VFX Artists React to BARBENHEIMER CGi
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00:00 Welcome to VFX Artists React
00:24 Openheimer (Macro Photography)
01:56 Cook Unity
03:18 Openheimer (The Nuke)
05:27 Openheimer (Practical Explosions)
09:09 Barbie (Barbie Land)
12:33 Barbie (Car Chase)
14:08 Barbie (Space Odyssey) - Zábava
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*Stop saying "practical."* Every time someone says _practical effects,_ JJ Abrams gets director points towards a future horrid remake of a beloved classic.
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This segue was by far the best thing I've ever seen in a long while, best promo video, funny, engaging, I can't even buy the thing but was so nice! Back to the episode now...
@@c64cosmin Yeah I liked it too- the only other Sponsored Segment I watch is in Ze Frank's videos
8:21 lol
Wren brings that one year old lab/retriever vibe and Sam brings that 15 year old house cat vibe 😂
Niko is the pet owner that just says “you know how animals are.”
Sam is Garfield and Wren is Odie.
They’re all the animals from Homeward Bound.
Hahaha
Wren is nine feet tall
The shot where the girl touches the tall Barbie, was her touching a large scale model of the legs and lower torso (about 18 ft tall) and we did a split comp shot for the Margot piece!
What did you do in the movie?
Thanks. And the CGI Barbie is the POV shot up against the sun, right?
I thought it was a great movie personally. Seen it three times.
@@LuisSierra42 I was one of the onset VFX Data Wranglers!
@@sfurules I’m glad you enjoyed it! It was a tonne of fun to work on!!
If Corridor can keep up with the level of artistic directing just as with their sponsor segment on this episode, I'd never skip a sponsor segment ever again.
It was awesome, first one that caught my eye and leave it all. Cool ad!
Exactly. especially if it was tied in to a movie they'd be discussing.
The nod to Twin Peaks episode 8 was great. I remember going out of the theater after Oppenheimer thinking about that exact episode, and how it had felt so much more impactful than the one from the movie.
Agreed. It’s pretty horrifying. In a good way.
I love how the editor is giving us some insight into Sam's descent into madness. 👨🍳😘
Yes!
Sam's descent into saltiness.
The "too salty" schtick was inspired!
I'm calling it now. At some point we will see a video that starts with Sam raising a finger, inhaling, then cuts strait to the "too salty" card, and cuts back and forth between Sam and the card as he gets just a few syllables in each time.
i was gonna say the same thing... this is not funny dude
Would be super cringe if they keep a rant behind a paywall lol
April's fool joke maybe?
It's so refreshing to actually hear Niko express the fact that they have to be careful with what they say rather than them just pretending lol good stuff 💯
Can't wait for them to start just uploading 2 minute previews for the episode (which is of course exclusive to the website)
Can I just say that was the best sponsored segment in a YT video I have ever seen. Granted, I usually skip through these, but this one was so well done with such high production values that I couldn't look away.
The problem of shooting a practical explosion for the atomic bomb test in 'Oppenheimer' is that they had to shoot it in IMAX, which limits filmspeed and exposure levels, they should have used a cloud tank, like the shots in 'The Beginning or The End' (1947), which hold up pretty well and could have been further improved with modern lighting and technology.
Also, a little correction about the 'Dawn of Man' shots from '2001: A Space Odyssey"; it used Front-Projection (which you have covered in your video about the 'IntroVision' process) which allows for a brighter in-camera image and larger projection field.
Corridor crew never fails to rip my limb apart one by one as I scream in excrutiating pain and agony meanwhile my consciousness slowly fades away
Are you okay man?
Relatable
Very creative
Feel ya man
felt
the collision of shock waves from the TnT explosion looked incredible 🤯
It reminds me of the Mythbusters blowing up the cement truck. Just sheer raw power you can feel through the tv
"You see, I'm a guy of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite, and gunpowder, and gasoline! And you know the thing they have in common? They're cheap."
