Top 10 Best CGI Moments from Last Century!

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  • Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
  • CGI is everywhere these days, so it's easy to forget when we marveled at the simplest visual effects. But here are 10 effects from last century we should appreciate today. Subscribe: goo.gl/9AGRm
    It's been 15 years since the Matrix, and even though things have gotten more high-tech since, then here's a list of effects that were at LEAST as revolutionary as bullet time!
    What do you think of the list? Any effects we left off, that you think we should have included? What do you think were the most important advances in visual effects of the 21st century? What countdown would you like to see us do next?
    Let us know in the comments!
    THE LIST
    Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
    The Death Star trench run briefing - sets up the whole climax of the movie.
    Tron (1982)
    Lightcycle Duel: goo.gl/K5P1A4
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
    Geneis planet transformation: goo.gl/WzKoL0
    Young Shelock Holmes (1985)
    The Stained Glass Knight sequence: goo.gl/fGTXjK
    Labyrinth (1986)
    The owl in the main title sequence: goo.gl/5zGmzT
    The Abyss (1989)
    The alien water pseudopod: goo.gl/NfAs4W
    Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
    The T-1000's liquid metal: goo.gl/IsA1Uk
    Death Becomes Her (1992)
    Realistic effects on human models goo.gl/CgXrjo
    Jurassic Park (1993)
    The dinosaurs, of course! goo.gl/K0vZXN
    Toy Story (1995)
    A Full CGI feature goo.gl/C981vj
    Our friends over at IndieWire put together some seriously inspired MOVIE LISTS: bit.ly/12x0UpF and CineFix is bringing 'em to life!
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  • @haitolawrence5986
    @haitolawrence5986 8 лет назад +75

    Great list but yeah the Last Starfighter absolutely belongs in the top 10!!

  • @wrekk
    @wrekk 9 лет назад +211

    The Last Star Fighter comes to mind...

    • @MrTBoneSF
      @MrTBoneSF 9 лет назад +9

      DJ Wrekk If it's any consolation, the owl in Labyrinth was created by the same guys who did the Last Star Fighter.

    • @urmo345
      @urmo345 8 лет назад +4

      +DJ Wrekk i was amazed of Last Star Fighter when i saw it first time. Unfortunately, it is aged badly...

    • @topshonuff
      @topshonuff 5 лет назад +6

      urmo345 buy it on Blu Ray. They cleaned it up and looks awesome. On the Extra, they show before and after and it’s like Night and day. So they did save it by cleaning it up.

    • @EricMalette
      @EricMalette 4 года назад +4

      Was about to mention this, but I see you've got it covered. How the Last Starfighter didn't make this list but Labyrinth did is hilarious.

    • @minspy6563
      @minspy6563 4 года назад

      Totally agree

  • @Jesse22H
    @Jesse22H 9 лет назад +356

    Terminator 2 still looks great

    • @hazonku
      @hazonku 5 лет назад +13

      Because T2 set the rule that Spielberg would follow for Jurassic. Use CGI to enhance the story, not replace it. Most of the most memorable shots from that film were practical, yes even the T-1000 blown apart at the end. A lot of the CGI shots haven't aged too well, save for maybe the one of him coming up off the tile floor.

    • @retromemories8522
      @retromemories8522 5 лет назад +2

      I would add it to a list of movies that have aged well.

    • @andrewzasidko6595
      @andrewzasidko6595 4 года назад +1

      Yeah, I thought that too until I saw 4K remaster of it. In resolution this huge you can really see low resolution texture of Robert Patrick's face applied to 3D model. I mean, it's not polygonal texture, but rather volumetrick "3D" photo mapped to not so detailed model (think of it as those shiny parts of him). The result is vaxy looking face when T1000 transitions from bare metal state to human face. You can see it in CGI scenes at the steel plant. Nonetheless - I appreciate their work in this movie so much.

    • @msrobyn82
      @msrobyn82 4 года назад

      Hell yes. Looked great then and still looks great now 👍🏽

    • @rockero1313
      @rockero1313 2 года назад

      it was so great that they just gave them the Oscar for VFX without any other film getting a nomination 🤣

  • @erich3784
    @erich3784 5 лет назад +28

    I'd say Twister (1996) might have been mentioned here. The advances in particle effects were extraordinary at the time.

    • @ValleyRC
      @ValleyRC 4 года назад +1

      And just the photo-realism in general. Obviously it looks a little suspect now but back then, I was amazed at how it looked like real stuff flying around and not just really good computer graphics.

    • @calebash82
      @calebash82 4 года назад

      Yeah this list is just recycling the same movies revered by all list# channels on RUclips

  • @chadstephens88
    @chadstephens88 8 лет назад +24

    Forrest Gump and Contact are chock FULL of digital effects, albeit invisible effects such as sky replacements and texture mapping environments but they should have been on this list, too. The Feather scene in Gump was the longest and hardest effects shot in the history of the medium until that honor was broken by Contact. Listening to the effects commentaries on these shows is mind-blowing...

    • @russ7868
      @russ7868 8 лет назад +2

      @Chad Stephens. I agree but the feather effect wasn't CG. I used to think it was too but they put a feather on a string and blew a fan on it, on a green screen. it's just further proof, CG isn't always the way to go.

