My first thought before even watching that part was fine mica powder in plain water, that's the simplest and most common way to make that effect. I wouldn't be surprised if that's specifically what they used in Oppenheimer. It's called a rheoscopic fluid. Any particles with similar properties will work, like the pigment powder he ended up using.
Someone show this to Disney. You do not need a high budget to make a fake CG effect all you need is creativity like Will and his team. Hats off to you guys
@@unliving_ball_of_gas Yes lol, it'd be very, very difficult to make a good and real looking hulk with practical effects. 9 times out of 10, it'd almost definitely be better to do him with CGI.
For those wondering what the swirling effect is called, it's referred to as a rheoscopic effect. There's actually lots of products made with this on them.
Hey for effect 1, if you want to generate a constant swirling motion in the fluid you can use a magnetic stirrer used in chemistry lab. The device looks like a kitchen scale, coupled with a cylindrical pill-shaped magnet stirrer. Its low profile and you can create a more consistent swirling motion in that larger tank. Just an idea for future effects.
@@epikpencil That's what would make him a steller apprentice. not so much in that he knows the tricks, but that he can see something, and come up with his own version of it. That's what you want in an appretice, intelligence, imagination, creativity and passion. You as the master simply pour your knowledge into them, and watch them bloom into their own.
Nolan’s Trick was to ask the CIA for footage they have lying around from the tests….. Yes, they had color cameras with good resolution for things like that back then
I think it's kind of cool that for Effect 3, the materials used were just water and pigment powder; cheap and easy to obtain materials. It's cool how the VFX team came up with such simple yet powerful ideas, despite the million dollar budget.
@@WV-HillBillyIt wouldn’t be Nolan’s job to experiment and come up with how to do the VFX and then just pass the cheat sheet to the effects team for them to just execute it. He then would effectively be doing their job for them. The VFX team’s job is to figure out and execute the director’s vision. Take a look at the credits for the movie, it’s Andrew Jackson and Scott Fisher. Nolan doesn’t have a credit in the VFX department. That’s not how it works. It’s incredibly rare that a director is involved hands on in the development of VFX.
This gives me even more respect for the original creators… imagining these things without having seen it before must have been hard, if I can’t even imagine recreating them this closely!
There are actual real pictures of atomic explosions very similar to that one, so they did have a reference. The result is quite similar except for the dirt. That part I think was artistic freedom.
For interstellar , nolan had assistance from actual physicist who researched and wrote a paper on how the black hole would actually look like so that it could be recreated with CG . So I assuming they also did something similar which was simulate the explosion and then trying to recreate with practical Fx.
All of the effects are amazing, but effect number 3 is absolutely unreal. There's literally almost no difference between yours and the original. Don't even get me started on how well made this video is as a whole. Best RUclips video I've watched in a while.
Facts. Literally the ONLY difference I can find between their firestorm effect and the movie version is that the movie version was shot with a very slightly soft focus, which was probably benefited from having a very expensive camera
Dude if they had a little more budget they could’ve Made all of em perfectly same . The fact they did this with not even 1/10th of the movies budget is already astonishing beyond belief
I was yelling at my screen that it was just glitter or some mica powder. They definitely thought too hard on that one with all sorts of crazy soaps and oils.
it was practical, cgi means computer generated (green screens and the lot), so just because you do practical does not mean you can't use special effects or enhancements@@owengibby
@@MrTrollo2 For sure yes. Having an idea and unlimited creative freedom is easier then having to re-create an identical effect. Of course it is. Because you can NEVER perfectly re-create an effect. It’s practically impossible.
@@FormOverFlair this is like arguing it is harder to build a car now than before they existed. And that's completely unreasonable. But hey, it's ok if you can not appreciate creating and developing things, we need craftsmen. You might be right if you think one could just create anything. But they are trying to find something specific while not even knowing exactly what it is. That's a lot harder than to think about how to reduce production value on something that was already done and having a reference
I wonder just how long it took for the Oppenheimer team to do this in the first place without having any references to go off of. Great job on this as well, turned out really incredible
Me too! I imagine months of planning and testing. There are also a few more effects in the movie that I didn’t do, and I imagine what made it into the movie is only 50% or less of the things they got on camera.
Maybe it took really long and was lot of work and thinking and creating and so on BUT it could be done very fast and wasn't a thing at all, cause when they done it there was nothing that could be wrong at all. It is only one of million version of how it could be done and every other version had/could been an also great thing/solution .... cause this isn't a recreation of a working thing like a PC or radio or else. It is just a creation of how something could LOOK like. I am sorry about my bad english and hope you get what i mean 😇
@@roberthunkahaha so true. People in the comments: "We have no footage of any atomic bombs ever recorded." Also, recreating something isn't really that hard. People are impressed with the simplest shit these days. Remember before CGI??? they did it this way! Haha
Nolans team wasn't the first to use massive amounts oils and liquids, it was actually used for the first time on major scale in "Tree of life" during the birth of the universe. They replicated supernovas, nebulas, and massive explosions from stars using this method which Nolans team then used as a "massive" inspiration.
"Cloud Tank Effects" have been in use for almost 80 years to replicate these sorts of phenomena. Look at Close Encounters of the Third Kind or the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ten Commandments used a variation of the same technique.
Holy cow! This was an amazing video I’m astonished your channel isn’t larger! I think your ability to look at Nolan’s shots and figure out mostly how they were done is amazing. But it really goes to show why Nolan is the top of the game when he can just envision these things and make them into a movie! Can’t wait to see what else you come up with, extremely underrated channel!
No kidding! It wasn’t easy to recreate what Nolan did, but way more challenging to say “let’s find practical ways to represent quantum physics and nuclear explosions”
Looks great man! Loved your storytelling. I think that third effect might have been done with mica powder! It flows and has a sheen to it. I’ve used it to create that effect before.
