Back to the Future | VFXcool (2/2)

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  • Part 1: • Back to the Future | V...
    Ami's finished motion control scene: • Cup to the Future➟ (fe...
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    Unless otherwise indicated, all footage and images used to illustrate this video essay are property of Universal Pictures, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic.
    Intro theme by Hachik0 ( / snijboer )
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  • @marcan42
    @marcan42 Před 6 lety +4477

    Oh, the irony of explaining a split-screen effect with a 3D animated actor. Captain, I salute you.

    • @DarthDesigner
      @DarthDesigner Před 6 lety +423

      What are you talking about? Ami is real v.v

    • @XenMaster
      @XenMaster Před 6 lety +1119

      I can see how you would think it's a 3D animated actor. But that was the whole trick. The SECOND Ami was just the FIRST Ami filmed TWICE.

    • @AmaranthOriginal
      @AmaranthOriginal Před 6 lety +8

      XD

    • @Doan84
      @Doan84 Před 6 lety +79

      +XenMaster
      he clearly didn't watch the video explaining how it works.

    • @on_certainty
      @on_certainty Před 6 lety +20

      i have no idea what you're talking about

  • @LinkTheHero
    @LinkTheHero Před 5 lety +2391

    That last shot was so fake. There's no way it got up to 88 mph that quickly.

    • @memeomeme8351
      @memeomeme8351 Před 5 lety +279

      The new deloreans only need 20 mph to leap through time. VFX isn't the only thing that advances you know

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges Před 5 lety +33

      MrFusion is obvious, but you overlook Nitrous oxide being a thing? Where the Captain goes he does need --roads-- 142km/h

    • @JJohnston4Life
      @JJohnston4Life Před 5 lety +17

      I don't like how slow it was going when it disappeared but there's a fire trailer much faster.

    • @caleborg5688
      @caleborg5688 Před 5 lety +6

      way to ruin my hopes and dreams dude

    • @nenadmylink
      @nenadmylink Před 5 lety +4

      tesla does

  • @MOSMASTERING
    @MOSMASTERING Před 5 lety +422

    1:55
    "every corner drug store.. a little hard to come by"
    A nod to Doc Brown when he mentions getting plutonium in 1955.

    • @brettvv7475
      @brettvv7475 Před 5 lety +17

      I love the "Easter eggs" that CD puts in these videos.

    • @MohnishDhangar
      @MohnishDhangar Před 3 lety +7

      Its 2020 and plutonium is still not available at every corner drug store.

    • @ceselb
      @ceselb Před 3 lety +4

      You need to know the secret handshake. They keep it under the counter.

    • @predawngaming7279
      @predawngaming7279 Před 3 lety +4

      You do know he said web store?

    • @giberic
      @giberic Před 3 měsíci

      did you know in this video when he mentions 'Back to the Future' this is a subtle nod to the film trilogy 'Back to the Future' by Spielberg and Zemeckis

  • @BruceForte
    @BruceForte Před 6 lety +1216

    So, how did Ami high-five Captain D? We all know that Captain D is just a CG character composited into the real world.

    • @sciblastofficial9833
      @sciblastofficial9833 Před 5 lety +143

      Bruce Forte
      He's not CGI. He's a robot made by Industrial Light, and the top half of his head is makeup to make him look like a human

    • @banjobill8420
      @banjobill8420 Před 5 lety +23

      I know this is a year old and a joke at that but the cgi avatar is composited ovee the real person.

    • @drobnoxius9483
      @drobnoxius9483 Před 4 lety +5

      No she's real

    • @KaityKat117
      @KaityKat117 Před 4 lety +34

      @@drobnoxius9483 "She"? We're talking about CD. He's the CG one. It's pretty obvious, dude.

    • @joerym.9750
      @joerym.9750 Před 4 lety +4

      Bruce Forte i got confused about the slate how he handed it over

  • @jackkraken3888
    @jackkraken3888 Před 6 lety +504

    I'm jealous of Ami. Its probably cheap for her to go to any country in the world, she just emails herself.

    • @androognoix1685
      @androognoix1685 Před 5 lety +15

      Jack Kraken no she physically needs to be there for motion capture

    • @blew1t
      @blew1t Před 5 lety +9

      what? no? what makes you say that?

    • @Quandale-Dingle
      @Quandale-Dingle Před 5 lety +5

      @@androognoix1685 r/woosh

    • @azertycraftgaming
      @azertycraftgaming Před 5 lety +20

      @@Quandale-Dingle r/ihavereddit

    • @blew1t
      @blew1t Před 5 lety +7

      @@Quandale-Dingle you're the whoooosh here, bucko. also, you misspelled whoooosh.

  • @GrimGearheart
    @GrimGearheart Před 6 lety +420

    03:02, that moment when you realize just how far Captain D has come. But then you immediately remember it's Captain D and have to wonder how much of that sound stage is actually real.
    Well done, Captain.

    • @titan8990
      @titan8990 Před 6 lety +51

      I just assumed none of it was real.