    • @skycat04
      @skycat04 5 лет назад +1

      Russ Wright It was much more complicated than this, and in the end it was still done with CGI, the reflections, the movements, etc... Oh and the same goes to the last scene, also with a feather.

    • @JacquelineMoleski
      @JacquelineMoleski 5 лет назад +1

      I think you are missing the *date* thing - this video is showing the progression of effects, prior to 2000. (correct me if I'm wrong). So, basically, once something is invented it's not mentioned or barely mentioned again.

  • @monsterlair
    @monsterlair 9 лет назад +20

    The pseudo pod from The Abyss really knocked my socks off when i saw it the first times. I had no idea how they had created that at all.

  • @darthstarkiller1912
    @darthstarkiller1912 6 лет назад +2

    I love the CGI used for Draco in "Dragonheart". On par with the dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park". Plus, 007's voice is the icing on the cake!

    • @michaelodonnell824
      @michaelodonnell824 2 года назад

      It neither gets a mention in the Practical nor the CGI list....

  • @JamesMcCormickIV
    @JamesMcCormickIV 4 года назад +8

    Forest Gump is a treasure trove of pre-2000 CGI.

    • @hstrangemusic
      @hstrangemusic 3 года назад +1

      Oh man good memory! You’re totally right!

  • @2TheRantingGryphon
    @2TheRantingGryphon 9 лет назад +193

    Why do none of these Top 10 Historical CGI Blablabla videos ever mention The Last Starfighter? The first movie to replace ALL the special effects with CGI! It was revolutionary!

    • @rogueplanet7776
      @rogueplanet7776 9 лет назад +18

      I was about to ask the same question. Tron's effects all took place within the computer realm, Starfighter was the first movie where all the effects are CGI, but are supposed to be taking place in the real world.

    • @Fear_the_Doughnut
      @Fear_the_Doughnut 6 лет назад +6

      Good to know I wasn't the only one. The Last Star Fighter was the first one that came to mind for me as well.

    • @alm2187
      @alm2187 6 лет назад

      I was gonna say...!

    • @joelcawby3860
      @joelcawby3860 5 лет назад +4

      “What do we do now?!?”
      *close zoom up*
      *visor flips over*
      “We Die.”
      *insert silence until the ship explodes*

    • @DaveDexterMusic
      @DaveDexterMusic 5 лет назад

      It's not aged well, is my guess.

  • @JohnnyFiction
    @JohnnyFiction 8 лет назад +42

    There are a lot, but the most notable you guys missed was the first use of full CGI in any film: The Last Starfighter

  • @TheDude13
    @TheDude13 9 лет назад +61

    What is wrong with you people? The Last Starfighter! You totally skipped The Last Starfighter? Sure, the owl in Labyrinth was fine. But it doesn't hold a candle to the achievement of this movie, which came out 2 years earlier.

  • @Stroheim333
    @Stroheim333 7 лет назад +52

    You totally forgot The Last Starfighter from the year before Young Sherlock Holmes. All space fighting scenes and space vehicles in that movie was CGI, and it was a HUGE part of the movie.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад

      Stroheim333 The Last Starfighter came out in 1984, the same year as Young Sherlock Holmes, a movie I thought was crap.

    • @Stroheim333
      @Stroheim333 7 лет назад +3

      Jeffrey314159 It is not interesting if the movie was crap in your mind; we all know it was CGI groundbreaking.

    • @SergeantLuke
      @SergeantLuke 7 лет назад

      Jeffrey314159 Young Sherlock Holmes was from 1985.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад +1

      Luke Schwiebert Young Sherlock Holmes aka Pyramid of Fear was still a mediocre film as far as story and characters were concerned.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад +5

      Stroheim333 The Last Starfighter was better and had much more cgi, and it came out a year earlier!

  • @Chalky.
    @Chalky. 7 лет назад +157

    I'm guessing it's been commented many times that The Matrix was 1999

    • @LashknifeTalon
      @LashknifeTalon 7 лет назад +24

      Being 1 year from the 21st Century, and based on the title of the film referencing bullet time, I suspect the idea was that The Matrix was the film that ushered in "modern" CGI.

    • @liamvswhip3211
      @liamvswhip3211 7 лет назад +12

      LashknifeTalon *2 years. The 21st century began in 2001.

    • @Lemau
      @Lemau 7 лет назад +3

      1 year (2, actually) from the 21st century is still last century. Besides, all things considered - Bullet Time is cute, but does it really compare that much against a man made of molten metal or, indeed, an entire movie made of CG? I have to concur that leaving the Matrix out just because "Bullet Time" is unfair.

    • @Riceball01
      @Riceball01 7 лет назад +7

      Bullet time wasn't CG, it was pretty much all practical. What they did was to line up a series of cameras in a ring around the actor and fire them all off at the same time.

    • @Schmidtelpunkt
      @Schmidtelpunkt 7 лет назад +4

      And then they interpolated between those frames using optical flow to get a smooth movement. And they replaced the background using CGI. And the bullets... so... yep, pretty much all practical except everything other than the actors.

