It was one of the golden years of the VFX industry back in 2000 when I entered the animation/VFX field. Attended my first Siggraph that summer in New Orleans, some crazy afterparties there.
Very educational. Thank you . I enjoyed it because of the dates of digital developments on the art and technology of CG, what we take for granted these days.
This was an awesomely done video explaining all the nuances of VFX film making and how has it progressed all these years...thanks so much for your efforts...a subs to u instantly.❤
when I first saw sky captain I thought it was the most incredible thing I had ever seen in my life. It was too much too soon but at least it helped open the gates for future movies.
Lucas even invented non-linear editing in Marin County at the ranch, he created what was called “Edit Droid” which was then later commercially released as “Avid,” the first non-linear film editing system/software.
amazing what they have come up with the technology for effects! just to think 20 years ago the limitations that were physically and technically in place? I am eager to learn what they come up with in the next 10-20 years!?
@@PeterHarket yea, I'm aware. But when I saw they wrote only 9, i was sure that in 20 years, there can't just be 9 major innovations and thats why I wasn't surprised they did till 2010. Anyways, i think they just made a mistake in the title
There was one more achievement which I am not able to recall, where the VFX engineers were able to use a mathematical equation to calculate light reflection from a human skin - which resulted in much more convincing human faces. Earlier films that used it were Van Helsing, LOTR's Gollum and later installments of Harry Potter movies
Stephen Regelous is the creator of MASSIVE he created it for LOTR franchise LOTR is my favourite film series of all time (just my personal opinion) I also think Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean are fantastic as well.
It depends on how it’s done I think it’s best when it’s a combination of cgi and practical it’s a shame when one art form is declared obsolete just because it’s newer technology I believe we should have a spectrum of use of cgi depending on what the film needs rather than it be used for everything it should be one of the many tools for special effects rather than the only tool used for everything
"cameraphones" first phone on the market, 1999 "Digital music." MP3 format came in 1991 (probobly first music grade digital format), first MP3 player came in 1998. "Bluray discs" While its true that blueray disc came in 00:th. The optical interface is identical to DVD apart from the blue laser, compression format use is H262 from 1996 and H264 from 2005 that was introduced in last second. So that is actually one thing from the 00tys. "youtube" UA-cam is a webpage storing video in 3GP and H.263 format. 3GP s pretty much a fork of H.263 that is from 1996. So there is basically nothing new about youtube when the page came around. It was neither the first or last video hosting site. It was just the most successful. Digital color grading was used way before 2000, in the movie Abyss from 1989 it was used in a few sceen. While the movie mentioned was the first movie that was totally color graded (well first hollywood movie), this is not a new technology at the time The digital effects of the perfect storm was mostly done in 1999. Masive is a software, not a invoation. It uses many inovation together, but its self is not an inovation
Zingo (1998) and Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) were full DI's that were released prior to O Brother Where Art Thou in 2000. You could even argue Breaking the Waves (1996) was the first fully DI film, even though color correction was done at lower-resolution (at D-1 digital tape). Pleasantville (1998) was also digitized in its entirety, but extensive color grading was used for about 70% of the film, rather than its entirety - and Phantom Menace (1999) was fully digitized, although that was more for VFX purposes, and the shots ended up going via the traditional photochemical color timing route. There were also film restorations like Snow White in 1993 and The Matinee Idol in 1997 that were 100% digital (and Snow White was even done at 4K resolution...in '93!). Not to mention, the vast majority of music videos and commercials were already being digitally color graded by the mid to late 90s
As a sign of respect to a person, you refer to their past selves as you do their present selves. After all, even while making the Matrix they may have been physically male, but they were sisters. They simply hadn't told the rest of the world yet.
Not totally true - they still had hundreds of extras in costume and all of the Orcs were real in the original trilogy. In the Hobbit the orcs were all digital. They used the AI to expand the scope.
