Two things: 1) The Corridor Crew should do an episode fixing the bad CGI of the Blood God from the end of the movie, "Blade". 2) Wren should know that on average, you are approximately 3 feet away from a spider at any given moment.
Please, please react to the Sci-fi vfx and stunts Hardcore Henry, it's one of the few first person perspective fi!ms out there and they have a load of behind the scenes videos so you can see how they did things!
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
I hated it, which means you and your fellow animators did a great job! If I tried watching it in a theater I'd have to leave because those spiders were so well animated
I think the life expectancy of a pedestrian on the Arc de Triomphe roundabout must be about 5s… What’s least realistic is that I doubt that you have enough room to do a 360° around another car, especially with an American muscle car. But more than that are the lack of crazy vibrations on the cars from the paved road. Plus the fact that it’s such a high risk spot for terrorism that there are armed military units at all time in this place that would secure it and engage very quickly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think it's because back in the days before CG, they had to improvise and come up with creative ideas to execute those shots. These days, artists are so heavily reliant on CG that they rarely really have to think of those creative tricks to get their shots. It's like how we build structures now, relying on heavy equipment, but back in Egypt, they built pyramids with very primitive techniques to move massive sandstone blocks. I'm not sure if we even know the exact methods they used to build them, but we have a pretty good idea. Humans just invent methods to make their work easier and eventually forget the old methods with time.
Also, a lot of the time the VFX weren't well documented. Just folks on-set or in post-production coming up with weird crap that worked, and never wrote down their techniques. So even today, people have to guess at what they were doing.
It's that they're aware of the tools available in the 40s. Those shots would be reasonably easy to do in modern compositing, but obviously that doesn't inform you as to what had to be done to get that shot at that level of quality eighty years ago.
@@gavinderulo12 Agreed, a better point would be to say that modern VFX is about a different sort of creative problem-solving than pre-CGI VFX was. I daresay they almost aren't even the same field anymore. So of course modern VFX artists would struggle to figure out pre-CGI VFX, they deal with different problems
Same here, I used to have no issues with spiders but randomly developed arachnophobia as an adult so I really appreciate the heads up before showing that hallway of nightmares
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
Look at the road texture, then look at how smoothly those cars are driving and drifting. On roads like that, the tires on those cars should be bouncing as they go over those bumps. Even if the bumps are small. The moment I saw those cars moving so smoothly, it completely shattered that element of the illusion.
Recommendation!!! @1:57:20 ish in the movie "The Score" from 2001, with Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Edward Norton, and Angela Bassett. When Marlon's character is watching the news, he's reacting to the robbery, when he finds out his friend (Robert DeNiro) escaped and was unidentified, he smirks, but that smirk was digitally altered (CGI?)
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.
Another impressive movie to analyze is "The Admiral: Roaring Currents", is one of the most popular South Korean movie ever, about a naval battle but none of the naval battle scenes were actually shot on or near real water
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.
It was funny for me to watch this film because when I saw the building, I was like 'hey I know this one" because I live like 200m from this building. The first half of the movie was really good, I did loose interest for the second half. Nevertheless it was technicaly on point, Sébastien Vaniček did a good job on this one overall.
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!
That would be a good thing to react to. I would like to see them react to special effects from tv shows, since they have a lot smaller budget to work with compared to movies.
@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
@@thespicemelange.1she put her foot down and back up while the other “actor” kept moving. It’s called a “ping pong” like how a ping pong goes back and forth really quick. Idk if it’s an actual film term but that’s how they used it in this context.
@@jrdiggie3382 makes sense, would have been nice if they explained it for people unfamiliar with their nomenclature. Oh well I guess that's what the comment section is for...
The Bette Davis clip is incredible when you consider it’s all done by hand without the aid of computers. It’s also an example of how things like lighting and film quality can help make effects. As opposed to shooting now in super high quality 4K with heaps of light. Hide your effects in the darkness and the grain and it comes off more believable. Real masters who worked on this one, wish you named them.
SUGGESTION: The Whole Town's Talking (1935; Dir. John Ford) has some interesting doubling FX with two Edward G. Robinsons simultaneously on-screen. It begins around 39 minutes into the film. He even hands a letter to himself at 43:05. Currently playing on Criterion Channel.
by referencing the magicians’ tricks you’ve revealed in past episodes to expound upon new revelations, you guys are building a new media literacy database for young creators to glean insight from. thank you for this treasure.
There's an episode from Doctor who, the christmas special from the season 4 - Voyage of the damned, where the doctor kisses a transparent woman in the end. I realy want to see you guys reacting to this and explain how is done.
