VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 126 (ft. Gareth Edwards)
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Sam and Wren are joined by Director Gareth Edwards to break down his most recent blockbuster film, The Creator, which is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects!
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Chapters ►
00:00 Welcome to VFX Artists React
00:51 Inspiration
02:10 Unconventional Approach
03:46 Designing the Robots
05:27 World Building
07:03 Squarespace
09:11 Making it Look Real
10:04 Movie Magic
11:35 Bomb Boys
13:27 Saving Money on Production
15:24 Nomad Spaceship
18:19 Changing the Industry - Розваги
Damn, my boys really got some top tier celebs on the show these days. When's George Lucas and Steven Spielberg gonna come?
Spielberg sure..Lucas? Ehhh hahaha. The dude literally made the first star wars, that was saved in the editing room, didn't make empire or Jedi..then the prequels. Which are directed and edited in the most boring way, 90% shot reverse shot. Then produced red tails, one of the cringiest movies ever.
Don't get me wrong, I grew up on the prequels too but from a filmmaking standpoint the plinkett reviews are spot on.
I feel like George Lucas would be so down.
Never. I guarantee you.
@@KaladinVegapunkhe did an incredible job with a new hope
James Cameron is a must
The fact you got THE Gareth Edwards who did _Godzilla, Rogue One,_ and _The Creator_ for this week’s VFX episode was literally a "someone pinch me I must be dreaming" moment
I know I think he could improve as a storyteller but i think he’s got a great visual sense
Yeah no kidding. Gareth is my hero to me he is the nirvana of movies. He makes this little diy indie movie, and then directs two movies of my favorite biggest franchises is such a true dream come true thing. Like he seems real a real artist not a mindless Hollywood manufacturer. He now has total freedom. What I love is he has such an eye for lighting, effects, texture, tone. And as a musician i admit I care more about using a bunch of pedals, flanges, delays, reverb making guitars not sound like guitars and the tone and feelings always matters more to me than the overall song structure. Which again my talent has always been creating atmosphere, and depending on my band mates to help create the structure and melodies.
Star Wars in order of story+cinematic:
1) Empire Strikes Back 2) Rogue One 3) A New Hope 4) Phantom Menace (Jar Jar wasn't so bad geez!) 5) Return of the Jedi (despite the Ewoks dance party)
@@dbeasleyphxNo. Jar Jar *was* that bad. Peak stupid and annoying. Literally only there to sell toys.
@@pacmon5285 no, Jar Jar was there for the kids. My 10yr old thought Jar Jar was funny.
This dude is the most “Corridor” guest you’ve ever had. He epitomises your Indy beginnings and way of working. Great stuff!
Seeing Wren and Gareth BOTH trying to figure out how they made a VFX element of a shot is such a delight.
He’s the epitome of DIY VFX. Been a fan ever since hearing he did all the shots for his debut film Monsters on his bedroom iMac over like 9 months or something. Excited to hear he’s going to be helming the next Jurassic movie; hopefully he can get things back on track!! 🤞
Idk I think that Neill Blomkamp has him beat on that. Just look at District 9 and Elysium.
I didn't know that! That is very good to hear. Let's hope the studio lets gives him enough creative control.
Big fan of his and same, I saw a thing about him doing the vfx in a hotel room for months and was blown away as to how good the movie monsters looks and feels for almost zero budget.
DIY? Hearing him talk, it kinda sounded like he just filmed stuff and said "the effects guys will figure it out later."
Seriously this is a top tier guest haha, having the big VFX guys was already big but this is a AAA director. Id love it if they got Adam wingard or Robert eggers haha, but I guess they aren't super vfx focused
Maybe the guy who did Kung fury
11:20 Sam's mixture of anger and admiration at cleverness makes me really happy 😊
I love how it jumps back and forth from “we have ILM” to “we got a home theater projector, stock footage and a hose”
I mean, to be fair, you watch ILM behind the scene footage and its alot of "yeah i just took a picture of my kid's beat up toy car to used it as the texture for this" or "we didn't really design this space ship, we just took a bunch of model kits and kept gluing parts together till it looked cool". lol
Gareth is such a VFX heavyweight, the dude is unreal. Reading into the background of Monsters and that he did all of the shots himself blew my mind the first time I heard it
Be careful, he might use the footage when he 'blew' your mind! 🤯
I’m surprised they didn’t ask about the Beirut explosion footage being used.