  • @collaberatorzseanhuang8952
    @collaberatorzseanhuang8952 9 лет назад +27

    Robin Williams' "What dreams may come"(1998) was a visual masterpiece.

    • @Dave19812506
      @Dave19812506 9 лет назад +1

      COLLABERATORZ Ouija Able sadly the short story the movie was based off of is so much better

  • @boydegg
    @boydegg 7 лет назад +4

    I'd include Forrest Gump. I remember it as one of the first films to use CGI in a subtle way, so that the audience were unaware of the magic they were seeing. Enjoyed the list.

  • @Joefisx20s
    @Joefisx20s 8 лет назад +370

    Why is birdemic not on this list??

    • @leej70
      @leej70 8 лет назад +26

      +Joefis x20s² Which part of "last century" did you not understand?

    • @Joefisx20s
      @Joefisx20s 8 лет назад +26

      +The Vicious Chicken of Bristol Sorry, but by the looks of the CGI it should be last century

    • @leej70
      @leej70 8 лет назад +3

      That makes it sound like they're shit...

    • @Joefisx20s
      @Joefisx20s 8 лет назад +1

      +The Vicious Chicken of Bristol Naa but birdemic is, for the time it was produced

    • @leej70
      @leej70 8 лет назад +1

      Just searched it on RUclips and wasn't too impressed to be honest.

  • @lovipoekimo176
    @lovipoekimo176 9 лет назад +106

    There's also the revolutionary CGI techniques employed in Babylon 5. I feel people keep forgetting their contributions.

    • @CineFix
      @CineFix  9 лет назад +29

      definitely! we just hit movies, not TV with this list.

    • @Dave19812506
      @Dave19812506 9 лет назад +1

      Lovi Poekimo I certainly agree with you, but don't forget this is movie based cgi, not television based, and while those techniques certainly advanced the use of cgi in a television narrative, this was geared toward movies. Though i will say that many of the effects guys that were involved in Babylon % came from a small kids show called Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.

    • @lovipoekimo176
      @lovipoekimo176 9 лет назад +4

      Dave19812506 Interesting fact--Captain Power was also a TV show by JM Straczynski.

    • @Dave19812506
      @Dave19812506 9 лет назад +1

      yup he was the lead writer

    • @pvtrichter8816
      @pvtrichter8816 8 лет назад +1

      +Lovi Poekimo bang-on I'd almost forgotten about that one yes although the show sometimes felt like it dragged on [in what seemed like prolonged bullet time !!] there were some intriguing visuals !! KEEP SMILING LUV!!!

  • @darkgaara787
    @darkgaara787 7 лет назад +51

    And now we are here, resurrecting people and de-aging them.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 4 года назад +2

      Look at DeNiro in The Irishman preview. They've deaged him.

    • @noelleobrien7525
      @noelleobrien7525 4 года назад +1

      Michael Douglas in the MCU has to be one of my favorite de-aging effects

  • @joeandjoe34219
    @joeandjoe34219 7 лет назад +16

    Starship Troopers should have been here. Fantastic use of CGI innovation and practical effects for 1997, still timeless.

    • @intsoccersuperstar1
      @intsoccersuperstar1 7 лет назад

      Yeah this definitely should have been on the list, the bugs look great for 1997. Better than anything in the entire prequel trilogy, at least.

    • @joeandjoe34219
      @joeandjoe34219 7 лет назад

      The timeline of all the sequels is not set to a timeline before the action of the first film, so what do you mean prequels? Of course all these direct-to-video cheapies are way inferior than the first film, so of course the effects are awful in all of them.

    • @intsoccersuperstar1
      @intsoccersuperstar1 7 лет назад

      Oh yeah I should have clarified, I meant the Star Wars prequel trilogy (episodes 1-3). I just compared Starship Troopers to those movies because they were major releases with massive budgets that came out AFTER (in Episode 3's case, 8 years after!) Starship Troopers did and yet somehow almost all effects in ST look better.

  • @DanielProczko
    @DanielProczko 7 лет назад +2

    "flight of the navigator" surely had some good ones.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад

      Daniel Proczko Yes, that film offers the first example of the use of cgi morphing

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 8 лет назад +10

    The Abyss was an AMAZING film

  • @proxivlle
    @proxivlle 10 лет назад +31

    Draco from Dragonheart. There's over 20 minutes of rendering and it's Sean Connery.

    • @CineFix
      @CineFix  10 лет назад +2

      BOND + DRAGONS!? i remember that movie!

    • @nuberiffic
      @nuberiffic 5 лет назад +1

      except it looked like ass

  • @Pirelli913
    @Pirelli913 7 лет назад +4

    Jurassic Park is my favorite film of all-time. I've loved dinosaurs since well before its release. I was ten when I saw it and, according to my dad, my eyes were bugging outta my head and my jaw was on the floor when I first saw the brachiosaurus grace the screen.

  • @kurvos
    @kurvos 10 лет назад +51

    I enjoyed this list - but it's really a big shame to me you left out The Mask. :(

    • @Real_Retrophilia
      @Real_Retrophilia 4 года назад +2

      The Matrix was mostly practical effects, even the bullet-time scene.