Greenscreens and bluescreens have been around since the 70's George lucas used them for his space battle scenes, what you should have included was the new lcd screens powered by unreal engine 5 that uses photorealistic backgrounds so actors can see what they are looking at and it can be updated and edited live in real time. Its the tech the mandalorian used for all its external landscapes and many interior scenes. I see you got water simulation in there, but what about hair simulation cloth simulation and fire/smoke simulation? Since the release of fumefx and houdini, practical pyrotecnic explosions are now pretty rare
-Oh brother, colorized digitally -Wather particles the Perfect Storm, Hibrid simulation -Lord of the Rings MASIS, individual behavior in crowds -Motion capture, cameras, Simbad, FF Spirits Within, -Universal capture, 3d scan, 5 cameras, 3d model, ILM -Polar Express, Motion painted marks tracker, 3d CGI model -Digital Backlot, Digital background -IMOCAP, CGI Monsters interacting with actors, 3 camera, bands -Facial performance capture, Helmet with camera
This is what the "CGI BAD! PRACTICAL GOOD!" buffoons fail to understand. Without CGI, you don't get movies that look the same but "more real". You don't get movies, period. Without technology like this, the vision of the writers and directors would be impossible to bring to life. They would have dramatically compromise their art if they were forced to work within the physical limitations of practical effects.
So how much longer will it be until the actors themselves are no longer needed to make a movie? Could a star simply license their facial image and voice to be used in a film and never even have to show up on set?
I really liked this video, and it's apparent you put a lot of research into it. But what I have always wondered about mocap is how the background is "filled in" around the mocap real person. I mean, obviously the actor on set with mocap dots doesn't fit one for one the same volume as the CG character. So how is that done?
@@quintennnnn Hard to explain, but the volume (the amount of 3D space a green-suited model occupies) versus what the final digital creature looks like will leave an edge. So, how is that edge "filled in" between the two images ( the real model) and the fantasy image?
@@moodberry If the CG creature is larger than the original actor, then there is no edge because of the overlap. If the CG model is smaller, or there are things like the tracking markers that stick out from behind the CG layer, then those are painted out, with tools like content aware fill, manual painting, or making a plate of the background with no actors. Does that answer your question?
@@quintennnnn It does. I wasn't sure if any manual processes were involved, but you confirmed that sometimes they are. It would be cool if you could make a video showing how that is done. Thanks.
@@moodberry It's a complicated process that I'm not qualified to really talk about past the basics, but here's a video that explains it better than me: ua-cam.com/video/CKNoYxJQZ7A/v-deo.html To note, there are other ways, such as tracking the shot and adding CG backgrounds or 2D layers as 3D layers, to add in background elements. Software used for all of this are Photoshop, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve Fusion for compositing, and After Effects or Blender for tracking and adding in elements. This is generally for hobbyist to small studio productions, but Nuke and Cinema4D, and other even more powerful software are used for film. If you want to learn these things, these keywords should be enough to find tutorials.
_Avatar_ is an amazing movie to watch on a big screen in 3D, but on a small(er) screen and without 3D it becomes just a decent sci-fi action movie (and I'm not the only one to say this either). Not taking anything away from James Cameron - he is a major innovator - but this is not even close to being his best movie. _Avengers:Endgame_ deserves to be where it is because it is a fantastic movie on the big or small screen, 3D or not.
Battleship (2012) Well... judging by the design of that thing in the background, that is. P.S. But you've probably already found that out or totally forgot about this comment, since I replying almost a year late. Edit: Yep, that's "Battleship". And here's the VFX breakdown ua-cam.com/video/DxawCFRSwts/v-deo.html
Nope, all three original Matrix films (1999-2003) were color graded photochemically. Only one scene (the car chase sequence in 'Reloaded') was color graded digitally.
I'm such an idiot, I could've been at the head of a film organization if I had just followed my heart out of high school. I guess I did work on my first film 11 years after school, so not that terrible. Still feels 20 years late to the party though.
It was one of the golden years of the VFX industry back in 2000 when I entered the animation/VFX field. Attended my first Siggraph that summer in New Orleans, some crazy afterparties there.
SO glad I found your channel, outstanding craftsmanship, a joy to watch :)
Am I the only one who genuinely enjoys "Sky Captain"? It's like Flash Gordon meets Indiana Jones, what's not to love?
