VFX Artists React 103: Dungeons & Dragons, Thor: Love & Thunder
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CHAPTERS ►
00:00 Welcome to VFX Artists React
00:39 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
06:29 Vessi Shoes
07:49 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
10:06 Thor: Love & Thunder
15:24 The Ten Commandments
18:28 Thanks For Watching - Розваги
I was genuinely surprised by the dnd movie. I went in with no expectations and really loved it. It felt like the writers just recorded their own campaign
It was infinitely better than the first big Hollywood attempt at a D&D movie. That one was just nothing but Hollywood cliches and by the numbers nonsense. This D&D movie was written by geeks who actually play D&D.
seriously, its a bummer its so universally loved but didnt get enough people seeing it in theaters
@@KaladinVegapunk Yeah, it makes me sad. A genuinely good film isn't doing that well, when something terrible like Thor Love and Thunder or Fast and Furious earns so much.
@@mr.whatislove3620 Yeah, it's really sad
@@KaladinVegapunk yeah it was the same with Alita Battle Angel.
I was a sound editor on Zohan. Based on the raw footage I saw before vfx work was completed, you pretty much nailed it. I think I have a screenshot of it somewhere. There were a lot of really great wire work shots in the first reel of the film.
Wowzers. Imagine getting to do something as fun as diving through the waves attached to a a crane on a speedboat and also getting paid millions for the privilege!! (I'd pay millions to DO it!!) 😅
Adam Sandler truly the living the dream, son!
I have some great insight on The Adam Sandler shot in the Zohan Movie. My close friend was an NCAA Finalist in the 200 Butterfly and was selected as the stunt double. He can for sure add more insight to how this was performed - if interested I can pass along the information.
@@SnakeBiteP07I can concur!! I met him myself!! Body double who did the butterfly! Super cool guy!
I was the body double! I definitely didn't swim, it was all sandler.
OMG! You survived to "The Sound"!
I was actually really impressed by the practical effects in the movie. They definitely didn't have to use as many puppets and such as they did, but it gave the movie such a grounded feel.
Yes! I'm dying for someone to make a video on that
Absolutely, I was thinking the same thing at the beginning of the movie where most of the practical creatures are. Loved to see it!
10:10 wow it's not often you get to see a mistake (however minor) in a corridor video :) love sourcename's work on Thor: Love and Thunder!
Hahaha, good catch! 😂
I spotted a similar error on a vid a few months ago, but then again, I cant really talk haha 😅
What was the mistake??? I don't see it
@@lone_eye_4107 It says 'Sourcename' where the production company should be credited in the bottom right hand corner.
I saw that and instantly told myself I need to find the first comment I can find about it 😂
The dungeons and dragons movie was such a great watch,the cgi was absolutely amazing
Truly man. The one shots were just stunning.
Thought they'd talk about the illusion part
@@kaslu1082 shh
Surprisingly really funny too.
I have blast watching it.👌
and the writing, and the acting, and the story, and the humor - just all around a great movie that struck the perfect tone for a fun buddy heist movie
The DnD movie followed the "Rule of Cool" several times, deciding that some of the stringent rules in the actual game could be bent to make a more enjoyable experience. That's why the Druid "Doric" could wild shape through different forms back to back, and also why she could turn into an Owl Bear, which is an abomination and not an actual creature a Druid can become. And the movie was right, as it was damn cool.
The Rule of Cool is how I choose to live my life lol
I just figure the character was a special shifting-focused subclass of druid, since you never see her casting any of the other million spells druids normally have.
Owlbears are Monstrosities, or “animal/animal like creatures that we don’t want druids to shapeshift into” (because Druids in the game can only shapeshift into Beasts, aka normal animals)
Also she should have switched to animal forms only twice before resting for an hour
With that said, to the hell with the rules, that scene is amazing
Just came here after a year of rewatching this incredible masterpiece of a movie. Some VFX are sketchy, if it weren't for said rule... but oh my freaking God is that ever the best flick to sink your teeth into as a VFX artist. Any movie you can think of, including LotR, somehow, this movies either matches or easily surpasses previous attempts at great visual storytelling. There are ten CD episodes (also corridor) hidden in there, if only for the composition and art design tying everything together.
