VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 5

oh goodness there's something very special about the shot there it is it's not in black and white let's do a slate like this welcome to VFX artists react to bad and great CGI where we applaud the genius of good effects and blame the producers for all the bad effects Maureen there's a combination of rushed and bad ideas all in one Sparks he barely touched it flush flush everything's fine these are some straight-up iPhone compositing like get an iPhone app to put claws in your hands first off that the tracking on his right hand ever so slightly jiggles it's hard to see frame by frame but in motion it just doesn't quite feel attached but even more so there's no freaking shadow on his knuckles yeah but you got these just like the CG model sticking out of his hand they don't even have proper motion blur highlights in this either like notice when the motion blur is on the bright parts of the blade the bright part gets dimmer whereas that bright part should be bright enough to selectively metal that it stays bright imagine my flashlight is a bright part of a blade I go like this it doesn't turn gray it stays white I bet they probably didn't have a proper hgri for the scene basically capturing the proper lighting of the scene but also recreating the materials in a very scientifically accurate way they probably just kind of winged it maybe they were running out of time they had to do the scene really quickly the biggest question is why aren't they practical that's exactly they have a special type of blade holder that's like you literally just hold your fist and the blades like conform perfectly around your knuckle and it looks real well that's a great point do it practical when you can dude this seemed sweet are you serious guys watching all this happen is so calm you know what it floated for a second yeah it was kind of the animated position and scale you know it's just like a stock image of a helicopter that they they made grow larger do you recognize those mountains in the background at all they filmed lots of scenes here including scenes from like Chronicles of Narnia famously Lord of the Rings they filmed a lot of stuff in that area and that specific Valley is where Isengard is located oh yes speaking of which Lord of the Rings Hobbit we've seen your comments it's been very highly competent about so we're definitely gonna be doing an episode comparing the two very shortly and if you'd like to see other movies TV shows anything at all for us to react to please leave a comment below we read them all my name is Charles Xavier what's wrong with his eyes not his eyes Prince or Patrick Stewart sighs just mr. clean I think it's just an example of like they're probably just going in and taking out all the wrinkles and doing some patchwork on his face but in doing so they're not staying quite entirely true to the lighting on his face and where the shadows would be and where the wrinkles would be this shot I continued background plate there's foot there's footprints they're leaving footprints when they run why are they leaving footprints and not even having a shadow like at least a fuzzy soft dark matte underneath their feet oh this movie had the same budget as transformers and this is the quality that the effects in this movie like this is the like the last stage of artist just eyeballing it and being like I guess the background and probably be this bright let's bump it up versus like hey I went out there and got like light meter readings and I took my photo samples and I use my HDR I and I have a scientifically accurate and measured moment for what that should look like transformers looks so good yeah because that's what they did for all the Transformers everything was physically accurate measured with HDR eyes proper surface simulations like that looks good well that's a real shocker that's real truck Michael Bay does what I think is the perfect approach for CG which is blending practical visual effects together in one shot like that truck is real it's just kidding the truck is not real good dude oh this bus shot something special about this guy shot that bus is real that explosion is real that bus they already had it chopped in half and they tear it apart in the middle of scene that's all real the only thing fake is the robot going through it oh wow they have why ballsy they have wires on the edges of the bus pulling it apart yeah it looks so good and this movie is 12 years old by the way something that's helping Michael Bay he's putting the camera in a realistic place it's very grounded you're in a car you're gonna chase cam you know yeah you're seeing it from these angles that's so cool and the huge challenge with that though is you're literally filming something that's not there so you have to have what we call our CG goggles you have your CG goggles on you have to be imagining that robot coming through when Optimus gets tackled they're right here it's like slightly out of frame it feels flawed in a real way I don't think people give Michael day enough credit for his filmmaking skills absolutely not oh my god this is brutal man then that fur looks so good that one went Natick fur dude right here we're like it kind of picks them up and like bites and moves them that looks really good get in the frame I'm you see your reaction also it hasn't cut yet by the way oh the fogging of the lens Wow do you think that was real fog no I can because what the beer wasn't real duh what an effective what an effective scene though man what sells this shot is the fact that leo is actually being moved around physically yes in real life it wasn't there a guy in place of the bear I mean Arthur worked on this movie that's true oh yeah call Arthur Arthur yeah do it I'll do it I'll call Arthur real quick it's good it's good hey sorry here watching the bear scene from the revenant and we're wondering did they have like a dude that was pulling Leonardo DiCaprio around or was like he on wires like how do they do it so he had a guy in like a blue suit with bare arms that was kind of one part of it just kind of being good expressions for the movies he had bear arms yeah Leo was in a harness that was pretty complicated wire contraption to several different trees so that the wires had color in different directions one of the things is that was really critical as rehearsal because we had to know what the Kong quote fight choreography was between the bear and Leo so that the guy in the suit alley of the cold canal can it be in sync so that when they did put in a bear it would line up so are there some hidden cuts on this like long take thanks for the info man trying to figure out how they did it yeah a match cut is basically when you have a cut from one piece of footage to another but an element in the footage is basically in the same spot like in 2001 the bone turns into a spaceship but master cuts can also be a visual effects technique or basically a magic trick where you know you're doing bases like a whip pan and right in the middle of that whip and you're just match cutting right in the middle that whip when things look the same like that's still a match cut it's not like an artsy match it's not enough it's a hidden match cut but sometimes hidden cuts are hidden by making the match cuts sometimes they're hidden by things wiping the frame and I think it's time for us to look at the master class of match cuts and hidden cuts Kingsman is a great movie super stylized Matthew Vaughn tearing it up oh man look at that high sugar speed style everything's just super jittery oh yeah the CG doesn't look so great there but you know what who cares yeah I'm gonna dislocate a shoulder oh ma [Applause] Oh incredible oh