Very educational. Thank you . I enjoyed it because of the dates of digital developments on the art and technology of CG, what we take for granted these days.
This was an awesomely done video explaining all the nuances of VFX film making and how has it progressed all these years...thanks so much for your efforts...a subs to u instantly.❤
Your explanation is awesome bro....literally better than a real school 🤣🤣🤣
when I first saw sky captain I thought it was the most incredible thing I had ever seen in my life. It was too much too soon but at least it helped open the gates for future movies.
I think that ILM and Weta Digital are just epitome of VFX technologies today, they are masters of visual Graphics.
Lucas even invented non-linear editing in Marin County at the ranch, he created what was called “Edit Droid” which was then later commercially released as “Avid,” the first non-linear film editing system/software.
4:00, those nodes just looks so wrinkled... 🤯🤯🤯
amazing what they have come up with the technology for effects! just to think 20 years ago the limitations that were physically and technically in place? I am eager to learn what they come up with in the next 10-20 years!?
This is just an EXACT copy (choice-wise) of Cinefix's top 10 best VFX innovations of the 21st century, minus Gravity.
Cinefex?
awsome and intensive work for couch setting
Great! But you should have added the Disney VFX dome used in the Mandalorian :)
This video is for VFX from 2000 to 2010
@@sameeulhuda9114 It says “Since Year 2000”, not 2000-2010.
@@PeterHarket yea, I'm aware. But when I saw they wrote only 9, i was sure that in 20 years, there can't just be 9 major innovations and thats why I wasn't surprised they did till 2010.
Anyways, i think they just made a mistake in the title
the *what* ??
Courtesy link ua-cam.com/video/Ufp8weYYDE8/v-deo.html
Thanks you sir for uploading this video this video is very helpful to me to learn vfx
I love the way you articulate your message. So clear and on point. Much love from Nairobi
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There was one more achievement which I am not able to recall, where the VFX engineers were able to use a mathematical equation to calculate light reflection from a human skin - which resulted in much more convincing human faces. Earlier films that used it were Van Helsing, LOTR's Gollum and later installments of Harry Potter movies
ILM are the masters craftsmen of special effects. But Weta... They are pure artists...
U asked for a like and I subscribed... I loved this one
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Thanks ♥
0:21 …here are the top 9 VFX innovations of the “naughties”
noughties for 2000's because of the double 00 "naught" or "nought" is a British term for "nothing"
Amazing movie magic 👏🏻
Thank you! Great recap!
Stephen Regelous is the creator of MASSIVE he created it for LOTR franchise LOTR is my favourite film series of all time (just my personal opinion) I also think Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean are fantastic as well.
And somebody will always say that CGI can ruin the movie... Greetings from Poland :) love modern VFX :)
It depends on how it’s done I think it’s best when it’s a combination of cgi and practical it’s a shame when one art form is declared obsolete just because it’s newer technology I believe we should have a spectrum of use of cgi depending on what the film needs rather than it be used for everything it should be one of the many tools for special effects rather than the only tool used for everything
thank you
Professional editor
Exceptional Video. Thanks
Wonderful Compilation! Great job!
I'm curious what software you play with, it seems to me that certain TV news have traces of video processing
This is one of those great videos on the internet :)
SOOO.... 5 types of motion capture, water sims, crowd simulation, colour grading, and digital set extension. nice.
Love this channel 🙌
"cameraphones"
first phone on the market, 1999
"Digital music."
MP3 format came in 1991 (probobly first music grade digital format), first MP3 player came in 1998.
"Bluray discs"
While its true that blueray disc came in 00:th. The optical interface is identical to DVD apart from the blue laser, compression format use is H262 from 1996 and H264 from 2005 that was introduced in last second. So that is actually one thing from the 00tys.
"youtube"
UA-cam is a webpage storing video in 3GP and H.263 format. 3GP s pretty much a fork of H.263 that is from 1996. So there is basically nothing new about youtube when the page came around. It was neither the first or last video hosting site. It was just the most successful.
Digital color grading was used way before 2000, in the movie Abyss from 1989 it was used in a few sceen. While the movie mentioned was the first movie that was totally color graded (well first hollywood movie), this is not a new technology at the time
The digital effects of the perfect storm was mostly done in 1999.
