VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 85
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00:00 Intro
00:43 lightskinyogi
02:27 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
11:45 Once Upon a Time
15:04 The Blob
19:34 Epidemic Sound
21:21 Outro - Zábava
The verbal "skips" at the beginning really got me. Well played fellas.
Reference to Epic NPC Man? lol
Timestamp?
@@zelig1799 Yes. They see what viewers actually watch.
@@zelig1799 Yeah, that's part of the video analytics, afaik. There are also browser addons and apps that might skip those parts automatically.
Also, the new feature on mobile can show you were people have selected a portion of a video of the most; so they probably noticed the first minute was skipped?
Love when y’all have guests on the couch, but nothing matches the chemistry of the OG 3. Y’all never miss with these episodes
Especially that they can be sincere when there's no guests, they can criticize the bad stuff , which would be absent with guests
I love sam but for me Clint is one of the OGs
@Christian I was thinking the same thing. - Toronto, Canada.
clint OP
The legends themselves!
I watched "I Married a Witch" (1942) recently, and was very impressed by how well the effects held up. Would love some more old timey movie reactions~
The insane practical creativity of old pre-digital special effects never ceases to blow my mind!
I want to hear them talk about late 1800s and early 1900s movie effects.
I love all the practical FX in The Blob. The scene of the blob moving around in the jar is also practical ofc, with a fake hand holding a jar.
Also, the part where the guy gets forced down the sink drain is a practical effect...they didn't really film a guy being forced into a small hole.
I love seeing the crew really trying to figure out how things were done again, especially how they describe why and why not certain things were done. Feels like its been missing lately.
ya...its like when i was a kid and would try and figure out how each effect shot was done...cgi is too good for me to figure out,but its fun when vfx guys can break down how things are done by the craft itself
theres been a lot of guests recently, and you dont need to do much guessing when you have the guy who's like, "that was shot in my bathroom" on the couch lol
Again, REAL STEEL!!!! Such a good movie with some meaty, weighty robot effects that I would love to see covered!!
REAL STEEL... but, YES!
Yes please
I second this!
Yes please
REAL*
I love learning about digital effects because I find all of that so fascinating, but I also really love it when you guys highlight practical effects because it makes me wonder how somebody could even come up with some of that stuff. Those blob silk blankets and the miniature work? Mad genius levels of ingenuity right there.
I'd love to see some effects breakdowns of shots in some Bruce Willis movies. In Red, there's the wonky scene where he gets out of the car while it's moving and A Good Day to Die Hard when he's holding onto the helicopter at the end for example.
I love how they honestly didn't know how the rings of power effects were done and talked it through, those are always my favorite clips. Just being able to see how their gears turn in a vfx artist mind is so interesting to me.
Completely agree
the show is not that good, but the efects are
They spent everything on the effects they forgot about the writing
I agree, the mindset is so interesting to me!
@@rvantong Standard these days.
I really love the old school VFX react episodes like this. No guests, just the OG guys trying to work out what's going and and giving their arguments.
Like the current episodes?
I also like how they teased at the end about getting another guest 😅.
I actually worked on the once upon a time set at the very end of the show. A concrete company I was working for got hired to re-coat the green paint. The entire HUGE warehouse was a green screen, except for the roof and one wall. Two weeks until the show was getting cancelled and they decided to spend 60k to redo the paint because it was cheaper than paying the CFX guys to fix the problems in post.
This is the best trio on this series in my opinion. Wren with the excited reactions and great information, niko just constantly happy and goofy and super insightful, and Sam always absolutely hilarious and super smart. I love all the guests but it’s so nice when we finally get one with these 3!
I could not agree more with this!
Honestly, the blob gave me nightmares as a kid and im far more scared of the blob as a monster than I am most other movie monster concepts. It was smart, it couldn't be stopped and it was just creepy.
The one that freaked me out as a kid cause I'm a lot younger was death in the Final Destination movies for kinda the same reason that it just couldn't be stopped the other reasons for me though the characters could just die at any time and much like Alien not seeing the danger was the scariest part.
IT was pretty scary too cause the original mini series design unlike the new movie was pretty creepy but looking back on it is funny cause one moment IT is shit your pants terrifying then another scene he's hilariously stupid and silly but as a kid it was just all scary cause I saw it before I even turned 10.