I don't know if you've already watched it but Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was entirely shot on blue screen and had almost everything else added in
Guys if you ever do a Mad Max Furiosa episode, in the first 4 minutes there are already some CG fails, exactly at the 4:07 min in the background you can see a CG extra repeating keyframes (without looping) and like 10 seconds later there are (in the same shot) 2 CG extras with the same animation
You should do an entire video dedicated to 2 actors on the same screen - oldest, to Parent Trap to something more recent like Legend. The evolution of it is amazing!
In the 1997 movie THE BORROWERS there is a scene in which a full size kid places a tiny person is inside a fish bowl and their figure is distorted appropriately. There are other cool effects in the movie also.
@2:45 the “fades” are film dissolves…that means they applied photo chemicals to dissolve the silver off of the celluloid substrate. It’s real old-school film era vfx. Like rotoscoping with Q-tips and acetone, probably in a suite on the studio lot.
The last few have maybe been shorter in case of copywriting issues. With Marvel, music videos, Netflix, they’re less likely to make longer videos if they get demonetized for copyright
Plz look at the Labyrinth with David Bowie. It was released in 1986, and it’s the first scene that shows David Bowie/Goblin King. It’s when he’s holding the crystal ball and then turns into a snake. Another part to look at is when he then throws the snake onto Sarah. It’s pretty cool you guys should look at it :)
i love the strat of changing the movies language, because i often watch stuff in other languages and when i read the subtitles im like "well thats worded kinda wierdly but im sure its just getting lost in translation" whereas if i watch an english dub im alot more critical of the dialogue and word choice
It's brilliant. I don't think I could sit through an entire movie of J-Lo acting like a middle aged action hero but changing her into the live action avatar for a crazy anime movie makes the entire thing tolerable. Before seeing this video I had no interest in the movie, now I'm getting pumped to watch it.
13:52 Wren, have you ever been to Paris? The Arc de Triomphe has one of the highest incident rates in France, insurance companies have agreed that any incident on the Arc is not negotiable and that every involved party pays a same portion as the others. It is fairly realistic that the other drivers just carry on with their thing
There is a documental about Emilio Ruiz Del Río, a very famous Spanish matte painter that worked on films such as conan or the earlier dune, where they reveal the techniques used, very impressive craftsmanship!
Wren has been my all time favorite of the Corridor Crew. =) If I could, I would like to meet him as much as any other person I'd badly wanna meet. His reaction to the spider unveal was so nice.
You called for suggestions recently. I thought the acting on the part of the CGI ape in Umbrella Academy has been quite good. It might be fun to interview people from the show to find out how they did such a good job.
House is great, but I'm not sure if there's much for them to talk about. From a technical standpoint, the VFX were incredibly primitive and it's easy to see how they were done. But they were absolutely perfect for the insane tone the movie was going for.
Lmao I was also laughing at this! Yes, Bette and Bitty Davis had a long, storied career in vaudeville with a tapdancing routine until a runaway circus lion mauled Bitty's feet. Bette began acting, but Bitty would only do roles that let her sit down. True Hollywood story. 🤞
M under so much drugs but m watching the episode because you guys helped me alot becoming a cg artist in a country where there is no vfx industry in the first place. M getting so much projects and am able to help my parents and little brother financially bcs of you guys. You showed me that if you love something and you work hard enough you can make a living out of it! So thank you guys!!! I meant evey word
I’m so curious about the process of it. No computers, did they animate a matte? what were the layers/composites, what did it look like before being processed.
@@GoetiaTV Pre-computer compositing of this type was often done with an optical printer, basically a device that copies movie film to movie film, with a third strip or still frame interposed. That third strip is the matte, which indeed was animated, but the part that moves is some simple black and white shapes, so it's relatively easy to do. Then you make a negative copy of the matte. That way, by repeatedly exposing the same film with the positive and negative mattes, you can combine two layers without getting a weird ghostly look from multiple overlapping exposures.
@@Kythyria I would love to take a class that would give me access to that type of equipment. just for the tactile, optical, chemical, mechanical understanding of it.
wren thank you so much for knowingly selling me insurance on my internet history. if it wasn't for your wisdom i would never have impregnated my sister, its a pity ill have to comp in my father with a yellow screen over my moms tomb. Thanks for always being inspiring and never selling out to sponsors! Sponsor segment over. PS. i lost my identity after wren feathered me
God....I remember watching the special Netflix preview of Atlas that still had a TON of pre-vis work still in it...and it was absolutely HILARIOUS to watch! Good to see the finished version looks so good now.
....but it really is, though. A) any fear can be addressed and overcome with a little courage and a less defeatist attitude, and B) EVERYONE is BORN with a genetic-level fear of spiders that for most of human history helped little infants and children stay away from snakes and spiders.......but unless one is an infant or small child....😅. I was TERRIFIED of spiders......so one day in 8th grade I started catching and keeping/feeding then to slowly get over my fear,starting with jumping spiders. There's still a sliver of fear when one startles me, but it's almost completely gone. So, 'scuse me saying, but,: notwithstanding very serious tramautic event involving real injury.....nah, just writing off a currently unaddressed fear as simply "impossible" IS, in my opinion, a joke. Perhaps the only fear I haven't yet more directly faced and overcome is that of swimming in deep ocean waters. But I know that with enough experiences doing so and not having terrible life-threatening things happen I would overcome that fear as well. Just gotta be willing to face your fears.