Masive is a software, not a invoation. It uses many inovation together, but its self is not an inovation
Zingo (1998) and Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) were full DI's that were released prior to O Brother Where Art Thou in 2000. You could even argue Breaking the Waves (1996) was the first fully DI film, even though color correction was done at lower-resolution (at D-1 digital tape). Pleasantville (1998) was also digitized in its entirety, but extensive color grading was used for about 70% of the film, rather than its entirety - and Phantom Menace (1999) was fully digitized, although that was more for VFX purposes, and the shots ended up going via the traditional photochemical color timing route. There were also film restorations like Snow White in 1993 and The Matinee Idol in 1997 that were 100% digital (and Snow White was even done at 4K resolution...in '93!). Not to mention, the vast majority of music videos and commercials were already being digitally color graded by the mid to late 90s
That perfect
At the time they shoot the matrix, they where the warkowsky brothers. So which term is correct now? Actual interested...
As a sign of respect to a person, you refer to their past selves as you do their present selves. After all, even while making the Matrix they may have been physically male, but they were sisters. They simply hadn't told the rest of the world yet.
number 10, StageCraft
Nice....... Enjoyed every detail
Thanks
Yes, made it to the end of the video.
Yey, thanks!
I made it to the end and subscribed... thanks
Hopefully this decade they can develop voiceover artists who can pronounce basic English.
Awesome
You should talk about how the original Mario film changed CGI by creating new technology
Good Avances !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome dude...big fan of you
Could you please add the credits for all the movies featured in the video?
Really interesting!!
very interesting!
Just realized The Lord of The Rings was a giant AI simulation fighting itself
And sometimes deciding to run away!
Not totally true - they still had hundreds of extras in costume and all of the Orcs were real in the original trilogy. In the Hobbit the orcs were all digital. They used the AI to expand the scope.
**all of the Orcs were real people in costume and prosthetics
Greenscreens and bluescreens have been around since the 70's George lucas used them for his space battle scenes, what you should have included was the new lcd screens powered by unreal engine 5 that uses photorealistic backgrounds so actors can see what they are looking at and it can be updated and edited live in real time. Its the tech the mandalorian used for all its external landscapes and many interior scenes. I see you got water simulation in there, but what about hair simulation cloth simulation and fire/smoke simulation? Since the release of fumefx and houdini, practical pyrotecnic explosions are now pretty rare
Awesome 😎 more please 😁
I don't know why they say Final Fantasy The Spirits Within was bad. It was a great movie. I liked it a lot.
I'm so surprised about it
This is good stuff. Where did you get the video sources?
-Oh brother, colorized digitally
-Wather particles the Perfect Storm, Hibrid simulation
-Lord of the Rings MASIS, individual behavior in crowds
-Motion capture, cameras, Simbad, FF Spirits Within,
-Universal capture, 3d scan, 5 cameras, 3d model, ILM
-Polar Express, Motion painted marks tracker, 3d CGI model
-Digital Backlot, Digital background
-IMOCAP, CGI Monsters interacting with actors, 3 camera, bands
-Facial performance capture, Helmet with camera
How did bollywood remove green screen so sharply even when there Green screen is not evenly ligten or just thrown over an area
thnx bro
Weta and ILM are Awesome
Avatar is by far the best facial movement.
laughed hard at “watchowski sisters”
Hi, do you know what were the programs that they used in the movies?
welll i had to check if "wachowski sisters" was correct.....it is :D mind blowing stuff
GOOD MORNING BRITHER🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Cool!
This is great
This is great, I LOVE IT VFX
So for the first two ground breaking VFX movies which changed movies also have MR GEORGE CLOONEY in it,see the luck
Well for the 2000’s there’s cgi that came before
Nice
5:55 did you guys catch that? Lol
Yes I watched the video till very end and I heared "Let us know in the comment if you did" so I am doing it. No need to say thanks, Its ok.