12:43 is what made me absoloutly LOVE this, the way you and your team had the eye and taste to notice what was missing in the shoot to achieve the correct take is so amazing, so talented people
Amazing to see Nolan's explosion from Oppenheimer recreated without CGI! If you enjoyed these intricate details, you might appreciate a film I made using 4K Macro to explore life inside the womb. Similar techniques, NO VFX, different perspective: ruclips.net/video/eYSu2ochlE4/видео.html
To be completely honest, I was starting to doubt after effect 2 since it wasn't as similar (but still insanely creative and more than I would be able to do ofc). But then you went and made what is basically the EXACT SAME effect for number 3. It's literally indistinguishable!!! I went back and looked at both effects and I wouldn't be able to tell you which was made by you, and which was from the movie! Outstanding work man, and all produced so beautifully in this video.
As someone who saw Oppenheimer as well, the nuke scene sucked and looked nowhere near the scale or magnitude of a nuclear bomb. It honestly made my laugh out loud in the theatre.
When I started watching, I thought this was a large, well established film channel. I was surprised at the end when I read the comments and saw that you only had 11k subscribers. This video blew me away, and I’m excited to see what you’ll make next.
Wait a minute. If he only had 11k subscribers when you posted this message 5 hours ago and he has 16k now. He gained 1000 subs every hour in the past hour? I guess the algorithm has blessed him. I wish RUclips channels had stocks 😂.
That’s not representative of the nuclear explosion of trinity : not even a bit. That’s just a cinephile scene for people who don’t like CGI and that just made me feel like, once again, Nolan was saying to the spectator : look, I’m more a cinephile than you
@@MC8596Yup. As a VFX artist I don’t get the hate for CGI. Many movies use it, TV shows as well. People just don’t understand all that is included in CGI or VFX. It is such a shame that big directors are spreading this kind of hate. At the same time they cannot survive without VFX artists. It’a the reason why I left the industry. We get the hate and disrespect, yet they can’t live without us… Good riddance
The simulated drama and suspense makes this feel like an unintentional parody. *Pouring water into soap while screaming enthutiastically* into a melodramatic voice over about the struggles of the experiments. It's actually hilarious 😂
This is genuinely so damn crazy. You'd expect people to try this like a few years after the film came out, not when it's barely been a month since release. Amazing stuff honestly.
The highs and lows during the recreation coming in sync with the astonishing background music was enough to tranquilize me to look into the screen throughout the screenplay. You guys are master at storytelling. The music just intensifies the curiosity. Amazing work guys.
William, this was such a refreshing video I loved this so much. I wish I had a camera like this so I could also do experiments like this, again thank you for sharing this with us!~ Keep it up
Buy a RX100 Mark 4, it has slow motion and everything you need, maybe not as shallow depth of field as his, but just means you gotta stay further away with the camera and shoot more zoomed in.
If anything, this video showed to me how I should never again say stuff like "if I only had those resources…" I was looking his cameras and lighting gear in envy too, but then again, you can surely make cool footage with the cheapest cameras, they just create their own vibe and lesser quality might help to hide some possible imperfections in the effects. Lighting… Regular bulbs and colored plastic from waste is my first idea. I refuse to see the restrictions anymore, only endless creative possibilities :) A great video, thank you!
@@420xo The truest sense in that they are recreating images through experimentation- creating something that didn’t exist before, and technically still doesn’t exist in reality because it’s an art of illusion. Is there anything we make that wasn’t inspired by something we see?
It's not often that you watch a video that you think is revolutionary. As someone who loves the art and creativity that goes behind the lens, I'm so grateful that there are still people out there who respect cinema for what it is. You're an absolute mad lad. Keep on keeping on!
I just want to say this was fantastic, not only the fact that you are able to recreate the effects on such a small budget. But your storytelling and the cinematography of this what is essentially a mini documentary is absolutely fantastic.I most definitely going to share this with everyone I know and you earned a viewer from this
You guys just made me come close to going back into film making. This why so many people love Nolans work, whole categories of exploration and discussion happen around his art.
this is sooooo fascinating, really love your work... the energy, the enthusiasm, the perseverance... and wow these shots are like soooooo freaking amazing.. Brilliant
“The important thing isn’t if you can read the music. It’s if you can hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?”-Niels Bohr Man, this is just awesome. Nolan needs to watch this video and give you an award for making art and science at the same time. This is inspiring because we don’t know how Nolan did those effects, but you took your time and patience to recreate it with different elements and the result is art. You didn’t give up. Congratulations, man. You can hear the music. 👌
how does this guy not have more subs the editing style is amazing, this video is set like the ones you'd see on a 500k subscriber channel. keep up the good work, man.
This was such a joy to behold. Also illustrates why we we feel this deep sense of reverence and awe at the real effects - the ingenuity and the resourcefulness that must have gone into it almost commands it.
I love the moments of the video where it isn't too frustrating and at some point it comes together completely perfectly. It's like he's a magician. You can feel the excitement and relief this dude feels every time it comes out so perfect. "Oh yeah, it's all coming together" moment.
I legitimately got kinda emotional watching this. This is the magic of filmmaking in every way. Trial and error, venturing into what’s never been done before, seeing objects and effects in new ways, I would give this video an award if I could. I felt transported back to those early 2010’s RUclips tutorials showing how to make a movie prop or effect, but this was just stunning. Cant wait to see what y’all do next.
Brother seriously? 1Million views in just 1day? The work was really phenomenal. Hats off to you and your crew. I really hope you get to work in one of Nolan's future projects. I really loved the video. Was looking for a video to watch while having dinner but ended up watching to the end without my dinner. Really loved it. Great work. Good job.👏
Practical effects are just so much more charming and beautiful to me. Watching what they did in Empire Strikes Back is like a religious experience. The Original Trilogy was art, made by master craftsman… good for you, for continuing the tradition of what those guys at ILM did. Loved the video!
This is absolutely phenomenal, huge well done to everyone who went into this, as a solo indie film maker myself those words you said at the end were so true and really hit as a one man band And also, after watching this I thought you’d have 100’s of thousands of subs… (as of writing) only 4.6 thousand, that’s insane you deserve so much more, including Nolan and his teams recognition of this, if you know of the story about Preston mutanga and his journey to animating scene for Spiderman across the spider verse I can see an extremely similar thing happening here if the right person sees it Yet again huge well done to you and everyone else on this, this was amazing! You earned a sub
Goes to show the level of technical mastery it requires to take these seemingly simple shots. Respect to people like you and Nolan who take the effort to use imagination and creativity to make practical shots. And the very visible difference to stodgy looking CGI makes all the difference. Magnificent work!
