VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 12

oh how cool, every shot has a real element to it, this is the real set right there, what's up, what's that real deal? That's real, that's real, yes, John's movie, you can shout out VPN for sponsoring today's episode, stay tuned until the end to find out how. you can get your first three months free welcome back to another wonderful episode of VFX

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what we're talking about today Nico today we're going to talk about some really cool stuff, like how to make CG look real and why that looks so bad , okay, let's get into it, oh, is this a clip from Supergirl?

I haven't seen it yet, you've never seen Supergirl lol dude that's how you meddle if that's how you meddle that's not bad that's not bad wait you're trying to make CG heads that's a shame. Oh, Supergirl was the construction worker the whole time. Guys with a limited budget. Shoestring budget. Don't be so sure. This definitely looks like amateur side effects with their biting off more than they can chew first with a full CG head. By the way, you are biting the top of your lips a lot, I think they use the same shot twice here, go to back up a little more before the woman randomly transforms so that

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ion, that reaction, yes, they are hiding. doing a push zoom on one of them there, it's both, it's like the classic bad physics you sometimes get when you try to do it that way, it's like she hits them hard enough for him to fly 20 feet over a wall slowly and it takes like an hour to get there so they shouted them on the glass so it just looks rough it looks like blue swiss cheese how would we have done that otherwise?

The flower does or the blue shines as if there were no blue in the actors. there's no blue light that's actually projected onto those particles is what I'd like to add here, you can even literally place it like a fire ember element and just color it blue and have like a little red mouth flash. all for recognizing, you know, shitty decisions in a short time on the part of the producer and things like that. I can't excuse the bad muzzle flashes, it has like the m4 muzzle flash on the front where the gas expands to the side of the muzzle, it's like really small.

It looks ridiculous, she's clearly jumping like it's a crash pad in front of a green screen and they're just carrying her and her to the left, you can see her hair standing up, yeah, as she speeds up, like, but there just wasn't it. made. she sped up i would have just let her continue diving in the next take she's spinning now so rest don't worry Hillary yeah don't speed up and honestly the director of the show shouldn't have filmed this like that to begin with . with every visual effects shot of a foot being blocked, they go for the easiest way to approach these shots, but it actually just makes them look really bad because you have nothing to cover your weaknesses like this close-up shot of her like this.

A sweet yes this might have been the case where I heard that effects shots need to be locked when you fire them, if it's not locked it will be a lot more expensive and probably take a lot longer. You're thinking I think you're absolutely right I know people who work on shows like this and it's usually literally the smallest team, it was probably legitimately one person who probably worked on all of this in probably two or three days, take him to see mr. Murdoch, let's stretch our legs, okay, in the next piece we will see Nick's boob falling into the ocean iceberg, facing the iceberg, so this whole scene is CG by the way, oh, it's not the only CG and Titanic is the water and the Every now and then there are extra people on the set, okay, the sky like those are the stars, man, that's incredible, those practical effects are

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, there are already crazy things happening everywhere, like for example that Shot of the iceberg passing by the ship.

You will notice that there is none of that. the ice that lands on the ship comes from the iceberg everything spilled over the side there looks super legit everything is real there except the iceberg in the sky because that iceberg is actually a miniature that has been filmed separately it looks flawless the practical ice doubles the staircase, it really ties everything together, yeah, so how do you do this shot? Take note that you exist in an era where the only CG, the only fully rendered images you can make, are maybe some extras walking around, so they're real and the edge of the ship that they're touching is real, the ship extends towards the bottom.

