VFX Artists React to LORD OF THE RINGS Bad & Great CGi 2
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Where’s the Hobbit VFX Reacts follow up? 😭
How does this pinned comment from Corridor Crew itself only have 6 likes 😂😂🤦
Did you notice that the shock wave, for just a moment, is actually the sentence written on the ring?
Honestly the KEY factor for why LoTR worked so well..was the 3 years of pre production and storyboarding haha. No producers rushing it, no crunch, no scrambling to change a shot two weeks before the end like you see so much nowadays
And why the Hobbit lacked so much polish & has way more jank, production was shambles, Del Toro got axed and they scrambled and threw Jackson back on last minute and so almost everything was thrown together last minute, barely any planning or preproduction
Whenever they mention how old the technology is, I don't realize how archaic it is until you see the actual computers they used lol
Exactly.
Ya this was last century, over 20 years ago. I remember getting a 256mb ram stick around that time as a kid.
@@chrisrichfield8906 wow, 256mb, now there are computers with over 1 terabytes of ram
Yup, it was all made in 1998-2001...
@@carso1500 not really normal pc can have at the most 128 GB ddr4 ram.
that guy who modelled during christmas eve deserve a medal
edit : i think i've just created a skirmish in the responds
that that is a person who LOVES what hes working on and working with that dude would only done that if he was 100% happy with what hes doing and working with.
Lord Manhammer where did u find that? I can’t find that story anywhere
He is a national treasure and therefore must be protected
@@jarhead3736 He made it up lmfao
Fun fact, technically sauron was never supposed to be a flaming eye, his SYMBOL was the flaming eye but he was actually meant to be a physical body. But peter decided to do that. So imagine.... We could have almost not gotten that seen if it had been more accurate.
I feel you missed one of the best effects. The scene where Gandalf rids Theodin of Sarumans influence. That face change was beautifully done.
Yes! I remember being so blown away in the theater when I first saw it
Saw it again two days ago, and it’s still mind blowing!
Me and my girlfriend are working in VFX, and we were theorising all evening long!
X Highly possible, that would be my first go to, it’s just that everything is matching so well, from the lighting to the position of every facial features that I was almost wondering if they hadn’t added some other digital effects or if it was even something different.
But yeah, it’s most likely à manually animated cross fade with matching performances, just like they did on Michael Jackson’s “Black or white”
ABSOLUTELY
Came here to say this! It may not be too technical as someone else said but it is masterfully done.
The Balrog's roar is the most brutal sound of all time.
Jet engine in full afterburner
If I remember correctly it's a breezeblock being dragged over concrete in a very echoey tunnel
@@dominicjames4848 indeed :)
jurassic park t rex roar
@@jonathanraecrisanto5912 Nebelwerfer
*"I refuse to believe that there's a vfx error in lord of the rings!!"*
It's just a happy little accident
I do not believe it! I will not!
Harry potter movies!
Idea for the second tattoo 😂
I second this
I’m upset that Clint wasn’t called out for saying the Mines of Moria. He owes us 10 push ups.
lmao you're right
Dude yes!
@Logikure They used to play a game called the 'Game of Life' where when a person said 'mine', they would have to do 10 push ups on the spot.
@Logikure It's called Game of Life because the rule follows you for life.
Niko's not in the game, and Wren was too stoked about LotR to think about the Game of Life.
I’m sorry, this should have been 1 hour long
Oh yeah but RUclips is a shitty corporate bureaucracy now, where strict copyright and content rules disable monetization or just takedown the whole video at the slightest misstep. #fucksusanwojcicki
i'm expecting the director's cut of this video... 4 hours long
John Doe I’m sorry who tf ask jp
i agree 100%
6 episodes. 3 hours each. In keeping with tradition.
20+ years later and I still can't believe these movies happened. Humanity is still in debt to PJ, weta, new Zealand, and the whole cast and crew for making these absolutely incredible films.
Nowadays they would made half of characters black.
@docsamson8314Yes cause what would be more empowering to minorities than giving them white people’s tablescraps cause you’re too lazy to give them compelling characters of their own?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the black pearl, the skeleton VFX
All of them. That Davy Jones is some pirate perfection.
