VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 140

Sam, Niko, and Wren 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!
0:43 A Stolen Life
4:03 Incogni - Sponsored Segment
6:03 INFECTED
9:52 Titanfall fan film (Japanese dub)
13:21 John Wick Chapter 4

[daito]

Having a shot I animated on infested featured here while Niko says the spiders look really good is probably one of the coolest thing that happened to me this year!
Especially since it was the first movie I worked on as an Animator

[cardiffst]

That Bette Davis clip is genuinely one of the most impressive things you’ve ever featured.

I’m speechless. Speechless! I have no speech!

[wadewilson]

The drivers not caring about the killers on the arc de triomphe is the most realistic element of this scene. Paris is hell.

[NerdGlasses]

12:40 I LOVE Japanese tactical dialogue. It sound so professional, and since there are a lot of really good japanese voice actors, they really give off the feeling of tension, and panic, or my personal favourite, the stohic and stern instructions, with a loot of weight.

[TheThird]

Having experienced traffic at the Arc de Triomphe, I can confirm that the other drivers not caring about the gunfight is possibly the MOST realistic aspect of this scene.

[Isnogood]

I'm so so so SO happy you clearly warned about the spiders. Thank you!

[alvintollah]

How fucking cool are films that modern vfx artists are still confused at figuring out effects utilised in the 40s?!!

[brandona]

Recommendation. Amish Paradise by Weird Al. At the end he’s walking and everything is moving backwards. Meaning it was filmed and then reversed. However, his lips are singing the lyrics perfectly.

[filmdetective]

Guys. I live in Paris. I know the the Arc de Triomphe roundabout (l’Etoile) by heart… this sequence is 100% perfect… really… the light environment, the street texture, everything

[elventh_]

Here is a great effect to check from 1942: In the final scene of Casablanca (1942) the mechanics visible behind Bogart and Bergman were actually Little people hired to make the Cut-Out plane in the background look real.

[QuirkyView]

"I did not hide spiders under the couch" is a wild thing to have to say seriously

[anthonypastor]

@corridorCrew I know this movie is played out, but I rewatched the first spider man movie and I can’t get over the fact that the entire scene where spider man dodges green goblin’s shuriken blades in the fire house scene is entirely CGI. It’s looks PERFECT

[gregjoblove]

I think a really cool episode idea would be breaking down hologram VFX from over the years. How has the style evolved along with the techniques?

[Thomas_H._Smith]

If you want some extra cool old school cloning effects, please check out the movie "Cover Girl" (1944).

There's a scene where Gene Kelly dances with a semi-transparent version of himself. It has everything, cloned actors, moving shots, the clones overlapping each other, and handling the same props. It's absolutely mind blowing.

[Ford_prefect_]

I love watching you guys react to old movies. It's so amazing what they did back then

[luprogaming]

Do one on data time such an underrated channel, they need this so baddd

[billveusay]

As a french person, I'm really glad you covered Infested! Most of our cinema is either comedies or familial dramas, and it's so cool to see a young director like Sébastien Vaniček tackle a genre that we don't often see made in France, especially one that requires quality VFXs and SFXs, and knock it out of the park like this. And now if everything goes well, he's gonna direct the next Evil Dead movie, and I couldn't be happier for him. I'm also studying to work in the film industry (I'm in 3D animation school) and that makes me very hopeful.

[lukeh]

The bridge scene from Sorcerer 1977.
An amazing bit of filmaking. Definitely should check it out

[bulbaboi]

You guys should check out Trials and Tribble-Ations from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They stich together footage from the original TOS tribble episode with new footage, Forrest Gump style. It's one of my favorites of the series, and I'd love to hear your take on how they accomplished the effects and how you think they did! Great show as always, guys!

[nathandust]

I have always been a cinema fanatic, but you guys opened a new doorway to how I view movies. I just would like to say thank you.