I imagine it was probably a real miniature like from a movie, it is miniature and they are filming this scene with a motion controlled camera, yes they are doing the shot again. with the movements reduced for the miniature and this is all over the place, they would actually film the shot in real life for the person on set with the motion controlled rig and then they would reduce that movement and film that same movement again on the miniature . and just place the two on top of each other so the actual visual effects are part of it, the actual compositing is really easy, yes it's a green screen key, place the footage on top of each other and all the rest of the work will be done for you , the crazy. for Titanic, they built a set that was basically the full size set of the ship, just one side, the other side is just scaffolding, this is the actual set that they built so they could lean slightly into the water. what yes what this is a real deal that is real that is that is real yes how blood was drawn this film two hundred million dollars which is the largest budget at the time yes so there is an interesting problem that they had to solve a Titanic with all your miniatures Upon entering the water, you can begin to read the water scale.

We all know how big waves are, not water droplets, yes, they actually needed really, really big miniatures to sink into the water and make it look right. a miniature the size of a sixth. Wow, I think they go down to a thirtieth. I'm not wrong, so this is a shot of him on a green. We're looking at a miniature because we can see the front of the ship because I can see the friendship and also all the water work and the reason it looks so real is because it's Israel, it's just a miniature that voted right there, it's a game of full size they are sinking in the tank.

It's inspiring to see this man. this kind of movie wouldn't be made anymore the fact that they're doing so much of this practically another crazy model filmed right here this is all model of everything they actually do this twice they did it once they rebuilt it in two weeks and then I did it again Wow all those people pretend all the people in the water think this is one of the first movies they had with motion capture extras and they went out and did mocap sessions all the basic things that we take for granted, that It's like free to capture online today didn't exist back then and they had to go, they had to capture everything and they stuck all these little 3D people all over the deck of the ship.

The visual effects to look at, Anik really aren't that complicated the magic and the Titanic is them going out and putting hundreds of people in the water in their full costumes and getting the full model ship and sinking it in the water tank like that That was what was difficult and that is what they don't do today. do more because all those difficult things are now done with CG, but that's, that's it, tough man because this definitely has a sense of realism that you don't get with CG. This one is for James Cameron, oh oh, this video looks familiar, no, this footage too. well I'm sure that's not real, well we're Joe Rogan, not Joe Morgan, I thought that was real, we thought Joe Rogan, but dude, Neill Blomkamp, ​​Joe Rogan and Hideo Kojima saw this video?

I can die in peace now is a more ambitious version. from the previous Boston Dynamics video we published in June. Hello, we wanted everything to be as real as possible. You know, all of this doesn't work if it doesn't look and feel one hundred percent real, so go check it out. Check it out on the corner channel if you haven't already, we have a lot of interesting shorts like this, usually VFX based, that's why we're here. Two early effects

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I tried to help you walk away now you're making me do this. Wow, this is crazy. so I was very surprised to find out in this scene that the whole scene is 100% CG see 100% now all your friends have to die. I thought it's an Odin dragon suit, okay what is Quinton Beck? Mysterio in the comics is a VFX. artist, yes, as a tribute to that, he actually wears a real eylem as motion capture, since his on-screen costume is a real mocap suit, which is why Spider-Man Far From Home is one of our most requested reactions and, if you have any. from movies, TV shows, etc., would like to see us react, leave a comment below.

It's a big inspiration for us, so if you're the VFX artist who worked on this shot, this sequence would be your VFX reel. Yes, I mean this. It was probably the coolest moment in the entire movie, it was a company called Framestore, so to break down the sequence there's not really much to break down, it's just that everything is CG and everyone else is different, you know some different techniques, but this is where I'd like to take a moment and delve into what makes this CG feel real, how you take a sphere sitting on a plane, how you take it to this level where it looks like a sphere that could very well be sitting in this world.

The first thing you need to do is set up the lighting. I would take an HDR. I hide the image of the Namek range. An HDR eye is a three-and-sixty-degree photo of a real environment, so you'll get real light samples. HDR provides both the color of the lighting in the direction of that lighting and the intensity of that lighting from all possible directions, so the next thing we want to do with this fear is the first thing you need to do is give color to the surface after identifying the colors. you actually have to give a physical texture, how do the grooves reflect light in different directions?