" It was smart, it couldn't be stopped and it was just creepy."
Beware of the blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of the blob
I would really like you to talk about the effect work in Everything Everywhere all at Once, especially how they could achieve so much with so little. Also the fight and stunt work deserves to be on Stunt people react. You could probably get guests for both shows from the movie.
I think they could do an entire episode on just the Daniels' work in general, including their music videos. If they guested on that, I would flip out.
Yes!! I've been waiting for this since I first watched it when it came out.
+1, what an awesome movie, and I love the creativity a lower budget will force producers to have. It's easy to have a show look stunning with a billion dollar budget
So I'm not sure why it was this episode (instead of any of your other amazing ones), but this is the episode that made me join your website. Amazing work as always!
Videos like these really allow you all to showcase your knowledge as VFX artists. Certain videos show why Niko and Sam are the bosses. It's great they can still educate their super knowledgeable staff and stil be educated by them in some areas too!
Deadlines Inside the Ring interview about Episode 8 actually confirms that they used motion control cameras to shrink the actors!! Really interesting to see how much knowledge the Crew has when they analyse scenes like this and guess everything right
If only the writing was as good as the visual effects
@@godzilla234ful or the aesthetics. Looks all like a videogame, not realistic. Lenseflares, goodrays, bloom, eluminated fog.
@@godzilla234ful The writing is great, you are just on a blind hate wagon
@@evolicious The writing is 'ok' the characters actions all line up in a practical sense but the dialogue just does not work for me.
@@evolicious The writing is dreadful please go outside
1988's The Blob is one of the best horror remakes in my opinion, not just for the improvements on effects (which were pretty much inevitable with technological advancements) but how it handles the plot & characters. It was also the first horror film where I saw a child killed onscreen, and horribly at that. As a kid, up until the sewer scene, I was only fairly impressed at what I was watching. When that poor boy appeared half-melted though, THAT was when I thought "Holy f***, this movie goes hard!"
i remembered the original...and thought "this is going to be cheesy fun"....i got a truely horrific body gore movie and loved it! imiss the practical days, cgi is gorgeous but i imagine all the physical work put into a single shot
You just nailed why I find this remake so disturbing. It seemed to me growing up (born 1962) there was some unspoken rule that you didn't let innocent kids get killed in horror films. At least I could not recall any films doing that (though admittedly what films I saw were arguably limited). Then this film hits the screens (I saw it on HBO) and there's the daring escape sequence with the young woman with the kid in tow, a bit like Ripley and Newt in "Aliens" released 2 years earlier. Then... *SHLORP!!!* ...this kid is not only grabbed, but they show him graphically melting within the goo! I felt like some "sacred law" had been violated! I've seen more graphic gore since, but I've never gird my loins to watch this film a second time because of that kid's grisly demise. I felt similarly when in "Alien 3" we learn that Newt was killed. While not shown, merely mentioned, it just made Ripley's efforts in the prior film all for naught.
I'm off to watch it again.
@@Redfern42 Agreed, and you nailed one reason why I don't hold Alien 3 among my favorites in the franchise. There are several reasons, but killing off Newt struck me as a major waste of a character and creative misfire overall. The film's biggest accomplishment in my opinion was its masterful sendoff for Ripley (only for her to be resurrected in the 4th entry). I never hated 3 though, and I understand why it has its fans.
It's probably my favorite horror movie of all time, much less remakes. It's immaculately written, in terms of character, plot, pace, and set ups and pay offs. And on top of that amazing script, you also have masterful, fun effects like these. Even when the effects don't quite work, they're still more fun than embarrassing.
And while the kid getting killed was jarring, it's far from the only death that "gets" you in this way. So many movies do stale characterization to try to get you to "feel something" when the character dies. But you can usually spot the kind of characterization that's trying to get you to "feel something" versus characterization that's genuinely setting up a character for the rest of the film. The Blob fooled me every time into thinking, "THIS person is safe." Nah man.
It also reminds me of Tremors because all of the characters do what I would, as a viewer, consider the "smart thing" to do in that situation. And they still keep getting into deeper trouble. That's when things get really scary for me as a viewer.