    • @MoneyManHolmes
      @MoneyManHolmes Před 6 lety +18

      I'm thinking the car at the end was real, but it's Captain D so I still have a good bit of doubt...

    • @scaper8
      @scaper8 Před 6 lety +26

      At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if he revealed that every episode has always been 100% CGI and he's never even been if front of a camera. The detail is just that high in the stuff I _do_ know to be effects.

    • @briandavid8691
      @briandavid8691 Před 6 lety +9

      That guy who is the stand-in for the second Ami in that shot kills me every time I see him.

  • @danxepha4535
    @danxepha4535 Před 6 lety +195

    7:30 The little bump/bounce as the Delorean lands that starts with the model on the right and seamlessly continues with the real Delorean to the left of the lamp post is such a nice touch. It really makes it look so realistic.
    It would have been much easier to have it land flat but they went to that extra effort to really sell the effect.
    Brilliant stuff.

  • @GraveUypo
    @GraveUypo Před 6 lety +74

    2:50 that hand over looked perfect. i actually went "wtf" for a moment.

  • @luckyllama1310
    @luckyllama1310 Před 6 lety +2661

    It bugs me so much that you're so freaking talented and don't have more subscribers.
    Most underappreciated CZcamsr EVER.

    • @vn773
      @vn773 Před 6 lety +24

      Lucky Llama i think the number of subscribers a creator could have has can be misleading and even incongruous with average number of views that could happen in any given week, I've seen youtubers that have 127000 subs but only get about 30000 views on most their vids, in conclusion the quantity of folk subscribed to a channel is not indicative of either quality or even success

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 Před 6 lety +49

      The problem is CZcams is heavily weighted to people that shit out vlog style videos every day.

    • @alanbalsan
      @alanbalsan Před 6 lety +18

      this is youtube's biggest deal, they need stupid Paul-brother's kind of fast/brainless shit to plague with ads.

    • @AwesomeBlackDude
      @AwesomeBlackDude Před 6 lety +3

      Very Understandable. My stuff is plenty simple,.. make your very own visual, music and keep it simple stupid. Here is one of my silly K.I.S.S. CZcams Project czcams.com/video/V_r3tu-K9Zw/video.html

    • @Cyba_IT_NZ
      @Cyba_IT_NZ Před 6 lety +9

      Agreed. All these crappy top ten videos that literally would've taken 5 mins to botch together are getting millions of views. YT really needs to sort out it's algorithms. Or it should have a section or reward for top quality content to get more eyes on it.

  • @TaranVH
    @TaranVH Před 6 lety +709

    I love how Ami was standing on an apple box for that first scene.

  • @afrizaloktaputra1439
    @afrizaloktaputra1439 Před 5 lety +136

    I remember when I was kid, here in Indonesia my father and I watched this movie on TV and was amazed by the visual effect. Unfortunately, we only had the opportunity to watch the first and second sequel of the movie because we miss the third one, there was no TV on demand like Netflix that day. So we keep waiting until the TV channel broadcast them again.
    Now, when we enter internet era, finally I can watch entire sequel of the movie without my father. He never get the chance to see the end of the sequel.
    And he also never get the chance to see how the visual effect was made for this movie.
    YOU MAKE ME CRYING!

  • @tonybeluga2796
    @tonybeluga2796 Před 5 lety +374

    HOW ARE YOU DEMONSTRATING A PRACTICAL SPLITSCREEN EFFECT WITH A CARTOON PERSON? Great work.

  • @CesarDaSalad
    @CesarDaSalad Před 6 lety +135

    I love the Back to the Future trilogy so much. But watching these videos explaining the painstaking tasks the makers undertook to actually accomplish these films has made me love them even more. And it was darn entertaining too. Thank you CD.

    • @DiThi
      @DiThi Před 5 lety +1

      Exactly my thoughts. Despite understanding now it's physically and logically impossible.

  • @OmniscientWarrior
    @OmniscientWarrior Před 6 lety +104

    According to legend: Ami never made it back to England.

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin Před 4 lety +3

      And we can blame Captain Picard: czcams.com/video/j0ROsZtHjjI/video.html

  • @CallMeVidd
    @CallMeVidd Před 2 lety +79

    Thinking about how much more work it was to have Ami Yamato in those scenes where the camera is moving so much
    The amount of commitment and talent at play on this channel are waaay above youtube quality

  • @jqpublic3104
    @jqpublic3104 Před 3 lety +64

    This channel takes my breath away. It is heartwarming, humours, nostalgic, educational, satirical and more. The production values (based on the constraints) for us mere mortals are second to none!

  • @FigoNOVA
    @FigoNOVA Před 6 lety +182

    This is how you justify buying a delorean

    • @lforlight
      @lforlight Před 6 lety +33

      LuxMedia "It's a work expense, I swear!"