I rarely would do that, but 7.3 or so on IMDB, a score that would make any movie a must-watch for me with the odd disappointment, that's a travesty for a funny yet heartfelt movie, one that appreciates every aspect of the many crafts involved in the making. I myself seriously underappreciated it the first couple of watches, despite having a massive blast. Thought I gave it lots of leeway despite being just "good" - no, that's a masterclass in realizing and crafting new stories from established material. I can't believe the Internet is still not exploding over how great it is, the sequel, while having lots to prove, is hopefully going to change all that.
@@minhuang8848 I was afraid that there wouldn't be a sequel for another 20 years
As a kid watching the Ten Commandments, I was blown away by the pillar of fire in front of Pharaoh's chariot and writing the Ten Commandments on stone. As an adult, I'm amazed by the costumes, massive sets, huge number of extras, and elaborate props. The snake Moses picks up is an awesome prop and the way they turned the water to blood was also really cool despite being pretty straightforward.
I really want them to go in more depth with the D&D movie. There is so much there. I would love to know how they did the dragon chase scene
I thought they did show some of that in bts stuff. Like when the dragon was pulling Chris pine he was actually being drug behind a vehicle
Same, I want to see so much more about Honor Among Thieves!
Corridor Crew is at a level where they speculate a VFX shot in a major motion picture, then get the VFX supervisor on the next episode to reveal the magic. 👏🏼
Do we see a guest appearance from Adam Sandler in the near future? Hmmmmmm
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Corridor Crew are at Joe Rogan level of VFX guests.
D&D movie was nice, I think they really nailed the balance between VFX and character and story writing.
As far as I can tell from the trailer, it's not worth it due to a strong feminist trope, unless i missed something and it's not just millennial humor which I very well could have. It completely went through theaters silent in Poland and had basically no advertising apart from YT.
@@boguslav9502 I think Michelle Rodriquez killed in her fight scenes, plus her and Chris Pine I would consider the main leads and their chemistry never seemed off to me at least.
Lmao, imagine being so delicate that you skip watching an entire movie because you half suspect it to have a trope you don't like politically.
@@boguslav9502 real incel energy
Also had some really awesome practical stuff like the dragonborn and aarakokra suits!
The Ten Commandments is one of my all time favorite films. Nice to see it represented. You also check out the even older version from the 1920's by the same director. The parting of the Red Sea in that one was accomplished with JELLO and heat lamps.
I'm so glad they covered the 10 Commandments.
shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! don't tell 'em!
I was a swimmer for a long time so I can shed some light on the adam sandler stunt. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you found everything to the shot. Butterfly is typically a hard stroke to keep up but it's also probably the most fluid when done right and becomes more so as you go faster. The downside of course is this takes a LOT of effort to maintain for a whole race. Now, take away that effort and put it on a boat, and make yourself way way lighter by having someone grab your hips at JUST the right time in the stroke this would likely become nearly effortless especially if you have proper technique, which in this case he does.
As a former swimmer myself, still some mad props to Adam Sandler for having the proper technique. I could never figure out the timing for butterfly
On the Thor lighting: 1917 did something similar with the flare scene and I felt that worked very well artistically, going from almost pitch-black darkness to almost daylight brigthness. And the moving shadows added a kind of surreal feel as if time was moving differently.
In 1917 the light is controlled differently, it goes along a line, and they had to know the timing of every scene before where in Thor they don't have to, they just need to record and decide at then end in which direction the light goes
Yeah 1917’s was similar to the cave scene in Half Blood Prince where the light is rotating around the characters the whole time
If I remember correctly, _1917_ used real flares travelling across the set on cables.
They did very similar lighting in Valkyie vs Hela scene from Thor Ragnarok. They probably thougt it looked cool and wanted to improve it in the new movie.
I jumped every time that dang sniper shot at him
I love when the guys watch movies from the older days. It shows that even with the available technology back then, it can still get a great reaction!