I couldn't stop laughing at Wrens genuinely upset face during the spider movie. They moved WAY too realistically it was even freaking me out a bit and I don't have arachnophobia. Well maybe I do NOW lol.
I share Wren's fear of spiders. Really suprised he didn't stomp the one that came out from underneath the sofa. Nevermind, he did. Good job! And the movie, I have to watch it...
@@zeno6111753 I have a huge arachnophobia but still went in theatre to see Infested. It kinda helped to battle the fear, and the movie is well made nevertheless. I'm glad we keep making such great genre/horror movies in France !
You might (or might not) be surprised at just how many shows and movies can be made better by changing the language. Sometimes its humorous, sometimes it's much more dramatic. Atlas is a good example, but for a humorous one try watching The Boys in Japanese.
@@AnHRTBus Money Heist is a good example. Incredible boring to watch in English, but stick it in French and use subtitles and you can get emotion through their tone and actions instead of the words they use. and for a show like that, the confusion of another language adds to the intensity of the scenes.
@@AnHRTBus Not sure about The Boys. The don't capture Karl Urban's Butcher and the other top actors in the Japanese dub in my opinion. Now, BoJack Horseman, NetFlix live action remakes of anime (One Piece, The Last Airbender, Cowboy Bebop, etc), even Rick and Morty are amazing to experience with the top talent that Japanese voice acting industry brings to the table. Same goes with a lot of Star Wars and Marvel series.
The CG spiders are actually so good ;-; it really demonstrates how good they are that they craft spiders that can REALLY reach into our fear instincts and make us question if it’s real. Those movements almost capture the emotions of the spiders themselves tbh ;-;
And they all have enough venom to kill 300 men. Everything in Australia wants to hurt and/or kill you. Even platypuses are venomous (the males, at least).
I would love to see an entire episode dedicated to prehistoric planet. Especially diving in to how/why some shots look SO incredible and realistic, and then some have such a weird uncanny valley feeling. Especially the episode with the snow!
1:43 I love when there is an acceptable way for them to shoot the scene and tell the story without going for all these effects, but they do it for the FLEX.
Easily my favorite part of these weekly videos is when they go through some of these very old scenes where the filmmakers really had to use their imagination and planning and did something or created an effect that decades later is still challenging.
I'm still baffled by that movie a while back where they had three pairs of actors getting married, all of them clones, and then they had text appear from the sides floating in the air. Which was ridiculously cool to see how it was done.
9:15 it was either a combination of that "you're never more than 3 feet away from a spider" myth and the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon triggered by the clip, or the gang really did just manifest a bunch of spiders
13:32 "This is sick, It is harder to keep a car in a tight circle like that when you are drifting than you think" No one saw that and thought it was easy Nico
My wife lived on the property back in the 80s when it was used as a boarding school, UOP took control of the property mid 80 and used it as a retreat for staff and supporters of the school. It was developers bought it from them and started to redevelop it but there was problems with permits and or funding
The thing that we may not realize about the effects on the old films is that the concept of pausing, going back and checking what happened wasn’t a thing, in a way it must felt like someone doing a magic trick in front of you
The first thing i ever animated was a spider, and i found that the trick to make them creepy is to make each leg move forward on its own timing (in a way that physically would make sense obviously), some spiders move pairs of legs, some spiders hop and run etc but the classic creepy spider is one like a sack spider or widow that crawls around Edit: -_- love when you comment something smart and they immediately say what you commented 😂
What blew my mind was that spider legs are basically just tubes and they use blood pressure to fill them and empty them to cause movement. That's also why they curl up when they die because the pressure stops.
A very classic suggestion: the flying scenes (horseback, genie, magic carpet) from The Thief of Baghdad (1940). It won the Special Effects Oscar for the first use of blue screen!
16:17 Atlas was easily 100 times better than I expected it to be. That being said I wasn't expecting much. There are a few parts that are cheesy, but over all I give it a 7 out of 10.
The random shot of a jumping spider is so cute and every time I see one it makes me think "jumping spider" sounds like the worst possible thing, but no, adorable.
I was so sleepy the day after watching ATLAS. I was looking for a dumb movie to watch for 20 minutes while I was eating,before going to bed and getting up super early. Thought I'd catch 20-30 minutes, and see the rest of it after work the day after. But it actually sold me quick! I'm not saying it was a great movie, but it kept me hooked, so I watched the entire thing, and loved every second of it. The I went to work with five hours of sleep. Haha. Never seen a jlo movie before that, but watched the mother the day after, and I loved that too.