@@zephyr887 totally agree but theyve already done Dead Mans Chest
@@HellsBeastProductions True but it's totally worth doing again xD
Definitely
Yes
There’s so much more to talk about in LOTR. We need at least one more
Agreed
A trilogy, if you would, about the trilogy
They could go into as much depth as they’d like and make it 20 episodes and I’d love it.
Yeah I was hoping for some of the VFX funkiness, like the trees of Fangorn forest, or the army of ghosts.
This
props to the guy who did the tower model during his christmas break
a true hero of the lord of the rings
Plot twist: He was Muslim.
@@MahatmaAndhi Plot twist: you're an incel
Andi Springthorpe Why does that matter? Working through a work break doesn’t have much to do with religion
@@mattagor2460 It was a joke. People that don't celebrate Christmas don't care as much. Such as myself. I happily work it because it's quiet and I get paid to do not much.
@@buffnipz Plot twist: I'm married, you imbecile.
THANK YOU guys!!! I was proud Weta Workshop supervisor on the "Complete circle" Isengard bigiature. We filmed it half-buried in a vacant lot just a few door up the road from the workshop over 6 months in early 2001. Many nights the with wind over 30 knots, we'd have to stop or have harry's MoCon crane wobble, a LOT! ...Soooo... our crew's wind and wet-weather cover was usually indoors across the road filming propane sprite elements of the Balrog!
Little-known fact: Up until 9:11 I was creating dozens of Barad-Dur closeup destruction chunks out of 'black foamed-glass'. These worked great in tests using sequenced shotguns to disintegrate them. The day after 9:11 our producer was like, 'we can't do this scene now'. So it had to wait a while till it was resurrected as a scene.
Eru Illuvatar bless you
Thank you for your service to fantasy fans, truly.
Thanks for making generations of nerds
All that hard work shows. It really does.
Wow I know this is an old comment and all, but I just wanted to say that you and the entire LOTR team are responsible for probably the greatest trilogy in movie history. The hard work, no the RIDICULOUS amount of work you guys put into these movies just really really shows. Genius planning and execution, incredible imagination, pure love for the lore, and going above and beyond to create this, it's no question at all. It might sound a little selfish, but I hope they don't remake these movies ever. I feel like Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King are by definition, perfect, the way they are.
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, these videos should be a trilogy...
Funnily enough, that's exactly what happened with the movies themselves. Peter Jackson originally pitched LOTR as a two-parter to Miramax (Harvey and Bob Weinstein's company). They started pre-production but the budget soon spiraled and Bob Weinstein demanded that the movie be condensed into a single film. Peter Jackson wasn't happy about cutting out "half the good stuff", so Miramax told him they would look for a new director. They agreed to give Jackson a month to find another studio to take over the project, otherwise, he would be off the movie and it would be released as a single film.
Every studio that met with Jackson turned him down. They all wanted to make a single movie. A few of them agreed to a double feature, but they wanted most of the expensive scenes cut out, which Jackson found unacceptable. Jackson's last meeting was with Bob Shaye (the head of New Line Cinema at the time). He said, "Why would you do two films when there's three books? Why wouldn't you do three films?". Jackson immediately signed a contract with New Line and the rest is history.
DECODED thanks for the info!
@@DECODEDVFX that was a cool tidbit!
@DECODED Reminds me of George Lucas' struggle to get a studio to sign on for Star Wars. Thanks for the cool info!
@@DECODEDVFX this might be the first paragraph comment I've read to the end, anyway thanks for the info
honestly, they can do a whole 'lets watch' stream where they just watch the entire trilogy, and talk about every VFX shot that they find interesting. I would pay to watch that
An unofficial "commentary track" by Corridor for one of the best movie trilogies ever made would be a great way to kick off 2020!
EDIT: trilogies, not theologies. Stupid autocorrect!
Extended version, please
fr
Too short. You guys should have done this as a trilogy, one for each movie.