For that we will use what is called a bump map or a normal map and that will tell the rendering engine the type of terrain you are on. The object will be like a wooden sphere, it will have little grooves between each of the wooden slats and that is like the micro detail that would be too difficult to do by hand, so from there I determine what is reflective and what absorbs the light. completely the same as all these other maps we're listening to, this would be a black and white map, whatever is black is one hundred percent reflective, whatever is white is not reflective at all and there's a lot of gray in between, technically in all of them. the surfaces around you.

It is reflective even those that appear rough, the only difference between those of a mirror, for example, is that the mirror takes the light rays and bounces them at acute angles, while a rough surface takes the light rays and disperses them in many different directions and So if your color channel has good HDRI lighting or realistic lighting, a reflection map that details how bright something is and the normal/bum maps are even displacement maps to give a surface its microtextures and then rendering all of that on a physical rendering system using rays. the tracking and good simulation of light rays just from a pure rendering perspective, that's how you make something look real and it's like the basis of what happens in these Spider-Man scenes, the systems that you do all that and in just once you have it all.

The work is only a few years old and that's why you're seeing these films just starting to reach these real photographic edges that they're getting. I think 2019 marks the year we CG crossed the line into photo realism and I can't tell the difference, so does Cool Blood Sim there, it's really amazing, we're looking in the wrong direction because Sam is working on something in this moment, we're making R-rated Star Wars, specifically order 66 66, so expect that video very soon. Subscribe to Don't Miss It You know, I go to sleep every night wondering the same thing. The age-old question: who the hell tricked Roger Rabbit?

Who cheated on roger rabbit? It was groundbreaking because it was the first film that did not incorporate cartoons into a live-action film. first movie to do it with camera movement, the camera is everywhere panning making crazy movements and interacting with people everywhere notice that the serving trays are real, by the way, they were actually lost, cartoons have things real, real pianos there and The first time Donald and Lucas appeared on screen at the same time to mix these worlds, it was this insistence that the characters interact with real objects. Whiskey on the rocks, how did they film them as real fountains, but with cartoons?

I know the answer. That question, well, tell me theanswer and you know the answer is like a thin frame being moved around in Clint's nice clothes. This whole complex is built raised from the floor and below it our people of sticks with the portion. trays on them walking and the sticks are right through little grooves there moving them like puppets from under the set oh okay and they're not painting the sticks they're just covering the sticks with the cartoons so here the car cartoons, how are you? doing this, oh he's sitting on something whose steering wheel wasn't even attached to anything.

I mean, it's definitely in some kind of little buggy that it actually is and what's basically a little bit like an ATV, yeah, they like to be armed and it's actually a stunt driver sitting in the back doing all the driving. Yes, they like car brake dust, yes, they just go the extra mile to always try to incorporate these cartoon objects into real life. I haven't interacted with anything really good, so here's a

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example of all the things going on. together, the chair moves, the cartoon just moved the chair, the real gun by the way the cartoon is holding that gun, is it another gun on a stick? imitating all the bouncing that's a gun on a stick right there, but they can also push it towards your face that little shadow on your hip, I think that's the armor for the gun's scream, look as it goes up, the things of the gun and then water sprays out of Roger Rabbit's mouth, so a little tube comes out that he pretends to push down and that has a little hose in it.

Look at the handcuffs on Bob Hoskins's wrists stiff, they're stiff, it's actually Bob Hoskins listening in public with his wrist, yeah. every shot has a real element mm-hmm that's amazing the compositing here this is a computer compositing where you just take the layers and add them on your computer you literally take the background film and the hand drawn film and take both and make shine the light through that onto another piece of film, yeah, the final exposition, oh how cool, leave a comment below suggesting what we should watch next and maybe, uh, copy a new one, that's a booger that What I'm trying to say is that you should leave a comment on any TV show or movie that you want us to react to, both good and bad.

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