Another J-Lo movie with some great visual effects is The Cell. It's kind of a cross between Silence Of The Lambs and The Matrix, and it's well worth watching.
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React to the CGI from The Killer by David Fincher. one scene in particular are the shots with Michael fassbender's character driving a moped in Paris.
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Two things:
1) The Corridor Crew should do an episode fixing the bad CGI of the Blood God from the end of the movie, "Blade".
2) Wren should know that on average, you are approximately 3 feet away from a spider at any given moment.
THANK YOU for warning about the spiders. THANK YOU.
Please, please react to the Sci-fi vfx and stunts Hardcore Henry, it's one of the few first person perspective fi!ms out there and they have a load of behind the scenes videos so you can see how they did things!
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
Good job! 💪🏻
Nice one
Well done! To many more!
I hated it, which means you and your fellow animators did a great job! If I tried watching it in a theater I'd have to leave because those spiders were so well animated
👏👏
That Bette Davis clip is genuinely one of the most impressive things you’ve ever featured.
I’m speechless. Speechless! I have no speech!
Good thing you can still type!
The drivers not caring about the killers on the arc de triomphe is the most realistic element of this scene. Paris is hell.
I think the life expectancy of a pedestrian on the Arc de Triomphe roundabout must be about 5s…
What’s least realistic is that I doubt that you have enough room to do a 360° around another car, especially with an American muscle car.
But more than that are the lack of crazy vibrations on the cars from the paved road.
Plus the fact that it’s such a high risk spot for terrorism that there are armed military units at all time in this place that would secure it and engage very quickly.
@@yannsalmon2988there's a pedestrian tunnel to get to the arc btw
No you need to run through traffic. Part of the experience!
Was about to say this. I've never been on a taxi ride in Paris where we didn't hit something, and in each case, no shits were given by either driver.
@@andreas4010I wish I had known that! lol
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.
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.
Driving in La Place de L'Etoile already feels like you are doing all the stunts from John Wick yourself anyway
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.
"I did not hide spiders under the couch" is a wild thing to have to say seriously
They were crawling out of the TV.😂
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.
How fucking cool are films that modern vfx artists are still confused at figuring out effects utilised in the 40s?!!
I think it's because back in the days before CG, they had to improvise and come up with creative ideas to execute those shots. These days, artists are so heavily reliant on CG that they rarely really have to think of those creative tricks to get their shots.
It's like how we build structures now, relying on heavy equipment, but back in Egypt, they built pyramids with very primitive techniques to move massive sandstone blocks. I'm not sure if we even know the exact methods they used to build them, but we have a pretty good idea. Humans just invent methods to make their work easier and eventually forget the old methods with time.
@@37Kilo2modern CGI is all about creative problem solving.
Also, a lot of the time the VFX weren't well documented. Just folks on-set or in post-production coming up with weird crap that worked, and never wrote down their techniques. So even today, people have to guess at what they were doing.
It's that they're aware of the tools available in the 40s. Those shots would be reasonably easy to do in modern compositing, but obviously that doesn't inform you as to what had to be done to get that shot at that level of quality eighty years ago.
@@gavinderulo12 Agreed, a better point would be to say that modern VFX is about a different sort of creative problem-solving than pre-CGI VFX was. I daresay they almost aren't even the same field anymore. So of course modern VFX artists would struggle to figure out pre-CGI VFX, they deal with different problems
I'm so so so SO happy you clearly warned about the spiders. Thank you!
Same here, I used to have no issues with spiders but randomly developed arachnophobia as an adult so I really appreciate the heads up before showing that hallway of nightmares
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
Some were actually shot in Paris, just not all of it to avoid needing permits to close it down longer periods of time.
its look 100% fake, like a old game, some blur etc like mission impossible, car choregraphie
Final result looks like crap tho, the physics of the stunt is garbage because of the wirework
Look at the road texture, then look at how smoothly those cars are driving and drifting. On roads like that, the tires on those cars should be bouncing as they go over those bumps. Even if the bumps are small. The moment I saw those cars moving so smoothly, it completely shattered that element of the illusion.
since when to " Paris " cars " keep distance " of each other, can do the same scene, more intense, with more simplicity, its make me feel nothing.
Recommendation!!! @1:57:20 ish in the movie "The Score" from 2001, with Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Edward Norton, and Angela Bassett. When Marlon's character is watching the news, he's reacting to the robbery, when he finds out his friend (Robert DeNiro) escaped and was unidentified, he smirks, but that smirk was digitally altered (CGI?)
I love watching you guys react to old movies. It's so amazing what they did back then
I was watching when worlds collide it was a movie from the 50s good effects for its time 😊
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.