I love to see it get some love from the Corridor Crew and in the comments here.
love the way you guys bounce ideas off each other
Love that you reacted to The Blob. A very underrated movie with a lot of cool FX in it. I hope you treat yourself (and us) to the phonebooth scene in the future too :)
Just to add regarding the use of a big dude at 10:33 I do believe this was the case. I'm fairly certain he was played by the tallest man in the UK, Paul Sturgess. He's a massive 7ft 7inches! He tweeted about being in the show and even shows the scene Corridor are looking at!
I'm also siding with the big dude theory just now. If you look at his left leg at 11:19 and then 11:22 they look different to me. Admittedly it is slightly different parts of the leg that are exposed.
Ya also the other actor is a child who is like under 5 ft tall so I don’t think they had to use vfx on this
You just ruined their professional rambling.
@@ThePandaSupreme a child 😂 Wouldn't call a 28-year-old a child
Paul Sturgess was a body double yes.
The Blob is just such an incredible film that doesn't get enough recognition. The effects, the filmmaking, everything about it is really solid.
The Blob isn't though... it's pretty squishy
Eh, I appreciate the Blob but it doesn't reach The Thing levels
With Halloween coming up you guys should do Casper I've always thought the ghost effects were really well done especially for 1995
18:44 I also really like how when the fingers twitch you can see a little blood spurt out of the back of the stump. Super small touches like that, your brain subconsciously picks up on, really selling the realism as they mention from time to time.
Attempt 59 Chronicle Telekinesis Scenes.
Get this man his Telekinesis scene!
There not doing this to spite you at this point
bro really needs them to react to wires and green screens 🤦♂️
@@delitatactics6721 Right? Just kidding. I'm sure they have many, many plans.
@@anarky5682 There's more than just flying scenes. And it's not like they haven't reacted to wires and green screens. Ya jerk (this part is a joke).
"This was made in 1988, before computers were invented" LOL Wren, you innocent child
In a VFX sense, it's true. That's what he meant.
@@esaedvik Tron (1982) would like to have a word 😁
Heck, CD even made an episode on the first CGI character from Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
@@chainsov Ok, you got me there, wow my memory is iffy :D (and yes, I was born before '82, so I have that as an excuse :D)
Also I was being facetious lol
@@SirWrender oh sure 😉
I'm so so glad you finally talked about The Blob, i've been recommending it since forever!! such a great sfx movie
I would say that at times the puppeteering of the balloon in 1956’s The Red Balloon would be worth looking at. It’s a real head scratcher at times to work out how they’re doing it (and how you can’t see the strings).
19:00 This is why some modern CG shots falter. Scenes aren't planned or designed around the effects. Especially as more and more of production on these massive franchises become automated and inexperienced directors and such are tasked to make these giant things, VFX crews are expected to fix it all in post. You couldn't do that in the past so every shot HAD to be planned out (if they were doing it right) months in advance and everything coordinated to make sure the shot went right because sometimes you only had one take to get it because the prop or set or whatever could be destroyed during the shoot. Now VFX houses are handed some footage with little to no reference and then asked to add things in, change them a trillion times, up to days before release. It isn't because CG is worse than practical, it is because CG is used as a crutch for shoddy film making and planning.
This 💯
This right here.
I just saw the last two episodes of House of the Dragons and I was pretty amazed with how they did up the king. It took me a while to notice that it was CGI. It's really amazing and I'd love it if you guys took a look at it.
I know it was cg. Because his face was skinny and Paddy has a double chin and thick face.
But they did a good job
They should do that shot along with the wounded sniper from Boardwalk Empire to show how the technique advanced over 10 years.
The real question is which is better that HOTD effect or Two Face in the Dark Knight?
i'd imagine because they waited until the finale of rings of power, they're gonna wait until House of the Dragon is over to cover it.
The yogi proves that sometimes it's both the actor and CGI and not just CGI
This is a favorite episode...practical combined with digital.....or, just surprise puppets! Good work CD!
I was 10 when The Blob came out (thanks, Wren.) and it -terrified- me. I had nightmares for years about it. Thanks for bringing that up again. (
It was a CIA-funded propaganda film to make kids filthy by scaring them away from anything with a drain. It accomplished it's goal, briefly, but nobody who requested it could remember why.
Also - are people using strike-through as a substitute for underlining for *emphasis*?