It looks incredible however it doesn't look like a nuke, there is no mush room cloud. I was a bit underwhelmed how Christopher Nolan done it, not going to lie but I get his motive, he done it small but with the mushroom cloud too and that was effective with close up shots he done, if he made a huge explosion with a massive shockwave and mushroom cloud too it would of being possible but the dangers are there when filming it and im sure he wanted to avoid that especially when you could only do that once.
Thank you!
Everyone after the movie was like "yeah explosion was great"
I was like "Wtf Nolan, that was the best you can do?"
I remember feeling so underwhelmed in the theater and also immediately thinking of the twin peaks nuke and feeling a bit angry at nolan "no cgi" posturing.
The explosion actually looks pretty accurate though. Nolan said he wanted to recreate the actual explosion of Trinity that we have footage of, and the movie did a pretty good job at it. People were probably just expecting something bigger like the Bikini Atoll footage we have which isn't really comparable to Trinity.
Same bruh, but I didn't say anything because I didn't want to anger anybody
@@SquadPoopreally doesn't resemble the original footage, you can definitely tell the scale is completely off
@@SquadPoop Definitely not anywhere close to the orignal footage of the trinity test. Christopher Nolan had really missed the mark by avoiding CGI for this one part of the movie that really should have had it
Guys, the sponsored segment of Cook Unity was excellenty executed. When you blend it in with the current video theme, it makes it much more worth watching.
Godzilla -1.0 has one of the best nuclear explosions in any movie I've seen (I don't know how accurate it is). It looks so destructive and terrifying.
I'd recommend going to atomcenteral on youtube and looking at all the real footage of fission weapon detonation.
fr! I saw that one in theaters and im glad i saw it in imax instead of oppenheimer in imax. It was so much better!
Fr, honestly can’t wait to see it in black and white too considering they completely re-rendered the scenes instead of just slinging a mono-filter on it
@@dionsmith2405i wonder what kind of difference that makes... Probably they had to adjust the different renderingpasses for visibility of some colours or so
There were a lot of cool scenes in the movie but the dust after his firebreath was so underwhelming / nonexistant that it completely took me out of the movie.
"Salty Sam" is too funny! 😄
And they use the soundtrack from the acid trip sequence in 2001:A Space odyssey which makes it even better
not!
He getting grumpy in his old age
That final shot was inspired.
So grateful for Sam being the one guy on youtube to call out the effects on this movie.
It's the equivelant of a 5'6" 105lbs man calling Shaquille O'neal bad.
@@bobross9370 You don't have to be tall to recognize that Shaq was a terrible free throw shooter
@@pearce05 Relatively speaking, he is far better than most, I get what you're saying, but the NBA aren't going to hire the 5'6" 105lbs man in place of Shaq
@@bobross9370your comparisons are off ad they sound lame.
i don't know who was doing the editing of this episode, but they were ON POINT. the little insert made me laugh so much! Great content, great editing!
The twin peaks explosion scene deserved a little more screen time and a chat because it's SO much more threatening/unnerving
This 👍. Such a wild scene
It got its own episode a while back.
They actually talked about how great it is in another video. I think that's why they only showed it briefly here.
It’s soooooooo much better than the Oppenheimer one. That explosion was unforgivably trash for a movie that was basically entirely about the explosion. Nolan really shit down his own legs with that ‘no cgi’ nonsense
You ever watch HBO's Carnivále? There's a vision of the Trinity explosion and plays a key moment in the series.
100% agree on the bomb scene. The moment I saw it in theatre, it broke all the immersion, and I was like, "Yeah, that's just a gasoline explosion "
And it frustrates me because of how they replicated the slow motion shot in the beginning
I was WAY too swept up in the drama and context, I think 90% of audiences were. It’s an artistic representation of a nuke, and that was more than enough for me. Maybe I’ll be less impressed on a second viewing, after seeing this
before i saw the movie, i thought they would use a BLEVE explosion, because those can look similar. But no, they decided to blow up gasoline.....