Yup. Sometimes when u using cgi you can't replicate the moment like this. It's seems very simple but its like solving a math or something. That's how some people loves about Nolan's film. Im not talking about his script yet cause its more complicated and interesting at the same time, it can give you confuse but when you know the script is about its gives you like a reward or something. It's really good. And this video is amazing with also amazing backsound. Great job.
GAH DAMN that was absolutely amazing u guys. Such a well made and executed recreation. Feel like they might've used a balloon for the nuke bubble shot. That way you could show the organic expansion of the nuke sphere in all sides!
Actually, I think they did! Hoyte Van Hoytema talks about it in one of the articles. It came out after we started the project, and I hadn't considered a balloon before that. It probably would've been a little more challenging but would've given that expansion for sure!
As an aspiring filmmaker, this was really eye opening. I loved Oppenheimer, ive already watched it 4 times (twice in IMAX) and Ive tried to study how everything was shot and composed. But this video was very inspirational, hats off the you lot! 🙏😊
… question is, did you understand that Hiroshima and Nagasaki was carpetbombed with napalm (all steel concrete structures were untouched, and somepeople jumped into a river) and that there was a “holy weird” production magik back then just like this new movie release? THERE WERE NO NUKES, NEVER COULD BE NUKES, AND NEVER WILL BE NUKES. Duck & Cover because you’ve just been bitch-slapped by INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGICKS. The beautiful thing about this is that just like the military men who were told to keep their backs to the supposed detonation of an atmospheric nuke - THEY NEVER SAW WHETHER IT WAS ANYTHING BUT ‘HIGH’ X-PLOW SEIVES or what was advertised. But as the expose video shows, they’ll be telling everyone they know: I WAS THERE!
4 times haha that's 12 hours you lazy sod lol If you're the future of film making then film making is truly dead 🤦♂ P.S Oppenheimer was an appallingly bad movie 💯
If you are really an inspiring filmmaker you should understand that these are all basic effects. They are how star trek transporters work and every concert from the 1960s was done.
This is way beyond incredible. Kudos to your dedication while making it...BGM makes it even more thrilling! Curious to know your budget compared to the $100 million Oppenheimer.
Damnn, you guys really gonna blow up huh. Very well deserving and earned. Mind-blowing work at the recreation of these shots. I mean to take on such a herculean task and absolutely nailing. Nothing but love and respect 🙏✨
I worked in VFX/SPFX on Oppenheimer. I watched this back when you originally posted it. I was impressed with your clever approaches and passed it around at the office, but got busy on another project and never commented... until now. Great job thinking outside the box and tapping your creativity for what could be possible to trick the camera as you reverse-engineered your solutions. You guys got pretty close to what we did on the actual film with a lot of these! Nice work!
This shows that you don't need lots of money to create mind-blowing practical effects. All you need is Creativity and lots of Passion towards your work. I enjoyed every second of this video. Lots of love from India. You guys are amazing.
Your experimentation is seriously mind blowing on another level... I am sure thousands of people got inspired and also it definitely opened up a lot of creative doors in the minds your audience and pretty sure in yourself indeed. Keep inspiring .. This project is just an honour to watch .. Thank you and much respect ! :)
i was shocked when i saw you have under 100k subs, this is one of the highest quality youtube videos i've seen in ages. well done to everyone involved!
Watching how you guys recreated the particle acceleration with safety pin really brings back memory to my days as a PA in an indie studio :') I forgot how much fun it is to recreate practical effects on a budget, how many NGs and bloopers we had because we messed up the timing on some background noise got in. You got yourself a new sub man! Really good stuff.
I live in Japan so not sure if I’ll ever get to see Oppenheimer on the big screen, but I have to say. This documentary was so well edited and put together and your knack for practical effects and reverse engineering them is top notch! You deserve ever sub that comes your way!!!!
I'm at the 6:56 and I just wanna say before hand that my immediate thought for the affect was like golden glitter mixed in with some sorta thicker clear liquid (probably oil based, maybe like the coating for paintings so it doswnt smear might work can work since its oil/water based) and either water down to the thickness you want and boom, that was my Ted talk before I found out how you did it
Brilliant! I just got out of a 70mm projection of the movie and this looks so very close to the original! I think it is a great reminder that sometimes, it's not about big money and huge CGI: sometimes, it's about skills, creativity and inventive friends - and to me, your video does a great job demonstrating that. I cannot wait to see other videos from you!
6:45 As soon as I saw that effect, I noticed it looks a lot like fine gold glitter in oil, I use a body shimmer spray that looks just like that when you shake it.
I've literally just found your channel and I'm obsessed. This was incredible! You and your team are so clever and really focus on all the little details.
9:55 - it should be alcohol and luster dust powder. alcohol has a different index of refraction than water and can dissolve more powder than water can, which creates the shimmery part of the liquid. using alcohol instead of water also means you can side and front light it, instead of a backlight. this will give the shimmer extra layers and depth, and gives you more control over depth of field because of the additional layering. there's a version of vodka that has foodsafe versions of the luster dust powder in it, and you can make your own shimmer alcohol for parties with the same ingredients. it's more than likely some form of gold luster dust, i've seen that exact color and used it for a halloween party once, complete with spooky lamp to accentuate it.
Beautifully done. I do appreciate that Nolan opts for practical effects wherever possible (though if memory serves the base effects have often been accentuated by CG) and it's always impressive to see what someone with an eye for detail, some good film knowledge, creativity, and a WHOLE LOT of patience can do when put to the test. Thanks to everyone involved for a wonderful video.
This was amazing. The quality of this whole thing was incredible. It's hard to believe that as of writing this you only have 3.5k subscribers and this video has 6.8k views and only 4.4k likes. I absolutely hope this blows up, you deserve it.
One of the best bts-to-execution videos I have seen on RUclips, including professionally done featurettes by major studios. Congratulations on this masterpiece, brother. 🔥
@@LaLolaMichelleI have no clue who those people are😅 I’ve been making recreation videos on TikTok since the beginning of this year, and I just wanted to bring that content onto RUclips in a longer, more story driven way!