Each one feature length
100%
Corridor = Miramax xD
I remember when I watched Fellowship of the Ring as a kid, it was something like:
The Nazgul appear: Woow they look cool
Rivendel is shown: Wooow that place looks reeeaaaly cool
The cave troll appears: Wooooow that Troll looks awesome!!!!
The Balrog appears: HOLY SWEET HONEYED ICED TEA!!!!
Yeah, the build up on the Balrog was so strong I hid my face in my fathers arm as a kid. then, like a minute later, right after it had shown up, I got curious and tried to free myself to see. My dad thought I was freaking out and held me harder. I missed the whole Balrog first time in theaters. Was rather mad about that.
The Balrog’s been giving me nerd chills since i was 6
When they have the ghost king on the thumbnail and don’t talk about it...
Right! And they're a weird effect. Cool but sorta funky too. There is some real dodgy looking stuff in Return of the King but they didn't really touch on it.
@@andrewt9128 what dodgy stuff?
@@TheWartechgaming Legolas climbing the oliphaunt looks pretty bad by today's standards. The Army of the Dead don't look great either in the battle.
@@shayposting really? Thought the oliphant itself as a cg character holds up quite well, the legolas climbing part does look a little bit iffy
@@shayposting they talked about that in one of the first videos.
It's a very special episode.
It's a film Clint's actually seen.
He may have only watched LOTR, but heck it is almost enough.
rise of the skywalker was better
@@user-zu6ts5fb6g Cats was better.
@Cyberdemon Mike Nothing waa better than that
@@rafaelalodio5116 not almost. It IS enough.
best trilogy ever to me. ride of the rohirrim still gives me the goosebumps till this day no matter how many times i watch it.
Same
As films, they are very consistent, but it still disappoints me that each film strayed further and further from the source material. "Fellowship of the Ring" will always be my favorite of the three simply because it sticks closest to Tolkien's books.
@@Durwood71 Its a function of variance. The Variance introduced in the first film rippled out requiring more variance as they went on. It's actually amazing that they kept as much as they did. The Extended editions bring the other two closer to the books in my opinion. There are really only a couple changes I really wish they hadn't made. They turned the battle for Minas Tirith into a deus ex machina, and they severely maligned the character of Faramir. Though I can forgive them Faramir's indecision because they really rescued Boromir's character.
ARISE,ARISE RIDERS OF ROHAN
@@ActionNerdGo You gotta make a movie man. With a book you have all the time you need to explain stuff, with a movie you only have a certain amount. You need to keep the audience engaged.
"Peter Jackson has a cameo in every movie he's done."
Shows a clip from Hot Fuzz.
That guy who puts a knife in simon Pegg in peter jackson
The point was PJ didn't make HF, he only had a cameo in it
Yeah, Frighteners or Bad Taste would have been acceptable 🤮🥣 🧟
for a second i was like, Peter Jackson directed Hot Fuzz?😱 good movie though
The LOTR special features are almost as thrilling as the movies themselves
They are quite enjoyable to watch, just the scale and amount of some of the elements they had to do, like with the chainmail, where if I recall well, they were 3 or 4 persons working by themselves and they made something like 2km worth or chainmail xD it's rather impressive.
The models are something to see as well, would recommend any fans of LotR and VFX to go watch these documentaries/behind the scenes.
I've not even seen LOTR but I'm here
@@swertyque480 Go watch it. Right now.
@@swertyque480 It's a masterpiece trilogy. Watch it.
Hobbit it optional. It's not that great. But LOTR is unforgettable.
The movies and the special features are the best way to spend a month, watching everything in one go. 😂🤘
I was kind of hoping they would talk about the Ents !
It would take them to long to say anything worth saying
Nobody cares for the woods anymore
The tower falling is honestly one of the most emotional and cathartic scenes ever. Everything single thing had been leading to that exact moment. It is the embodiment of relief.
What sells it for me is the slight change of the LOTR music motif as the tower falls, subtle and suddenly with a positive inflection. Made me cry in the cinema…
It's "eucatastrophe". Tolkien invented the term himself.
