VFX Artists React to LORD OF THE RINGS Bad & Great CGi 1

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Niko, Clint, and Wren sit down to react to some of the zestiest CGi moments from Peter Jackson's "The Lord of The Rings" Trilogy: What makes a visual effect bad? What makes one great?

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[CorridorCrew]

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[BlackHei]

Fun fact: Hobbiton was built one year before the filming of Lord of the Rings because they wanted the town to naturally age.

[theLV]

Fun fact about the scene with Gollum in the river: They filmed that in NZ in the winter. The crew scouted a good location, but when they arrived on the morning of the shoot everything was covered in snow. So the entire team came in with leaf blowers and hot water and started cleaning all the snow on scene. Andy Serkis then filmed 5 takes of crawling around in freezing water in sub-zero temperatures.

[ErgoDog]

I feel like this holds up better than most special effects from just a couple of years back. The mix of practicle, miniatures, makeup, prosthetics, and cgi. Just looks more convincing to me.

[whowantsabighug]

You can tell these films were made with love.

[mcknackus]

I knew Lord of the Rings was impressive, but that table scene is just a completely new level.

[youtubeuser]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an achievement in filmmaking and I won’t hear anything different

[ApoJake]

Lord of the Rings: The perfect balance between CGI and Practical effects.

[theleprechaun]

Rest in peace Ian Holmes (Bilbo Baggins). He did a great job playing Bilbo.

[PatchCornAdams]

I dunno why but Lord of the Rings makes me feel like I'm about to tear up.

[davidngethe]

Lord of the Rings: a masterclass in forced perspective.

[pt]

It aged like fine wine unlike 90% of the movies out there !

[mitromney]

I didn't think I could appreciate LotR more than I already did. But seeing this amount of hard work and dedication behind the camera somehow makes it all even more impressive. There is NEGATIVE laziness in every tiny shot. They are making models, overlapping shots, hire giant and tiny actors to fool your eyes, create dozens of modified, overlapping sets and set pieces... And some of this stuff they do for shots that last a brief second, shots that easily could've been cut out or done in another, easier way. And the best thing is, CGI is basically just a a subtle, gentle touch on top of all this. It's not replacing any characters, backgrounds and scenes, it's there to help connect everything that's real together. THAT'S how you use CGI. LotR hasn't aged a day. I watch it today and none of the effects take me out of the movie. And most likely, it never will. When a movie hasn't aged a day in 20 years, you know it's timeless.

[SweejitOfficial]

I wish miniatures would be used more often nowadays, the over the top CGI shit takes me out of the movie in an instant.

[sanghoonlee]

Almost 20 years since, and still no other trilogy quite like it.

[trickbrain]

The Bilbo Baggins freak-out scene was explained in the dvd extras, there was a physical Sculpted version of the character that was filmed for just a second and then was blended in for a in and out morph transition.

[nayderdabigfatgator]

The scene where Theoden goes back to normal always amazes me, it just happens and it’s hard to notice something is happening

[AnimeSinsNEW]

Can't describe how much I love these movies. My wife and I take the time every 2 or 3 years to rewatch from the first Hobbit movie all the way through the last lord of the rings movie, the best trilogy ever imo.

[ErikCPianoman]

12:53 Fun fact: that actually made a detailed scary-give-me-the-ring Bilbo face mask for that split second shot. I remember hearing them talk about it on the behind the scenes or the extended edition commentary at some point. Can’t remember which.

[cstumpy]

VFX artists react in a nutshell:
“Oh my gosh!”
“How’d they do that?!”
“I know how they did that”