    • @mrmaniac3
      @mrmaniac3 Před 6 lety +2

      LuxMedia no need to justify

    • @penwoopydo
      @penwoopydo Před 5 lety +4

      LuxMedia I don't care about buying a DeLorean anymore, I'm all about getting a minature or a smaller toy like CD did

    • @ceselb
      @ceselb Před 3 lety

      Easy, he just put a tesla as a base for the cgi model. Much better acceleration with an electric car. LOL

  • @Arieljaay
    @Arieljaay Před 6 lety +135

    "They're available at every corner-web-store"
    I understood that refrence

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger Před 6 lety +15

      I CLAPPED

    • @GleeChan
      @GleeChan Před 6 lety +14

      I clapped at "I clapped!" I know that!

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger Před 6 lety +5

      Oh dear, I now feel I'm part of the problem :)

    • @ericv00
      @ericv00 Před 6 lety +3

      THESE ARE THINGS I KNOW!

    • @mrchiefbs
      @mrchiefbs Před 6 lety

      Are we all RedLetterMedia fans on CDs channel lmao

  • @legoactionstudios9400
    @legoactionstudios9400 Před 5 lety +20

    I love it when you talk about a certain kind of visual effects for a while, and then blow our minds with an insane version of the said VFX

  • @gchsbus
    @gchsbus Před 5 lety +2

    I am not a CZcams producer but I am a CZcams video viewer and watch so many videos per day I lose count. As a huge Back to the Future fan, this video production (part 1 and 2) I literally got up and gave a standing ovation. I never do that. Everyone gives little credit for all the analog effects in the trilogy. They want to talk about the actors and the car and blah blah blah. The production of these two videos were nicely done and spoke heavily on the most important part of the films besides Bob Gale, Industrial Light and Magic. Absolutely Bravo here. This was very well put together. Every diehard Back to the Future fan that appreciates the production standpoint (the real fans) should appreciate this set of videos to the highest regard. Thank you.

  • @shairosenberg9333
    @shairosenberg9333 Před 6 lety +167

    When the amazing quality doesn't match up with the sub count...

  • @cyphre
    @cyphre Před 6 lety +46

    Such nostalgia. 'Jennifer's House' 7:48 is right up the street from where my parents still live. I grew up there and saw it all happen.

    • @JamiePohlOA
      @JamiePohlOA Před 6 lety +4

      cyphre You witnessed a Delorean landing on your street? Nope; I don't believe you.

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin Před 6 lety +10

      JamiePohlOA He just mumbled something about crazy drunk drivers and went back to sleep.

  • @BolbiiS
    @BolbiiS Před 4 lety +23

    I'm pretty sure the the beginning being a reshoot of the ending of the first episode is a reference to the beginning of BTTF part 2 being a reshoot of the ending of bttf part one. Amazing

    • @kikoitanhas
      @kikoitanhas Před 3 lety

      Very very very good comment indeed. Kudos, sir!

  • @Xenro66
    @Xenro66 Před 5 lety +143

    That outro though! Wow!
    Just imagine if BTTF was remade with today's VFX. It would be absolutely seamless everywhere....But it would destroy the charm of all the work that went into the originals.

    • @NighttimeJuneau
      @NighttimeJuneau Před 5 lety +24

      Could be very similar to Ready Player One, total vfx overkill, a disaster of a movie in many departments.

    • @Ratboy2004
      @Ratboy2004 Před 5 lety +8

      The story wouldn't sell today. It'd be competing with Avengers.

    • @dkahl2803
      @dkahl2803 Před 3 lety +5

      Oh boy would they ruin this if they tried to remake it today. They can’t improve these movies.

    • @kingzach74
      @kingzach74 Před 2 lety +3

      @@NighttimeJuneau Ready Player One was AWesome in my opinion.,

    • @arthaiser
      @arthaiser Před 2 lety +4

      @@kingzach74 your opinion is wrong

  • @chadwildclay
    @chadwildclay Před 6 lety +375

    Wow, you are crazy talented man. And the writing of this is just genius. I loved all the little subtle references like 'available in every corner drugstore'.

  • @phteve1900
    @phteve1900 Před 6 lety +815

    I don't want to sound racist, but Ami looks CGI.

  • @8-bithero62
    @8-bithero62 Před 3 lety +10

    2 years later and I'm still watching

  • @Dazanos
    @Dazanos Před 6 lety +7

    This video alone, proves in my opinion that your content is light years ahead of any youtuber. Most tv shows really. I know this video took a lot of hard work and passion to create. Thank you.

  • @TrueThanny
    @TrueThanny Před 6 lety +36

    3:30 You accurately CGI'd something I find maddening about movies and TV shows, which is that the actors always use empty cups. It's dead obvious the cups are empty, because the physics of an empty cup are completely different from those of a full cup (and even more so from a partially full cup).

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 19 dny

      I find the empty cup preferable to the times there’s actual water in there though. Which does happen now and then, presumably by a director who noticed it wasn’t moving right or wanted to force the actors to swallow before saying their lines. Spotting a glimpse of cold, viscous, clear liquid breaks my immersion more than having to assume the cup is halfway empty.
      Even rarer is actual coffee or tea, hot and steaming, but I’ve seen it maybe half a dozen times. Usually just for the pour/serve shot, rather than for the drinking, but occasionally the actor must’ve gotten it in only a couple takes because it’s still visibly steaming while they sip. (And that makes the tiny sips believable too!)