I think he said he just learned to do it in reverse
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?
You think you can trick me into writing your video for you?
@@TheHiyy?? What do you mean?
Another impressive movie to analyze is "The Admiral: Roaring Currents", is one of the most popular South Korean movie ever, about a naval battle but none of the naval battle scenes were actually shot on or near real water
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.
May God bless your career, brother! We'll meet at a French movie set!
I wish we in Germany made such movies, but recently it’s all stupid comedy/dramas as well here :(
It was funny for me to watch this film because when I saw the building, I was like 'hey I know this one" because I live like 200m from this building.
The first half of the movie was really good, I did loose interest for the second half. Nevertheless it was technicaly on point, Sébastien Vaniček did a good job on this one overall.
none watch french movie because its look like french movie
@@lartisan6274 learn to spell first lol
7:43 reminds me of the 1998 Lost In Space robo-spiders. I'm no arachnophobe but those things haunted me for years as a kid.
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!
"We do not speak of it to outsiders..."
That would be a good thing to react to. I would like to see them react to special effects from tv shows, since they have a lot smaller budget to work with compared to movies.
@@thepayne7862 Hell....they should react to fan films like "Prelude to Axenar."
DS9 in general would be cool to look at, especially it's space battles in the later seasons.
They were very impressive for 90's TV
Yeah, I remember being stunned how well they were able to integrate the new footage with the old, it's nearly perfect.
@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
3:19 I legit was actually looking for a ping pong ball 🤣
Same. XD
What does that exactly mean though? Where they patched/taped the actual film together?
@@thespicemelange.1she put her foot down and back up while the other “actor” kept moving. It’s called a “ping pong” like how a ping pong goes back and forth really quick. Idk if it’s an actual film term but that’s how they used it in this context.
@@jrdiggie3382 makes sense, would have been nice if they explained it for people unfamiliar with their nomenclature. Oh well I guess that's what the comment section is for...
It's a pretty self explanatory analogy imho
The Bette Davis clip is incredible when you consider it’s all done by hand without the aid of computers.
It’s also an example of how things like lighting and film quality can help make effects. As opposed to shooting now in super high quality 4K with heaps of light. Hide your effects in the darkness and the grain and it comes off more believable. Real masters who worked on this one, wish you named them.
That clip from "A Stolen Life" was legit mind-bending. It's so cool how well it still holds up today.
SUGGESTION: The Whole Town's Talking (1935; Dir. John Ford) has some interesting doubling FX with two Edward G. Robinsons simultaneously on-screen. It begins around 39 minutes into the film. He even hands a letter to himself at 43:05. Currently playing on Criterion Channel.
by referencing the magicians’ tricks you’ve revealed in past episodes to expound upon new revelations, you guys are building a new media literacy database for young creators to glean insight from. thank you for this treasure.
There's an episode from Doctor who, the christmas special from the season 4 - Voyage of the damned, where the doctor kisses a transparent woman in the end. I realy want to see you guys reacting to this and explain how is done.
As an arachnophobe myself, I can understand Wrens pain. Had to scroll down here to avoid looking myself.
on god, i watched a bit and the moment he yelped with that spider crunch sound i had to pause and nope out.
Same here, I scrolled and started reading comments.
I guess this is a bad time to mention I wanted a pet Tarantula as a kid because they're cute and fluffy, Jumping Spiders are also adorable
I was ok with the fake spider shots from that movie, but the moment they started doing close ups on real spiders I noped outta there!
same. I flinched a couple times and then gave up and fast-forwarded thru that whole part
9:40 there is a curser at the top of the screen
Aww man... I felt genuinely bad for Wren during that Infested clip! Thank you for your sacrifice, sir!!
This was one of the funnier episodes y'all have done--your chemistry is so infectious!
I don't know if you've already watched it but Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was entirely shot on blue screen and had almost everything else added in
You could REALLY tell too 😅
I'm 100% sure they know about that movie. They should talk about it in an episode though.
@@Novarcharesk The movie is so stylized that it works for me!
Do one on data time plssssss, such an underrated channel, they need this so baddd
I / we are down 😁
That render of Wren is amazing
wrender if you might
@@TheShofy Beat me to it
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.
Atlas “looks” good. But turning the Japanese Dub on is BRILLIANT!
@@kruleworldi think they're expecting the dialogue to be bad, not necessarily the performance
@@kruleworld it's not great
@@kruleworld The acting isn't the problem. It is the script
It doesn't look like Japanese audio is an option in the US.
Guys if you ever do a Mad Max Furiosa episode, in the first 4 minutes there are already some CG fails, exactly at the 4:07 min in the background you can see a CG extra repeating keyframes (without looping) and like 10 seconds later there are (in the same shot) 2 CG extras with the same animation
You should do an entire video dedicated to 2 actors on the same screen - oldest, to Parent Trap to something more recent like Legend. The evolution of it is amazing!