Glad you featured Zohan! Such a gem and totally funny!
I love looking at old movie effects. It is so interesting how someone has to think up how to make an effect.
Can't believe it's been SO many years and FINALLY
We're blessed with a clip from The Zohan
Silky smooth, I tell you this!
Disco disco good good
Best Adam Sandler movie ever!
The Avalon is the best haircut
That shot from Zohan, butterfly swimming at super speed, looks like so much fun to film. I'd love to be hooked to that rig.
I only wonder how much water he gulped down... That scene has to have been so incredibly exhausting to record.
Adam Sandler is an artist that perplexe me. On one had a lot of what he has done has been so incredibly bad it has to have been intentional, and on the other hand he seems to be very talented when he cares to actually try to act. I remember when he recorded some album with parodies of popular music and he was brilliant! So much talent, and apparently not giving a fuck, but instead making whatever he find amusing knowing very well that most critics will hate it. And yet he will make the money back and then some.
For the ten commandments shot way at the end (18:15); I'm pretty sure the "bunch of people behind them"' (layer 2 from the back) are also a matte painting.
Yeah, that was a common trick even in star wars
For decades the parting of the Red Sea scene was a subject of debate and wonder among movie goes, I saw the movie as a child and no other word than purely "awesome" could describe it back then. I heard years later that gelatin was used in the creation of that scene. I don't know to what extent but I have always been curious as how it would have been used. Your explanations are so more plausible I thankyou for your descriptions.
I first this movie in the 80s, as a young child. Years later, when I was a teen in the 90s, I heard about the possible gelatin use as well. What the Corridor Crew guys said sounds more feasible, imo.
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Yeh, those effects on the 10 commandments are great for the time, although it’s always worth pointing out that digital remastering has undoubtedly been done on it since it first hit cinemas, correcting things like grain accumulations and blue spill, but still, super ambitious stuff and it still has a weirdly real feel to it even now.
I had the chance to see it in the theater in the late '80's/early '90's; the VFX work was untouched with the remaster, which was a 6K scan in 2010. What was fun with the film version in the theater was seeing some negative/IP scratches go SIDEWAYS due to shooting in VistaVision.
@@imagesh1 interesting! I’ve never seen it in a cinema, I bet it’s epic!
Isn’t it nuts that we can see movies as old as this way better and clearer than anyone ever saw them originally, maybe even the directors!? There’s no way Technicolor ever worked as well as we can do it digitally now, after a negative rescan, clean-up, precision layer alignment, and localised frame by frame colour grade and contrast correction, for example.
Crazy.
The chair thing: it was on set, with both women. The issue with grain and the uncanny feeling I think is focus depth. On Michelle’s side, the camera is focused on her, a couple feet in front of the chair back. On Bradley’s side, he wasn’t there, so the camera is focused solely on the chair back and not the foot in front, where his tiny self would be.
One of my favorite practical effects from Ten Commandments is the “water to blood” vase. Director wanted an effect with no cut and the vase had to be dropped and broken without showing pieces that shouldn’t exist. Ended up being a simple magic trick effect. An angled “shelf” inside the held the blood but wouldn’t pour until tipped far enough.
I would love to see the crew tackle doing recreations of the Moses parting the sea scene with modern tools, maybe as like a time limit race or something
This year is the 60th anniversary of doctor who so that means 60 years of VFX! You should definitely take a look as the newer stuff has fantastic vfx and the older stuff is interesting…
I'm glad you covered The Ten Commandments, because the parting of the Red Sea is so awesome. Yeah, they can do it better today, but for when this was filmed, it was groundbreaking.
Absolutely
Legitimately, due to good choreography and some pretty nice effects, the DnD film was the best looking film I've seen in ages. It didn't have the most technically impressive visuals, but the directing, the flow of the action sequences, the fight choreography... and damn, the fat dragon bit? It was all so imaginative, and you could really see they put a lot of effort into every moment.
My favorite part was the illusion of the bard breaking down, lol. "Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!"