    • @megasvennen
      @megasvennen 4 года назад +1

      jjledzep He said The mask you fool

    • @Real_Retrophilia
      @Real_Retrophilia 4 года назад +3

      @@megasvennen Well, the Mask was also all practical effects!Jim Carrey is just that good!
      :P

    • @calebash82
      @calebash82 4 года назад

      Lol @Linus keyboard raging like a hormonal tween

  • @swight
    @swight 4 года назад +4

    I can't believe you left out The Last Starfighter.

  • @bradameerbeg6422
    @bradameerbeg6422 5 лет назад +3

    The flying DeLorean in Back to the future 1and 2?

  • @nicholashylton6857
    @nicholashylton6857 7 лет назад +2

    Pretty good list! It's hard to argue against any of them. Being an 80's kid, I was wowed by them all sitting in theaters.

  • @banthapoodo
    @banthapoodo 10 лет назад

    Loved it! Perfect choices. And that it wasn't dragged out over 30 minutes.

  • @EJBarrois
    @EJBarrois 10 лет назад +4

    Great countdown but The Last Starfighter deserves an honorable mention for its heavy reliance on CGI in the very early days ... as well as Willow from 1988, which popularized the Morph technique that paved the way to The Abyss and T2.

  • @Lhoizae
    @Lhoizae 9 лет назад +17

    The Last Starfighter" (1984)

  • @jasonblalock4429
    @jasonblalock4429 8 лет назад +1

    Here's another one most people overlook: 2010 - The Year We Make Contact. Nearly all the Monolith shots AND every shot of Jupiter is CG. It's so well-done and integrated into the film most people don't even realize it's actually pretty CG-heavy, especially for something from 1985.
    (Also, Flight Of The Navigator in 1986 did reflection-mapped liquid metal transformations *five years* before Terminator 2.)

  • @TrueRomancer04
    @TrueRomancer04 8 лет назад

    This countdown is so awesomely informative!

  • @dickjohnson9996
    @dickjohnson9996 7 лет назад +9

    The effects in Jurassic Park STILL hold up.

  • @WittyDroog
    @WittyDroog 10 лет назад +72

    I'm glad Death Becomes Her made it on the list, it's an underrated film (one of my favorite Bruce Willis roles, actually).
    I feel that CGI should be a tool, not a set piece. It's unavoidable for a movie like Avatar or Transformers but I'm far more impressed when I DON'T notice CGI than when I see it. A good example of this is Let the Right One In. Eli's eyes are manipulated throughout the film, their size and shape fluctuating to give her an alien appearance. The effect is so subtle that your brain never really picks up on it, but you can tell there's "something different". To be fair Let the Right One In also had one of the WORST CGI effects in film in the form of the cat scene. My point remains though, just like editing, writing, any many other components of film making, CGI is obvious when it's broken, but invisible when it's perfect.

    • @kurvos
      @kurvos 10 лет назад

      I can't believe people view "Låt Den Rätte Komma In" as such a flawless masterpiece with that cat scene... not only does the CGI look fake - I fucking laughed my ass of at that scene. Most unintentionally hilarious scene ever.

    • @WittyDroog
      @WittyDroog 10 лет назад +2

      Well no film is flawless, and great films can have mistakes that threaten to grind it to a halt but the quality of the rest of the film allows you to handwave it. Martin Scorsese has one of the most clumsy practical effects in Casino (De Niro's car exploding) that make camera edits in the 1920's look skillful, but Casino is still one of the best mafioso movies ever made.
      Cat scene aside, Let The Right One Is deserves the praise it receives.

    • @kurvos
      @kurvos 10 лет назад

      WittyDroog Don't give me that bullshit "no film is flawless" excuse. Of course not. That's not what I said. I said the scene is incredibly stupid. Not only for how silly it is - it's so random why cats would do that, and only serves as a blatant plot device to get her to the hospital.
      The rest of the film allows me to handwave it? Two painfully boring kids we never get to know anything about personality wise or what their interests and hobbies are, the vampire girl acting in the most silly unnatural way humanly possible, and all the insanely brutal violence from the girl the boy is completely fine with... it makes it look like the film would have worked a lot better as a comedy.
      I find it painfully overrated, Let The Right One In. "At least it's better than Twilight" isn't a good argument either. I just think it's a really pretentious and dull movie. Heck, how forced isn't the climax of the movie? How often do you see it get as violent as that with them trying to kill the kid? And it's all just so that the vampire girl can save him. Hell, why would you even bother to challenge him to hold his breath down there if your intention is to cut him to death anyway?
      I can give more reasons why I think the movie is stupid and silly. It doesn't deserve it's praise at all.

    • @WittyDroog
      @WittyDroog 10 лет назад +9

      Alright, you didn't like the movie, calm down.

    • @hazonku
      @hazonku 9 лет назад +2

      Another great example. Underworld. The first film used a crap load of classic practical effects from prosthetics, to suits, to miniature models, & even the old Star Wars Hallway trick. Then it was wildly popular & made a ton of money leading to more & more CGI in the sequels which only hurt those films.

