VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 127 (ft. Gareth Edwards)

Sam and Wren are joined by Director Gareth Edwards to break down his entire career!

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0:00 Gareth's Films
0:25 Atilla The Hun
1:42 Monsters
5:33 Surfshark
6:44 Godzilla
9:19 Rogue One

[stevenbergom]

The Behind-the-Scenes featurette for most movies is, "On this day we had this really coincidental thing happen that we took advantage of in this scene." A Gareth Edwards movie is, "This whole movie is coincidental."

[haydenap]

12:02 one of the longest recordings but one of the shortest youtube cuts in the entire series ._.

EDIT: It's been brought to my attention that this is likely the second half of the first React ft. Gareth Edwards.

[Sande]

Gareth Edwards blessed modern Star Wars with Rogue One

[lootwigvanwegen]

I love how Gareth casually says something and you can see in Wrens eyes, how his mind gets blown by the second, every time it realizes how those infos enrich his previous skillset. :D

[joechapman]

One of the things I loved about the design in Gareth's Godzilla was how cleverly he traded off two things. On one hand, Godzilla needed to be the largest he'd ever been, almost like a mobile mountain and suitably slow, but to balance that this Godzilla had more lateral rotation than he'd ever had. You see that in the shot where he's demonstrating the use of the rooftops to get scale and then panning up; each segment of Godzilla's body is smoothly rotating, almost snake-like. It's a great way to balance the issues introduced by the new scale, but also a way to defeat the character's traditional stiffness due to the old rubber suit.

[Whitewingdevil]

I hadn't considered the Tarkin lighting issue at all before, but it makes perfect sense with the example yall gave, the lighting really makes an enormous difference.

[peterstangl]

the more i see the actor who performed pre-vfx-Tarkin the more i'm convinced they absolutely should've had him just be the recast Tarkin, like with Mon Mothma.

[ayywolf]

this guy is such an inspiring moviemaker. not only is he creative and telented but also very down to earth. he seems like the kind of guy who would try to help you achieve your vision and not just laugh at it and ignore you.

[JakobMakesStuff]

Over the past 5-6 years this show has become my #1 'Saturday Morning Cartoon'--thanks for making the internet AWESOME!

[MondoMovieGaming]

I love when the guys get professionals on the couch! Its so interesting

[theangryMD]

Gareth Edwards has a special place in my heart for giving us Rogue One and Legendary's Goodzilla. So glad he's a repeat guest. Also, LOVED the Express VPN ad.

[Enrique-Garcia]

Gareth's description of going from Star Wars to mortgage is so wholesome lol

[TheDeconstructivist]

While the Tarkin effect took me out of the movie (sadly), Rogue One remains my favorite SW film since the original trilogy. That and Godzilla are absolute masterpieces. I know some people wanted more Kaiju battles in Godzilla, but for me the movie was one long build up to an incredible final showdown and I loved every second of it.

[ThomasBaxter]

I met Gareth once while working a 3d conversion studio In Vancouver. Think this was right around the release of Godzilla . Really nice guy, but I was totally swamped at the time and didn't really speak to him, but heck I was a lowly dev and he made the time to say Hi. Always appreciated that.

[simondda]

This is my favorite episode so far. Being a VFX compositor for 30 years now and watching the Mr. Edwards' approach and experience of fx film making is fantastic. I commented on your 119 episode about Ghostship. Was happy to have composed the first shot of your expose' into it. Thank You for the channel. Enjoyed immensely!

[Threatgod]

They got gareth edwards!?
That's a W

[Nopenuttn]

Gareth Edwards just seems so modest and laid back.

[yagelbar]

Please react to the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971). Except for using the magic-prism from Mary Poppins, to integrate real life humans into animated scenes (and dancing weightless under the sea), there are also some decent shots at the last act of the movie, with an army of self moving (empty) knight armors fighting an amazed platoon of WWII German soldiers.

[jiovansanchez]

gareth is so chill about the most insane things, i love it

[BackwardGalaxy]

I absolutely love the way Gareth Edwards composes a shot. The way he filmed Godzilla was masterful. He gave Godzilla a scale in a way the follow-ups just don't and they don't hit as hard in my opinion. I'm excited to see where he goes next.

*cough* sleeper pick for a Bond movie, maybe?