100%. shit was totally wack and a waste of my ticket cost
@@dontyouworryaboutit_Its your mistake if you went to a 3 hour movie just to see an explosion 10 seconds long ☠️
1:56 This is a Filmento level sponsorship segment. A brilliant and smart script! Masterclass.
I will admit, as good as Oppenheimer is, I was a little underwhelmed by the nuke scene, and they did a good job helping me understand why it doesn't feel as epic and awe-inspiring as it was built up to be
Same. I waited a year for that and was quite let down. It just looked like a big gas explosion. It would have been fun as hell to be on the team that was trying to simulate the nuke.
That was my only disappointment with the film. I even like the effects Wren said looked flat because of the stylistic choices. But man did that comp scene look bad, it looked like it wasn't meant to be a comp scene even but got changed last minute. Then that "shockwave" looked like a standard fan made it.
Yeah, it was really the only part of the movie I cared about and it had great tension and build up and then I was like "that's it?" It's literally the only thing I can here for.
@@dash4800 tbf if you went to see a 3 hour movie about a person and the only thing you cared about was the explosion that we've had real footage of since the 40's, kind of on you.
@@billbill6094 I wanted to see a movie about the creation of the bomb and a huge part of that is actually seeing it go off. Nobody wanted to see a movie about a guy monotonely sitting in hearings and conference rooms.
The nuke in Twin Peaks: The Return is especially impactful because so many effects in that series are simple and/or janky (intentionally so). Then we’re shown this massive, slow, beautifully crafted nuclear explosion that feels frightening.
You ever watch HBO's Carnivále? There's a vision of the Trinity explosion and plays a key moment in the series.
and that music bro
That scene is impactful in large part due to the score. The visuals are slow and deliberate while the music is frantic and terrifying, the high pitched strings emulating the screams of thousands rapidly silenced. Sound design can transform scenes in insane ways.
You guys should do a “fixing Oppenheimer’s explosion scene video!!!” I would truly enjoy that.
"You guys should do a video fixing the scream by Edvard Munch where you make it look more realistic"
Yeah and do it with CGI, just because ;)
@@gurratell7326 Well not just because, I think even though mushroom clouds do happen in smaller non-nuclear explosions you can't really replicate the same visual a viewer would have (from real far) without using an enormous amount of explosives that would probably be illegal even for movie companies, so CGI is the only way. I remember some of Mythbusters's top explosions and even those didn't look nuclear.
Actually RED SIDE's "EXPLOSIONS Size Comparison" video has good ones done in UE5.
@@conorknoxy if Oppenheimer's style is realism, it has much to improve on
@@mf-- yes that is indeed the joke. "fixing" implies Oppenheimer was going for literal realism with the explosion. Which it clearly isn't, it's an artistic representation of the experience of those watching the triniry test. My comment is to compare that to wanting a realistic version of a Proto-Expressionist painting. Thank you for visiting the joke explainers
3:57 exactly. I felt the exact same way. But everyone I told this to was like, dude it's Nolan. What are you saying!!!
Yes, the same Nolan who can get a thousand extras on the streets of Gotham and make it feel like a very badly choreographed and absolutely obviously fake fight.
P.S. I love Nolan's movies. But those poorly done moments especially stand out when pretty much everything else is done so masterfully. Same with the explosion. The movie was still one of the best cinematic experiences for me, but those visuals just pulled me out of the movie.
Oh wow! I’ve actually been trying to re-find that clip at 6:31 for years now, but could never put in the right search terms XD it’s not just a TNT detonation, it was a bunch of UXO (unexploded ordnance) being disposed of sometime in the early 2000’s from memory. Thats why you can hear the distinctive sound of something ricocheting off the ground or something shortly afterwards. At least if I’m remembering correctly :p
At 8:38 you can clearly see a giant blue light is turned on from the left of the shot. Also the car should NOT be illuminated as it's facing the opposite to the explosion. The car's side facing us should be darker
Yes, in many shots preceding the explosion we can see several giant flood lights set up everywhere in the area, some of which were blue. They were testing it in the middle of a desert at midnight you need the lights.