  • @ShutterAuthority
    @ShutterAuthority Před 6 lety +387

    Damn! Vfx was so much harder back in the day. Great demonstrations Btw!

    • @deltib
      @deltib Před 6 lety +27

      Look how far we've come though, you're watching some pretty impressive effects videos made by an independent film maker on a personal computer distributed through a global digital network.

    • @sqrt-1646
      @sqrt-1646 Před 3 lety

      Woah, you here!

  • @IslandlifeIoW
    @IslandlifeIoW Před 3 lety +4

    I had my first adolescent date at the cinema to watch Back to the Future. I was so consumed by the experience, I barely noticed her.

  • @APRICEPRODUCTION
    @APRICEPRODUCTION Před 4 lety +17

    As somebody who does visual effects and even though I know how all this process was done, it's still great to watch, and love how professionally you explain it. The outside shot with the two Biff's. Must have been the toughest challenge when you consider the light changing of time of day. Matching that, though it's not 100% obviously, still works very well.
    If you watch the scene very closely when both Biff's are in the car, as the camera zooms in, you can see the plates wobble ever so slightly a bit, but you have to look very closely to notice. Also the later shot when Marty says no thanks to Biff, a couple of frames, will see his hat disappear over the cut line. But again unless you're really into visual effects most people don't notice these things.
    But I love the old school visual effects.

  • @AndWeDanceVlog
    @AndWeDanceVlog Před 6 lety +385

    The HypeMachine was well worth it. Thank You CD for being a reminder why CZcams is an amazing place.

    • @madscientistshusta
      @madscientistshusta Před 5 lety

      Its literally makes me visibly angry ever time i check his subs.

  • @sofarky
    @sofarky Před 6 lety +1259

    Boi you need more subs

    • @mocmocmoc13
      @mocmocmoc13 Před 6 lety +4

      oh crap you're right, not even 1 million.

    • @RossLlewallyn
      @RossLlewallyn Před 6 lety +9

      This is his least favorite type of comment, FYI.

    • @derekbond9521
      @derekbond9521 Před 6 lety +1

      He's been gaining a lot, only only had 100k a few months ago

    • @IamCombustible
      @IamCombustible Před 6 lety +4

      Kind of amazing that he doesn't considering how long he's been around.

    • @manysnakes
      @manysnakes Před 6 lety

      Also far and away the most common.

  • @thefreakmachine
    @thefreakmachine Před 3 lety +8

    The animation on Ami is worth a thousand Mass Effect: Andromeda

  • @poppijoni
    @poppijoni Před 5 lety +135

    2:48 The slate is giving me a headache. My first guess was you had someone raise a real slate from below and then masked him/her out. Then Ami was animated to match the slate's position.
    But then I noticed the shadow of the slate on her shirt, which means something additional had to be done... You could've done it manually, it's just some rectangular shape. But you also could've tracked a 3d model of a slate to match the position of the real slate, then turn off all the textures so that only the shadow is cast.
    But then I noticed the shadow of Ami's fingers on the slate... Come on! Well, I don't think you did that manually. You did have a 3d slate in there somehow. And if you had a 3d model in there, you could actually change between the two on the fly. But I can see fingerprints and smudges on the black part of the slate even when Ami's holding it and I don't think you'd go that far with texturing. Especially since you'd have to make those smudges match the real slate you're holding (I think it's a real slate, it looks very much real in your hands and you hold it so comfortably). So the 3d model slate is probably invisible all the way through and we're only seeing the real one.
    So I'm thinking you had a 3d model of a slate tracked to the position of a real slate that we see. You had to mask the slate where Ami's fingers are so that it looks like she's holding it (unless you can do that with some arcane rendering technique in your 3d software - I don't know very much about cgi at all). Then you cast Ami's shadow on the 3d model slate but you didn't render the slate, only Ami's shadow - as a transparent layer of course, otherwise it couldn't be composited on the real slate (unless you played with opacity/layer modes). And vice versa, you also rendered the shadow of the invisible slate on Ami.
    Please tell me I got it right, I spent like half an hour on this.

    • @someonewithsomename
      @someonewithsomename Před 5 lety +13

      The slate is real all the way. I don't see if it was moving on the set for the first part or is it stationary and the movement done in post later. My guess it's the second one.
      So basically, the slate is static all the way in the shot, than the guy picks it. The 3d character is animated with a 3d slate so that the final part is roughly matching the position of a stationary real slate in the end of animation. Than, textures from the real slate are comped into 3d slate to make the transition seamless.
      It least that's how I would have done that in the controlled independent environment. To make it work on the real production set, I would probably go with the first option - the real person on set holding the slate and interacting with the actor.

    • @noneck8166
      @noneck8166 Před 5 lety +7

      What i noticed...and i don't know nuffin except this guy is a tricky fella....light angles on him and the girl are slightly different...his more horizontal , hers slightly higher...and the camera moves after he takes the slate...and the corner of the room is the divider between them....i also noticed maybe...a slight distortion in her right hand...but that could be cgi...i dunno....he's a slippery one....but i do like his stuff!!