Edit: Well, since we can see *bold* doesn't work consistently...
Please breakdown Andor and its visuals. They're so unbelievably stunning. No volume. On location shoots. The hope is strong with Tony Gilroy. Much love from Chihuahua, Mexico 😎🎬
Is the show any good. I kinda forgot it even was a thing, I hardly check my Disney subscription
@@delitatactics6721 bro. I'm very much like the other hundreds of people who never even asked for this show. But as a person who believes that visuals can drive a narrative as much as the intended structure, its definitely worth a shot. You might like it. I did. Very gritty. Very grounded. Excuse the English if it's off lol
Most of that would have been filmed in UK. A lot of the actors doing bit parts are British so easy for location shooting to get everyone on set.
@@christophernicolson5086 I agree. All the green in one frame made for a great backdrop.
@@delitatactics6721 It’s good. Better than all their other SW Disney+ shows (Clone Wars doesn’t count). If you enjoyed Rogue One, then I think you’d feel the same for Andor.
Your reaction to the RoP Fx stuff managed to make me feel less awful about it. Thanks. It's still shame that the script was the way it was though.
Great video as always. I don't know if you are planning a horror themed VFX React but i just watched Thirteen Ghosts and there is a scene where a lawyer gets cut in half with a glass door and he falls apart in a cool way.
In Rings of Power the orc dog/wolf thing is a great example of how difficult animation is. It would interesting to compare it to all the static vista shots they do and talk about how it's almost easier to make an entire city look good because it's static than it is to make an animal look good because it has to move naturally
Movement is always pretty much the only thing giving away most CG these days. On pause, today's CGI usually looks perfect. As soon as it starts moving, it tends to be too smooth, often too fast, and lacks the really subtle nuances of real-life physics. When you look back at Jurassic Park, it's the opposite. On pause, you can see a lot of flaws in the texturing and lighting. Sometimes the compositing isn't perfect, with the feet looking a little floaty on the ground and stuff like that. But in motion... the dinosaurs move so believably like real animals, that it convinces you, despite the flaws in other areas that your brain can more readily ignore or chalk to some kind of picture quality issue or something. But with unrealistic motion, your brain doesn't have any excuses and it just doesn't look like anything that exists in reality. We only see fake movement that doesn't obey all the laws of physics perfectly like that in animation/cartoons, so it instantly rings as being animated.
The way they were able to achieve that on Jurassic Park was a combination of concentrated expertise due to ILM being the only game in town at the time, all the world's best experts in CG were working on that movie... along with the time to be able to spend on the shots, since they had like 2 years to work on only 50 shots... as well as the fact that they used physical armatures of the dinosaurs with sensors on them to animate. This gave an actual physical input for the movement, so it couldn't not obey the laws of physics. It wouldn't stretch the legs or back in a weird way or be too jello-y... it was a rigid armature, which is the perfect way to capture the confines and movements of an actual skeleton-supported body. You don't get that kind of input when you're animating free-hand through a mouse in abstract 3D space with no real physical confines to control what you can and can't physically make the model do. I feel like the practice of using a physical armature to animate CG creatures needs to be used more.
@@AWSVids As far as the physical armature is concerned - I'm pretty sure all of that is entirely false. You can *absolutely* have a rigid armature when animating with keyboard and mouse, and it's how most 3D animation is done. It's extremely easy for a computer to constrain that skeleton so that the joints all stay together, bones don't stretch, etc. The issues appear when you try to link that rigid skeleton to a bunch of floppy skin.
The reason the physical controller worked well for them is that they were able to hire existing skilled stop-motion animators. However, the physical controller doesn't guarantee that the dinosaur follows the laws of physics, either - it's up to the animator to make sure that gravity, momentum, etc apply in a believable way.
I hope they talk about the warg too- personally I think the animation was perfect on it, it's just that the design is so weird it makes you feel like something is wrong. Curious to see their takes
@@ramonandrajo6348 why what?
Whats funny is that Peter Jackson put a perfect version of those on the screen 20 years ago and Amazon is just like, nah...