@@MayankKumar-ch8pq I dunno, you may be right... but these things can be done in other ways I'm sure. I for one am an absolute EXPERT at eating my dessert without the aide of flood lights, even at midnight!
the thing is that yeah you notice that after rewatching those 3 seconds in slowmo 14 times but in the actual movie it does not matter AT ALL
Salty Sam is a keeper. More please.
I feel it’s less that Sam is salty… it’s more like too many people are wearing rose tinted glasses. He’s just being honest and stating facts.
Agreed@@piratebtf9506 , and look forward to more.
The Stand - Explosion in the last scene !!! It has quite frankly AAA VFX for a tv show, the explosion is really sweet and there's some funny deaths right before :)
Really enjoyed the analysis of the visual effects in these two vastly different films! Your insights into the authenticity of creating the miniatures for Barbie even though they end up being recreated digitally is spot-on. Respectful and well-thought discussion as usual!
I learned so much about what explosions actually look like from Mythbusters. Glad to see them on your show.
Wren the opening of 2001 was filmed with FRONT projection, not rear projection. That's why Kubrick was able to get such a realistic look for the African desert.
It's why you can see reflections in the leopard's eyes.
And specifically why the black levels match between foreground and background.
I worked for the vendor that did the car chase in Barbie. Only the blue car is CG (and parts of the divider it jumps over), but it is full CG in all but 2 or three shots. It had to be replaced because they shot the scenes with a '23 gasoline model and GM wanted a '24 EV in the movie.
Thank you so much for covering Barbie! It was no doubt loaded with visual effects. I mean, Barbieland had to be represented somehow. :3
Genuinely impressed how well they managed to capture that feel. I never owned barbies, since i grew up in that exact "eugh barbies are for gorls >:P" era (im not like that anymore) but i remember watching how much my sisters loved playing with them.
14:55 we had that issue on a shoot. Our screens weren't that great so we ended up shooting at double the framerate and the screen would alternate frames between the CGI background and a greenscreen. In post we used the frames from the greenscreen to create a matte for the frames with the CGI background. Effectively removing the background but keeping the actors with the proper lighting and then we comped in the CGI background
haha genious
12:43 you can also tell this car is cg because those tires are leaving an absolutely pristine road behind. No rubber from the slide being left on the road
Especially when they show the next scene and the skid marks on the pavement from previous takes.
And the SUV is way too shiny heh
Also the fact that the AWD function of the actual car wouldn't give that kind of slip angle
@@yano5865 Also, it went sideways way too quickly for such a big and heavy car. Not even pro drift cars transition so quickly.
I am grateful for an unbiased opinions of an actual professionals, who are not afraid to point out shortcomings in Nolan movies. Truly refreshing, I thought I was going insane. 😊
I haven't seen the movie, but yeah, watching the footage from it here, that's bad... like really bad. What exactly were they thinking with this? As they said, the blast looks nothing like an actual explosion, the lighting on the actors lying on the ground is so off, it's just, ugh. That right there removes any of the implications and weight of what that moment really represents in reality and that actually kind of pisses me off.
@@13374me its supposed to be the explosion from oppies perspective. Remember almost the whole coloured movie is HIS past. Its supposed to be representative of the destruction he remembers and how he remembers it as. It has exactly the weight it needs, because it's all in his head anyway because it's a look into his past from his perspective and he's not exactly the most reliable narrator. He observes the explosion as such, because who cares what it looked like, when his thought process is exclusively focused on the fact that he immediately knows what he has done.
@@thechaoticmultistan9141 that's a poor excuse for the shitty explosion
@@thechaoticmultistan9141 So Oppenheimer saw it as a piddly little gas explosion? I feel like that's directly antithetical to his feelings on it, super weird take.
@@thewisewolf768 sure lol if thats how you wanna take my comment sure
Hands down the BEST sponsored segment I've ever seen. This was the only time I haven't clicked through and skipped it haha REALLY well done and hilarious!
