VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 146

Nikolas, Samuel, and Wrenton break down some of the best (and worst) visual effects in some of your favorite Hollywood films!

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Honey I Blew Up the Kid
6:57 Demon Slayer Explosion
9:13 Dark Matter
11:58 Don't Run Red Lights
12:56 Star Trek DS9

[Evankelly]

That Demon Slayer explosion made my jaw drop when i first saw it and i was praying you guys would react to it. Some real love went into that and im sure the cgi team had a blast with that one. That show is a work of art.

[MikeDS]

I didn't think there would be an uncanny valley for snow, but as a Canadian, that snow is definitely in it. It's the motion. Like an animated doll. Like Wren said, snow up to your chest, unless it's the driest, lightest snow fallen with no wind, snow is hard as hell to walk through.

[disgracednomad]

"We don't say the N-word around 2-year-olds." it took me a sec to remember the context being "nap" but without context that's just crazy 😂

[dinklebob]

Whoever edited this has me in tears. The adult ping pong smack? The repeated Patrick Stewart interactions with niko.png? Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[skyz]

The Demon Slayer explosion was the most beautiful thing i've ever seen.

[roycunningham]

Your editor killed it in the Star Trek Enterprise section of the video

[LordBaktor]

The shotgun type "smack" when the adult is hitting the ball pretending to be the kid had me rolling.

[LydianMelody]

Props to Niko for not deleting all his socials and disappearing after that Star Trek mix up. So brave.

[deathabve]

That ENTIRE episode of Demon Slayer was next level animation for anime. It was beautiful in a CGI unique way to anime. I love a drawn fight like in Mob Psycho or One Piece, but when you get a fight all CGI like Demon slayer, it just hits different.

[LeGremlinn]

When I saw the explosion in DS... my first thought was "whoa" and my second thought was "gonna keep an eye out for CC to react" cause this ticks all the boxes for good explosion, they even keep the shockwave interaction with the characters.

[Artaimus]

The cool thing with the ST:DS9 episode is that when trying to get the episode approved, special effects director Gary Hutzel showed what appeared to be a clip from the original episode to Ron Moore and Ira Behr, then pointed out that he had digitally edited in an extra actor. Having no idea that the footage had been edited in any way, the two were stunned and greenlit the episode on the spot.

[brianh]

The work that was done on digitizing the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode led to them deciding to digitize all of the original episodes. So you can thank the production of this one DS9 episode with them releasing the HD version of the original show.

[nachgeben]

The DS9 episode was such a huge deal, I remember a bunch of news segments about it, from when I was a kid, because they wanted to just rightfully brag about the work behind it.

[kyleantonini]

Fun fact that only means anything to me: one of the only full episodes I ever saw of the original Star Trek was “Trouble with Tribbles” as a kid. A decade or so later, one of the only full episodes I ever saw of Deep Space Nine was the episode where they go back in time to the Tribbles episode event. Good times!

[Acaneofworms]

Thanks for highlighting the DS9 Episode never knew how much work was put into that one even though I have seen the episode multiple times.

[jwdell]

As much as I love it when they bring guests on their show, I also love it when it’s just the crew!

[Gorthaur]

I really appreciate the editors going to bat for us on reacting to the Trek errors in real time.

[TheNightofWalpurgis]

That explosion is one of the reason why that particular episode of Demon
Slayer is the highest rated anime episode atm.

[MsDefectiveToaster]

I always loved the effect in A Knight's Tale where they used broken spaghetti for the wooden lance shards. Its a small thing but it looks really good!

[themaxfd]

Truly S-tier comedic timing on the editing of this video! Good job!