That might be *gasp* controversial.
They bitched out hard on this one
@@OompaLoompaFu as they seem to increasingly do. I think when they started doing things with AI, they permanently corrupted their moral compasses.
I love Sam and Wren being blown away at 10:27. Them having a keen eye on what's CGI or not still being amazed and blindsided by Gareth's genius.
I was amazed they didnt spot it yet the shot still looks amazing!
I was surprised that I was able to guess it at the last moment before Gareth Edwards revealed how it was done and Sam and Wren didn't, though I think they were probably just distracted because they were talking to him at the same time while I was just watching, haha.
He was so angry lmao
I couldn’t see shit! Too dark man Im so frustrated I want to see
One of the few directors that can manage to give me chills when watching his movies. Especially in the theater. Godzilla's first roar, and first breath. Rogue One's hallway scene. He knows how to buildup and surprise.
This episode was EXTRA fascinating. I enjoyed watching The Creator but had NO idea this was how it got made, gonna rewatch now with my jaw on the floor.
So cool to see some of our work in this video. Me and my team tackled a variety of robots / simulants /vehicules shots in the floating village and in the farmer house and we all loved the end result. Big props to match move and clean-up/roto people for the insane quality of tracking and clean plates we got to use.
Too bad the story was steve seagal level of nonsense
@@Shaft0 we get it you re jealous, no need to bother the person working in this industry
I've been a fan of Gareth Edwards and rooted for him ever since seeing Monsters in 2010. Very happy you guys got to speak with him about The Creator.
While personally the story for The Creator wasn't as fulfilling as other films by Gareth Edwards like Rogue One, I was in love with the Visuals of the film and how beautiful and detailed it was from beginning to end. And I was amazed to hear that Edwards had a lot of inspiration for this film from other films I truly love and now after re-watching the film for a second time the bits of detail I missed from watching it in theaters, I truly appreciate the work and time the VFX and CGI team did to make this film feel so real. Thank you Gareth Edwards and I hope that you win the well deserved award at the Oscars!
No questioning of the inclusion of the Beirut footage? The man is sitting right there! 😂
I was kind of hoping you were going to ask Gareth how the beirut explotion shot ended up in the trailers and see more of how much control a director has over movie trailers.
Nope. Optics before truth.
While it may have been worth asking, I very much doubt that the director is involved with the trailers. From what I’ve heard it’s usually a different team that just pulls together what they’ve got from the production so far (which is why you sometimes have shitty trailers that don’t understand what the film/game is about). Saying that, it’s also possible it was stock footage they found.
He addressed in in a Reddit AMA about 5 months ago. Said it was only supposed to be used as reference.
This guy gets it! Thank you for bringing him on. He is a master visual story teller. I love his rational for shooting on location, which is almost always better, as people can relate more to actual locations even if they’ve never been there. Also, when talking about the beach scene on how he includes something because it looks awesome and would give him goosebumps watching. Watching Rogue one and Godzilla gave me that feeling so many times. We need more filmmakers like him.
This movie was cancer.
@@Shaft0why??
So, we just going to ignore the fact that Niko talked shit about this director a few weeks earlier. 🤣
when ?
*Dude is singlehandedly changing how big budget movies can be made*
*Ironically with lower budgets*
Minus One? less than $12m for that movie and it's incredible
Man... Edwards is one of my favorite directors working. Godzilla and Rogue One (the best SW film since the OG trilogy) are absolute masterpieces.
Funny enough, in the middle of this episode i got an ad for the upcoming Godzilla x Kong film and the difference between Gareth's style of filmmaking and what has become of the western godzilla movies..oh boy. I'm very glad he's back as a director.