    • @spyrolad
      @spyrolad Před 5 lety +14

      @@noneck8166 Captain Disillusion himself is animated

    • @banjobill8420
      @banjobill8420 Před 5 lety +5

      My best guess from the comments and pausing and playing certain parts is that the girl actually came to film on location or they had a stand in and then they composited the avatar over them. Pause at 2:50 and look at her left hand (our right). You can tell that it was a physical slate being held by a stand in (or Ami herself) and then the cgi was layered over it.

    • @dakotadouglas5807
      @dakotadouglas5807 Před 4 lety +1

      poppijoni bro reading your comment was like watching an episode of CD that was brilliant

  • @brianmchaney7473
    @brianmchaney7473 Před 6 lety +49

    That last scene with Captain D getting into the delorean is clearly fake. He wasn't going anywhere near 88mph when he vanished.

    • @RussellTeapot
      @RussellTeapot Před 6 lety +18

      well, hello! technology is advancing, and now you can go even at 50mph to trigger the flux capacitor

    • @inkmeal
      @inkmeal Před 5 lety +6

      @@RussellTeapot Technically, we are farther into the future than we ever saw Doc go... so maybe.

  • @LetMeExplainStudios
    @LetMeExplainStudios Před 6 lety +180

    Two awesome people in one video! And I learned a lot too!

    • @cermet1880
      @cermet1880 Před 6 lety +3

      Let Me Explain Studios Hi!! Rebecca. I've been subbed to you since when you had 10k subs.. Maybe even lesser :) so happy to see how far you've come!

    • @pandamaster8306
      @pandamaster8306 Před 6 lety +1

      Hi Rebecca

    • @willmanhambone6986
      @willmanhambone6986 Před 6 lety +1

      Let Me Explain Studios that's cool that you watch CD

    • @nzfoy3568
      @nzfoy3568 Před 5 lety +2

      Why are there so many animators here?

    • @artandstuffproductions3640
      @artandstuffproductions3640 Před 5 lety +1

      Senyaha Mailliwa yeah it is. I had no idea you watched Cpt. D

  • @LifeLibertyMS
    @LifeLibertyMS Před 5 lety +5

    I have binged watched about 15 to 20 episodes of your channel over the past 2 days. You are so incredibly talented with VFX, storytelling, and overall production value of the channel! I’m disappointed in myself for just now watching your channel! I hope for great things in your career!

  • @parthbhatt4576
    @parthbhatt4576 Před 6 lety +5

    Every time you explain what went into making a shot or an effect, and I start to understand the scale of the project, the sheer amount of work and dedication that went into creating something so incredible, I tear up a little. You're not just incredibly knowledgeable technically, you're an exceptional storyteller. Thank you for your hard work Captain D

  • @TheNoerdy
    @TheNoerdy Před 6 lety +14

    5:15 that high five was super cool

  • @xeractus
    @xeractus Před 6 lety +34

    Am I an unusual youtuber in that I've been watching CD's videos for years and yet never heard of this 'Ami' person?

  • @Selrisitai
    @Selrisitai Před 5 lety +3

    I admit it: I had to hold back sentimental tears when he lovingly and expertly recreated the time machine disappearance, lighting effects and fire-streak at the end.

  • @cruxmind
    @cruxmind Před 6 lety +7

    I'm glad Ami Yamoto is finally getting her name out there on bigger channels. She's amazing.

  • @outsider344
    @outsider344 Před 6 lety +51

    You made this friggen masterpiece and didn't even link your patreon in the description?

  • @DarthDesigner
    @DarthDesigner Před 6 lety +727

    I found you from the Ami video.....I'm glad to have found your channel! It's awesome!

    • @yangtra2534
      @yangtra2534 Před 6 lety +6

      How did you post this comment 22 hours ago? The video is uploaded 10 minutes ago! And if you didn't, then sorry.

    • @thedarkfelix
      @thedarkfelix Před 6 lety +14

      I guess they are Patreons and the Captain provides the secret CZcams link to his Patreons in advance.

    • @huzi37709
      @huzi37709 Před 6 lety +5

      Songify CZcamsrs He went faster than 80mph. Duh.

    • @DanielRenardAnimation
      @DanielRenardAnimation Před 6 lety +11

      Many are glad to have found this channel. It had remained hidden for nearly a decade, even though Captain D was actually... DOING stuff on his channel, unlike _[insert name of most CZcams Celebs here]_ who could spend 5 minutes farting into a jar and they'd be driving off in a brand new sports car by the next day.
      Really bugs me how YT treats users like this. :( I guess they were afraid he'd "ruin the magic" with debunking.

    • @GETUPANDGO
      @GETUPANDGO Před 6 lety +1

      I'm certainly glad to have found it. And it is too bad that YT favors the ridiculous channels...all in the name of business and money making I guess

  • @ANewPseudonym
    @ANewPseudonym Před 6 lety +1

    Whoa those effects are incredibly complicated, this gives me entirely new appreciation for those movies.