Guess I'll never unsee Sam ice skating into Mount Doom...
Exactly! I'm like fuck, I'll always remember that when I rewatch the movie 🤣
Apparently The Lord of the Rings are the only movies Clint has ever seen.
Lmao
I mean if there’s a single set or movies you should see in life, it’s lord of the rings.
TheGreatVakama112 what about star wars harry potter and the godfather?
@@Doctor_Straing_Strange harry Potter is mediocre.
@@Doctor_Straing_Strange Harry Potter? 😂😂😂
"would you give up your christmas break for this shot?"
thats a career making decision.
Buddy probably got a huge bonus and paid time off for that.
@@jayrymer2097 Probably didn't though. Life of a VFX artist... Underappreciated and underpaid.
@@srennowakowski3090 Ugh that would be heartbreaking...Peter Jackson seems like an ok guy, I'm sure he'd recognize the hard work in some way.
Aw man. I hope he got a bonus. All 3 LOTRs were nominated for Oscars and this one took the big one home. He deserves a raise!
I love how every profession within the movie industry can fangirl over LotR. From musicians, writers, VFX artists, make-up artists, set designers - it truly is a masterpiece.
Kinda wish these vids were longer cuz they’re so interesting
it feels like something is left unsaid
Highly recommend to watch extra videos for Extended Editions of LOTR trilogy
These could be thirty minutes long and I'd happily watch
I never noticed that Sam slide going into the mountian
Neither did I! But now I have the feeling I won't ever be able to unsee it.
me either and i've watched the films far to many times lol
Edit: never mind, I got it mixed up
@@Rhonu No, it's Sam.
@@UKBxnzh Yeah you're right. I saw the movie last week but somehow I had it in my head that that was Frodo
"They didn't have a CG model [of Barad-Dur], they just had the 25 foot physical miniature" *shows picture of Orthanc*
Damn Lews Therin, you are good observant for a mad man!
I can’t stop laughing! Thank you, fellow nerdiest of nerds.
CMike: “and where was that quote said?”
Wren: “in the MINEs of Moria...”
Riley Martin dont you dare speak that name in this comment section
@@Beans420MoreBeans But he's the nicest dude, dude
Remember the game of life? :V
WingMaster562 do they still play that?
@@brandonanimations2915 Nope, not since CMike left as the editor/cameraman.
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Also, it seems like the game is only on when CMike is rolling the camera, that's maybe the second and unspoken rule. The first rule being when you're in, you're in for life.
You guys actually missed out on one of the coolest things about Massive: These characters had a premature form of AI... causing a few of them to actually run away from the battle at Helms Deep near the end when Gandalf appears.
They mention this in the bonus material
They had to tweak the Rohan ai to not run away because they were so horrifically outnumbered
Well, AI is not new. It's just recently popular. Most stuff you learn in undergrad today was techniques developed during the time of filming or earlier.
I'll never forget how Weta thought they made a self aware AI because they saw a few of them far off in the hills. An AI SO smart, that it saw the opponent army and thought "Bugger this, I'm outta here", when it was just a model that didn't collide with any of the opponents.
@@starllama2149 I don't believe it's machine learning if you mean it by undergrad techniques. At the time ML was pretty weak due to computing power and learning such stuff would be overkill (e.g. deep learning networks become viable around 2012). It was probably some rules made by engine authors (heuristics). But it's just my opinion.
J P it’s fuzzy logic, which is not ML, since there’s no learning aspect but it can give the illusion of intelligent decision making.
This was two parts and yet it feels like there was still so much left to be discussed or shown
Yeah should've been one part per movie. The ents, the ringwraiths' flying steeds, the army of the dead (which are IN the thumbnail). Oliphaunts, horses, and the wargs. And Gandalf's fireworks!
“We’ll talk about that in next week’s video, about the Hobbit.”
Spongebob Narrator: 4 MoNtHs LaYtEr
8 MoNtHs LaYtEr...
yeah where is it
@@Ericbuddysquishytoad not surprising at all that they would just skip the Hobbit movies. They are the biggest example of VFX taken way to far. with Ian Mckellen saying how miserable he was acting on a greenscreen for the entire movie. To the point that he literally burst into tears and yelled "this is not why I became an actor" during one of the many scenes where he is acting on his own while the dwarfs are edited in. for the size difference.