I'm such a fan of Gareth, he's movies make you feel like you're there experiencing it. Monsters and Godzilla (2014) are incredible. He really feels like a common person from amongst us was given a shot at making stories come to life because he is so creative and super-freaking talented.
Now after this video, he's so affable and nice to talk to.
This movie made no sense. Get real
@@Shaft0Lol, you must be one those fandom haters could not tolerate.
@@Shaft0I'm assuming you're talking about Monsters, I admit its a bit slow, but what I like is the director looks at looks at behemoths and spectacles as awe-inducing scenes. That's why 2014 Godzilla head and shoulders above anything else made after.
But that's fine you can say the movie not your taste.
I wish you could bring back Gareth and talk about the space battle scenes in Rogue One (maybe for a May 4th episode??). I am obsessed with how he makes the visuals look so authentic and close to the original trilogy films, especially on where other directors (JJ and Jonson) execute differently. How/what are the secret is that Gareth doing that makes the scenes look in my opinion “just so damn right” is something I really really want to see you guys discuss.
Please make it happen!
This was so nerdy. I love it. Gareth has been one of my favorite directors over the last few years and it feels like so much of his output has been things ive always wanted to see and didnt know it. There was a particular scifi art movement in the early to mid 2010s i loved and the Creator captured those vibes so well.
Same, can't wait for his Jurassic movie!
the fact that he used the big budget on the VFX and used alot of indie film making techniques is really smart, keeping the film making part cheap so all the budget went to vfx and it paid off, this has to be one of the visually impressive movies ever
Also wrote the script with chatgpt. $$$
@@Shaft0 someone’s jealous
Gareth Edwards is an amazing filmaker and completely underrated. Thank you for having him. I hope Hollywood keeps letting him create masterpieces.
What a genius and visionary. He can see things that most people don't and comes up with really simple but incredibly effective solutions. Incredible.
Did you ask about the explosion from the trailer?
That sponsored segment transition was masterful. I knew something was up because Jake was on screen but you got me. Well done.
I think my favorite thing about the Nomad station's laser was the instant-ness of it. Like, lasers in Star Wars or Terminator, phasers in Trek, etc... they all are beams of light that visually move from the source to the target. But, light doesn't behave that way-at least, not at timescales we mere humans can observe with our eyes. Light's frikkin' fast! So the instant changing of the Nomad laser's shape and whatnot was really neat to see, in part because nobody had ever really depicted laser beams like that before (except perhaps Joss Whedon in Firefly's episode 13 - Heart of Gold... Rance Burgess' laser gun's beam was pretty instant when it was slicing across the house).
Gareth is SO UNDERRATED. His work on Rogue One was STELLAR and he did it again with The Creator. I cannot wait to see more work from him. And I LOVE how humble he is. The man RULES
The Creator was by far my favorite movie of 2023 and hearing about how it was made makes me appreciate it even more. I'm getting a lot of District 9 vibes... Also having Neill Blomkamp on the show would be absolutely amazing!
You can tell Gareth is holding a lot back because The Creator wasn't received well despite all this work
Seriously one of my favorite movies in a long time… so psyched to see Gareth on the couch this week!!!
I watch older movies (before 2010), and they feel so much more alive and fun to invest my thoughts and emotions into. They're better written, but I think what really does it is those worldbuilding moments. Everything made nowadays just feels like, "this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened". You can feel the committee of executives on the other side gutting the thing of soul. Those little, slow, quiet moments are important.
So many writers now only think in action scenes, they don't know how to write the inbetweens.
How come no one asked about the footage "used" from the Lebanon port explosion?!
BRAVO JAKE! I actually sat thru the ad after that amazing segway 🤣🤣🤣
The little closing speech Gareth gives in this is truly inspiring! Awesome awesome episode.
I would have never know about this if this channel didn't exist. The movie captures so much of the flavor of 90's anime.
Loved this format. One film breakdown. I’d love to see more like this! 👏🏽
We didnt ask about the Beirut explosion? Was kinda waiting for it to come up.
Need to stay in character
Well… its not the in movie, so that speaks for itself
Best sponsor segmento I've ever seen. Normally I skip it ahead but this time made logic sense somehow. It was nice experience!