  • @blaster-zy7xx
    @blaster-zy7xx Před 4 lety +2

    I always need to watch Capt ' s videos at least twice. The first time just to understand the story of the technical trickery he is letting us in on, and a second or third time to absorb the magic he conjured himself in telling the story.

  • @uLLeticaL
    @uLLeticaL Před 6 lety +48

    Another CD master piece!

    • @GoodieM8
      @GoodieM8 Před 6 lety

      wtf are you the real ulletical?

  • @lucasbeveridge640
    @lucasbeveridge640 Před 6 lety +22

    This only makes me love those movies even more. If I ever meet Bob Zemeckis... I will probably freak out and make him very uncomfortable

  • @beefknuckles
    @beefknuckles Před 5 lety +1

    This 2 part series is criminally underrated and made me appreciate the Back to the Future movies SO MUCH more. Your enthusiasm speaks volumes about how important these films are to your industry and I want to thank you so much for breaking this down in a way that a layperson like myself could understand.

  • @ChrisSchroederPurdueEngineer

    NETFLIX TAKE NOTE!: Pick this guy up for a documentary on VFX. I could listen to your voice all day, very natural and satisfying to hear you explain complex things.

  • @philpheburbs
    @philpheburbs Před 4 lety +11

    Honestly mate, this is so wonderful. I'm a BTTF fan who's watched just about every documentary and BTS thing there is to see over the years. Not only did you find something new to tell me in your videos, and present it in an insanely creative and technically brilliant way, but it's clearly a genuine love letter to the Back To The Future films and shows your passion for VFX. Massive bigups :) 👏

  • @creatorsremose
    @creatorsremose Před 5 lety +12

    Yes, you're a genius, that's obvious and you're a maestro of VFX... but I don't think you're appreciated enough for how brilliant of a director you are.

  • @Scripture-Man
    @Scripture-Man Před 2 lety

    Back To The Future is my favorite film franchise, and, having only just discovered Captain Disillusion, he's instantly one of my top 5 favorite CZcams channels.

  • @RafaelNelvam
    @RafaelNelvam Před 5 lety +1

    I'm honestly crying. The perfect trilogy with such perfect explanation, attention to details such as the modulation of the music in the beginning down two tones, too many things to mention. Congrats and long live Captain Disillusion

  • @billiam6398
    @billiam6398 Před 2 lety +3

    1:03 it took me a second watch to realise that’s captain d in that film and that it isn’t an actual old-timey example of that trick

  • @WarningHazMat
    @WarningHazMat Před 5 lety +8

    That last shot was so cool! Even made me tear up man. Freaking AMAZING!

  • @lobley2
    @lobley2 Před 3 lety

    It blows my mind how much sophistication and work went into making things work that you barely or just don’t think about when watching the film. It never occurred to me to wonder how MJ Fox was in the same scenes playing multiple characters. I just dumbly watched those scenes with suspended disbelief.

  • @LaykaTheWuffinator
    @LaykaTheWuffinator Před rokem

    The ending of this video with Captain getting into the DeLorean brought genuine tears of joy to my eyes!

  • @SolidRollin
    @SolidRollin Před 6 lety +5

    This is the best sequel since Aliens and T2.

  • @wquibell
    @wquibell Před 5 lety +50

    Can you please do a VFXcool for Terminator 2? I find it amazing that the CGI graphics seem light years ahead of other movies in it's time....

    • @juancorona4996
      @juancorona4996 Před 2 lety

      Oh yes!

    • @7ktTube
      @7ktTube Před rokem

      I will probably be the most excited person in the world if a Terminator 2 VFXcool video notification pops up on my screen

  • @FamousSnatcher
    @FamousSnatcher Před 6 lety +1

    Thanks for using Back to the Future as example of the evolution of VFX. These were the most influential movies of my childhood and I will always hold them dear to my heart.

  • @fetamean
    @fetamean Před 5 lety +2

    7:50 YES! I remember thinking this shot looks really good for what it is. Like, you can tell that the car was partially vfx, but as soon as it passes behind the pole, it's back to normal. Such a brilliantly seamless shot.

  • @Spiderelectron
    @Spiderelectron Před 4 lety +4

    4:11 'Video system" is an Edirol R-4 Audio recorder! LOL. Nice one, captain!

    • @CaptainDisillusion
      @CaptainDisillusion  Před 4 lety +3

      SpiderElectron A multi device system could be driven by any device. It’s common on a film set for everything to be synced via timecode that’s coming from the audio recorder.

    • @Spiderelectron
      @Spiderelectron Před 4 lety

      @@CaptainDisillusion Aye aye captain. But the R-4 knows nothing about timecodes ;-) I actually thought it was deliberate - showing an audio device when talking about a video device. I thought it was one of your fabulous visual gags!

  • @AstraVex
    @AstraVex Před 6 lety +42

    Okay, ive watched this 5 times now. This is beyond great :) I love how Ami stands on a box in the beginning, its frigging adorable!