Nolan's vision of having fun and enjoying the filmmaking process really shines through in your video. It's amazing to see the excitement and satisfaction on your faces when you finally achieve the desired result after so many trials and errors. This dedication to practical effects, rather than just using CGI, reflects Nolan's passion for authentic filmmaking. Your work not only honors this craft but also inspires others to try hands on creativity. It's great to see such passion and growth in today's generation. Keep up the excellent work!
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Miniature painters instantly recognize the swirling from effect 3 as metallic acrylic paint dissolved in water. Glad you figured it out!
My first thought before even watching that part was fine mica powder in plain water, that's the simplest and most common way to make that effect. I wouldn't be surprised if that's specifically what they used in Oppenheimer.
It's called a rheoscopic fluid. Any particles with similar properties will work, like the pigment powder he ended up using.
Funny that you write this comment less than one day after Steve Mould uploaded a video about using mica powder to visualise currents@@dwerg1
My first thought was pc coolant
This was literally me, I was gold paint! since it’s usually metallic
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Can't believe you detonated an actual nuclear warhead to recreate this scene. Incredible dedication. Bravo William!
can confirm, I was the nuke
Cool, a ghost!
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Does that mean he blew you up?
_Wait, that sounds _*_wrong_*
Its impressive 😮
Indeed, one of the nuclear explosions of all time. 👏👏👏
My gosh this is was a joy to watch! Really shows what you can accomplish creatively with some clever thinking
Glad to see a man with excellent taste making excellent work here !
Oh hey there!
Go make ksi edits or smtg
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12:52 I thought I my pc was tweaking for a sec
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Someone show this to Disney. You do not need a high budget to make a fake CG effect all you need is creativity like Will and his team. Hats off to you guys
For some things you do need CGI. You can't make Hulk with practical effects
@@maxpayne9139Oh really?
*Michael Bay left the chat*
To be fair, he's probably making more money from these youtube videos than a lot of industry VFX/SFX artists make on salary! Still very impressive.
@@unliving_ball_of_gas Yes lol, it'd be very, very difficult to make a good and real looking hulk with practical effects. 9 times out of 10, it'd almost definitely be better to do him with CGI.
For those wondering what the swirling effect is called, it's referred to as a rheoscopic effect. There's actually lots of products made with this on them.
flashback to the apple iphone wallpapers from a few years ago..
you can also use certain types of shaving cream, or so I'm told.
These weren't particularly difficult shots to recreate. The overly dramatic narration of the process they went through is frankly kind of annoying.
I know all I kept on thinking was nail polishes
@@dang3304 its not difficult to recreate but still impressive and fun to see them deduct how they did it.
astonishing work William
woahhhoo the king of effects in reels himself replied !!!
whos the greater william?
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Hey for effect 1, if you want to generate a constant swirling motion in the fluid you can use a magnetic stirrer used in chemistry lab. The device looks like a kitchen scale, coupled with a cylindrical pill-shaped magnet stirrer. Its low profile and you can create a more consistent swirling motion in that larger tank. Just an idea for future effects.
Christopher Nolan needs to hire you
I wish!!🤞
the difference is he had reference
Or hunt Chris down for revealing his secrets :-)
@@TomJones-wi4nh LOL imagine. Hhes like "i asked for 100M in budget why are you revealing i only needed water and glitter???"
@@epikpencil That's what would make him a steller apprentice. not so much in that he knows the tricks, but that he can see something, and come up with his own version of it. That's what you want in an appretice, intelligence, imagination, creativity and passion. You as the master simply pour your knowledge into them, and watch them bloom into their own.
This genuinely made me want to get back into film making and story telling. I haven’t felt that kind of excitement in years. Thank you.
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Nolan’s Trick was to ask the CIA for footage they have lying around from the tests…..
Yes, they had color cameras with good resolution for things like that back then
This is what RUclips is all about. Thanks for bringing joy and creativity into your workflow! Such a fun watch.
Agreed
I think it's kind of cool that for Effect 3, the materials used were just water and pigment powder; cheap and easy to obtain materials. It's cool how the VFX team came up with such simple yet powerful ideas, despite the million dollar budget.
if you think about it, most of it must have been the actors
Why Nolan? Give some respect to the special effect guys.
@@RichyRich2607 true, the special effects guys did follow Nolan's orders pretty well i guess...
@@WV-HillBilly Anyone who thinks Nolan is personally coming up with these practical effects is dumb as shit
@@WV-HillBillyIt wouldn’t be Nolan’s job to experiment and come up with how to do the VFX and then just pass the cheat sheet to the effects team for them to just execute it. He then would effectively be doing their job for them.
The VFX team’s job is to figure out and execute the director’s vision. Take a look at the credits for the movie, it’s Andrew Jackson and Scott Fisher. Nolan doesn’t have a credit in the VFX department. That’s not how it works. It’s incredibly rare that a director is involved hands on in the development of VFX.
This gives me even more respect for the original creators… imagining these things without having seen it before must have been hard, if I can’t even imagine recreating them this closely!
Creating by zero is way hard, Nolan has budget (Well, actually universal has) but creating new stuff is quite expensive.
There are actual real pictures of atomic explosions very similar to that one, so they did have a reference. The result is quite similar except for the dirt. That part I think was artistic freedom.
@@MrTomyCJbros talking about the og bomb creaters
but they (nolans team )have freedom b/c no one knowes this effects before
For interstellar , nolan had assistance from actual physicist who researched and wrote a paper on how the black hole would actually look like so that it could be recreated with CG . So I assuming they also did something similar which was simulate the explosion and then trying to recreate with practical Fx.
All of the effects are amazing, but effect number 3 is absolutely unreal. There's literally almost no difference between yours and the original. Don't even get me started on how well made this video is as a whole. Best RUclips video I've watched in a while.
Facts. Literally the ONLY difference I can find between their firestorm effect and the movie version is that the movie version was shot with a very slightly soft focus, which was probably benefited from having a very expensive camera
Dude if they had a little more budget they could’ve Made all of em perfectly same . The fact they did this with not even 1/10th of the movies budget is already astonishing beyond belief
@@priyanshplayz3021But the movie didn't use all of their budget on that particular scene, did they? I doubt if it evens 2% of the movie budget.