@ 2:00, the slowdown of Niko masked in while admiring the mask on Stolen Life 💯
In the 1997 movie THE BORROWERS there is a scene in which a full size kid places a tiny person is inside a fish bowl and their figure is distorted appropriately. There are other cool effects in the movie also.
@2:45 the “fades” are film dissolves…that means they applied photo chemicals to dissolve the silver off of the celluloid substrate. It’s real old-school film era vfx. Like rotoscoping with Q-tips and acetone, probably in a suite on the studio lot.
Out of all the reacts they do here these are always my favorite. Just the 3 guys. I just wish they were longer.
I mean, they are longer on their website
@@JunkyardBashSteve Yes I know but I mean on here.
you can't know how long they are, can you?
The last few have maybe been shorter in case of copywriting issues. With Marvel, music videos, Netflix, they’re less likely to make longer videos if they get demonetized for copyright
Can't be any longer because the algorithm only pushes short vids.
Plz look at the Labyrinth with David Bowie. It was released in 1986, and it’s the first scene that shows David Bowie/Goblin King. It’s when he’s holding the crystal ball and then turns into a snake. Another part to look at is when he then throws the snake onto Sarah. It’s pretty cool you guys should look at it :)
i love the strat of changing the movies language, because i often watch stuff in other languages and when i read the subtitles im like "well thats worded kinda wierdly but im sure its just getting lost in translation" whereas if i watch an english dub im alot more critical of the dialogue and word choice
It's brilliant. I don't think I could sit through an entire movie of J-Lo acting like a middle aged action hero but changing her into the live action avatar for a crazy anime movie makes the entire thing tolerable. Before seeing this video I had no interest in the movie, now I'm getting pumped to watch it.
Look at The Fountain, specifically the space scenes!
I'm constantly blown away by the ingenuity of classic films, pure magic!
13:52 Wren, have you ever been to Paris? The Arc de Triomphe has one of the highest incident rates in France, insurance companies have agreed that any incident on the Arc is not negotiable and that every involved party pays a same portion as the others.
It is fairly realistic that the other drivers just carry on with their thing
There is a documental about Emilio Ruiz Del Río, a very famous Spanish matte painter that worked on films such as conan or the earlier dune, where they reveal the techniques used, very impressive craftsmanship!
Wren has been my all time favorite of the Corridor Crew. =) If I could, I would like to meet him as much as any other person I'd badly wanna meet. His reaction to the spider unveal was so nice.
You called for suggestions recently. I thought the acting on the part of the CGI ape in Umbrella Academy has been quite good. It might be fun to interview people from the show to find out how they did such a good job.
The blows in John Wick 4 all felt so real that I came out of the cinema with a black eye, broken nose and three fractured ribs
you guys should look at the amazingly cheesy effects in House (1977) the japanese horror movie. there's a girl being eaten by a piano that's amazing.
House is great, but I'm not sure if there's much for them to talk about. From a technical standpoint, the VFX were incredibly primitive and it's easy to see how they were done. But they were absolutely perfect for the insane tone the movie was going for.
@@jasonblalock4429 Yeah but this should be about bad and great cgi and recently it seems we only get great ones.
The bridge scene from Sorcerer 1977.
An amazing bit of filmaking. Definitely should check it out
I realized the road was fake the moment I saw it. There's no way he'd be drifting that smooth over cobblestones
Exactly. Also, in real life there would have been too much traffic there to pull that off.
instant iconic episode. the fact that it's at episode 140 is fucking awesome
"They use twins" Yep, the very famous actress Bette Davis and not quite so famous twin sister Dotty Davis 😆
Lmao I was also laughing at this! Yes, Bette and Bitty Davis had a long, storied career in vaudeville with a tapdancing routine until a runaway circus lion mauled Bitty's feet. Bette began acting, but Bitty would only do roles that let her sit down. True Hollywood story. 🤞
@@lisah-p8474 So Bitty was basically Steven Segal?
@@Isnogood12 see also: Cameron Mitchell 🤣
These old special effects from way back are my favourite to break down. Even when they are not perfect they are always impressive.
The excitement un-puzzling the Bettie Davis clip was infectious 😂
M under so much drugs but m watching the episode because you guys helped me alot becoming a cg artist in a country where there is no vfx industry in the first place. M getting so much projects and am able to help my parents and little brother financially bcs of you guys. You showed me that if you love something and you work hard enough you can make a living out of it! So thank you guys!!! I meant evey word
That shot from 'Stolen Life' is some gorgeous pre-CGI FX!
I’m so curious about the process of it. No computers, did they animate a matte? what were the layers/composites, what did it look like before being processed.