  • @DoubleBob
    @DoubleBob Před 6 lety

    You could have just said : "They hired look alike actors and got pretty lucky" and I had believed you! The effort and talent behind the real process is just magical.

  • @xystem4701
    @xystem4701 Před rokem

    1:50 I love the amount of casual references and quotes you weave into this. Such a love letter to the films

  • @galacticcore0796
    @galacticcore0796 Před 4 lety +6

    8:58 Heartfelt conclusion of the entire journey this little guy is pointing at his di🚂k
    -Captain DisIllusion 2017

  • @sarlacc66
    @sarlacc66 Před 5 lety +11

    1:50 THAT REFERENCE !

    • @lichbanelb
      @lichbanelb Před 5 lety

      You are the only other person who noticed that after scrolling through a hundred comments. Nice!

  • @Saturn49YT
    @Saturn49YT Před 4 lety

    The irony of explaining vfx from 30 years ago with more vfx than were in all three movies combined. Well done. 👍

  • @Jesses001
    @Jesses001 Před 6 lety

    Effects like this are one of those things that if working properly, you never notice. The better it works, the less of it you notice.

  • @ngandy1000
    @ngandy1000 Před 6 lety +11

    Found you through Ami’s channel. Now I’m binge watching ALL your videos! Great stuff and I can’t wait to see more!

  • @SpaceKingDinosaur
    @SpaceKingDinosaur Před 6 lety +5

    Damn, I absolutely LOVE these VFXcool segments! I hope you make countless more episodes. I can tell how much effort each takes, so just know that it is appreciated. Outstanding work.
    Oh, and bless you / curse you for introducing me to Ami Yamato and thus forcing me to subscribe to her. Now I have a whole backlog of her videos to catch up on, and I blame you. : )
    Keep being amazingly awesome!

  • @Igormeister
    @Igormeister Před rokem +1

    That 9:20 mark ending sequence left me speechless 😲
    Brilliant work, my good Sir!
    Kudos

  • @arthaiser
    @arthaiser Před 7 měsíci

    third time i watch this video now. i love back to the future and this is like a quick documentary on how not only is a great story but also has a lot of work behind and was actually a pionner. and narrated by someone that clearly shares my love for the trilogy and knows what he is talking about.

  • @PXLFilms
    @PXLFilms Před 6 lety +3

    Great Scott! I love how you talk about vfx like if it is poetry. It proves to me, and everyone that you love what you do and what you've done. Bravo, Captain D.

  • @N0N0111
    @N0N0111 Před 6 lety +16

    +CaptainDisillusion
    Thanks for telling me the story behind the shimmering face!

  • @SvenLeuschner1
    @SvenLeuschner1 Před 5 lety +2

    God damn ... The trilogy was already my all-time favorite just for it's storytelling alone and now you made me appreciate it even more

  • @waggerdagger2831
    @waggerdagger2831 Před 3 lety +2

    Great mini-docu about the technical aspects of the movie, truly enlightening, well narrated! I just can't believe that I have spent time on the Internet since like before 2000 and on CZcams since it launched, and not until a mere couple of days ago did I hear about Captain Disillusion. Crazy.

  • @ProtoPropski
    @ProtoPropski Před 5 lety +3

    Wow, Ami!! Of all the channels I really never expected you to guest star in CaptainD’s Channel I thought that maybe you would like guest stay with Kazuna Ai, but hell I love this.

  • @Peepholecircus
    @Peepholecircus Před 6 lety +30

    Ami and CaptainDisillusion?! great vid, and one of the best collabs I've seen for a long while. A+

  • @tonyadigitalnorway1155
    @tonyadigitalnorway1155 Před 5 lety +1

    The production values in these videos are way better than a lot of commercial productions that are currently broadcast.
    Not one second of these shorts is filler - just amazing.
    Looking forward to some major company picking your episodes up and seeing what you can do on a larger platform.

  • @SherrifOfNottingham
    @SherrifOfNottingham Před 4 lety

    back to the future is a film that pushes the point of VFX home
    If the film is based around VFX... it's never going to age. In 2020, I've already watched through all three parts twice. It proves that a good story told will suspend the disbelief for the VFX that aren't perfect, and let the VFX that come out flawless fade into the backdrop where they are appreciated as a real shot.

  • @ignaciobengoechea3789
    @ignaciobengoechea3789 Před 6 lety +3

    Yamato and Captain Disillusion in the same video. My favorites and more underrated youtubers together. Good team!!

  • @TheGreen_Banana
    @TheGreen_Banana Před 6 lety +3

    I've tried, but I just can't find the words I need to explain how highly I think of this video and the rest of your channel.

  • @parkerbeck3580
    @parkerbeck3580 Před 6 lety +1

    I love it when geeks can geek out over their favorite thing. It's great that you're not a stuffy technician only concerned with technical methods, but you actually love the epic story too.