I would love to see the crew react to Bram Stoker's Dracula, specifically the sequence where Dracula, as a massive bat creature, separates into a pile of writhing rats. The whole sequence is visually arresting.
almost all practical effects in that movie. love it
That film is way too overrated and a big ol waste of time lol probably one of the worst Dracula films ever made
Or the demon scenes in End of Days!!
Classic optical effects are my favorite. Thanks again guys!
It's a bit depressing nowadays watching younger reactors on UA-cam who see effects in films from the 70's, 60's, 50's and automatically think it's "CGI." They just never thought about the possibility that such things could be done without computers.
The DnD movie was WAY better than I expected. 10/10 would watch again.
For the record traditional Egyptians were closer in appearance to Greeks. Cleopatra had more Caucasian features than Nubian or darker skinned people from the African interior.
Also they were hebrew(Jewish) who were escaping Egyptian slavery so they were also a lighter skinned people. We are all just various shades of brown anyways.
The Strobe Lighting effect was also done in Thor Ragnarok for the Valkyrie flashback scene.
On the Zohan Adam Sandler stunt: I remember seeing the behind the scenes feature on this, probably on a dvd. The rig was exactly how you've shown, but I don't think they got much more footage from it that what's in the movie. Sandler would do a few dolphin breaches and then the timing, speed and intensity would all fall out of synch. I was also very impressed that he was able to do it himself and I remember being blown away the first time I saw it in a trailer in a theatre. As a former club and lifelong swimmer, I couldn't believe that someone had somehow made it look that real, that a person could do that, and was fascinated to see how it was done years later on that featurette.
And to be fair, he was probably middle aged back then so it's very impressive how much athleticism he must have had still had to do a stunt like that.
@@SarcasticPlotRecaps Yeah, hats off to him. It's a weird movie but he sells it.
That Druid escape is one of the absolute best sequences I've ever seen in a movie.
The fights in this were so terrific. I love the wide shots so you could actually see the action. I fn hate most modern fights that are just quick cuts and you can barely tell what’s going on
Many of the Shin Godzilla scenes are very intresting and I would love to see you guys look at them, espically the scene where he destroys Tokyo.
%100,000,000,000 YES!!!
I’d love a whole episode on Godzilla! Comparing the classic effects with the modern ones, especially Shin Godzilla, would be great
I love that Corridor now has so much pull/credibility that they can get actual VFX artists/supervisors that works on the movies to come hang out with them and disclose all of their secrets.
You guys have some so far, and I'm so proud of you all.
The craziest part about The Ten Commandments is that the tank wasn't all that large. Universal used to have that effect on the tram tour and the whole thing was like 30 feet long by maybe 4 feet wide & 2-3 feet tall. Right at the very EDGE of bigature scale where water's surface tension starts making things look fake but not quite over that line.
For old movie effects, Forbidden Planet has so many good ones. Plus you get to see Leslie Nielsen in his early days.
I would love a video of Sam and Niko, trying to just use the DaVinci Resolve Relight to try and see if they can do a similar sequence as Thor. Wonder how that would look.
Should do a series "Recreate on a Budget"
The *last agni kai fight from ATLA* would be perfect for for the Animators React. It's so stunning!
And for stuntmen react It would be cool to see you react to the duel from "Potop", it's really good sword fight
The "CHARGE " Blender short would be awesome
for the VFX series. As well as *Aslan from the Chronicles of Narnia!* where you could do a comparison to the "live action" Lion King. Also at the end of second Chronicles of Narnia movie there's a big water creature, so it might be cool to see what you think about that.
Maybe also, Max Schneider's Gibberish music video, the editing kinda breaks my brain there.
Yes please. 😊
They already reacted to it in "Artists look at cartoons" section.
The Love and Thunder trick was brilliant. I am going on a limb from an editors workflow. It isn't about preserving the motion of the "practical" light. It is about avoiding a lighting mistake that Corridor would point out in a later episode. 🤣 If you are shooting different angles, and choices are made later in editing, the DP doesnt know which shot is going to be used at which point in the fight sequence. Hence, shoot it will all possible lighting angles and match the "motion" of the light source based on the "timing" of the sequence. Thanks for sharing. That was a cool trick
Actually, the goverment of Egypt is suing Netflix over their portrayal of Cleopatra as a black woman. Egypt asserts that Egyptians were actually white.
