How Christopher Nolan Tricks You with VFX - Practical vs CGI
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Exploring the practical and visual effects of Christopher Nolan's films from a VFX artists perspective.
This is the first in a number of video essays designed to breakdown and teach VFX principals to audiences, hobbyists, and filmmakers.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Compositing vs CGI
2:33 The Miniatures of Interstellar
3:21 Street Bending Breakdown
4:10 Switching Between CG and Practical Effects
5:45 I'm Making a Zombie Movie - Фільми й анімація
Nolan: *doesn't wanna use greenscreen on interstellar*
the interns at the VFX studio: sob while rotoscoping E V E R Y T H I N G.
You can roto black background easily. Nolan knows his stuff
@@burrasivalohith3060 dude rotoscoping black backgrounds fucking suuuucks
Even with a green-screen though, apparently you often have to do a tonne of rotoscoping anyway.
@@iAmTheSquidThing yes you definitely do, but the green is also a great reference for edges. when manual rotoscoping is required
After effects rotobrush: I'm about to save this man's whole career.
Sam Raimi used a lot of the same techniques on his Spider-Man films. Using CG within a sequence but always making sure to end on a practical shot so the audience is pulled back into reality
This really demonstrates how a mixture of cgi and practical effects can give you the best result. Using practical effects when possible and cgi only when necessary allows for better and more believable effects.
Bro, so I have been following you for like 5 months and J decided to check out your UA-cam and let me tell you, this is the best analyzation video for CGI that I have ever seen. An absolute hidden gem
Hey I care from TikTok, love your content and I’m excited to see your movie
Appreciate it, I'll be posting it here!
You need to do longer videos, I’ve never been so upset at a video ending 😂
😆 dropping another video like this covering Avatar 2 soon that’s more in/depth!
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What a great video. Hats off to your work. Looking forward to see your shortfilm based LoU
A genuinely good video, very interesting to watch and I can tell that you have experience. Thank you, I'm looking forward to seeing your channel grow :)
Great work showing what was up while you explained it verbally. good video!
Underrated video - really well put together
Good job, very nice. Loved the motions.
Dude, this is a well put together video! Subbed!
Remember, when it comes to those city shots (ones where the VFX gods have perfected), the whole shot (Even the ones helicopter shot) could be completely digital, as they're mostly shot to use the camera track data to direct the 3D cameras. Also, I've accepted that being a compositor is something I have giving up. Why? I'm not prepared to spend the years it will take to be a GOD on Flame/Nuke. Just realised a theme with the names of these programs. Though as you can see, I'm still drawn to CGI stuff, having wasted 3yrs in Digital Animation.
My advice, skip school/Uni and learn from places like Gnomon/FXPHD/Animation Mentor/CMIVFX/CGMA/Even DigitalTutors etc!
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Good luck on your short film man! 🥳
More directors need to take this inspiration
Nice video man
Thanks, man! Great video.
599th sub. Lmao. Nah love this. Actually entertaining. Good job
Amazing content!!!
Can't wait for more videos, subbed :)
Thanks, more to come!
Great vid man
GREAT video essay, saw you on TickTock, excited to see more from you!
Wow this is a great video. Looking forward to more.
More to come!
Awesome!!
Came from ttk. Content approved. Instant sub.
like i didn’t learn what i wanted but so cool lol🖤💚🖤
This was great 👍
Appreciate it Nate
This is why Nolan is the goat
One thing that I think could take this kind of video to the next level would be just a little bit more systematic discussion of the tools used. It was really helpful when you said, "he ends every CGI sequence with a practical to convince you everything that came before was real" -- just wished there were a little bit more of that clear systematized thinking in the earlier examples, I think?
Subbed!!
good video!
excellent
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i loved this video
Es hermoso la magia del cine ;si beautiful the movie is nex level
Gorgeous
Wait, the street folding scene in Inception was not real?
Im here from tik tok, this video was great I hope you do more video essays like this
Thanks man, more to come!
Any idea how he did the handheld shot of Hugh Jackman interacting with himself in Prestige?
From what I remember, most of the shots are completely practical and just have a body double. Otherwise they do a split screen (where they split the shot in half and play 2 different takes at the same time)
@@JoshToonen but the shots were handheld, I don't think split screen would work for those shots
I was one year late to know your video
Fun Fact: photo realistic cgi is too expensive while practical effects on the other hand are more affordable.
Serious fact: the above statement can be both true and false but is mostly false
When is the last of us movie coming out
The sound mixing in this video was whack, but the info is solid; just wish the video was 60 minutes instead of 6.
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When’s the TLOU movie?
I'm his 1k subscriber
1:22 what movie is this scene from
Blade Runner 2049 - The Las Vegas drone shot done by Framestore
@@JoshToonen thanks, it looked familiar
Came from TikTok to see your Video, I must say you did your research and you know stuff! But for me it was hard to follow because you don't pause at the end of your sentences. So I it was hard to listen carefully and also watch the hidden CGI.
Wait; they rotoscoped WITHOUT green-screen? FUCK. THAT.
Yeah thats pretty easy for someone to do who gets giant budgets. For the average filmmaker, there is no alternative to CGI
They use Blender
No they don't.
@@lolvonlolipopp Nolan uses Blender, moron. He showed it in a documentary
@@temudjin1155 You're funny please give me a source if that's the case. The big studios use Maya, Houdini, Zbrush etc.
@@lolvonlolipopp Can't remember the documentary, but if I find it, i'll give it to you. Now you're wrong, Marvel vfx have hired people who use blender. There is a guy at a blender conference who worked for big productions and he explained how and why he uses blender. Most big companies, whether it is the game industry or the film industry are now investing in Blender dev. I think you are a bit late about the news
@@lolvonlolipopp Right in this video, this is Blender at 3:35
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