VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 141

Niko and Wren and Jordan Allen break down some of the best (and worst) visual effects in some of your favorite Hollywood films!

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0:00 Welcome to react!
0:38 Star Tours
3:34 Coneheads
5:51 Squareheads
6:54 Challengers
8:25 Hardcore Henry
11:41 Expendables 4

[Theliquidchaos]

Expendables 4 looks like it was video of a 10 year old playing with GI Joe's and fireworks in 1998, fed into an AI, and told to come up with a "cool action scene" based on the footage.

[a-rod]

The Coneheads sandwich clip made me think of a perfect challenge: Unnecessary hidden VFX. The challengers film a short clip of something mundane, like eating a sandwich, but one or a few things in shot are VFX, like the sandwich, replacing the hair of the actor, or a digi double in the background. Then they have everyone guess what wasn't in-camera. Points are given for any elements that sneak by, any real elements that people think are fake, and how ballsy the VFX are to try to hide.

[philswift]

Okay seriously how have these guys not done the disney Narnia movies yet??? They have easily some of the best vfx of that era that still hold up incredibly today. They put a freaking CENTAUR in scenes and made it look grounded and believable.

[joeschmo]

Zero VFX did the work on the tennis sequence AND the Hardcore Henry driving shots. I was a comp artist at their Venice office shortly after the movie released and those driving shots were on the studio reel. Two of the comp artists on those driving shots were Kurt Lawson and Sean Cox.

[rano]

Fun Fact: Hardcore Henry was one of the first feature film to use Blender for CG stuff.

[Bubblebunzz]

I like how they are dyeing laughing over the sniper having no kickback but totally missed that Jason is watching the sniper bullet go from the gun to the plane like someone just hit a golfball in the air.

[poweryodeler]

Hey I worked on Hardcore Henry! that movie was simultaneously an amazingly fun thing to work on, and ultimate suck with the lens distortion and gopro footage. It was also, at some point considered to be done in stereoscopic. This would have made the audience even more seasick while they watched! It ended up giving us a slightly different camera angle to help stitch the edit points together. Most of the time the edit points were rudimentary at best. Much camera override, motion blur and roto to blend things that were occasionally completely different perspectives.

[DanDude_]

Fun Fact: That van (8:35) was in fact NOT CG, but the fire/smoke was, same as all the other vans getting wrecked in this scene. There is some really cool BTS footage of a giant rig to make this crazy grenade jump possible for those interested. Still really happy Hardcore Henry got featured!

[JamieAubrey]

I guess the budget for Expendables 4 went to the actors and they had nothing left over for VFX

[notgreyeyez]

Got a clip for you fellas to look at. At the beginning of red tails with the attack on the train. It’s an amazing movie with even better effects. Thanks guys! Hope to see the clip in a future episode!! Long time fan of the crew!

[anthonypena]

I am so happy they finally talked about Hardcore Henry, that was such an underrated action movie. I always watch it a couple times a year, the mood just hits to watch a good pov action movie. No one else has been able to pull it off as well as they did. I wish they would do a sequel with Henry after he got his memory back. Tim Roth playing his dad, that was awesome, and you have to give a hand to Copley, that guy was amazing playing different versions of himself.

[toyloliSpare]

What they should have done for the cone heads scene was completely practical: As per the movie Hello Dolly. Where all the food looked realistic but was made from fairy floss (candy floss). so it literally dissolved in her mouth as she ate!

[George_vv]

Another crazy fact about Star Tours is that it was a motion simulator ride BEFORE digital projectors! Every ride vehicle had a huge projector welded to the outside with its own gigantic film reel.

[thumpyloudfoot]

Hardcore Henry is one of the most underrated cinematic gems.... Its a unicorn, made by an actually really good Russian NüPunk band (not Emo, think what System of a Down is to NüMetal but Punk)... Called Biting Elbows, all their music videos look like this, and also Sharlto Copley is in it, that alone is worth your time... and he's fuggin great in this....

[Abusinator]

thanks for becoming my adult Saturday morning cartoons!

[bensummers]

wren has always got the brandon sanderson shirts and i'm here for it! 😂

[HectoGamez]

11:27 As always theres actually a film from 1947 called “The Lady in the Lake” which is entirely shot from a first person It’s not all in one take and doesn’t try to disguise it as much as hardcore Henry but I’d love to see your guy’s analysis of it and how some of the clever POV shots were done

[esotericVideos]

Everybody: PLEASE TALK ABOUT HARDCORE HENRY!
Corridor Crew: So Hardcore Henry is a thing... moving on.

[DanteVerde-ptzc]

EXPEND4BLES:

FANT4STIC: Finally a worthy opponent, OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!

[Laoruperteen]

12:25 i like how the bullets from these massive mounted LMGs are just tinking off of the front of the protags LMG like they are made of sparklers.