I was yelling at my screen that it was just glitter or some mica powder. They definitely thought too hard on that one with all sorts of crazy soaps and oils.
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You guys were so so close to the real footage. The Op special effects team should be proud. Keep posting here 👏🏽❤️🔥
Thank you! We put a lot of time into trying to nail it. There will always be things I wish I had done different, but I think we got close enough!
I thought oppenheimer was practical
@@owengibby technically it was, 78 years ago 💀
it was practical, cgi means computer generated (green screens and the lot), so just because you do practical does not mean you can't use special effects or enhancements@@owengibby
@@owengibby yeah Ik but to me practicals are special effects too.
Recreating them is one, but coming up with it is another story. Massive respect to you guys as well as Nolan's team.
Recreating an effect is harder.
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@@FormOverFlair for sure not
@@MrTrollo2 For sure yes. Having an idea and unlimited creative freedom is easier then having to re-create an identical effect. Of course it is. Because you can NEVER perfectly re-create an effect. It’s practically impossible.
@@FormOverFlair this is like arguing it is harder to build a car now than before they existed. And that's completely unreasonable. But hey, it's ok if you can not appreciate creating and developing things, we need craftsmen.
You might be right if you think one could just create anything. But they are trying to find something specific while not even knowing exactly what it is. That's a lot harder than to think about how to reduce production value on something that was already done and having a reference
I wonder just how long it took for the Oppenheimer team to do this in the first place without having any references to go off of.
Great job on this as well, turned out really incredible
Me too! I imagine months of planning and testing. There are also a few more effects in the movie that I didn’t do, and I imagine what made it into the movie is only 50% or less of the things they got on camera.
Maybe it took really long and was lot of work and thinking and creating and so on BUT it could be done very fast and wasn't a thing at all, cause when they done it there was nothing that could be wrong at all. It is only one of million version of how it could be done and every other version had/could been an also great thing/solution .... cause this isn't a recreation of a working thing like a PC or radio or else. It is just a creation of how something could LOOK like.
I am sorry about my bad english and hope you get what i mean 😇
You're kidding right? There are reels and reels of nuclear test footage that they clearly referenced, though not very well.
Saying they had no references to shoot these effects is kinda wild to me
@@roberthunkahaha so true. People in the comments: "We have no footage of any atomic bombs ever recorded." Also, recreating something isn't really that hard. People are impressed with the simplest shit these days. Remember before CGI??? they did it this way! Haha
Nolans team wasn't the first to use massive amounts oils and liquids, it was actually used for the first time on major scale in "Tree of life" during the birth of the universe. They replicated supernovas, nebulas, and massive explosions from stars using this method which Nolans team then used as a "massive" inspiration.
Wasn't it used in "The Fountain" by Aronofsky too?
2001 Space Odyssey. It was Douglas Trumbull.
"Cloud Tank Effects" have been in use for almost 80 years to replicate these sorts of phenomena. Look at Close Encounters of the Third Kind or the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ten Commandments used a variation of the same technique.
@@mistrrhappy You didn't read my comment i said "Massive scale"
Apart from the effects, i saw a lot of influence of terrance mallick in Oppenhiemer
Holy cow! This was an amazing video I’m astonished your channel isn’t larger! I think your ability to look at Nolan’s shots and figure out mostly how they were done is amazing. But it really goes to show why Nolan is the top of the game when he can just envision these things and make them into a movie! Can’t wait to see what else you come up with, extremely underrated channel!
No kidding! It wasn’t easy to recreate what Nolan did, but way more challenging to say “let’s find practical ways to represent quantum physics and nuclear explosions”
@@WilliamHBaker It turned out really good! Well done!! 🔥🔥
why would it be? hes here trying to fake replicate nuke like a took
So much melodrama
Because his cheeks are too fat
I never knew recreating effects looked so much like solving a murder mystery! I love it.
Looks great man! Loved your storytelling. I think that third effect might have been done with mica powder! It flows and has a sheen to it. I’ve used it to create that effect before.
didn't expect you here matt. A surprise,to be sure but a welcome one 😂
I saw mica powder in the store too! I thought it was the same thing but should've gotten both to test!
:O
@@WilliamHBaker This was great. Subbed can you please re create the skinny Bob alien video as alot of people think it's real.
Hi there
12:43 is what made me absoloutly LOVE this, the way you and your team had the eye and taste to notice what was missing in the shoot to achieve the correct take is so amazing, so talented people
Thank you so much!! I’m so grateful to everyone involved and that we did this project!
it was really obvious, the movement was too quick was the first thing
quit yapping
Anybody whose ever seen at least a VIDEO of a nuclear bomb before, will have an eye for this bro.
amazing editing, and love the music you used
What editing? He said no cgi
editing the video bro...@@bananablast23
@@bananablast23 must be bait
@@bananablast23 do you think he shot all of that in one take? With these colors? And with an orchestra playing in the background?
Amazing to see Nolan's explosion from Oppenheimer recreated without CGI! If you enjoyed these intricate details, you might appreciate a film I made using 4K Macro to explore life inside the womb. Similar techniques, NO VFX, different perspective: ruclips.net/video/eYSu2ochlE4/видео.html
The swirly one made me so mad because I am 100% sure thats ultra fine glitter
RIGHT as soon as i saw it i was like "oh thats just micah powder 😭"
To be completely honest, I was starting to doubt after effect 2 since it wasn't as similar (but still insanely creative and more than I would be able to do ofc). But then you went and made what is basically the EXACT SAME effect for number 3. It's literally indistinguishable!!! I went back and looked at both effects and I wouldn't be able to tell you which was made by you, and which was from the movie! Outstanding work man, and all produced so beautifully in this video.
As someone who’s seen Oppenheimer, this is insanely impressive. It looks so much like the effects in the movie. Well done!
As someone who saw Oppenheimer as well, the nuke scene sucked and looked nowhere near the scale or magnitude of a nuclear bomb. It honestly made my laugh out loud in the theatre.
As someone who objects to the things that earned the R rating, I'm glad to see the special effects without having to sit through the movie.
@@brainwithani5693r rated movies>>>>
@@iheartcicada bro really said nuke scene sucked
you mean the effects that lookl nothing like a nuke? congrats omg
When I started watching, I thought this was a large, well established film channel. I was surprised at the end when I read the comments and saw that you only had 11k subscribers. This video blew me away, and I’m excited to see what you’ll make next.