I used to love that Ten Commandments scene. If it was ever on TV and near that part I'd always watch it and be so blown away.
The Love & Thunder sequence should've been entirely rethought, they could've kept the "moving light source" idea if they'd come up with a shot sequence and fight choreography that allowed for longer shots, fewer cuts, and incorporate camera movements that would allow viewers to notice the moving lights/shadows (for example, the camera swinging around an actor in sync with the moving light). But no, someone just said "how cool would it be to have a moving star?" and they just threw whatever they could together :(
Classic Marvel.
Maybe if they’d had a competent director 🤷🏼♂️
@@AndrewDembouski all there upcoming stuff does
@@AndrewDembouski you blame the director but in this specific example the problem relies on the person in charge of vfx so Victoria Alonso who was the main vfx supervisor of the mcu and has been around since iron man.
@@AndrewDembouski That's a bad take. Taika Waititi is an exceptional director who has made excellent films, including indie pics and the previous Thor film with a huge blockbuster budget. From interviews w cast and him, it is clear that the studio was extremely invasive during and after production, and he himself has said he was disappointed in the final product. Being a great director doesn't mean you can't flub, especially when working under massive studios obsessed with control.
@@AndrewDembouski Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit, on their own, prove Taika's anything but incompetent. It's fine to not like this film, but to dismiss him as a creative is too far.
My friend Finn was the big guy in d&d who jumps into the gelatinous cube. There's a video of him doing the scene when they forgot to heat the sheet of jelly he dives through and he bounces right off it like a trampoline 😂
Way back in the Amiga days, around 1995, I worked on a game Alien Breed 3D II, where we used a similar system of lighting 3d rendered objects (this was when 3d graphics cards weren't out yet, or were very very near their beginning) with 5 lights, left, right, up, down and front. This gave us a sprite set that we could mix in real time to give us lighting effects like plasma balls going past the aliens, and it would light them pretty nicely.
Loved that game!
Since you are discussing vfx made in the fifties, could you react to the scenes created for the Movie _Forbidden Planet?_ It is one of the best Sci-Fi Movie ever made, more than twenty years older than Star Wars and still ten years older than 2001. It had some of the most convincing effects made for any movie of this era.
12:00 I would have to agree with Niko here. Despite the effect being so meticulously planned and executed, it's not seen in the final product at all. The dynamic lighting angles don't look visible at all, although that's mostly with how many details there are in the scene that the lighting and shadows just become part of the visual noise.
Edit: Also the DnD movie is WAY TOO GOOD! I enjoyed it so much more than I ever thought I would, and that was me already knowing that people have been saying it's surprisingly great.
Agree. I also just think the filmmakers probably made a mistake from conception. The orbital period of the planet (an extremely fast orbital period for a tidally locked moon would have a very different effect on the lighting than seen in the film [which would probably be cooler to plan an action scene around as it would have alternating periods of light and dark]) would have to be immensely fast, like 1 complete orbit in 5 seconds for the effect to be significant, but it looks more like 30 seconds in the film. When you're cutting to a different shot every few seconds the angle of the lighting has changed less than 60 degrees at 30 seconds per orbit which just isn't significant enough to make the shot look dynamic.
As some one who has zero lighting understanding in editing software I noticed it in the cinema. Maybe its an example of the more you understand the more you dont notice it. The first thing i noticed was the moving lighting during the fight scene.
@@maxpowers4436 Well, the movie calls attention to the moving light. That's unmissable. The issue is that there's no real continuity to it. Despite all the tech, the light moves inconsistently, and with all the cuts and camera moves, you can't really track the lightsource anyway. So the end result is no different than if they'd 'faked' it with regular lights.