  • @JediHagrid
    @JediHagrid 7 лет назад +2

    Guys... I saw The Abyss when I was a kid and I've been trying desperately to remember what it was called for the better part of a decade. All I could remember was under water and pink lights. I searched everywhere but couldn't find it. I saw this video last night and that short mention is what gave me the name of the movie. Thank you. I'm going to watch it tonight and try to never forget the name again. Can't believe I found it by chance.

    • @bf5901
      @bf5901 7 лет назад

      dustin evans how was it?

    • @JediHagrid
      @JediHagrid 7 лет назад +1

      awesome. just as i remembered it.

  • @Daniel-gr5sc
    @Daniel-gr5sc 5 лет назад +2

    The Last Starfighter. Starship Troopers. The Matrix. Dragonheart. Great List By The Way.

  • @JemmetGK
    @JemmetGK 8 лет назад +21

    I'm not going to look back through all near 600 comments to see if this was mentioned: But I would have had "The Last Starfighter" in this list. All space and spaceship scenes where CGI, really early CGI...

    • @joeandjoe34219
      @joeandjoe34219 7 лет назад +7

      Agreed, Starship Troopers should have been here on this list also.

    • @sabrinasanford2018
      @sabrinasanford2018 7 лет назад

      So should have The Mask and Blade. Especially The Mask, why wasn't it here. It brought a cartoon to life before Toy Story ever did.

    • @HarmonicWave
      @HarmonicWave 4 года назад

      "Last Starfighter" is about 90% of the comments, you don't have to look far.

  • @Serquss
    @Serquss 10 лет назад +62

    You forgot 'The Last Starfighter'!

  • @51gan788
    @51gan788 7 лет назад +1

    that young sherlock homes clip still blows me away! its so damn cool

  • @AakashKalaria
    @AakashKalaria 10 лет назад +1

    I spent months few years back researching about evolution of CGI.
    It's awesome :')

  • @arielwollinger
    @arielwollinger 9 лет назад +13

    The Last Star Fighter. totally forgotten here...

    • @HarmonicWave
      @HarmonicWave 4 года назад

      Not in the comments. I was going to mention it myself but 50 people already have.

  • @joshuacaleau2328
    @joshuacaleau2328 9 лет назад +4

    I've always thought the Mummy was a pretty great CG creation.

  • @MrMoorkey
    @MrMoorkey 10 лет назад +2

    I know I've been beaten to it, but The Last Starfighter had some amazing CG!

  • @Andres33AU
    @Andres33AU 7 лет назад +6

    The story behind the VFX in The Last Starfighter is pretty interesting.

  • @imyouandurme
    @imyouandurme 10 лет назад +4

    The giant clock scene from The Great Mouse Detective was pretty cool too.

  • @juanrayala
    @juanrayala 10 лет назад +11

    Incomplete List. You forgot "The Last Starfighter"

  • @tonylyons2150
    @tonylyons2150 5 лет назад

    Glad you mentioned Young Sherlock
    That scene blew me away when I saw it in the cinema

  • @CmdrTomalak
    @CmdrTomalak 3 года назад

    I've seen all of these during their original release and was blown away every time.

  • @reztoc
    @reztoc 9 лет назад +12

    People couldn't drool over Space Invaders in 1977 because it was not released in Japan until 1978.
    Still, Star Wars' CGI was awesome for the time.

    • @magnusanderson6681
      @magnusanderson6681 9 лет назад +4

      Drooled over pong! Happy?

    • @reztoc
      @reztoc 9 лет назад

      Yes! XD. I also would have accepted Space Wars.
      You can tell these guys are not real nerds.

    • @Commievn
      @Commievn 9 лет назад

      reztoc eh ? as i as i know, space invader is an arcade game, not CGI.

  • @bartonez123
    @bartonez123 9 лет назад +5

    I find it weird that the CGI in Jurassic Park and T2 still looks the same or better than most CGI in movies today....

    • @nik8099
      @nik8099 8 лет назад

      I found T2's effects good for that time but now it looks sloppy.

  • @FloraWest
    @FloraWest 6 лет назад

    I remember seeing T2 in the theater. That liquid metal effect was so cool every single time they did it.

  • @KayleLang
    @KayleLang 6 лет назад +1

    I thought Twister would make this list. I remember VFX artists calling it one of the three important films for cementing CGI's dominance in the film industry. Twister for its environmental effect, Jurrasic Park for its creatures, and Forrest Gump for its digital compositing.

  • @aevangel1
    @aevangel1 8 лет назад +6

    "The Last Starfighter" -- Drops mic.

  • @Jeffrey314159
    @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад +11

    3:55 The Abyss was not the first use of 'Morphing', it was used first in Disney's Flight of the Navigator and I think Eddie Murphy's: The Golden Child, both from 1986.

    • @sarr11
      @sarr11 7 лет назад

      i think The Golden Child war just Stop Motion

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад +1

      sarr11 Not all of it. What about the scene where the villain, played by Charles Dance, morphed into an alley rat?

    • @TheonlyaviableID
      @TheonlyaviableID 7 лет назад +1

      Really? I was sure that Willow was the movie that they invented morphing for. But that movie is from 1988.