@@GoetiaTV Pre-computer compositing of this type was often done with an optical printer, basically a device that copies movie film to movie film, with a third strip or still frame interposed. That third strip is the matte, which indeed was animated, but the part that moves is some simple black and white shapes, so it's relatively easy to do. Then you make a negative copy of the matte. That way, by repeatedly exposing the same film with the positive and negative mattes, you can combine two layers without getting a weird ghostly look from multiple overlapping exposures.
@@Kythyria I would love to take a class that would give me access to that type of equipment. just for the tactile, optical, chemical, mechanical understanding of it.
wren thank you so much for knowingly selling me insurance on my internet history. if it wasn't for your wisdom i would never have impregnated my sister, its a pity ill have to comp in my father with a yellow screen over my moms tomb. Thanks for always being inspiring and never selling out to sponsors! Sponsor segment over. PS. i lost my identity after wren feathered me
That clip from A Stolen Life is amazing, pure filmmaking ingenuity!
God....I remember watching the special Netflix preview of Atlas that still had a TON of pre-vis work still in it...and it was absolutely HILARIOUS to watch! Good to see the finished version looks so good now.
I feel you Wren, phobia is not a joke
yeh, feel the same way. Not particularly phobic about spiders, but I respect that his terror is real and am sympathetic.
@@sloth0jr I mean phobia itself is a serious thing, I have one too for different reason.
I am not as bad, and I worked on not showing it around my kids. But poor Wren, this had me squicked. Too many eyes and legs!
....but it really is, though. A) any fear can be addressed and overcome with a little courage and a less defeatist attitude, and B) EVERYONE is BORN with a genetic-level fear of spiders that for most of human history helped little infants and children stay away from snakes and spiders.......but unless one is an infant or small child....😅.
I was TERRIFIED of spiders......so one day in 8th grade I started catching and keeping/feeding then to slowly get over my fear,starting with jumping spiders. There's still a sliver of fear when one startles me, but it's almost completely gone.
So, 'scuse me saying, but,: notwithstanding very serious tramautic event involving real injury.....nah, just writing off a currently unaddressed fear as simply "impossible" IS, in my opinion, a joke. Perhaps the only fear I haven't yet more directly faced and overcome is that of swimming in deep ocean waters. But I know that with enough experiences doing so and not having terrible life-threatening things happen I would overcome that fear as well.
Just gotta be willing to face your fears.
I couldn't stop laughing at Wrens genuinely upset face during the spider movie. They moved WAY too realistically it was even freaking me out a bit and I don't have arachnophobia. Well maybe I do NOW lol.
the clip from 'a stolen life' has another ping pong at the start just before the sitting lady puts the cigarette in her mouth.
I saw that too -- must be stalling for the two shots to synchronise better
There was actually some ping ponging @1:23 with the clone sitting in the chair as well. She moves the cigarette to her lips twice.
I share Wren's fear of spiders. Really suprised he didn't stomp the one that came out from underneath the sofa. Nevermind, he did. Good job!
And the movie, I have to watch it...
Wait no don't watch it
@@cube2fox is it that bad?
I'm ok with movies scaring me :)
@@zeno6111753 It's really good actually, but...
There's A LOT of spider !
@@zeno6111753 I have a huge arachnophobia but still went in theatre to see Infested. It kinda helped to battle the fear, and the movie is well made nevertheless. I'm glad we keep making such great genre/horror movies in France !
The fact that the first clip is a movie that's 80+ freaking years old is awesome.
I'm legit impressed at how Sam fixed Atlas in 6 seconds....... I hope we start seeing big studios saving their films like that! YOLO!
You might (or might not) be surprised at just how many shows and movies can be made better by changing the language. Sometimes its humorous, sometimes it's much more dramatic. Atlas is a good example, but for a humorous one try watching The Boys in Japanese.
@@AnHRTBus Money Heist is a good example. Incredible boring to watch in English, but stick it in French and use subtitles and you can get emotion through their tone and actions instead of the words they use. and for a show like that, the confusion of another language adds to the intensity of the scenes.
He didn't fix it. It's still horrendous. They gave an inanimate robot suit pronouns. 🤣
@@iambetterthanuare you saying humans haven't been calling ships and planes and cars and other things "she" or "he" since forever?
@@AnHRTBus Not sure about The Boys. The don't capture Karl Urban's Butcher and the other top actors in the Japanese dub in my opinion. Now, BoJack Horseman, NetFlix live action remakes of anime (One Piece, The Last Airbender, Cowboy Bebop, etc), even Rick and Morty are amazing to experience with the top talent that Japanese voice acting industry brings to the table. Same goes with a lot of Star Wars and Marvel series.
The CG spiders are actually so good ;-; it really demonstrates how good they are that they craft spiders that can REALLY reach into our fear instincts and make us question if it’s real. Those movements almost capture the emotions of the spiders themselves tbh ;-;
The editing in this video matching the editing in the films goes so unbelievably hard.
