VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 64

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Sam, Niko, and Wren discuss some of the best (and worst) visual effects in some of your favorite Hollywood films!

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[CorridorCrew]

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[hardhurt]

If you're looking for intros, the Daredevil show intro is pretty interesting

[christianalzmann]

The Hook island matte painting is in one of the main hallways at ILM still. Has always been one of my favorites. It photographs beautifully.

[bloodbne]

The cracks in the glass in No Time To Die are actually practical, they used a different glass ofc and shot pellets, also the most interesting vfx in the movie is them making Ana de Armas legs so the kicks look more believable.

[huwmillar]

The glass bullet hits on the James Bond Aston Martin where done with physical special effects, I know this as fact as I was there creating this effect on the day, the reason the light refracts so well is thanks to nature 😅

[Jamamegapr]

The bullet shots in the car in No time to Die were practical. They literally made a video about it. Some kind of plexi and pellet guns while a dude shook the car from underneath

[daniel_wilkinson]

I love that Niko called out the effects artist on that Segal motorcycle shot, and gave them the credit that we understand the pressures they were under so as not to lay the blame all on their shoulder.

[thetasigma]

For intros, it would be *incredibly* interesting to see you guys talk about the history of the Doctor Who title sequence, going all the way back to 1963. The evolution of it, along with how they did everything is insanely cool.

[spielberg]

An entire episode that looks at the evolving effects used in James Bond opening title sequences please! From the projecting 60's to the silhouette 70's, the trailing 80's, the CGI enhanced 90's and the mostly CGI 00's to now!

[grandmasterj]

I worked on the first Harry potter film doing model making, and the thing that blew my mind more than anything were the matte painters. Some of these scenic matte backdrop paintings were around 20ft high, yet you could only see the brush strokes when you were within a few feet away. Anything over that and they looked like a printed photo. Really amazing.

[pepegapingu]

It always blows my mind finding out how they do CGI in some films, technology for CGI has come so far.

[finecommathanks]

Show intros are a really good video idea. Game of Thrones, all 3 Dark seasons, Breaking Bad, Westworld, What We Do in the Shadows, the first season of True Detective, The Expanse, the old The Twilight Zone series. All of those would be great topics. I had an editing teacher that was in love with the Entourage intro too.

[krismate]

For me, the James Bond bike jump looked real the first time I saw it. The movement/physics of the bike as well as his jacket rippling sold it for me.

[danielcummins]

For show intros the various Doctor Who intros could be interesting to explore. 60 years of CG evolution right there

[brucesnow]

I honestly never in my freaking life would have guessed that the car was CG. That's freaking insane.

[FelixEA]

"Can i tell you one last secret about this scene?"
"No, moving on"
And they actually did, nice

[LevCallahan]

God, that scene with Robin flying over the clouds was literally one of the most magical things of my childhood movie-watching years. It's so weird to see this today and it still looks really, really good.

[toadinboots]

The show Carnivale on HBO had an excellent intro! By today’s standards for Motion GFX it’s fairly simple, but it was so perfect at setting up the time, place, and tone for the show.

[muffinman]

I would love to see you guys react to Kane Pixel's "Backrooms" videos. This 16 year old kid is doing some top notch vfx. When I first watched them I didn't even question that everything was practical, but apparently everything is 100% digital, he's just really good with blender. Everything is great, the texture work, camera movements, lighting, all looks real to me. I was even fooled by the hazmat guys, I was convinced they were real actors but nope, all digital. Obviously he's using the 90s VHS look to hide some imperfections but it's still super impressive

[wilfredreedman]

The intros to doctor who have always been great. The whole show was also massively influential in terms of vfx