Wait a minute. If he only had 11k subscribers when you posted this message 5 hours ago and he has 16k now. He gained 1000 subs every hour in the past hour? I guess the algorithm has blessed him. I wish RUclips channels had stocks 😂.
Thank you!! I’m excited to make more on RUclips!!
Honestly, same. Thought it was an established channel! Great production and the end result was great.
That means he's probably part of some production team. All too often companies create the illusion of a one man show for extra clicks.
@@WilliamHBaker 🙏🙏
This makes me admire chris nolan even more. To even think a bomb explosion can be represented by minuscule of events is mind blowing
That’s not representative of the nuclear explosion of trinity : not even a bit.
That’s just a cinephile scene for people who don’t like CGI and that just made me feel like, once again, Nolan was saying to the spectator : look, I’m more a cinephile than you
@@MC8596 well if it made 900mil in box office. He is doing something right
@@MC8596Did you go to sleep with a wet pillow or what.
I highly recommend to watch atomic bomb scene from Twin Peaks by David Lynch, before oppenheimer this was really something unique.
@@MC8596Yup. As a VFX artist I don’t get the hate for CGI. Many movies use it, TV shows as well. People just don’t understand all that is included in CGI or VFX. It is such a shame that big directors are spreading this kind of hate. At the same time they cannot survive without VFX artists. It’a the reason why I left the industry. We get the hate and disrespect, yet they can’t live without us… Good riddance
The simulated drama and suspense makes this feel like an unintentional parody. *Pouring water into soap while screaming enthutiastically* into a melodramatic voice over about the struggles of the experiments. It's actually hilarious 😂
9:00 😂
Dramatization doesn’t work for everyone!
Holy frick! What the Frick!?
@@cgonz8 holy fricking frick did you just say frick dude, what the frick
I'm obliged to agree, that felt unnecessarily over the top
This is genuinely so damn crazy. You'd expect people to try this like a few years after the film came out, not when it's barely been a month since release. Amazing stuff honestly.
This is what I love about visual effect. There are so many ways to achieve the same result
The highs and lows during the recreation coming in sync with the astonishing background music was enough to tranquilize me to look into the screen throughout the screenplay. You guys are master at storytelling. The music just intensifies the curiosity. Amazing work guys.
This is just AMAZING!!! Please keep on posting here on youtube 🔥
I will be! I at least want to post once a month! Maybe not quite to the scale of this vid though😅
William, this was such a refreshing video I loved this so much. I wish I had a camera like this so I could also do experiments like this, again thank you for sharing this with us!~
Keep it up
Thank you so much!
Buy a RX100 Mark 4, it has slow motion and everything you need, maybe not as shallow depth of field as his, but just means you gotta stay further away with the camera and shoot more zoomed in.
If anything, this video showed to me how I should never again say stuff like "if I only had those resources…" I was looking his cameras and lighting gear in envy too, but then again, you can surely make cool footage with the cheapest cameras, they just create their own vibe and lesser quality might help to hide some possible imperfections in the effects. Lighting… Regular bulbs and colored plastic from waste is my first idea. I refuse to see the restrictions anymore, only endless creative possibilities :) A great video, thank you!
Imagine what William could do with the budget Nolan got for the movie...
Just went to newest and saw a verified RUclipsr let’s go
Noice.
This is filmmaking in the truest sense. You guys represent the ingenuity of this art form. I can’t wait to see everything else you make.
lying in its fulest. oppenheimer showed a fake nuke so whats it mean when someone replicates it?
@@420xo The truest sense in that they are recreating images through experimentation- creating something that didn’t exist before, and technically still doesn’t exist in reality because it’s an art of illusion. Is there anything we make that wasn’t inspired by something we see?
Well technically, filmmaking in the truest sense is what the chemist at the factory does to literally make the film.
It's not often that you watch a video that you think is revolutionary. As someone who loves the art and creativity that goes behind the lens, I'm so grateful that there are still people out there who respect cinema for what it is. You're an absolute mad lad. Keep on keeping on!
For me it's more about what complements cinema very well.
I just want to say this was fantastic, not only the fact that you are able to recreate the effects on such a small budget. But your storytelling and the cinematography of this what is essentially a mini documentary is absolutely fantastic.I most definitely going to share this with everyone I know and you earned a viewer from this
You guys just made me come close to going back into film making. This why so many people love Nolans work, whole categories of exploration and discussion happen around his art.
this is sooooo fascinating, really love your work... the energy, the enthusiasm, the perseverance... and wow these shots are like soooooo freaking amazing.. Brilliant
Thank you so much! It was a passion project to say the least!
the visual similarities are striking! great job guys
This is about to go viral, fantastic vid, great explanations and backing music to the beautiful shots!
Looks like Nolan's team did similar for the dirt movement. But they pulled a tightened strand of string under the dirt to get the uniform ripple.
“The important thing isn’t if you can read the music. It’s if you can hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?”-Niels Bohr
Man, this is just awesome. Nolan needs to watch this video and give you an award for making art and science at the same time. This is inspiring because we don’t know how Nolan did those effects, but you took your time and patience to recreate it with different elements and the result is art. You didn’t give up. Congratulations, man. You can hear the music. 👌
Thank you! I really hope this somehow does get to Nolan! 🤞 That would be a massive career accomplishment.
This is one of the best if not best youtube videos I have ever watched. The filmmaking in this is insane. Keeping the craft alive.
how does this guy not have more subs
the editing style is amazing, this video is set like the ones you'd see on a 500k subscriber channel. keep up the good work, man.
we would never watch the marvel CGI films anymore
Yeah it's unbelievable this guy have only 26k subs
Because he almost never uploads. His last video is from october 2021
@@noelradhakrishnan4423 bruh, I've watched this 2 days ago when he had 3k subs, so 26k is already a lot from a single video 😂
Him:Proceeds to mix soap with water
Everybody: Whoa!
The editing for this video is amazing!! It’s almost like we’re watching a movie version of a RUclips video!!
The fact that you all persisted in recreating this only means you're all going to get better at doing what you love, well bloody done lads!!