I don't remember if you've covered it before, but with this being October and Halloween is coming up, a perfect movie for Corridor to look at, review, or even practical vs CG episode would be Beetlejuice. If I'm not mistaken, all the effects in Beetlejuice are practical or composited stop-motion. You could bring in a stop-motion expert to talk about the effects in Beetlejuice and how it compares to older stop-motion movie effects and any newer, modern stop-motion effects. Another idea would be one of those videos where you see if you can recreate, or even make a better version of, all the different practical and stop-motion effects while maintaining that famous Tim Burton aesthetic. The sand worm scenes would be particularly excellent to try and improve with CG because, while still fun looking, and probably very good effects for the time, the sand worm world scenes don't really hold up to modern standards and are clearly green screened. Could your crew do the sandworm scenes better today using modern CGi without changing the design of the sand worms?
Great episode, loved the detailed discussion about the size difference effects in Rings of Power especially. One thing I wouldn‘t agree on though is the advice how to work around mblur issues on greenscreen footage, as ramping up the shutter speed obviously reduces mblur, but it also then makes the footage look stuttery and less „cinematic“ wich you really don‘t want. You‘d rather want to invest some more time into keying and try to use additive keyers to get that extra semi-transparent detail back on the edges :)
Would love to see some on the old Hellraiser by Barker and the new on in comparison.
HUGE THANKS to everyone’s work and effort on this !
I'd still love to see you look at 2010: The Year We Make Contact someday. It has some amazing CGI for 1984 - especially its downright flawless fluid-simulation Jupiter - but hardly anyone talks about it. Not to mention plenty of great practical model work, and even some wire work for the Zero-G scenes. It's a real all-around showcase for VFX in general at that time.
I just mad that the video screens are no longer flat, even on _Discovery One._ The aliens must have replaced all of them between movies.
@@johnsensebe3153 Yeah, but at the same time, it's understandable why they wouldn't want the hassle of doing flat screens when most people won't notice. 2001 had to rear-project all its screen images, which added even more complexity (and cost) to the sets. It's so much easier to just use regular TVs and play video on them.
@@jasonblalock4429 I know, but it bothers me that they look different. It would have been fine on the Russian vehicle.
I'd love to see you guys evaluate the practical and non-practical effects of the first Tremors movie. I'm curious how they managed to simulate these giant monster worms digging the ground out from under entire buildings.
Been binging this whole series, would love to see you guys cover Evolution or any of the Tremors movies :) preciate all the awesome videos
When the stranger falls to his knees @5:02, you can actually see a border of the matt at the lower left portion of his cloth robe. It's a vertical line that gets cut off, so definitely not an in-camera effect as far as I can tell.
I feel bad that I feel absolutely nothing when I look at rings of power footage
But man when I look at the blob that movie blows my face off
In my opinion they overdid the VFX on that show. I wish they focussed on story and character instead.
@@rockomax4284 Yeah, they forgot to use the budget on competent writers and blew it all up in favor of CGI
@@rockomax4284 Good VFX and a well written story don't have to be mutually exclusive.
The VFX in the original Jackson trilogy were always to the service of the fantastic story, and many times were done totally practically. This show has a very boring story so the VFX has no impact besides their technical quality.
It always feels like I'm watching a talented artist post on ArtSation, it's pretty, sure, but there isn't anything there for me to sink my teeth in. At least the point of the ArtStation post is the aesthetic.
My boyfriend has watched your channel for ages and now I’m hooked too. I always say how much I’d love to see an episode of 90s witchy shows/movies with VFX such as Charmed, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Hocus Pocus.
Also 90s music vids like Shania Twain - I’m Gonna Getcha, TLC - No Scrubs, Crazytown - Butterfly.
Thanks ☺️
Could be a good theme for Halloween
i was doing my usual youtube jumping and came across something that im surprised you guys haven't looked at the 1997 tv mini series The Odyssey maybe some day you guys will look into the good and bad they did in it.....always love watching your stuff....
The miniatures in the Blob immediately stood out to me, and a lot of the VFX shots do now too, this show has made me able to tell if things are “fake” very quickly and idk if that’s a good thing
The Blob has some amazing practical effects, one of my favourite 80s horror movies.
After Rings of Power, doing House of the Dragon would be great! Some great dragon scenes, but I also put forward the Ep 8 Viserys scenes - reminiscent of Gus from Breaking Bad
hbo didn't pay them, amazon did
@@Hitacho25 I almost spit my drink out when Sam said it's "really good" and...."oh I'm so excited to watch it"...wonder how much Jeff cut them outta the billion dollar budget lmao
@@funtourhawk What makes it bad?