The most haunting and cinematographic nuke shot I've ever seen is from David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return
You ever watch HBO's Carnivále? There's a vision of the Trinity explosion and plays a key moment in the series.
The best explosion I've ever seen in a movie was in the end of black widow amazing cji
@@Earlierfour My guy, why are you like this?
@@davidbrenner5806 the internet 😔
Another good one (from the 80's & practical) is the end of Return Of The Living Dead from 1985.
Check it out...
I worked on Barbie as an Onset VFX Data Wrangler.. there was a tonne of 2D and 3D VFX work…
"It's not easy wrangling data, but there's no life like it. When you ride into town and you haven't lost a single datum, it's the best feeling in the world."
I’m not sure where the guys heard that people were claiming Barbie was done without VFX. Greta Gerwig talked about the older more practical techniques the used but no one has said they didn’t use VFX. That was Nolan and Oppenheimer.
Hey Nick! I was the lead tracker at framestore. good job, you got us all the right data. This movie was a breeze. Thanks a lot :)
what did you do
I was one of the Onset VFX Data Wranglers
The greatest trick Nolan ever pulled was getting butts in seats by promising, "Practical effects disciple makes movie about nuke guy. We had to dust off an esoteric recording format just to fully capture his vision. See it on the biggest screen you can," only to produce a three-hour talking movie with an underwhelming explosion. But by the time you realize you've been had, you've seen enough to know you're watching a legit masterpiece of cinema, and you leave the theater in awe anyway.
For the record I humbly admit I usually skip over the sponsor ad rolls BUT the ad in this episode is top notch! I always appreciate and look out for people that put extra creative energy into making ads their own form of entertainment “ 😂👍🏾❤️
I think the best thing LED screens do for movies is give proper lighting and if it's not perfect they give the ability to have real world references that are.
True that, its a great tool for lighting and The Mandalorian comes to mind: Even in scenes with replaced backgrounds, his helmet always had accurate reflections (because they were real!)
Darren Aronofsky 's "The Fountain " has underrated practical special effects as well. The movie itself was overlooked due to it's confusing narrative but the visuals, and performances are mind blowing.
Right on! Love The Fountain and the effects are beautiful. I'd say the same about Terrence Malek's "Tree of Life" - fairly obscure movie but one of my favourites and the practical effects they use to make cosmic events are gorgeous.
I was thinking of that film too when they were talking about the compositing for Oppenheimer!
Whoever edited this particular episode has a great sense of memelike humour. Please keep doing whatever you're doing.
I'm glad you showed it.
Very minor thing; ISTR 2001 used front projection for the Dawn of Man scene, not rear projection. They used a very reflective screen, the projected images were too dark to show on the actor.
Yes. That's also why the live animals' eyes glowed in some shots.
That’s correct, and the dark ape suits also reflected so little light that it wasn’t a problem.
They've gotten this wrong at least twice
I was coming down here to say this.
Get Bill Pope on the couch to discuss the miniatures, puppetry and VFX of Team America. They you could possibly talk about the Matrix, Spiderman, Jungle Book, etc.... 😁
I was thinking of the Twin Peaks scene too. I'm glad you showed it.
The editor made this reaction way funnier, props to them
For me, it wasn't the look of the explosion that sold me in that scene, it was the cinematography and acting that really hit it home for me. Yeah I wish the nuke was a little more mushroom-cloudy and realistic to an actual nuke, but in the end, that scene is still my favorite for being the gut punch that it is. You can really see it in Cillian Murphy's face when he realizes what force of death and destruction he has created.
I think the movie explosion was closer to what Trinity looked like than they gave it credit for. Trinity was a relatively small nuke and didn't have a very pronounced mushroom cloud.
@@pnwmeditationsNope. Just look up the real Trinity explosion footage on CZcams and it gives relatively enough visible mushroom cloud like the 1 kiloton TNT in this video
@pnwmeditations it definitely doesn't look like Trinity. Just Google trinity and take a look for yourself.