@@jasonblalock4429 well its the old 180 rule really isn't it. you can cut from one actor to another and maintain the 180 rules, but the shadows will be flipped, and not necessarily flipped 180 but by some random angle. and the direction of the movement of the light will have changed also. so even with a lot of planning the effect isnt going to be as satisfying as maybe they hoped it would look. Maybe the best way to use this would be to only use continuous shots so theres no cuts at all, so as the camera is rotating the lights and shadows are rotating and you ee everything change smoothly as the camera moves around.
It just seems like there were certain shots that didnt work out so the shadows dont move, like that wide shot of gor and his shwdow is off to the side, and its not changing. Maybe they needed more lights to do an effective smooth transition between them to make the effect work, or maybe the lights themselves need to be moving on top of having multiple lights and higher frame rate. Having 6 frames to work with is still 60 degrees between each frame, going from a very clear long shadow on the ground and trying to blend that with another frame thats 60 degrees out is just not going to work, it works good enough for blending shdows on a fce/body, but a long shadow on the ground being 60 degrees different could be meters of distance that you cant just blend from one image to the next, it would just look like one shadow fades out and the other fades in. so its an interesting idea but i for what they wanted to do it wasnt enough. they need the stage lights to move or have far more of them.
I agree and I think the big issue is that the whole set piece is too contrasty and filled with debris to really give a lot of presence to the lighting. It looks too messy, and man a lot of those shots look like they’re 100% CGI anyway (and bad/ugly CGI too)
Best pull-quote for almost everything Corridor does or looks at... "Screw physics, I'm the director!"
Have you guys covered "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" (1992) yet? I just watched that film yesterday for the first time in years and was blown away by how well the effects hold up. I was especially impressed with the gum chewing in the opening scene and the part where he's smoking and you can see the smoke in his invisible lungs. How did they do that?! If you haven't covered this movie yet, please consider adding it to the list.
I feel like Ren talking about Thor Love and Thunder. He was so excited to share something cool lol
Actually the Egyptians are complaining about a black actress being cast as Cleopatra, but yeah, same issue. 😂
I'm sure we'll get there one day.
The Greeks should be complaining about that Cleopatra casting too since she was Macedonian lol
It's claimed to be a documentary, and Cleopatra absolutely wasn't black, so I guess yeah, it's the same issue.
Maybe because Cleopatra was not black and they sold it as documentary?. Why would egyptians allow Left radical americans to stole their history?
What if Egyptian does malcon X white or Egyptian and sell it as documentary? Not so funny anymore eh? Double standards
Like the Corridor crew indicates, so many people are ignorant of Egyptian history. Egyptians weren’t white, or black, or even Arab. Coptic Christians are the direct descendants of ancient Egyptians, and they were persecuted and colonized by Arabs.
Not to mention a lot of Egyptians are paler than me, which is an almost impossible feat.
So so so glad you did that long shot with the animal morphing. It was an absolutely beautiful sequence. So long!
01:30 this is where we see that it's VFX artists reacting and not D&d players reacting. D&D players would be saying "Druids can't wear metal armor!"
If you guys haven't yet, it'd be cool to hear you talk about Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Especially the wall shadow scene.
I think they’ve reacted to a few shots
How they did the Adam Sandler shot is on the DVD release bts for Zohan, had it as a kid, it’s pretty much done exactly how you described.
I got to see a screening of Thor: Ragnarok with a Q&A with the VFX supervisor afterward. He talked about how Taika had two conditions for agreeing to direct the movie. The first was that he wanted to make sure that he'd be able to shoot in his loose, improvisational style, without having to adjust for the VFX, which lead to the VFX supervisor integrating the mo-cap sensors into the sets so Taika and Ruffalo and other CG characters could improvise to their heart's delight. The second condition was that he wanted to use this new, specialized lighting rig Taika's friends had invented. It was used in the Valkerie flashback sequence, combining fast moving lights with high speed photography. I suspect the lighting rig used in the featured sequence in Love & Thunder was developed by the same people?
Yeah I'd imagine it was. Wren brought that into one of these back when Ragnarok was fresh.
Loved this episode guys. I recommend your show/channel to so many people. It's like filmschool, VFX school and the detailed DVD extra's you never get anymore, all into one great program. You guys are awesome!!
