Why did the BARBIE MOVIE HIDE their BLUE SCREENS?!

Full Episode ► VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 128

[gshak]

Films swear they don’t use CGI and then there’s 1500 compositors, 3D animators and other artists in the credits

[nd-place]

Yeah, it’s not really behind the scenes if you add the scenes back in.

[mattburkey]

The VFX industry need to go on strike next. Not only are artists getting regularly pixel f**ked, it’s suddenly become popular to try and downplay or completely hide and/or deny their hard work. Give credit where credit’s due! They wouldn’t release a film that was, throughout it’s production, directed by Christopher Nolan but once it hits cinemas say “we used no director for this movie, everything was shot in camera with no director”. Nolan would piddle his pants if that happened, no award nominations, no fame and glory. It’s ridiculous. If your film has good VFX and CGI, shout about it! Better still, make it well paid and humane VFX/CGI, not months of crunch, sleeping under desks, time away from family, studio interference and constant pixel f***ing VFX/CGI.

[geovannibotticella]

I’m glad that Corridor called this out. When Barbie and Oppenheimer said they had “no cgi” in their movies I knew it was horse shit. I really appreciate that Dune leaned in hard with their visual effects and showing the potential of mixing practical and VFX

[warmth_]

There is an incredible series on YT called "No CGI is actually invisible CGI" which dives into exactly this trend. It's well worth watching

[Rezzanine]

If Hollywood wrote a novel, they'd say no pen or keyboard was involved and that the words appeared on the page via telepathy.

[TimothyKou]

VFX deserves more. The “stigma” of having VFX is ridiculous (but well put).

[Julzaa]

Vogue: "there is no CGI in Barbie Land"
DUDE

[Dee-Eddy]

We should see the behind the scenes of the behind the scenes.

[reaganmonkey]

Imagine getting paid to erase yourself from existence.

[jaredtolley]

Using effects to cover up the use of effects is wild

[heroclixrz]

That voguemagazine post that literally claims "there is no CGI in Barbie Land" is wild.

[LumpyHippo]

Hey Corridor Digital can You parody this and make a behind-the-scenes of like a superhero movie where you're pretending that it's all captured in camera?

[tom_cressey_dop]

Oren Soffer, DP of The Creator has often pointed out that a big part of this problem is Hollywood journalists misquoting directors and DPs when talking about VFX. How often have you seen an article where it says there was no VFX in a film, but if you read what the filmmakers actually said it’s often along the lines of them trying to do practical effects as much as possible.

[justingreen]

Ok but thank you for giving me an alternative to "two sides of coin."

Ill now use "two sides of a twix." 😂

[net]

They both have their uses and both benefit from each other, practical effects give “weight” to objects and make sets look way better, but we don’t have magic nor sci fi tech to make other stuff work, thats where vfx shines

[samk]

Im in such strong agreement with this. Even my brother who likes film has this dumb thing about "hating cgi" and practical is better. But truthfully, people have absolutely NO IDEA what they like. I know for a fact he thought those Barbie shots were practical

[tenwholebees]

I think a big problem as to why this is, is due to the general backlash and reviews that movies get from people complaining about CGI. Which in itself is a problem, because the general audience doesn't understand what CGI and VFX even is.

People complain about bad VFX, which, okay sure, but they never credit the good VFX. The constant barage of "this movie has bad CGI, when in reality its like 2 assets that look wonky while the enture background goes unnoticed by the general viewer because its GOOD VFX.

Uneducated audiences mixed with an era of everything seemingly needing to be CGI is truly a disaster for not just film, but the VFX teams.

This is extremely disrespectful for them to have done this to their own VFX team, but I'm sure it was done because of the genpop movie audiences who bitch and moan about everything they can.

Guys, just enjoy a movie and maybe educate yourselves better on filmmaking and VFX. And film studios, give credit where credit is due, otherwise something like the writer's strike is going to happen with the VFX depts and yall will be forced to use practical sets.

[scarletevans]

Thanks for sharing this! I think that unaware people are often just "disappointed", hearing all the time about CGI, different super effects, AI, technological progress.. and then they see techniques older than them, their parents or even grandparents :D

[Orson_Welp]

The world took the wrong lessons from the Star Wars prequel criticism