Trinity was a 25 kt nuke, which is small for a nuclear explosion, but it’s 25 times bigger than the one in the example that they showed. The Oppenheimer explosion looks like a gas bomb went off, not like a nuke. They weren’t wrong about anything.
TKS captain obvious
100% felt as salty as Sam when I saw the explosion in the Dolby theater. The scene didn’t bring the feeling of the impact for me like you get seeing the real test footage.
Agree. Nolan could have just used the real footage and it would have been perfect. I still can't believe he thought that shot of that pathetic semitruck-sized gasoline explosion was worth putting into an otherwise masterpiece of a movie.
Ditto. Saw it in an IMAX, and was massively underwhelmed and honestly confused by that "nuclear" pop.
I thought it would be the climax of the movie. Was anticipating it so hard. The silence and everything was great only the explosion was underwhelming. I remember thinking "ok any second now" and "thats it?"
@@kattpuzn why would that be the climax? the movie wasnt titled "The Nuke" , its titled Oppenheimer.
@@haridaspalleeri6765 cant even count how many people I have had to point this out to. But for other reasons. "why did they not show the bombs in Japan"
The sell this episode for the corridordigital site went pretty hard ngl, almost convinced me hahah. The boss music right at the end as Sam struggles to contain himself.
I feel like this one was edited way funnier than any other episode of VFX artists react. Give the editor a bonus for this one.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was underwhelmed by the nuclear blast in Oppenheimer.
Yeah, the scene leading up to it was better than the actual nuke explosion.
I remember a few people talking about how it was kind of weak when the movie first came out, but honestly it was fucking TERRIBLE and I think people just wanted to overlook it because the rest of the movie is so great
I was underwhelmed by the whole movie. Great cast and cinematography, but it's soooo pretentious and bland. "Fat Man and Little Boy" with Paul Newman, John Cusack and Dwight Schultz is a better movie.
@@Jigsaw407you’re not the only one who was underwhelmed by the movie. As a Nolan fan I found it really boring.
The sponsored section of this video was actually amazing
It was a short film
That's how sponsor spots should be done. I watched all the way through it only because it was original and told a story. :P
right?! first time I watched it whole :D what a great job
I think the first scenes with the macrography weren't representing what is happening in a nuclear explosion, but what is happening when a raindrop hits the groud.
In one of the later scenes, when Oppenheimer was imagining nuclear war, it was represented as rain on a map he was looking at.
Sponsor segment was on point today. Very nice
The sponsor segment was amazing. I skip through them. But I watched that one twice lol. Amazing Job!
Same, it was a masterpiece
If you skip through them, how did you get to watch this one and find out it was amazing? I call your bs.
i'm glad they were honest with the explosion.
I knew that the explosion was unsatisfactory but I couldn't tell why. Now I know.
Ngl, I think they missed Nolan's point which was recreating the exact footage of the Trinity Test rather than the average nuke
@@darthmalicos9973Meanwhile, Corridor here puts the actual footage from the Trinity test as reference footage. They’re not wrong. A gas explosion using perspective angles can’t be sold as well as archival footage.
@@darthmalicos9973 Ok? But Nolan failed miserably at that lol. I remember them hyping it up so much, having to sit through the most boring 3 hours of my life, and then being utterly disappointed when seeing the actual nuke go off. They would've been better off not even showing it and just rely on lighting and fake pressure waves along with the reaction from the actors.
@@RealEllenDeGeneres if you think Oppenheimer was 3 hours of boring I just feel like you're probably a kid
I think it was Tom Scott who had a fantastic breakdown of the difference between a gasoline and a TNT explosion, and I've developed a good eye for it ever since. Just like you, the nuke in Oppenheimer stood out to me for being all gasoline. The sound design sells it, though - being punched in the chest in IMAX was pretty fun.
I immediately skipped the ad, but after reading comments about it I had to go back and watch it and I agree. 100% perfectly executed and integrated.👏 The rest of the video was pretty great too.
Something tells me you guys have a new editor, the editing is definitely different stylistically.
It was super distracting. I don't know how I feel about it.