1:57 The match stick is handed the wrong way. The flame jumps during the fade.
I'm in Australia. Any given moment there's 200 spiders within 10 metres.
And they all have enough venom to kill 300 men. Everything in Australia wants to hurt and/or kill you. Even platypuses are venomous (the males, at least).
There's a reason why I live as far away from Australia as I can.
I would love to see an entire episode dedicated to prehistoric planet. Especially diving in to how/why some shots look SO incredible and realistic, and then some have such a weird uncanny valley feeling. Especially the episode with the snow!
1:43 I love when there is an acceptable way for them to shoot the scene and tell the story without going for all these effects, but they do it for the FLEX.
I love breaking down old films
Filmmakers are so creative
I got you buddy, Niko has been hiding his spider fear all along 7:22 🤣
In THE BEEKEEPER about 36 minutes in the bridge scene with the truck going over has a pretty rad dummy dragged behind it
Wren, buddy, I feel you...
You should review some videos from Data time. He also does some twin effects.
I / we are down 😁
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I thought it was Kalki's VFX breakdown at first when looked at the thumbnail.😅😅
Same 😁😁
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😂same
Just in case, if anyone from the 'crew' sees this comment, the movie name is 'Kalki 2898AD' because there is also a movie named 'Kalki'.
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Easily my favorite part of these weekly videos is when they go through some of these very old scenes where the filmmakers really had to use their imagination and planning and did something or created an effect that decades later is still challenging.
I'm still baffled by that movie a while back where they had three pairs of actors getting married, all of them clones, and then they had text appear from the sides floating in the air. Which was ridiculously cool to see how it was done.
That stunt car looks like the Cybertruck lol
9:15 it was either a combination of that "you're never more than 3 feet away from a spider" myth and the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon triggered by the clip, or the gang really did just manifest a bunch of spiders
13:32 "This is sick, It is harder to keep a car in a tight circle like that when you are drifting than you think"
No one saw that and thought it was easy Nico
I think it's cause he already drifted like that in a previous video and it was harder than he thought
My wife lived on the property back in the 80s when it was used as a boarding school, UOP took control of the property mid 80 and used it as a retreat for staff and supporters of the school. It was developers bought it from them and started to redevelop it but there was problems with permits and or funding
The thing that we may not realize about the effects on the old films is that the concept of pausing, going back and checking what happened wasn’t a thing, in a way it must felt like someone doing a magic trick in front of you
12:38 I actually thought about using this idea for watching more boring stuff. Dialogue isn't cringe when it's in another language
The first thing i ever animated was a spider, and i found that the trick to make them creepy is to make each leg move forward on its own timing (in a way that physically would make sense obviously), some spiders move pairs of legs, some spiders hop and run etc but the classic creepy spider is one like a sack spider or widow that crawls around
Edit: -_- love when you comment something smart and they immediately say what you commented 😂
What blew my mind was that spider legs are basically just tubes and they use blood pressure to fill them and empty them to cause movement. That's also why they curl up when they die because the pressure stops.
Poor Wren... Admit it, you definitely threw some spiders under that couch😂
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6:59 he was so proud that the protagonists werent stupid!
A very classic suggestion: the flying scenes (horseback, genie, magic carpet) from The Thief of Baghdad (1940). It won the Special Effects Oscar for the first use of blue screen!
6:18 poor wren. I can't watch this part either buddy... It's ok
16:17 Atlas was easily 100 times better than I expected it to be. That being said I wasn't expecting much. There are a few parts that are cheesy, but over all I give it a 7 out of 10.
Poor Wren. I want to give him a comforting hug away from the spiders.
The random shot of a jumping spider is so cute and every time I see one it makes me think "jumping spider" sounds like the worst possible thing, but no, adorable.
I was so sleepy the day after watching ATLAS.
I was looking for a dumb movie to watch for 20 minutes while I was eating,before going to bed and getting up super early. Thought I'd catch 20-30 minutes, and see the rest of it after work the day after.
But it actually sold me quick! I'm not saying it was a great movie, but it kept me hooked, so I watched the entire thing, and loved every second of it. The I went to work with five hours of sleep. Haha. Never seen a jlo movie before that, but watched the mother the day after, and I loved that too.
Another J-Lo movie with some great visual effects is The Cell. It's kind of a cross between Silence Of The Lambs and The Matrix, and it's well worth watching.
Atlas is so bad. They gave a robot suit PRONOUNS. 🤣🤣🤣
i enjoyed atlas a lot, too. dunno why people think it is so horrible. i can see them not liking it, sure, but not that much.
@@carlgibson285 thanks for the recommendation! I'll put it on tonight and not get enough sleep for work tomorrow 😂
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you can even see light turning on time offset on the right side of the screen