    • @iLikeTheUDK
      @iLikeTheUDK 7 лет назад

      Morphing was never mentioned there...

    • @blebhan8213
      @blebhan8213 3 года назад

      Morphing first appeared in the music video for "Cry" by Godley and Creme.

  • @mateolitc8898
    @mateolitc8898 10 лет назад

    I will never forget the stain glass scene. That part was always my favourite.

  • @MrZedblade
    @MrZedblade 7 лет назад +2

    Lawnmower Man, Last Starfighter, Flight of the Navigator -- well I guess they had to pick just 10.

  • @QuantumCat76
    @QuantumCat76 9 лет назад +7

    You missed "The Last Starfighter"

  • @rogerwilco2
    @rogerwilco2 8 лет назад +9

    The Last Starfighter.

  • @purplegreenredyellow
    @purplegreenredyellow 8 лет назад

    spot on! nice list.

  • @3DSage
    @3DSage 6 лет назад

    Terminator 2 blew my mind away at the time. I could not believe what I saw.

  • @eddardstark5034
    @eddardstark5034 8 лет назад +9

    I feel Starship Troopers should have had at least an Honorable Mention.

  • @BryonLape
    @BryonLape 9 лет назад +53

    The oddity of Jurassic Park is no CGI dinos since have looked as good.

    • @TheGoGoat91
      @TheGoGoat91 9 лет назад +17

      Bryon Lape it's a great irony, just this morning i was watching the jurassic world trailer telling myself, the dinosaurs in the original look more organic, they truly look like they are there, the new ones have a strange glow to them that makes me think the people who made it never saw reptile's skin before

    • @WardManssens
      @WardManssens 9 лет назад +3

      ***** I had the same feeling.

    • @kalsolarUK
      @kalsolarUK 9 лет назад +8

      Bryon Lape This was helped by the fact that they didn't and indeed couldn't rely entire on cgi. Most close up shots were the animatronic robots which were fantastically detailed. In addition, they worked really, really hard to make the cgi damn near perfect as possible at the time. The first couple of shots of the T-rex walking infront of the Jeep are still as good as it has ever got.

    • @BryonLape
      @BryonLape 9 лет назад

      kalsolarUK Correct, though even in the CG running shots the dinos looked better in this one than others since.

    • @theroyalseal2466
      @theroyalseal2466 9 лет назад +5

      Well there was very little CGI in Jurassic Park but the reason todays CGI is not realistic is because directors insist on tinting there movies blue and orange. This detracts from the reality of the CGI.

  • @ansiaaa
    @ansiaaa 7 лет назад +1

    you forgot The Last Starfighter and Flight of th Navigator. the CGI in those two movies was ahead of its time

  • @martynabhan1231
    @martynabhan1231 4 года назад

    Loved your list. A little surprised there was no mention of The Last Starfighter.

  • @Bounsingonbongos1
    @Bounsingonbongos1 7 лет назад +8

    by the sounds of things ILM upped the bar again with Rogue One

  • @likonatera7452
    @likonatera7452 9 лет назад +8

    No mention of "The Last Starfighter" at all kind of bugs me.

  • @bloodclay
    @bloodclay 10 лет назад +1

    Love these top 10's, CINEFIX ROCKS!

  • @mdturnerinoz
    @mdturnerinoz 5 лет назад

    Love "The Abyss" so much I own a copy! The water-set used for it was pretty damn impressive too!

  • @chrispschultz
    @chrispschultz 5 лет назад +3

    You left out "The Last Starfighter"

  • @thefilmginger
    @thefilmginger 10 лет назад +41

    That was less of a "Top 10" and more of a "progression timeline", wouldn't you say? I would personally put JURASSIC at #1, because it represented the pinnacle of CGI in live action movies, whereas TOY STORY, great as it is, was a different kind of animal put together (my personal opinion, of course).

    • @imkluu
      @imkluu 10 лет назад +2

      I agree. The list is a progressive first time used to their best potential moments of CGI on screen.

    • @PongoXBongo
      @PongoXBongo 6 лет назад +2

      And unlike Toy Story, and many of the others on the list, Jurassic Park's dinos still look amazing today.

    • @Nolroa
      @Nolroa 4 года назад +1

      Technically the top talks about the progress in the use of computers in the cinema. And Toy Story is the highest achievement by being a fully animated feature film with backgrounds and characters generated by computer.

  • @JacquelineMoleski
    @JacquelineMoleski 5 лет назад

    I actually felt really, really nostalgic watching this video. I'd seen every single one of those films (except Toy Story) and most in the movie theater (except Death Becomes her, which I rented on VHS). I watched these clips and thought, "Hey I remember that, and that and that." It's hard to explain to someone who's seen The Matrix or Inception or Cloud Atlas what it was like to see Star Wars in 1977 in a theater or to watch Tron or Disney's "The Black Hole". And, while it's still the case that a movie needs a good script and great characters to become truly memorable - SPFX has always been a case of progression, of building on the shoulders of giants. These videos express that so well!

  • @EvenBiggerPharma
    @EvenBiggerPharma 8 лет назад

    The background track for the T1000 sequence is so badass

  • @DavidChipman
    @DavidChipman 9 лет назад +25

    No mention of the ship "Max" from "The Flight of The Navigator"?