@@JacquesCoetzerAU yeah, I think the 'salty' parts were a bit jarring
I think the last couple of videos have been a bit to "zoomer edited" with fast zoom ins, sound effects to show that they are surprised and so on. Not enough to make me dislike the video but it makes it feel a bit artificial and unauthentic.
Yeah childish and annoying editing, really hope they won't continue with it!
Could just be them trying out a different editing style to see how the audience responds
I still remember the flak that Wren got on twitter because of his thoughts on the explosion. Poor guy.
from corridor fans or from hollywood VFX artists?
I think honestly just the twitter crowd in general.@@FablestoneSeries
Props to whoever put Lux Aeterna over the shots of Sam disassociating, absolutely immaculate 2001: A Space Oddysey vibes
Guys, your ads are usually great,
but this time it was another level. Standing ovations
god i cant agree more with the nuke. it felt like a wet fart in comparison to actual trinity test footage
Now go watch what David Lynch did with the Trinity explosion - it's incredible.
@@redadamearth One of the greatest depictions of fission detonation scale. Oppenheimer fell flat on it's face to depict how extremely terrifying trinity test was to everyone.
I definitely agree on the Nuke thing. Like, the real video of that nuke exists, and the movie looks like just a big explosion. they almost should not have actually shown us the explosion. It was just so ridiculously small for what it was supposed to be portraying.
That microwave ad was so cool and rad, def made my day
Good job on making that intro very brief! Also, the sponsor segment managed to grab my attention and not start skipping right away. Granted, I'm not the target audience as I don't live in the US, but I guess other people would also watch it more than most previous integrations.
Surprised they didn't drop ink in a tank for the nuclear explosion like the did in "The Day After" The upside down mushroom cloud is full of texture goodness
The nuke scene should have just been the slow mo stuff from the beginning of the film. Then, just a mushroom cloud from a smaller traditional explosion. It would make sense too bc a nuke is too bright to see.
I just rewatched Valerian and the city of a thousand planets. Not the best cgi in the world but i feel like there may be some shots worth checking out i especially enjoy the intro sequence of the construction of the spacestation.
OK that was by far the best sponsored video segment yet. It's about time- you guys are so creative!! I hope more companies let you experiment like that!!!
When you are talking about the nuclear explosion and the atmospheric impact, it reminded me of the Jericho missile test in Iron Man! They killed the vfx with regards to atmospheric impact
13:30 - That's actually insane they clocked the blue car in Barbie as being CGI. That was not at ALL obvious in the movie, and I'd say 99% of people would have thought it was real too. So basically, REALLY well done CGI.
that ad segment was hilarious
the oppenheimer white blue light looks to me that it is being projected from the left of the picture - thats the biggest thing that stands out to me.
They didn’t even time it with the explosion either, it explodes and the flash happens slightly afterwards
I watched the T2 explosion right after the Oppenheimer one and was satisfied.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was underwhelmed by the explosion in the movie.
@@mezzb idk if I'd say it's dogma, Chris has used CG before and has in nearly all his films, even in other movies when making a nuclear explosion. I think if anything it was poor planning on that part. I mean even the comp shot looks as if it wasn't intended to be one, remove the nuke stitched in the background and it looks powerful.
I'm glad that a 3 hour movie on the life of the most important physicist of all time was given enough respect not to risk the story for wonky CG. I genuinely think that's where he was going with it, and I can understand why a 2 minute scene that precedes an hour more of story seems like a risk to involve CG. But with so much budget saved I do think he could've produced something that looked more respectable than a Marvel flick.
Also at worst its a genuinely irresponsible portrayal of one of the worst things we've ever created, so having a gigantic budget and not being able to create the sense of sheer awe and horror that youtubers are able to in their backyards ... dad what are you doing??
that ad segment is one of the best they've ever done
That sponsor sequence was tooooooo good 😂😂
I've never seen a better sponsorship segment. Bravo!