To the CGI orcs looking far worst than they did in LOTR. They felt real and grounded making them far more intimidating. the real orcs in the LOTR were capable enough to fool you into thinking you are looking at an orc but the CGI ones only reminded you you are looking at a computered generated orc.
@@jimmystevenson3178 all the more reason to do it. To highlight the issues while also showing the great effects that were eclipsed by the bad.
WHERE IS IT?? I NEED THIS!!!!
I'm down for another episode of LOTR to be honest? I feel like there's still tons more to talk about.
“They couldn’t do that back then.” I didn’t even realize just how long ago the first one came out. It seems like it was so recent.
Yeah, people were born after Fellowship came out who can now vote.
@@smaakjeks I remember going to cinema to watch these movies with my parents. I was 12 to 15 back then. Damn, I feel old. To be honest, about a year ago we gave a watch to all LotR movies in their director's cut versions. Almost 12 hours of high fantasy and great, truly epic story.
@@smaakjeks God damnit why did you have to say that?
@@MiaogisTeas I am the keeper of the eternal grandfather clock. Its bell eventually tolls for all, and your time approaches with every swing of the pendulum. Live while you can, hapless mortal. Rage against the dying of the light.
Smaakjeks I feel old.
Lord of the Rings part 3. Y'all didn't go over enough scenes.
ikr
Ya y’all gotta talk about the close up shot of the goblin puppet in the Moria chase scene
More please!!
Seriously! ROTK had as many VFX shots as the other two films combined yet we only get a taste of it???? Skip the The Hobbit video, we all know it was bad and should feel bad.
they didn't talk about the mumakils
This should be called good and great cgi.
Also, the reason the effects in LOTR are so great is that they used cgi to supplement rather than to replace traditional effects. Whenever it was possible to use traditional effects they would, because they seem to have understood the limits of cgi (especially in the early 00s). Now, unfortunately, too many filmakers use cgi as a crutch to be used in 100% of effects shots.
Exactly why Lord of the Rings mostly looks better than the Hobbit films
And even when they didn't need CGI, like a gun in Spiderman: Far from Home.
@Joshua Yeah, I agree! Imagine if they made a new Star Wars video with the same techniques they did back with the original triology? Would be awesome.
@@st.michaelthearchangel7774 Fact is, the _Star Wars_ prequels, despite being derided as CGI spectacles, actually use tons of models and practical effects. Most people aren't aware that each prequel film had more models and practical effects than the entire original trilogy combined.
@Joshua Davidson Not only that, but there are problems with the current state of cgi in movies. Problems such as a single production using a ridiculous number of studios doing different things, visual effects staff being overworked and underpaid, and deadlines that prohibit the teams from polishing the finished product. You look at a blockbuster movie like black panther, and wonder how the final battle can look that bad from a studio that prints money. It's just a shame that some higher ups can look at that and go "good enough." That kind of passion for excellence in visual effects is lacking, but luckily we still have people like James Cameron that are pushing the envelope.
Just seeing how all the special effects and miniatures were done just makes me love lord of the rings even more.
WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH
So true. It's a masterpiece by any stretch of the word.
The guy who gave up his Christmas break to make the collapsing tower of Mordor better have gotten a raise.
a raise for a raze
Careful, hes a hero
He’s an absolute madlad.
Bilbo's face has haunted my nightmares since I was a young teenager.
just saying that they never added the "The Hobbit" episode
I'm came down to look for this comment
Cos Lord of the Rings was better
@@tonigregory3240 dude in this video they said they were going to do a "the hobbit" video.
Ya, I'm looking for that. I hope that there was not a copyright claim.
@@ResisterOfEvil They may not have created a Hobbit dedicated episode but I do remember them analysing the White Orc. Couldn't find it after a quick search, maybe it has been taken down.
Most people: “No way, dude. It’s one shot, I would never give up my Christmas break.”