is that the most visceral moment of this entire scene people are getting their heads that's blown up and that woman just got her neck shot but somehow a dude crumpling up like that against the wall dummy shots are so funny it's like it's real that's a realistic looking head dummy all right I think we should go back to beginning this scene just take a moment and show you our bunch of the hidden cuts our and then talk about how they did them all right right there no right there for sure right there cut boom cut cut I think the reason why there are so many hidden cuts in this scene is because this is an incredibly complex choreography it's like a it's like in a video game you can't beat the whole level without save points I bet a lot of these different stunts require very specific setups that you can't do with the camera going through the entire scenes and what they're doing here like our eyes are super sensitive to motion to the point where we don't really read details in them so that guy wiping the frame that as he wipes the frame there rotoscoping the edge of him so everything gets revealed as he wipes is from the next shot it's one thing to have hidden cuts it's nothing to have the intricacy of this puzzle of a fight scene where you're doing all these tricks and taking advantage of those hidden cuts wait a minute wait a minute is that Lieutenant Dan Forrest Gump it's actually a treasure trove of amazing visual effects shots there's something very special about this shot there it is hold up hold up the actor has legs by the way so there's one very very small thing that they did here that helps sell that he's missing legs Clint did you see it yeah so if the actor has his legs which I assume he does then how does he swipe his legs past the coffee table yeah exactly so here's what I think they did that table wasn't there when they filmed Gary Sinise and they added that table back in because notice he never actually interacts with the table he walks behind the table the other guy walks in front of the table the other guy being Tom Hanks and if you look really closely you can totally see the mask fringing on the table oh yeah dude we're right yep so they had to recreate the stumps essentially right yeah just all in all excellent excellent CG work but it's the little touches like I almost have a swing his legs to where there's a table that just brings the world then really like drives home the fact that like this character does not have legs you all right so this one have you guys seen this movie before wait is this the is this spider-man in 1932 Pleasantville the general premise this movie is that Peter Parker here who's gone back in time he's gone back to like an idyllic Leave It to Beaver style TV show and he's he's basically broadening embrace horizons he's introducing them to modern America she's embarrassed that she's become colorized because she's becoming modernized she's becoming a modern woman but she doesn't want her husband to see her that way so she needs to have her face painted back to black and white so is it like what is he like putting on like green screen makeup and they're just coloring it to be silver you got it so all they're doing is putting a green screen key on it and desaturating it and that's all they're doing but what is lis saturated that you could do this in DaVinci Resolve yeah I don't know how they did this the world is black and white how do they get yellow light to shine on the characters and things in the world well they're not filming in black and white I haven't seen any yellow light yet all right so the yellow light on the fence there you see that yellow light on the black the black and white tree has yellow light on it wait that's because they're not they're not filming until elections on that truck all right is this the results of a clever magic trick it's not in black and white color cracking it so it is in black and white and then they reveal it so that it looks like it but that does make sense clay we didn't know what of course make sense is produce a basket and just track your mass I mean I agree with Clint on this that makes sense to me you just do a luma key on anything that's like brights in the shot and then specifically mask out the spots that you need that are gonna be yellow but I guess that fire truck can't be red that flag can't be red white and blue that house has to be painted white already because if you're going to let the color through the stuff that would have a color needs to be black and white for that colored light to be on it if you guys have any guesses as to how they did the yellow light shining on a black and white world here leave some comments below if you happen to work on this like he was an email hard it's just masks they're just tracked mass how are you tracking if a guy has orange skin and I shot you tend it all right I want to show you guys a historical VFX shot show me one this isn't computer graphics the question is a special effects or visual effects whoa okay the wig I get but there's like no cut there's no transition on her face evolving and transforming how do you think they did it it's obviously some sort of optical effect here yeah she's painted right yes it's a it's a transition revealing so how would you hide the paint so I'll give you a hint this is an effective only pausing black and white is there some sort of like lens filter that can't see a certain shade of makeup mm-hmm is that what's going how would they okay how would you do that how would they change the mystical it's quite simple actually it's just a red and blue filter just like when you have like 3d glasses and we're like in the red side doesn't let you see the red lines and the blue side doesn't let you see the blue lines you see have a red filter in front of the camera and it's filtering out any red on her so you have like all these red marks on her face but you can't see any of that because the red filter is cutting all of it out you transition it to a blue filter and suddenly all those red splotches become bright and you can see all the luminance difference well let's go to black and white now let's just show only the blue channel because colors made up of red green and blue channels so we show only the blue Channel this should look relatively dark and this should look relatively bright now if we flip it over and go only to the red Channel this should look pretty dark and this should look bright when you go specifically to certain color channels you get different luminance values and that's basically what they're doing with their face the greatest thing about old movies like this is that they're still doing these crazy for all intents and purposes visual effects but they don't have the same sort of tools that we have today and they have to be really really creative with how they go about achieving these visual results oh oh my god is it finally happening are we finally reviewing the worse that we can't do this we can't do this here do you think we're gonna cover the scene get out of here we're gonna come back we'll hit will it wasn't the worst he effects shots of all time I don't think we should ever review this shot you know what I think we should do I think we should try to fix this shot if you guys want to see us do that video please subscribe and that's it thank you so much for killing on the couch with we learned some new things about visual effects that was a blast guys I'm just doing my best rent impression right now thanks for watching if you guys like this video please subscribe to the channel if you have a video or a movie or clip that you would like us to react to hit subscribe leave a comment we read them all it's a blast Wow look do that it might surround about two runs

