about.
Yeah, very much surpassed expectations. Pretty damn solid film in many respects.
I remember in my school they showed us this movie and we were blown away!!.. now being a 3D artist myself and looking at theses glitches feels so unreal ❤️❤️ it all circles down to the destiny🤲
you could look at the portals from 1899. i think it would be quite interresting for you guys to find out how they were done. the show is filmed in the volume and takes an creative turn on how to use it.
2:55 That Executor launch scene reminded me of the Launch scene from Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection, the Yamato launching from the ice was awesome.
I love in the glitch commercial, the guy in the bus holding the changing objects, one frame has him holding an ocarina.
I can believe there almost reaching 100 Episodes VFX Artists React
I use this series mostly for the inspiration and tips it gives
Polar Express is one of my favorite movies and now I can never unsee the floating elf.
@Corridor Crew this whole star wars short is taken from one of the Michael A. Stackpole x-wing books which are now called legend, the ship is called The Lusankya escaping Coruscant with the villain of the series Ysanne Isard's and it served as her private prison. The book is part of the series called the Bacta Wars.
I really liked the inclusion of the X wings fan film, the big budget Marvel, Disney stuff is known by mostly everyone, but I find interesting videos from small relatively unknown creators to be far more interesting, like the Astartes videos that Corridor introduced me to, which I liked despite never being a warhammer 40K fan. I also remember a old Corridor video where they watched a bunch of youtube videos that they liked at the end of the year. I hope you guys turn this into it's own series, where you bring videos that those of us not in the industry might not even know of.
It's nice to see that Wren is still learning stuff.
I would say the ad right after the intro is great! You could run a couple if you felt like it cuz you guys are the GOATS and I love your content enough to sit through quite a bit of fluff before getting into the meat and potatoes. Bet I’m not alone in that either! Keep it up guys… you’re changing the world through VFX!
12:08 love that they give him an ocarina
Athena, though there is no cgi, the super long oners and the crazy coreography and pyrotechnics deserves to be looked at, maybe a stuntman react episode. Super cool movie
This and Severus Snape and the Marauders makes me think that soon 'fan films' will be the primary form of media, and will one day end up being shown in theaters.
I very much doubt that, though it depends what you mean. It's always going to be the case that you can make a better product if you can hire people to work on something full time. So the best fan artists will just get invited to work with a 'professional' team.
I mean in a sense that's what already happens. Studios solicit scripts from the public and if you have a good enough idea they pull you in.
Sure, it will become easier to do a project on your own and the number of ppl needed to make a movie will decrease but as long as their is money in it the best ppl are likely to want to be paid.
Ooh, I had a few different pre-vis versions of Polar Express on my computer when we did the game.. I wish I still had them and could take a look at how this scene evolved.
Watching the guys break this stuff down feels like having friends
So for x wing. Ships in universe have inertial dampeners. Essentially what it does is remove the forces of gravity on pilots and crews of ships.
With all the people ragging on Polar Express, while it was my childhood, I’m curious as to what you guys think about it. It was really huge that it was motion capture, and it was probably a landmark movie for that kinda technology. But I’ll let the experts talk!
I grew up watching it and I know people say the faces are uncanny but I don't get that feeling at all
I seem to remember seeing them talk about it before. It may just have been mentioned in a different reaction so maybe it's not showing up in search. Or maybe I'm wrong.
@@petergerdes1094 yeah they talked a little bit about it a few times
13:01 "The Double Jim" in action!
I loved Trailer Park Boys!
One movie glitch that I noticed, thanks all the time I've spent watching your videos, was in Back to the Future part 2. When young Biff and old Biff are sitting in the car talking about the Almanac, and young Biff tosses it back to old Biff, I noticed that you can see both Biff's reflected in the hood of the car, but not the Almanac as it spins through the air.
Star Wars Hyper Space never really makes sense. Some lore it's like the ships have to reach a speed faster then light, which results in things like the silly sacrifice scene in the newer movies where the General jumps her ship into the others slicing them. But in other lore it's more they go into a special wormhole like place that they are traveling faster then light in and that results in things like this were the ship seems to "Jump" vanish when it jumps and they made it leave behind this debris.
It's a combination of both. The ships accelerate to lightspeed and then enter the wormhole. Look at how it is shown from inside the cockpit. We see the stars elongate for a moment before entering a blue tunnel. The stars elongating is the ship accelerating to lightspeed, the blue tunnel is the actual entering of hyperspace.
Please react to the show Fleishman is in Trouble on Hulu. They use de-aging technology on multiple characters, and it’s interesting how good it looks on Jesse Eisenburg (because of how much footage they have of him) vs other characters.
the elves in polar express are incredible. theres the null animation one we saw here, theres a t pose one and theres even an elf with MISSING LEGS
In Revenge of the Sith, during the scene where General Grevious is unveiling his 4 arms and wielding his lightsabers. There are 2 Battle Droids in the background who interact with eachother, 1 of them nudges the other to have him look at what Grevious is doing. You looked at the scene before in Episode 66 but neat background detail.
If we are talking about fan animation or "Fan Film" then they need to absolutely check out the absolutely gorgeous animations done by Densle.
He is amazing! His animal crossing animations straight up should belong in a movie. Like no joke!
Nee
@@reno_reno_reno Bruh
Have you guys looked at the dance scene from Last Night in Soho? It’s really fun!
This might actually be based more on near the ending of the 3rd or 4th book in the X-Wing series of books. If I remember correctly, there were no capital ships that participated in that battle in the book but the Executor lifting out of the ground on Coruscant was in the book.
Loving chill sessions! 🎉
13:01 holy shit they got me
Hey when you get the chance, maybe for your 100 you can react to Warrior Nun!! Not even a tenth of a Marvel movie budget but still has a quality that sometimes surpasses it.
YES!! I would love to see this too!!
This would cool to see!!
ah I was jonesin' for a new video boys- been binging on all the classics to get me through
I was watching the Burbs with Tom Hanks a couple weeks ago. In the title sequence they show the Universal logo with the Earth spinning and then the camera zooms in slowly all the way to the Cul de sac, it seems seamless. How did they do this back in 89'?
Now you need to do animators react Tie Fighter.
You guys should go over Call of Duty MW2’s cgi scenes. Specifically the one with Graves betraying everyone. The subtle movements of his face and mouth are insane
And at 5:24 Wren is saying replace those blocks. But what it looks like is really happening is some kind of plugin is being used to place greebles along the simple surface geometry to add alot of detail. It makes the system sound a bit over complicated. But the reality is normally modelling a basic aesthetically pleasing surface. Hitting a button until the generation gives the desired look. (Unless you are making your own generation tools of course) Which unfortunately... Hits alot closer to "Hit render and boom"
Nico, it's Wednesday for you guys, Sunday for me. Always top my weekend off with a Digital Corridor reacts vid 👌
In the Polar Express, the scene after the main boy gets the bell, one of the elves is just a pair of legs. He's really easy to spot!