    • @eviltwin2322
      @eviltwin2322 9 лет назад +1

      Oh, good point!

    • @PeterVC
      @PeterVC 8 лет назад +4

      I was thinking about that right away. Even though it was just spherical texture mapping on a 3d model of 360 degree scans of a location, it looked great and definitely holds up today.

    • @michaelbyrne8238
      @michaelbyrne8238 5 лет назад

      It leaked from the top 10.

  • @TheRadical42
    @TheRadical42 9 лет назад +27

    Hmmm ... they say the Trench Run is the second instance of 3D CGI in a feature film ever, what was the first? Maybe I can Google it. By the way, the University of Illinois is also the birthplace of the HAL 9000.
    -Some of the morphing in Willow was snazzy!

    • @CineFix
      @CineFix  9 лет назад +25

      Futureworld in 1976

    • @eviltwin2322
      @eviltwin2322 9 лет назад +2

      I believe the first instance was a wire frame hand in - I think - Futureworld.

    • @KevinR1138
      @KevinR1138 8 лет назад +2

      Yep, Futureworld.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад

      TheRadical42 That wasn't cgi, it was vectorgraphics

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад

      Evil Twin The film Future World used analog computers to realize many of it vfx. These analog computers were used to control/render the stargate sequence in the last act of 2001 from nineteen sixty eight.

  • @rattis
    @rattis 8 лет назад

    I remember watching Toy Story when it came out and being blown away by the visuals. But there was another movie that came out earlier that same year which ALSO featured CGI characters displaying the full range of human facial expressions, but that sadly never gets the recognition it deserves for it: Casper the Friendly Ghost. Much like with Toy Story, I was absolutely spellbound by the effects when I saw it for the first time in 1995.

  • @slanderous.j
    @slanderous.j 6 лет назад

    #5 still stands as one of my most fav movies of all time. The Abyss really was waaaay ahead of its time.

  • @KevinR1138
    @KevinR1138 8 лет назад +7

    So let me get this straight, you give praise to the animated all at the beginning of Labyrinth but you offer no love to the groundbreaking and revolutionary photorealistic morphing techniques used for the first time in Willow (1988), without the techniques developed in Willow you wouldn't have had the pseudopod from The Abyss.

  • @edt1138
    @edt1138 10 лет назад +36

    I am not advocating for the movie, but Episode 1 came out in 1999.

    • @RandomAndysChannel
      @RandomAndysChannel 10 лет назад +1

      Which Movie? Toy Story? That one came out in 1995. The second came out is 1999.

    • @shezie125
      @shezie125 10 лет назад +17

      RandomAndysChannel I think he's referring to Star Wars Episode 1

    • @RandomAndysChannel
      @RandomAndysChannel 10 лет назад +2

      Shezie Oh ya :P He says episode 1. . . I'm dumb! lol

    • @Drace90
      @Drace90 9 лет назад +8

      So, we live in a time when people need to excuse themselves before mentioning Episode 1? Oh man... this is so ridiculous.

    • @edt1138
      @edt1138 9 лет назад +2

      Drace90
      I am not "excusing myself", I just didn't care for the movie, and I wouldn't recommend it to others.

  • @varunemani
    @varunemani 8 лет назад

    Those were the geniuses we need to thank for all the movie magic since. Legends!!

  • @michaelmichael4780
    @michaelmichael4780 7 лет назад +2

    By far the coolest thing i had ever seen was Terminator 2. I was blown away when he came up from the floor.

  • @Vallavender333
    @Vallavender333 8 лет назад +21

    The lion King stampede scene

    • @BlueskiN1980
      @BlueskiN1980 8 лет назад +1

      +Vance Corsey Yeah, they even wrote a herd AI so that animals don't collide with each other as they're stampeding.

    • @Vallavender333
      @Vallavender333 8 лет назад

      +BlueskiN1980 yeah. it took a team 4 years just to finish it and it looks great.

    • @BlueskiN1980
      @BlueskiN1980 8 лет назад +4

      AseerX1
      You have no idea. The scene was CGI, complete with custom-written AI for the animals not to collide with each other. First crowd physics written for a movie, later used for armies in TLOTR and some other movies. In the end it was hand-drawn over to hide its obvious CGI nature and incorporate it smoothly into the Lion King's art style.

    • @Vallavender333
      @Vallavender333 8 лет назад

      +BlueskiN1980 thanks blue. it took a team over a year to make it.

    • @BlueskiN1980
      @BlueskiN1980 8 лет назад +2

      np man, I'm on withdrawal from trolling flat earthers so animation videos are a nice change. I feel I'm healing already.

  • @jpm74
    @jpm74 7 лет назад +4

    What about the ballroom in Beauty and The Beast?

  • @GoofballLtG
    @GoofballLtG 7 лет назад

    good list.

  • @FilmmakerJ
    @FilmmakerJ 9 лет назад +1

    You guys forgot "The Last Starfighter," perhaps the single best looking use of CGI for a large portion of a film until "Jurassic Park."

  • @spider853
    @spider853 10 лет назад +11

    The Mask?