Channel: Corridor Crew

Views: 2,997,630

Rating: 4.9467626 out of 5

Keywords: VFX breakdown, CGI, react, vfx artists react, hollywood, visual effects, transformers

Id: brKw9KtNm04

Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 29 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Ruraraid]

They will be doing this series for a long time because its the most popular thing on their channel and there is way too many movies they could critique.

What I would really love is if they made an episode for some of the best practical effects complimented by CGI. While doing that they should have some experts on practical effects commentate with them. I feel like that would give a nice insight to both worlds of special effects and the techniques used to blend them together.

[u/almighty1080]

Have these guys worked on any films/tv shows or just YouTube?

[u/mr_antman85]

Can't believe they cut off at The Scorpion King...

[u/UnitedYouth]

I can't wait for them to tackle the infamous Scorpion King CGI! They suggested remaking the scene at the end of this video, I'd love to see that..

[u/klintondc]

I'm glad they touched on Transformers. The movies get a bad rep for being awful, rightly so, but the special effects are awesome. And they acknowledged that.

[u/abrokenpinky]

I was really excited when I saw one of their videos was about low vs high end cameras. I wasn't so excited about the subject being interrupted every two minutes to show them joking around and eating biscuits.

Their videos about CGI are really cool, though. I'm always looking forward to the next one.

[u/FrodoFraggins]

the one on the left always irks me.

[u/Skavis]

Deeply fascinating... I've always wanted to be deeply fascinated

[u/rosefuri]

my latest youtube obsession. not only are they entertaining videos but they go into such detail about how cgi works, really impressive.