Great
Future of movies is 100% digital, including actors
They were brothers then. Lol
This is what the "CGI BAD! PRACTICAL GOOD!" buffoons fail to understand. Without CGI, you don't get movies that look the same but "more real". You don't get movies, period. Without technology like this, the vision of the writers and directors would be impossible to bring to life. They would have dramatically compromise their art if they were forced to work within the physical limitations of practical effects.
Hasn't this been published before?
AVATAR WAS SO BOOTY
que video mas vergon!
So how much longer will it be until the actors themselves are no longer needed to make a movie? Could a star simply license their facial image and voice to be used in a film and never even have to show up on set?
considering they put Paul Walker's face on his brothers body, I imagine so
I wonder how long it will be till Actors are no longer needed?
I don’t even know half of these!
I really liked this video, and it's apparent you put a lot of research into it. But what I have always wondered about mocap is how the background is "filled in" around the mocap real person. I mean, obviously the actor on set with mocap dots doesn't fit one for one the same volume as the CG character. So how is that done?
What do you mean by filled in?
@@quintennnnn Hard to explain, but the volume (the amount of 3D space a green-suited model occupies) versus what the final digital creature looks like will leave an edge. So, how is that edge "filled in" between the two images ( the real model) and the fantasy image?
@@moodberry If the CG creature is larger than the original actor, then there is no edge because of the overlap. If the CG model is smaller, or there are things like the tracking markers that stick out from behind the CG layer, then those are painted out, with tools like content aware fill, manual painting, or making a plate of the background with no actors. Does that answer your question?
@@quintennnnn It does. I wasn't sure if any manual processes were involved, but you confirmed that sometimes they are. It would be cool if you could make a video showing how that is done. Thanks.
@@moodberry It's a complicated process that I'm not qualified to really talk about past the basics, but here's a video that explains it better than me: ua-cam.com/video/CKNoYxJQZ7A/v-deo.html
To note, there are other ways, such as tracking the shot and adding CG backgrounds or 2D layers as 3D layers, to add in background elements. Software used for all of this are Photoshop, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve Fusion for compositing, and After Effects or Blender for tracking and adding in elements. This is generally for hobbyist to small studio productions, but Nuke and Cinema4D, and other even more powerful software are used for film. If you want to learn these things, these keywords should be enough to find tutorials.
movie technology is at an alltime high but still cant get fencing books or historeans for medieval movies.
"The Wachowski sisters"....WTF!
CROWD SIM
THAT IS A LOT, BRO,
THAT'S A LOT
"the wachowski sisters" you mean brothers. Or wachowski surgical patients.
_Avatar_ is an amazing movie to watch on a big screen in 3D, but on a small(er) screen and without 3D it becomes just a decent sci-fi action movie (and I'm not the only one to say this either). Not taking anything away from James Cameron - he is a major innovator - but this is not even close to being his best movie. _Avengers:Endgame_ deserves to be where it is because it is a fantastic movie on the big or small screen, 3D or not.
wowwwww
UA-cam have sell more cameras than cinema does
So complex
The use of HDRI balls for lighting CG is probably a bigger game changer than any of these tbh :)
Can anybody tell me the movie name of 1:53
Battleship (2012)
Well... judging by the design of that thing in the background, that is.
P.S. But you've probably already found that out or totally forgot about this comment, since I replying almost a year late.
Edit: Yep, that's "Battleship". And here's the VFX breakdown ua-cam.com/video/DxawCFRSwts/v-deo.html
Was't Matrix colorgraded digitaly?
Nope, all three original Matrix films (1999-2003) were color graded photochemically. Only one scene (the car chase sequence in 'Reloaded') was color graded digitally.
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Thumbnail: this is about green men wearing white golf balls
True Video :none of the above……..
..Me:😶🌫️
Its difficult trick
I did 👍
I'm such an idiot, I could've been at the head of a film organization if I had just followed my heart out of high school. I guess I did work on my first film 11 years after school, so not that terrible. Still feels 20 years late to the party though.
Using all these techniques makes a movie less real because it is less grounded in reality. Everything is CGI nowadays. A real bummer.
well they couldn't find a real squid faced pirate or race of blue creatures who spoke perfect english to employee so they were really stuck