  • @hsm4983
    @hsm4983 Před 3 lety

    Given it's been two years, I'm sad this series (of VFX breakdowns of film) never got a second entry.
    That said, Allen, I love your work. I find myself binging the entire CD series every 6months or so.
    Each time I reach the end disappointed there is not more to watch, but grateful for the work that's been done. I wistfully move on, having watched every video, and forget ab CD until 6months later, a video comes up on my feed, and I find myself joyfully falling down the rabbit hole again.
    You do fantastic work. The writing is creative, independent, and interesting. Each time I return to this space, I gain a little more of the detail you pack into your episodes. Most recently, I've been taken by the voice of this program. The way you, as a creator, have things you want to say. I never feel like your episodes are solely about breaking down vfx. They could be about the arrogance that drives people to want to know how something is done, or greed that makes someone want to hide how something is done, or the incredible ingenuity that goes into making effects for both amateurs and professionals alike.
    I appreciate you, Allen. The world you managed to build. The format you have stayed remarkably flexible with. And your commitment to being interesting -and interesting to your own taste- over being formulaic, cynical, or snide.
    Thank you for building such a wonderful product and committing to it over so many years. I'm sure this has come with so many sacrifices. I hope you deem them to have been worth it. I sure am grateful you made the time.
    You've taught me a lot about film, camera work, and how those things might fit into a larger world. And, while I'm at it, when you introduced your mini-educational series on things like interlacing, color, and frame rate, I was beaming ear to ear! You are exactly the person I would want to learn from regarding those topics! And the lessons absolutely held up remaining some of the clearest, concisest, best demonstrated introductory discussions of topics I have ever found.
    Like I said at the top, I enjoy rewatching your work.
    So, when it comes to this vfxcool series that never was, I wish there were more entries. But, I don't wish for anything that's outside of your artistic vision. Because what you've chosen to pursue and create using this character has always been surprising, fulfilling, and fun to watch.
    I hope you keep going buddy. Thanks for what you've built and shared.
    I'm excited to see what you want to see made real next.

    • @hsm4983
      @hsm4983 Před 3 lety

      Addendum: I don't want to sell the educational videos short. The series designed specifically to teach about color, interlacing, etc. I LOVE that series.
      I guess what I'm saying is if you only have so many hours in a day, I hope you keep making what interests you, bc so far, that's been incredibly interesting to me.
      I'm not meaning to indict or diminish any existing mini series or any series that was chosen over another one. I'm sure there were reasons for it.
      And sincerely, the recent educational video segment is awesome. It's been so helpful. I love it and hope there are more topics to come.

  • @MegaScytheman
    @MegaScytheman Před 6 lety +6

    Wow its amazing that Ami decided to reveal her face!

  • @Tminister
    @Tminister Před 6 lety +10

    The only channel i have notifications for.

  • @ErzengelDesLichtes
    @ErzengelDesLichtes Před 3 lety

    Looking back at these old special effects in any movie that did them, part of me is so glad we can do these things sooo much easier today with computers, while another part of me is sad that we no longer have to be so creative in creating these special effects.

  • @DaveHefty
    @DaveHefty Před 2 lety +1

    We take for granted the amount of effort and work you put into these videos. Thank you for teaching me something new while getting to enjoy trip down memory lane.

  • @tygra2886
    @tygra2886 Před 6 lety +14

    1:23 Well...Goodbye Monetization

  • @starletshay
    @starletshay Před 6 lety +3

    Ami sent me. This is soooooo cool~
    Thanks for explaining. I'm still at the basic split screen, but maybe one day I can be fancy too. he he he.

  • @MultiDakman
    @MultiDakman Před 2 lety +2

    Seeing these 2 videos has only deepened my love and appreciation for the Back to the Future movies

  • @NixxNikoli
    @NixxNikoli Před 6 lety

    I love you. This trilogy is my childhood. Owned BTTF2 on VHS and watched it so many times that tracking couldn't fix the picture

  • @dimitreze
    @dimitreze Před 5 lety +4

    7:38
    great scott
    I was waiting for the video to end to talk about this scene
    this is the best scene, the most invisible effect, the most cool one
    as I got older and beginning to know more about movies, I was so pleased with myself when I noticed how this scene was made
    I love Back to the Future too and I actually have a very nice video about it on my channel
    thanks for this bro ☺☺☺

  • @JackTheLion
    @JackTheLion Před 6 lety +3

    My Sunday just got a lot better, thanks Cap'n!

  • @luiggiphilipi
    @luiggiphilipi Před 2 lety

    For a great part of my life Back to the future was my favourite movies, untill i began to study and discover that its impossible. It has been almost 20 years since i last watched it.
    Thanks to cpt disilusion i watched them again, not just its back to being my favourite movies, but it made me feel like a child again, thank you Captain Disilusion for this awesome Channel, for your awesome vídeos, for bringing back my love for this movies and my deep desire to have a Delorean!

  • @malachibaird6877
    @malachibaird6877 Před 8 měsíci

    I love back to the future! I never knew about all the visual effects in the scene with the actors😮I guess I never thought how all the characters where played by the same person. Back to the future is the best. Thanks Captain D