Answer without going to Reddit to get some extrapolated explanation from a book you haven't read.
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR it's fkin boring.
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR he got you there Frank....
In that Rings of Power scene there is a compositing line to the right of her foot that moves right as she does when the wizard moves backwards towards the log. It looks like it's comped but not around the silhouette. I think they basically drew a jagged line down the middle and filmed it twice with different sized backgrounds.
If you watch closely when her feet start moving to the right of the screen, about 1 foot length ahead of her you see the stick and leaves on the floor morph with the line moving right.
Man, it's disappointing that most of the budget went to the visuals and none of it went to the writing
I just made a comment about how the big guy is definitely comped because you can see a line in the dirt next to his foot where the dirt is moving at different speeds (because of the scaled motion control). If you see the same around the girl, then I would say they're both comped in. There is probably a normal shot with no actors, and shots of the guy and the girl (with appropriately scaled motion control) both comped in. So instead of making one character hugely different from the rest of the rest of the scene, they made both characters slightly different from the rest of the scene. Having a less exaggerated difference probably helped make it more believable.
"This is from 1988. This is before computers were invented"!
I'm pretty confident that was meant in good fun, yet it hurt my soul as I was a junior in high school.
It's good to see the 3 go to's getting stumped on a scene. Always learning, always striving to improve. Love these guys and girls.
I wonder when they’ll start getting steady work for big ass blockbusters
The uniform noise trick is a go-to for graphic designers, too.
it should be a go to for anyone who works with images and wants to make anything have one cohesive feel. especially if it anything bringing together multiple things from multiple sources.
Nice to see onc on the show. Could you guys take a look at the evolution of vfx on onc over its years (not including first episode of season one, as it was a pilot and some very decent looking shots for season one)
10:35 - the way Wren says "huge man" right here is... it's so funny, dude! 😂😂😂😂
Check out the Canadian show Sanctuary. They were ahead of the curve for a lot of VFX's for a tv show. also one of the first shows ever to use RED cameras
Just re-watched The Blob a few months ago. That movie aged so well, so many good practical effects. One of my all time favs.
I always liked the CGI of Once Upon A Time because it doubled as a narrative device to help the audience keep track of scenes in the real world and the fantasy flashbacks. The sound effects were also critical for that structure to work so well. Ironically, I would say that the narrative to CGI quality ratio of Rings of Power is directly inverse to that of Once Upon A Time.
There are a couple of sketchy composite shots in the later parts of the Blob, but the early stuff when it's less than room sized are really well done.
For all the story issues I have with rings of power, they really did make a beautiful and other worldly looking show. It’s as fantasy as it gets. No cgi orcs is something i love. Too bad the story didn’t live up to the visuals.
There are no issues. It’s amazing!
Yep
Yeah exactly. The writing and most performances are so bad that all the other setup is kind of ruined. Because visuals are only there to serve teh story and so without a story you don't really have anything.
But great content to analyze for VFX artists for sure.
Found it really weird how everybody complained about the look and vfx when the trailers were released. From the beginning I was like: this isn't bad. What's up with you guys?
And now they all admit it does look good (which still doesn't make it a good show).
@@MifuneCZcams you can't tell someone they don't have issues with something.
Would love to see you guys cover the VFX from the Hunger Games movies, especially the acid fog in the 2nd film
Ohh I remember the Blob, saw it when i was about 7/8, lost my appetite for 3 days straight. I was even scared of the cover art for a while. The production did a really good job.
Another great episode! I would like to make a point regarding the grain comments. You are right the grain absolutley has to match. And your suggestions are close but not quite right. It's common practice to denoise the plate first, work as normal comping elements, then at the end pull a difference key or use the mattes of your comped elements to only regrain the parts that have changed. Its always good practice to only grain the parts that have changed and putting a overall grain over the top of un-degrained work would not work, especially when it comes to QC.
Good luck with The Rings of Power! I look forward to more VFX breakdowns of it! (The Warg, Mt Doom etc!!)