Isn't this the guy who used the same frames from the Beirut explosion?
Great insight! But a bit disappointed to not see any mention of the controversial usage of the Beirut explosion footage, especially cause it's something you guys have mentioned in prior episodes.
Integrity runs second to $$$ with these guys it seems
This was amazing. Thank you Gareth!
Too bad you did not ask about the Lebanon explosion footage they used in the movie
I'm surprised they didn't mention the trailer shot that was pulled from real footage of the Beirut explosion
yup quite disappointed they didnt say anything at all about it
$$$
The blend of complex cgi and much simpler "film some rocks to mimic a canyon" effects are done so flawless
This is my new favourite episode. I absolutely love that Gareth took movie making back to the great days , when movie makers had to think outside the box to get a shot and didn’t rely on a huge budget . The canyon shot blew my mind 👏👏👏
Was kinda hoping they would talk a little about the use of the Beirut explosion the used in the trailer. Do they talk about it in the full website video or did they just not talk about it at all?
These guys never talk about controversy.
@@armorclasshero2103 Its seems like they like to talk about it until the person accountable is actually there. Just feels a bit brown nosing
What about the Beirut Moment in the first trailer ???????????????
The Creator is a very special movie for me because I have done what Gareth has done. I have traveled to Thailand and Cambodia and Nepal... and I have recorded those amazing places cinmatically inspired by movies like Apocalypse Now or Baraka.
Really cool that he is on the couch! Best episode so far and the extended version is even better
Didn’t you guys diss’ the creator? This was when the trailer used a bit of real life explosion footage where people died and you did a whole feature on it.
Don’t really know how I feel watching y’all promote this movie after slamming it for using the Beirut explosion in its trailer.
It's called $ and being sycophants.
This video came out the same day my Creator steelbook arrived, creepy. Edwards is such an icon, I can’t wait to see what he brings to the Jurassic table. With Koepp writing, this could be the best since the original!
🙄 Not creepy. The timing of the guest appearance was clearly done to coincide with and help promote the film's release on home media.
I like how when they're talking about humanizing the robot concepts and having the front strip of the throat, at 5:00 , he says, "If you remove it. It feels like they're a zombie. Like it's a lifeline." Which is exactly what it is. The front of the neck represents the windpipe, along with other important blood vessels. If you were to see an cg character without that, your brain would instinctively scream it doesn't/can't breathe and would repulse you from it, because not breathing means dead/dying, however the cg is actively moving
Where are the important questions? We all remember when the trailer came out and on this channel they talked about how they had used the Bairut explosion, how they had taken advantage of a tragedy and then used it in the film. What a disappointment.
Shooting the movie first and then figuring out the visual effects afterwards is amazing out-of-the-box thinking.
This is the perfect example of using old school movie magic with new school technology.
NGL, that was the best segway into a SquareSpace sponser spot I've ever seen and probably will ever see.
when the channel goes full circle. wow.
Imagine being an extra and excited to show your family the scene your in but they picked you to turn into a robot so you never see your face
Money annoys me. He said that they didn't want to spend 100k on something that isn't the story but they did it anyway. This is why it's up for an award.
I actually saw this at the cinema and it was the first film in a while that felt real and it definitely helped me get invested into the story along with the quality acting of course. This film really seemed to pull every element together so much better than a lot of other modern films manage. Very impressed and interesting to see how it was made!
Gareth and Wren just geeking out at the end was so awesome. You can tell that Gareth just loves VFX and really appreciates what it's capable of
So great episode, thank you so much guys !!! Old style vfx approach are better than new one, more life inside, I like this way of doing.
This is EASILY a top 3 episode - learned so much, mad inspiring!
This IS filmmaking. In the dirt, improvising with the world and what you have on the day. So much Respect to gareth
this was such an incredible episode omg. i loved this
It's inspiring to learn how they brought to life the visuals using a specific camera and utilized real-world locations instead of heavily relying on CGI. The combination of innovation and world building in this film is truly remarkable.