When I saw the bomb, i was underwhelmed tbh. It didn't feel like a nuke. It just felt like a gas station caught fire. There are certainly ways to capture the feeling of a nuke in CG without making it look MCU-esque. If Avatar 2 can create an entirely CG movie, creating a convincing nuclear explosion seems almost trivial in comparison (not discounting the work required to do it practically, but it'd certainly be a lot easier and look better in CG).
8:21 Even tho I agree with everything you've said, this light is coming from a Thunderstorm. There were lightnings because of a storm occurring at the time. In the movie it's even a point of conflict (well, more like a build-up of tension but yeah) the fact that the experiment could be interrupted by the storm
Sam is making me laugh and appreciate him since forever. Thank you Sam!
Sam's driveway must be ice-free from all that salt
I'm glad I wasn't the only one wildly underwhelmed by Oppenheimer's "most important" scene lol. They honestly should've just remastered the original test footage and used it.
Your conversation about the CGI reminds me that I would love to have you react to Ford vs Ferrari
I usually skip the sponsored parts, but that Oppenheimer bit on it went super hard and I ended up watching the whole thing while listening to the music lol
Just to add a correction, Stanley Kubrick used Front Projection (not Rear Projection) with large format stills taken from a 2nd Unit Crew who visited Africa to get the background plates. Check Cinefex issue 85 for Don Shay’s article about the making of the movie.
Quick note: Space Odyssey intro was shot using FRONT projection not REAR
Thank you!! They keep saying rear projection. I think they made the same mistake for Close Encounters which also used front projection for the hill top car scene.
I’m not sure whether to thank you or hate you for pointing out the explosions… I won’t be able to unsee it
Those LED volumes refresh at 3840hz or 7680hz. The problem is not the screen itself, it is the underlying video system feeding it. It is still being standard 60i/P, 30i/P or 24P video sources.
I'm not sure which volume they used here, but there are ways around this. If you are feeding a progressive source and shooting on a global shutter camera, you should not have issues with flicker like you're seeing here. I believe the volumes at Trilith by Lux Machina have accounted for this.
I cracked up so bad with this sponsored segment 😂😂 that’s pure gold, well played guys, well played
I know! This one was the first I dint skip
that sponsor segment though, *chef's kiss* (pun intended)
Love the spice. MORE OF IT PLEASE
Yall really should do a vfx artist react of the chronicles of Narnia! They really are underrated. The vfx still holds up to this day.
How is the sponsor segment so good? They keep getting better and better, I love it
THANK YOU!
I have been feeling the same about the Oppenheimer nuke ever since I saw it in cinema... and on my own home cinema. It was just... underwealming. It was just a... giant gasoline explosion. I am pretty sure that the Napalm drop in Apocalypse now was bigger than the one in Oppenheimer. Heck, even a fuel-air bomb or, as in the example in the episode here, a regular kiloton of TNT would have been much more true to the Trinity blast. Unless you want to recreate the Beirut blast and just put ginourmous amount of fertilizer and fuel and other fun chemicals in a desert...
But yeah, Like with a lot of Nolan films. They tend to underdeliver the big spectacle.
And yeah. also. Twin Peaks Return Ep 8... it still is my high watermark of nukes in media. CGI delivering where a practical wasn't.. well, practical.
So true, Nolan storytelling and script are god tier but when it comes to VFX or action sequence, since the Batman trilogy, very weak fight comparing to the Batman save martha fight scene.
It was the biggest explosion they were legally allowed to make. Unfortunately, safety was in the way of making anything larger. Nolan should have just used the real test footage, or caved and done a CG render. Anything would have been better than waiting 3 hours for the most pathetic gasoline ignition ever.
But Nolan only wants practical effects only, one of his biggest weaknesses when it comes to modern filmmaking.
The Trinity test scene is more about being in Oppie's head and perspective as he is observing the explosion. I get that it doesnt have the awe or scale of an actual nuke, but i think it's more about viewing it from the distance and perspective of Oppie's pov. That and they insisted on going practical, which is cool in it's own right even if it doesnt capture quite the scale of a real atomic explosion.