You guys are awesome 💪💚
Lol youre here
@@bubiwaan5857 I am 😂 love all these react videos 😁
9:22 god Niko should have a class or write a book. This is just so so fascinating to me, even just as an illustrator who's interested in how to make paintings look more realistic
Wren saying "huge man" is the best thing that has happened to me in my life.
was looking for this comment hahaha - replayed it so many times lol
I love all the guests you guys have, but when you three just sit and talk its just different. These are my favorite.
Could someone please SFX the middle guys' voice. It's pretty annoying.
The cool thing about the era of horror pics with practical effects like the blob was that many times the script of the movie was written around concepts of the f/x shots. They had the idea for a shot and how to pull it off and molded the storyline to from the beginning to set up that shot. Not too many other movies started as just a bunch of effects artists with room to innovate.
and they recognize EVERY shot COUNTS. even small ones are planned to the teeth. they don't reduce effort just to put more on another.
I would love for you to check out Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman. It's an absolutely underappreciated gem with phenomenal vampire and werewolf designs and the VFX still hold up to current standards. Plus it's spooktober, so quite fitting.
I literally love that movie and would LOVE to see Corridor Crew dissect it!!
Aren't they already check it out? i remember they keep mocking how bad it is.
Yes please! That’s still one of my favorite movies ever and I would love to see them cover it.
VFX wise it's really good, plot though oof.
That movie was complete garbage except for some of the VFX for that time.
Would love to see you review the practical effects for the 1983 classic Manimal. I think you would all do a phenomenal job.
Would be interesting to see you guys talk about Crank. The wire work for all the electric shock scenes is so funny and great at the same time. The ending freefall shots are just pure jank. And I love their artistic approach to the giant fight scene in Crank 2.
Would love to see you guys react to the practical effects from "Videodrome" by Cronenberg, or anything by Cronenberg for that matter (Naked Lunch is my favourite). It's often a little more disturbing, but might be a good idea for a Halloween episode?
Keep up the great stuff!
THE FLY! 🤮🤮🤮 🦶
or did they already do that, i cant remember :P
You guys literally zoom in on the roto's soft edge going over the BG plate at 8:48 , right next to her right foot in lower screen right. I'm surprised no one mentions it, you three are usually on it with the obvious roto mistakes. So yeah, it's definitely a motion control comp for that particular shot. I really dug The Blob breakdown. I love how you explain how they did it in the 80s!
Yes! I searched for that comment before commenting on it myself :D
He is clearly comped in. You can see the slightly blurred seam around the robe on both sides.
+1
It’s important to note that it’s a little hard to see details when we’re on the couch. We’re also not seeing the zooms and freeze frames the way they people are in the final video. Also, there’s a good chance we did see and mention something but it just didn’t make the final CZcams cut. The website cut goes into this scene a LOT more
@@SirWrender Yeah I figured! I wasn't dissing by the way Wren, I love the show. Not sure what's your setup as we only see you guys on the couch, but definitely a big ass screen would be beneficial for review. I know it changed my own workflow when I got a 4k projector to review shots on a 100inch screen. Also, now I want to see the rest. Guess I'm buying a Corridor Sub now. 😂
@@SirWrender sorry to bother you but I just wanted to ask if someone is trying to scam commenters in your name, or is it really you guys from a new account?
So in the Blob vein I can think of some other similar horror classics I’d love to hear about. Like “Society” with effects by Japanese artist screaming Mad George. Also the fly with Jeff Golblum (maybe you covered already? If not, come on!). The Re-Animator also classic but mostly just goofy make up effects, maybe fun for Halloween tho? Great show, as always!
Given its the spooky month, I would love to see your guy's breakdown of Poltergeist, I just watched it for the first time last night and there's so many great scenes to look at
When the corridor crew are scratching their heads to how Rings of power was shot you know its got to be worth watching.
it really isn't. unless you want to know how much of a shit show can be made out of Tolkien's work.
@@hexcodeff6624 It's a good show on a technical level, the casting is great, the acting is good for the most part aside from some awkward dialogue. It is good.
I gave it a watch and it's cultural vandalism of Tolkien's work and world.