“We brought some stock footage and you kinda get away with it”
*Hundred percent gets away with it*
I really like the fact that Gareth Edwards didn't bother to explain the tech much at all in the movie. Things just were.
Oh yeah, and in the next Stuntmen Reacts, please cover Baby Assassins.
What a genius! Love Creator, the effects blew my mind! Hearing from the man behind them is so cool. Thanks guys!
This has been my favourite episode yet! An amazing guest, and an incredible film! I haven't felt that way in a cinema since Blade Runner 2049
On September 15, 2023, during a Reddit AMA with Gareth Edwards, he revealed that the footage was never meant to be included in the trailer in the first place, and that it is typical in filmmaking that archival footage be used as placeholders for VFX shots, while revealing that the shot is not in the film itself.
Thanks this was the answer I was looking for in the vid, but it seems like they maybe mentioned in the extended vid on their site
it pretty make sens when it’s really archival footage. Footage of a disaster from m’ont weeks, months ago ain’t anymore « archive » and with this dramatic event is just to recent to even use it for tests. Imagine 9 1 1 footages use in a trailer just one year after… the movie would have been just canceled. So a bit sad. there’s enough actual footage of atomic bomb test old enough to be used instead.
Cant wait for more of his stuff. Fell in love with his style the second i saw godzilla
I loved The Creator and was real glad that I went to the theater to see it because ever since I learned about the movie knowing Gareth was behind it I made sure of it. It wasn't what I quite expected and loved it for that reason alone. To me similarly to Godzilla Minus One there are lessons to be learned from it. There was so many great moments that put me in horror and awe that I've learned Gareth knows how to do well and has a genuine love for VFX that's to be admired.
Very cool to see Gareth on here. I just rewatched "Monsters" a couple weeks ago and it was as good as I remembered.
i was thinking like this guy is the scifi terrence mallick and right after that he said "a hybrid of terrence mallick and james cameron". awesome. you're awesome man.
Gareth was such a pleasure to have. Other directors should be taking note of his vision.
I discovered Gareth with Monsters and it was an amazing performance knowing how the movie was created. I am so grateful to see that he, indeed, become an amazing director with so many great movies.
This is the second time I watched this, I love Gareth's style of film making, it makes me believe that I can do it! I'm shooting my first proper short in April! Thanks Corridor and Gareth! x
It was a Server Pleazhing you is going in the vocab, another great episode, thanks! :)
Gareth is the actual reference for science fiction these days. Great movie and great episode guys!
I will definitely see this movie, especially for its VFX. Gareth Edwards is an excellent example of WORKING SMART and the fact he has firsthand experience with computer graphics makes the whole experience smoother. Sometimes, practical effects yields greater results
I loved this movie so much. I've seen it twice and cried both times. It was so perfect. Bravo, Gareth, and thanks Corridor for sharing this!
Its mind numbingly incoherent and shallow
@@Shaft0 that comment was 😂
GA is such a amazing dude. I love his work. I wish I could watch his full vision on SW rogue one
Wow! It was fascinating to get a peek behind the scenes. I loved the visual style of this movie. Gareth is a genius. I can’t wait to see what he does next []-)
It’s so cool to see Gareth on here, I love his movies especially The Creator
To me, Edwards is the best filmmaker out there in terms of visuals. He has this insane ability to depict scale, which we've seen in Godzilla and Rogue One, and I just love his cinematography, especially in The Creator. When you see the robots move, it's very reminiscent of anime for me
Excellent Episode, such a pleasure to listen to Gareth
This makes me SO FREAKING excited about his jurassic park. Please make it official and let's get a down and dirty dinosaur movie of our dreams.
Outstanding episode... like usual
This is the best VFX artist react episode. Love Gareth!
My first question was how did he make something look that incredible on such a small budget. He explained it perfectly, 10/10 movie.
OMG this is so cool! Gareth is from Nuneaton in the UK which is where I live.
Holy crap, I love Gareth Edwards. Monsters, Godzilla, and Rogue One are all great films.
Movies just look better when filmed on location.
Amazing movie! I cried so hard at the end. Thank you!!