I think this is easily one of the best videos on RUclips and didn’t wanted it to end. Great work!
This was such a joy to behold. Also illustrates why we we feel this deep sense of reverence and awe at the real effects - the ingenuity and the resourcefulness that must have gone into it almost commands it.
This is an absolutely amazing recreation of these effects. I hope you get the recognition you deserve.
I was going to say that one effective looks like when you mix pearl pigment powder into a clear paint. I'm glad you figured it out !
Loved the storytelling aspect of this effects video! The playback at 13:00 was a nice touch as well.
Thank you guys for putting this up on RUclips.
I love the moments of the video where it isn't too frustrating and at some point it comes together completely perfectly. It's like he's a magician. You can feel the excitement and relief this dude feels every time it comes out so perfect. "Oh yeah, it's all coming together" moment.
I legitimately got kinda emotional watching this. This is the magic of filmmaking in every way. Trial and error, venturing into what’s never been done before, seeing objects and effects in new ways, I would give this video an award if I could. I felt transported back to those early 2010’s RUclips tutorials showing how to make a movie prop or effect, but this was just stunning. Cant wait to see what y’all do next.
You and me both!
Brother seriously? 1Million views in just 1day? The work was really phenomenal. Hats off to you and your crew. I really hope you get to work in one of Nolan's future projects. I really loved the video. Was looking for a video to watch while having dinner but ended up watching to the end without my dinner. Really loved it. Great work. Good job.👏
The editing and cinematography tells this story in such an amazing way, this is unreal!
This man MUST make an A24 his cinematography and style would work so well!
Practical effects are just so much more charming and beautiful to me. Watching what they did in Empire Strikes Back is like a religious experience. The Original Trilogy was art, made by master craftsman… good for you, for continuing the tradition of what those guys at ILM did. Loved the video!
This is absolutely phenomenal, huge well done to everyone who went into this, as a solo indie film maker myself those words you said at the end were so true and really hit as a one man band
And also, after watching this I thought you’d have 100’s of thousands of subs… (as of writing) only 4.6 thousand, that’s insane you deserve so much more, including Nolan and his teams recognition of this, if you know of the story about Preston mutanga and his journey to animating scene for Spiderman across the spider verse I can see an extremely similar thing happening here if the right person sees it
Yet again huge well done to you and everyone else on this, this was amazing!
You earned a sub
Goes to show the level of technical mastery it requires to take these seemingly simple shots. Respect to people like you and Nolan who take the effort to use imagination and creativity to make practical shots. And the very visible difference to stodgy looking CGI makes all the difference. Magnificent work!
Yup. Sometimes when u using cgi you can't replicate the moment like this. It's seems very simple but its like solving a math or something. That's how some people loves about Nolan's film.
Im not talking about his script yet cause its more complicated and interesting at the same time, it can give you confuse but when you know the script is about its gives you like a reward or something. It's really good.
And this video is amazing with also amazing backsound. Great job.
I hope you know Nolan uses plenty of "cgi" and doesn't look down on it lmao
Over the top for no reason at all
Agreed, it was a cool video, but they made it seem like they were doing the most difficult and important work of all time. Felt a bit silly.
GAH DAMN that was absolutely amazing u guys. Such a well made and executed recreation. Feel like they might've used a balloon for the nuke bubble shot. That way you could show the organic expansion of the nuke sphere in all sides!
Actually, I think they did! Hoyte Van Hoytema talks about it in one of the articles. It came out after we started the project, and I hadn't considered a balloon before that. It probably would've been a little more challenging but would've given that expansion for sure!
As an aspiring filmmaker, this was really eye opening. I loved Oppenheimer, ive already watched it 4 times (twice in IMAX) and Ive tried to study how everything was shot and composed.
But this video was very inspirational, hats off the you lot! 🙏😊
… question is, did you understand that Hiroshima and Nagasaki was carpetbombed with napalm (all steel concrete structures were untouched, and somepeople jumped into a river) and that there was a “holy weird” production magik back then just like this new movie release?
THERE WERE NO NUKES, NEVER COULD BE NUKES, AND NEVER WILL BE NUKES. Duck & Cover because you’ve just been bitch-slapped by INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGICKS.
The beautiful thing about this is that just like the military men who were told to keep their backs to the supposed detonation of an atmospheric nuke - THEY NEVER SAW WHETHER IT WAS ANYTHING BUT ‘HIGH’ X-PLOW SEIVES or what was advertised. But as the expose video shows, they’ll be telling everyone they know:
I WAS THERE!
it's already avoid use the CGI
4 times haha that's 12 hours you lazy sod lol If you're the future of film making then film making is truly dead 🤦♂ P.S Oppenheimer was an appallingly bad movie 💯
If you are really an inspiring filmmaker you should understand that these are all basic effects. They are how star trek transporters work and every concert from the 1960s was done.
Oh yay! I’m glad this could inspire! Thank you!
Yes!
Proving why practical is truly the best way to go.
The end results are jaw dropping. Astonishing work.
Ya'll nailed it pretty well. Honestly interesting seeing the entire process. Well done
This is way beyond incredible. Kudos to your dedication while making it...BGM makes it even more thrilling! Curious to know your budget compared to the $100 million Oppenheimer.
Its really impressive ! 😮
What exactly are you comparing here brother? Budget of 3-4 effects recreated in a garage vs total budget of a Nolan film?
To be fair it’s easier to copy this than figure it out from complete scratch
What a dumb comparison. he recreated a couple of days effects, not even a scene. 🤣 that 100 million is a whole damn movie.
What a conceited question kid
I don't understand how you only have 2.7K subscribers. This was a masterful exploration and execution!
Your comment is only 40 minutes old and he's already at 4k subscribers. RUclips's doing its magic! Well deserved.
@@nickpinkowskiawesome! The algorithm is algorithming!
Your comment 2 hrs ago.
His subscribers 2.7k.
Now Subscriber's count is almost 6k.
Indeed RUclips is a magical place.
@@dkas2690 Now nearly 10k 5 hours after your comment!