All the best the 'real' Lucky Luke from the Netherlands!
Absolutely loved this episode!🤩 The way you guys explained the special effects in these movies was super cool. It's crazy to see how much tech and creativity is used to make these awesome effects. I really liked when you talked about the AI stuff in DaVinci Resolve and the lighting tricks in Thor: Love and Thunder. It's mind-blowing to see how advanced movie-making has become. Can't wait for the next episode!👊
never been this early… it’s scary here
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Boo
I literally found God here.
I'm 11 minutes late and we have dozens of comments now XD
@@aaryanmulaye1683 Yes, you have
I'd love to see you guys try to replicate the spinning light effect from Thor, but with your own methods. And maybe making the light moving more visible. It'd be neat to see you guys try to pull it off.
The little details you all catch is amazing. I am glad you re-show them because I rarely see them until you point them out.
I'm 99% sure that the Red Witch's outfit in D&D is red the entire time, and then masked out and turned black in post. For all shots, not just ones where her outfit transitions colors. I don't think a real black outfit was even made. There are small little artifacts around her outfit that can be noticed if you pixel peep, and there's one shot (where she dips her finger into the cup) where the mask for her outfit is offset by one frame, leading to a little goof where the red of her outfit shines through.
Waiting for Adam Sandler's comment being like interview me yourself 🤣🤣
Hey! Corridor guys! Buy the Zohan DVD with the commentaries! Literally all of the cast, as well as the directors have commentary on this whole movie.
I remember specifically that the director or Adam talked specifically about that exact scene. You were absolutely correct about the rigging.
The crowd shots in The Ten Commandments look like giant crowds. Compare that to the recent Mandalorian season where apparently the whole town evacuated and it’s 9 people. Crazy.
I’d love an episode where you tackle nothing but old practical effects!
I loved the D&D movie! So much fun! It was also great to see that shot from Zohan visited.
5:58 my theory is he and the cushion he's sitting are real in his scale and comped onto an either real or CG chair. The focus feels weird to me. some parts just feel too flat and sharp and some or blurry, like the rungs on the rop of the chair are blurry but the back and head of the chair are really sharp but flat. Imagine the chair without the cushion and you can see how the chair looks normal, but put the cushion on and him on and it feels comped
10 Commandments was my favorite growing up. It's a 3 hour + movie but still managed to keep my attention at 8 years old!
CHALLENGE: Do a version of the Thor Fight with dramatic lighting choices and the AI lighting.
Next we'll have a petition to have them remake it for Disney. God that movie was awful." Glad" Disney would rather make a funny frat hammer obsessed boi and make him backtrack LITERALLY ALL OF HIS CHARACTER GROWTH. biggest complaint is eternity. It's not a wishing well, and Thor should've given the "tool to learn to harness your power" to the child who would need control. Nah instead let's give a 5 foot axe to a 3 foot girl cause funny.
Eight Legged Freaks, a movie that terrified me when i was younger. Some janky effects but still freaky. Not sure if you've ever seen it but the opening of the movie where bikes are being chased by giant spiders was always terrifying. (I know wren ia going to be scared, sorry bro)
18:00 they did a ton of blue screen shots, I remember watching it as a kid and seeing the blue screen fringing in the scenes where they're in Egypt and the Pharaohs/Queen are overlooking the city.
Another great episode. Loved the old movie effects segment. You guys should do that more. How about Ben Hur chariot race?!?
Recommendation! The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. They do a great job blending CGI in with the puppetry. They also have a great action sequence at the end of episode 4 showing SkekMal chasing the gelflings through the woods.
It'd be cool for y'all to look at a bunch of scenes where one actor is playing two characters in the same scene
Like on the Flash show when Grant is playing two versions of Barry Allen and they're standing next to each other in a scene
The problem I had with the Thor shot was that the sun is rotating faster than the stars. So it seems like the sun is a small object moving around the planetoid, not the planetoid rotating quickly because it's small.
Wren is my favorite. Seems like such a genuinely nice dude to be around. I appreciate his passion for his craft.
