Making MrBeast’s Squid Game in 10 Days

Get an inside look at how we recreated Netflix’s "Squid Game" with @MrBeast in the official behind the scenes. We’ll walk you through the sets, the shoots, and how we *actually* built MrBeast’s Squid Game with previsualization, CGI & VFX. We’ll even show you how we made a playable video game version in Unreal Engine—leave a comment if you want to actually play!

Huge thank you to MrBeast and his team for having us on such an epic project!

JUMP AROUND
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Backstory
01:00 - Previsualization
03:23 - On Set + Before & Afters
04:23 - VFX Artists & Process
05:13 - Shot Breakdown
05:36 - Making MrBeast Game a Video Game
06:21 - MrBeast Visits
07:30 - Wrap-up

FOLLOW US

OUR CREW

Creative Director - Sam Wickert
Producer - Micah Malinics
VFX Co-Lead - Brendan Forde
VFX Supervisor - Luke Snedecor
VFX Coordinator - Rachel Additon

VFX Artists - Taos Whittaker, Wyatt Hall, Sebastian Brown, James Luke, Matthew LaPenna, Zahra Hussain, Dylan Tate, Gil Milstein, Caleb Lambert, Will Hendrickson, Daichi Sakane

Production Support - Sean Boullianne
BTS Videographer - Jordan Borrowman
Editor - Colin Ross

Helicopter Videography help by Kevin Wolf

TECH MENTIONED

Dell Precision 7920
Nvidia a6000
Unreal Engine
Black Magic Cinema Cameras / Davinci Resolve
Rokoko Motion Capture
Vanishing Point Virtual Camera

BUSINESS INQUIRIES

[MrBeast]

I FREAKEN LOVE YOU AND YOU ALL CRUSHED IT!

[ZachKing]

Sam, the amount of shots you pulled off with the size of team you have is incredible, truly remarkable. I hope you all get some well deserved sleep!

[OfficialMaxBox]

Blew my mind. The whole time during the original video I was trying to find the seams and I had NO idea it was as large an edit as it was. Astounding work.

[MakeSushi]

This is an insane level of production for a YouTube video, I have mad respect for Mr beast, he is living up to his name above and beyond

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It's safe to say this is one of the most successful projects in YouTube history.

[LazarBeam]

this was so cool to watch insane talent!

[cat.von.k]

While watching the Squid Game video I kept wondering if it were that high.. I couldn’t find mistakes and I kept reminding myself that I’m watching this on Youtube! Amazing job, seriously!

[doctorricky]

Your team must have been in GAME MODE every time they sat down. The amount of laser focus it must have taken to pull this off given the time crunch is truly insane. Bravo guys.

[blurryface]

Full disclosure: I legit thought they were 100 feet in the air in the tug-of-war scene. It looked so real and I figured if anyone could manage that, it'd be Mr. Beast. Amazing job! I'd love to see more of this from YouTube's biggest content creators.

[Satu]

When I saw the original I was thinking "Wait isn't this really dangerous? the contestants are so high up and close to the edges..." I didn't even think about it being CG 'cause that looked so smooth and nice AND SO REAL, I was just actually worried for people. Your work is insane and the team is so great!!!

[Romenlikecat]

3:37 albert looks so happy, so glad to see him

[Shibby]

This is incredible. People don’t understand the work that goes on in the background. WILD.

[amayas]

I truly thought the sets were built high up and everything was real! The talent you guys have is crazy cause everything looked so real!!😭🙌🏽

[Sabu]

Honestly your effects team is fantastic.

[yikes.]

this makes me appreciate the video so much more

[Anbuexists]

The cgi was so good I was scared because I thought Jimmy’s sets were THAT HIGH UP

[thatperformer]

I actually was convinced the tug of war stage was real and there was just netting below them. I can’t get over how much I can’t tell what’s real apart from what’s CGI on the video, truly incredible work.

[spipsdew]

This video: Yeah it was pretty crazy how much of a time crunch we had at the end there haha. We gamified it and expanded our team and it worked out 😎
William Osman's behind the scenes: EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE

[ColinandSamir]

Wow this was incredible. Thanks for making this and showing us how this was made.

[SenseiSeth]

The moment I saw the “raised stage” I was blown away and super curious. So glad I found this video!!