I enjoy the breakdowns and behind the scenes stuff from the Rings of Power - more than I do the actual show. I'm still watching it just for the effects at this point, I love this sort of thing
I've been re-watching TRUE BLOOD and I've been mostly impressed with the effects for a TV show from way back in 2008. Would love to see you break down some scenes. Cheers
Would love to see you guys look at a show that went for years and how the effects changed. Like supernatural or stargate, how 10 years of a show changed how vfxs were done
The slime thing at the end was definitely the most cool and ingenious non CGI effect I have ever seen. And I have been watching these since the beginning!
Two movies I'd like you guys to react/talk about: Welcome to Marwen and Hereditary.
And again, thank you for giving us this amazing series!!
Can’t wait to see a full episode on Rings of Power!
Suspiria (2018) would be a great one for you to review, especially around Halloween. Love you guys!
Yes, Rings of Power put their money into VFX and forgot about everything else that goes into creating a great story... Especially for the one they bought rights to.
Yep except Amazon didn't buy the rights of the Silmarillion book which would've helped with story
@@David-nq8cv tolkien estate was adamant that they do not sell the rights to any first age material. Which is odd since the show featured the war of the wrath and mentioned some names of people only said in the first age.
@@David-nq8cv yeah, and I find it hard to believe that having the rights to more of Tolkien's work would lead to a better product rather than simply having more of Tolkien's work turned to trash.
@@David-nq8cv except having more content to pull from wouldn't change the absolute dogshit writing lmao
They don't have the rights anymore anyway. Swedish company Embracer Group now owns the LOTR IP. Tolkien Estate doesn't have rights, Amazon doesn't have rights. Embracer Group could shut this down.
Corridor should do a "Corridor Fool Us", like Penn and Teller Fool Us, where aspiring VFX creators send in a clip and try and stump Corridor how they made it!!
Here's one for you guys: "Death Becomes Her". Just rewatched it for the first time since the '90s and... the effects really stand up! It's crazy!
That puppet shot blew my mind!
I love the call back Sam made to the trouble they had, not hiring someone to do playback.
More Rings of Power!! Love that show
Especially with Spooky Season upon us, I'd love to see you guys look at The Void. It has a TON of amazing creature effects that would be fun to break down
Awesome stuff. Watching rings of power and LOTR for that matter, there are a lot of scenes with rain (Helm's Deep for example). Sometimes rain in films is so obviously a just a hose and you can see there is no rain in the background/foreground. Can you make a video discussing how to make rain look real? Thanks again!
Do the black hole 1979.
-explosions
-outstanding Matt paintings
-wire stunts for 0g
-practical effects
-early CGI
-all that good stuff
"Matt paintings"
Was the artist named Matt or do you mean "matte"?
In the Hobbit, there is some extras showing how the dwarves and the bear-man interacted. They created 2 differnt green screen sets, had two robo cameras that operated at the correct percentage one from the other and they were connected to each other, they then rotoscoped and needed and comped the two shots together adding in the necessary CG plates for the background and foreground.
Please take a look at the Revenant. Opening battle in particular. Thanks for all the good work.
Here's a suggestion; I think you need to take a look at some of the "clone" scenes in Moon, from 2009, particularly the ping pong scene - I'd love to hear your guys' opinion on how some of those shots were done
While The Thing, The Fly, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) are the better remake films of the 70s/80s, The Blob is way up there with them and surpasses in parts in a lot of ways. It worked as it was a force of nature, people that died weren't being stupid, and there were terrifying moments like the waitress stuck in the phone being told the sheriff is already there when we see him. Plus, as pointed out, there were SO MANY creative special effects through out the movie (remember reading about them in Fangoria magazine at the time).
Those other movies may be better, but I certainly rewatch The Blob more than I watch them. It rewards repeat viewings by being incredibly cleverly written and thoughtful about all its details. There isn't much of a theme or larger importance to the movie that The Thing, The Fly, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers pulled off, but it's as good as "genre" movies can get.
Still waiting on them to cover Shin Godzilla (or any Toho Godzilla film, for that matter). An amazing mix of puppetry and CGI!
My god the CZcams bot problem has gotten so much worse recently.
me too
Really looking forward to you guys talking about andor
Yo dudes, I had a thought, what about an episode where you look at the visual effects in music videos? I get the music would have to be muted on YT but they had some ambitious effects back in the day!
My suggestions would be Linkin Park's In The End, Evanescence's Bring Me To Life and Eiffel 65's Blue, though I'm sure there are some other cool and wacky ones out there too!