I know Niko is a big fan of fire shots. You guys should cover Reign of Fire. Especially some of the scenes where the dragon drools and the chemicals from his mouth make fire where it falls.
They have previously I'm 99% sure. Have a bell ringing that they said this was actually the first time, or one of the first times when giant dragons like we think of in live action today actually appeared. And I think they focused on the fire effects and how well it was done.
Yeah they did Reign of Fire already, since they talk about the scene of the Dragon Ambushing the convoy on the road into the city.
Today the cast black American actors to play Egyptians who were definitely of Greek descent so everything changes yet everything is still the same I guess 🤔
Don't Mess with the Zohan was an amazing movie. We saw this shortly after it came out in theatres and no one else was laughing during the movie but my wife and I. We thought this was a great funny movie with some real world cultural fighting. If you have not seen it do, it is so funny.
The Ten Commandments is one of my favorite old movies ever, I was very pleasantly surprised to see them talk about it.
It's fascinating that Niko said Google has become useless. Because it has, and it's mind boggling how this giant search engine became so bad in the last couple of years.
Why’s it so bad now? I can’t find anything on it anymore
I keep hearing people saying that, and as someone who uses Google multiple times every day, I don't notice any dip in the quality of their search. Sure, there are a few more ads at the top of the results, but that's to be expected.
@@DJHolte It's not about the ads, as those get blocked. It's about the relevancy of the results, which has deteriorated.
Dungeons & Dragons was a really great movie -- I hate that it didn't perform well in the box office because I felt like it embodied D&D, and was such a fun movie to watch
I just noticed the cloud background behind Moses at 15:50 are upside down, i guess that seemed more otherworldly
I remember watching the DnD Movie with my dad. Now I dont play DnD and my dad has barely heard of it but while watching the Bradley Cooper scene he's just kinda watching the scene then suddenly he bursts out laughing. In the middle of the laughing all he manages to get out is "He's a Mini Cooper!".
There's NO way Vessi didn't give the entire studio free shoes.
white Egyptians is more accurate than Netflix
Thanks for doing the Ten Commandments, it's one of my all time favorite effects. A great effect isn't just about the technical aspects, it's how it fits dramatically in the story. The Red Sea parting is a perfect example of this. One reason the blue screen work is so good is that this was one of the first films (maybe the first) to use a luminescent blue screen. This allowed for better separation of the elements and gave better results for fire and water than traditionally lit blue screens.
Dnd was AWESOME! loved the last second of ten commandments
Vessi is legit the only sponsor on youtube whose product isn't crap
Hey. _Brilliant_ is also pretty good.
The new Guardians of the Galaxy movie has some crazy effects on it
You should have a segment where you go through the process of actually keying out a process screen on film, and how the "traveling mattes" were created. It's not as simple as "...and then they keyed out the blue..." It involved specific color filters and separate film elements to arrive at a key-hole matte, and then a hold-out matte, and then a composite of the two, but then how to deal with choking the matte (under and over exposure of the matte element makes it bigger or smaller) and needing a minimum density of the negative to avoid "print-through;" having to do "wedge-tests" (using a test frame and running thru all the combinations of "printer lights" on the optical printer to determine the correct light color to use to composite the elements - color correction of the day) of each piece of the puzzle before loading them into the "aerial-image optical printer" to rephotograph the elements to be composited. Plus the issue of film stock - very slow ISO, low contrast intermediate stock because camera stock has too much grain. It really puts into perspective how much work ILM had to do on the original Star Wars films, considering how many shots they had to accomplish. The fact that it ONLY took them two years is mind blowing. You will not be disappointed...
11:30 that is epic! Such a simple idea but the outcome has so much potential! Loved this
I was about to say “Didn’t Love and Thunder just come out just a few months ago?” But it has almost been a year… Damn, what is happening with time.
2:30 _The Fast and the Furry: Neverwinter Drift._
Wren fighting for lighting justice❤ 14:33
Thanks for looking at Ten Commandments, I am 30 years old and I still like some of the neato effects they tried. Maybe have a look at the scene where Moses' staff turns into a serpent; its a pretty good compositing.