Now it's 9K subs and your comment is 7h old
Damnn, you guys really gonna blow up huh. Very well deserving and earned. Mind-blowing work at the recreation of these shots. I mean to take on such a herculean task and absolutely nailing. Nothing but love and respect 🙏✨
I worked in VFX/SPFX on Oppenheimer. I watched this back when you originally posted it. I was impressed with your clever approaches and passed it around at the office, but got busy on another project and never commented... until now. Great job thinking outside the box and tapping your creativity for what could be possible to trick the camera as you reverse-engineered your solutions. You guys got pretty close to what we did on the actual film with a lot of these! Nice work!
This shows that you don't need lots of money to create mind-blowing practical effects. All you need is Creativity and lots of Passion towards your work. I enjoyed every second of this video. Lots of love from India. You guys are amazing.
but they did spend non average amounts of money
I think that the cameras and the lights they are using are not too agree with your comment xd
Your experimentation is seriously mind blowing on another level... I am sure thousands of people got inspired and also it definitely opened up a lot of creative doors in the minds your audience and pretty sure in yourself indeed. Keep inspiring .. This project is just an honour to watch .. Thank you and much respect ! :)
i was shocked when i saw you have under 100k subs, this is one of the highest quality youtube videos i've seen in ages. well done to everyone involved!
America first tried to do this in 1947. They did this effect twice in Japan and it was a huge success. Happy to see it after so many years.
Burh, when you discovered the safety pins and it worked, that made me drop my jaw. That's sooo cool!
Watching how you guys recreated the particle acceleration with safety pin really brings back memory to my days as a PA in an indie studio :') I forgot how much fun it is to recreate practical effects on a budget, how many NGs and bloopers we had because we messed up the timing on some background noise got in. You got yourself a new sub man! Really good stuff.
I live in Japan so not sure if I’ll ever get to see Oppenheimer on the big screen, but I have to say.
This documentary was so well edited and put together and your knack for practical effects and reverse engineering them is top notch!
You deserve ever sub that comes your way!!!!
Free movie site and a vpn
@@gilpetperdon9831 wanna see it on the big screen... but yeah. once it comes to netflix/hulu/prime I'll get to see it on VR in a simulated theatre.
11:41 "Now that we built Nuke, it's time to set it off" -William H Baker
I'm at the 6:56 and I just wanna say before hand that my immediate thought for the affect was like golden glitter mixed in with some sorta thicker clear liquid (probably oil based, maybe like the coating for paintings so it doswnt smear might work can work since its oil/water based) and either water down to the thickness you want and boom, that was my Ted talk before I found out how you did it
Amazing job editing and reproducing the effects! I would really like to see the reaction of Nolan to this one. I am sure he would be amazed
Brilliant! I just got out of a 70mm projection of the movie and this looks so very close to the original! I think it is a great reminder that sometimes, it's not about big money and huge CGI: sometimes, it's about skills, creativity and inventive friends - and to me, your video does a great job demonstrating that. I cannot wait to see other videos from you!
Bro can do the budget friendly Oppenheimer, Interstellar,etc..
The music in this video is so well paced. It adds so much emotion! Keep up the amazing work.
THAT WAS SO GOOD. The quality in this video is so outstanding. Congrats you guys are an awesome team.
This video is going to be very popular. Taking your channel to a whole new level. Congrats 👏
There is an edible Pearlized glitter you can add to drinks to make them festive. I’m betting that’s what effect 2 was
don’t you mean effect 3?
I hope you start putting more effect recreations here on youtube as lots of people don't use ticktock! Would love to see them!
6:45 As soon as I saw that effect, I noticed it looks a lot like fine gold glitter in oil, I use a body shimmer spray that looks just like that when you shake it.
7:16 "theory will only take you so far"
I've literally just found your channel and I'm obsessed. This was incredible! You and your team are so clever and really focus on all the little details.
9:55 - it should be alcohol and luster dust powder. alcohol has a different index of refraction than water and can dissolve more powder than water can, which creates the shimmery part of the liquid.
using alcohol instead of water also means you can side and front light it, instead of a backlight. this will give the shimmer extra layers and depth, and gives you more control over depth of field because of the additional layering.
there's a version of vodka that has foodsafe versions of the luster dust powder in it, and you can make your own shimmer alcohol for parties with the same ingredients. it's more than likely some form of gold luster dust, i've seen that exact color and used it for a halloween party once, complete with spooky lamp to accentuate it.
Beautifully done. I do appreciate that Nolan opts for practical effects wherever possible (though if memory serves the base effects have often been accentuated by CG) and it's always impressive to see what someone with an eye for detail, some good film knowledge, creativity, and a WHOLE LOT of patience can do when put to the test. Thanks to everyone involved for a wonderful video.
This was amazing. The quality of this whole thing was incredible. It's hard to believe that as of writing this you only have 3.5k subscribers and this video has 6.8k views and only 4.4k likes. I absolutely hope this blows up, you deserve it.
In the process of blowing up atm - 450K views and 12k subs. Well deserved
Effect 3 was a rheoscopic fluid, it’s a special fluid that can show turbulent flow.
Congrats mate!! This shows talent, dedication and patience! Very impressive!
This gives you a short idea of how difficult it is to make a film like Oppenheimer! Great job guys!
One of the best bts-to-execution videos I have seen on RUclips, including professionally done featurettes by major studios. Congratulations on this masterpiece, brother. 🔥
Thank you so much! You actually taught me a ton about color grading and your stuff helped me level up in my understanding and execution!!
@@LaLolaMichelleI have no clue who those people are😅 I’ve been making recreation videos on TikTok since the beginning of this year, and I just wanted to bring that content onto RUclips in a longer, more story driven way!
@@WilliamHBakerhumbled to hear that, brother. ❤ Love your reels and I see all your hard work paying off big time. 🔥
Nolan's vision of having fun and enjoying the filmmaking process really shines through in your video. It's amazing to see the excitement and satisfaction on your faces when you finally achieve the desired result after so many trials and errors. This dedication to practical effects, rather than just using CGI, reflects Nolan's passion for authentic filmmaking. Your work not only honors this craft but also inspires others to try hands on creativity. It's great to see such passion and growth in today's generation. Keep up the excellent work!
I'm so freaking happy you left your original reactions in the video!! i was actually excited along side with you haha
It’s like recreating the process was a mini-Manhattan project