  • @psycho_maniac1389
    @psycho_maniac1389 8 лет назад +3

    Wait wait wait... Hold on a minute....
    You're telling me the dinosaurs from Jurassic park aren't real? Common now...,I saw them eat people and poop and shit

  • @Snapper314
    @Snapper314 5 лет назад +1

    Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) were THE groundbreaking company behind almost all of these films!

  • @izzojoseph2
    @izzojoseph2 4 года назад

    If you found it less than extraordinary, you were born after the movies cam out and literally can’t understand. Great pics, I remember everyone.
    Star Wars blew everyone’s mind.

  • @admireruk
    @admireruk 8 лет назад +3

    Not Last Starfighter? rouvgh by todays standard but great in its day.

  • @davidfisher8870
    @davidfisher8870 7 лет назад +4

    How about The Last Starfighter?

  • @theeverydaychallenge
    @theeverydaychallenge 7 лет назад +2

    The Last Starfighter! Flight of the Navigator! At least for runners up!

  • @fredschiller2438
    @fredschiller2438 9 лет назад

    Epic effects made with ingenuity and sweat.

  • @DaOttqzerrr17
    @DaOttqzerrr17 10 лет назад +8

    did anyone NOT expect Toy Story to be number 1?

    • @Japheth19
      @Japheth19 10 лет назад +18

      I didn't. I was thinking Jurassic Park, since it's CGI is still better than pretty much all CGI in the past 20 years or so, but I'm okay with Toy Story being first.

    • @MarkFilipAnthony
      @MarkFilipAnthony 10 лет назад

      Japheth19 so you say the dinosaurs look better than gollum?

    • @Japheth19
      @Japheth19 10 лет назад +6

      Yeah. To me, Gollum looks like a remarkably well done CGI character, but it doesn't look like I can reach out at touch him; he still looks like a CGI character. The only CGI characters that I feel can stand to challenge the JP dinos are the apes From RIse of The Planet of The Apes. (Another Andy Serkis movie.)

    • @MarkFilipAnthony
      @MarkFilipAnthony 10 лет назад +1

      Japheth19 then we have to agree to disagree. I feel the dinosaurs on jurassic park look fake, and the apes of planet of the apes too. But to me gollum (special in the hobbit) looks and feels real^^

    • @MarkFilipAnthony
      @MarkFilipAnthony 10 лет назад

      Japheth19 then we have to agree to disagree. I feel the dinosaurs on jurassic park look fake, and the apes of planet of the apes too. But to me gollum (special in the hobbit) looks and feels real^^

  • @iLikeTheUDK
    @iLikeTheUDK 7 лет назад

    Also, Willow (1988) was the first use of digital morphing of practical/photographed elements, and it's quite spectacular.

  • @Chidulo
    @Chidulo 7 лет назад +1

    Death becomes her...is the most awesome comedy i have ever watched from that time

  • @yasirsaheed
    @yasirsaheed 8 лет назад +4

    I feel like going back to the 70's in a Time Machine & Showing them an Iron Man movie or the Avengers

    • @andreatomassini202
      @andreatomassini202 8 лет назад +2

      +YASIR SAHEED surely they'd be amazed, still, those movies are crappy nothingness when compared to some masterpieces of the seventies.

    • @CDRaff
      @CDRaff 8 лет назад

      +YASIR SAHEED If you were to go to the 80s and show child me one of the Bay Transformers movies I would believe that we had really met actual Transformers.

    • @andreatomassini202
      @andreatomassini202 8 лет назад

      Christopher Raff
      more probably you just would have thought that it was a full scale pratical/optical effect, especially because you choose a series of movies where the effects are pretty obvious and flamboyant, and also because you probably were smarter than you think/remember...

    • @CDRaff
      @CDRaff 8 лет назад

      Andrea Tomassini Boy I love when someone else tells me how I think; they are ALWAYS right about it too. I mean who better to know how you personally think and feel than some random internet person you have never ever met?

    • @andreatomassini202
      @andreatomassini202 8 лет назад

      Christopher Raff
      I don't know, I was hoping

  • @Babytronians
    @Babytronians 10 лет назад +6

    You people wait till Godzilla comes out! :D

  • @thisisatonofbs
    @thisisatonofbs 9 лет назад

    CineFix Only one I can think of is The Last Starfighter and the use of a Cray computer for all the spaceship shots.

  • @ToiletClogger1945
    @ToiletClogger1945 10 лет назад

    pretty damn good list I must say

  • @wizardsbane
    @wizardsbane 9 лет назад +6

    A millenium is 1000 years...

    • @Panquernic
      @Panquernic 9 лет назад +4

      And a banana is a fruit, what's your point?

    • @wizardsbane
      @wizardsbane 9 лет назад

      AngryMidgetProd Watch video pls

    • @Panquernic
      @Panquernic 9 лет назад +1

      I did, he refers to the change of the millenium in 2000

    • @wizardsbane
      @wizardsbane 9 лет назад

      AngryMidgetProd Risten crosery

    • @Panquernic
      @Panquernic 9 лет назад +2

      What? If you still don't get it think about it like this: It's not from this millenium, it's from the previous one.