Clint: “Would I? WOULD I?? I WOULD THROW MYSELF AT THAT COMPUTER FOR THAT SHOT.”
It's emblematic of what made LotR so great - everyone working on it wanted to DO IT RIGHT. There isn't any one shot where you can't feel the effort and attention to detail just flowing out of it.
Shoutout to the dude that gave up his Christmas break for us to have a perfect Tower of Mordor explosion.
Yes
Barad-Dur, please ;)
I've commented this so many times already, but the most recent the Planet of the Apes trilogy is worth a look. It had _unbelievably_ good CG and mo-cap.
I think they are very well aware of this trilogy since it's the highest standard of motion capture today.
Probably coming sometime.
Theodin being released of Saruman's influence still feels like one of the smoothest animations I've ever seen
LOTR is now old enough to be put in the 'back then' catagory..
20 years.
"There and back again" and again and again and again. I have seen these movies maybe 50 times.
It's still just so alive
LOTR is now almost old enough to drink
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No tales - the smoke coming off "Salazar" and his crew.
Also their hair floating around like it's underwater, and the crew members with holes you can see through
Just all Pirates of the Caribbean would be a good vid.
Lez did not look good compared to POTC: Dead Mans Chest Davy Jones.
The first one was very impressive for its time. The second one blows everything out of the water though.
Have they done the original Pirates yet?
when they talked about the Balrog coming, I expected a Jake sponsor spot.
The LotR films are so much of an accomplishment that most people will never understand just how ground breaking it is and was at the time. It is literally mind breaking and industry changing stuff that is nearly indescribable. What a feat to accomplish and create these movies
"Behold, Helms Deep!"
"It's only a model."
"Shh!"
😂😂😂
What is this?... A Helms Deep for ants!!!
Ahh Monty Python. It never ages
6:26 Another Fun Fact: All animals with reflective eyes have this. The real interesting thing is that in reindeer, the reflection changes color depending on the season. In winter, the mirror turns blue so that blue light travels back through the rods and cones. In summer, they change to a golden yellow. This is because during the winter, the fluid in the eye expands, compressing the mirror and changing it to blue. In summer the fluid warms and relieves pressure off of the mirror, making it reflect yellow hues. This is beneficial evolutionarily because during those seasons, those are the most prominent hues of light, allowing them to see better (more sun in summer=yellow, more moon in winter=blue).
React to Ready Player One, namely the fact that virtually nothing in most scenes is live action
I second this
Guess I fourth this
I fifth this
DO IT!!!
I number this
That Balrog roar scene...
You don't usually hear bass in a fire sound.
No need to mention visuals
Best boss design ever
Lord of the rings, the only movies Clint has actually seen.
That's all he watches, He goes home and sits in his LOTR upholstered couch and just does marathon after marathon of all the movies.
@@QuesoKommando The right way to live.
Well if I could only watch one movie series it would be Lotr
When is a review of the VFX shots in Harry Potter, my life needs fulfilling.
King Arthur: Legend of the sword
All the yes
“Those are probably CG birds.”
Given the titanic work put into these films, I would not be surprised if Peter Jackson had Weta create miniature birds for that sequence.
I’d like to see you guys talk about district 9’s vfx
Yes!, the CGI in District 9 looked incredibly photo-realistic.
I rewatched that movie recently and WOW it still looks fantastic
Weta are the kings of CGI.
I actually think they have allready. I've seen it. But now I'm not sure if it was corridor or another channel that did the analyze. Pretty sure I saw it on this channel tho. But it's 3pm here, so don't take my word for it.
District 9 is still one of the standout VFX films for me. The photorealism is simply stunning. Perfectly composited with the life action footage. Amazing.
Talk about The Witcher or Mandalorian, feel like that should be pretty relevant now
Some of the Witcher cgi is laughably bad
@@AsylumSaint if you got a xbox download free movies HD watched the mandalorian and witcher it's good quality and is oddly reliable for a movie app
Mandalorian apparently still isn't out in some places, so maybe not for a bit.
@@747lch Yeah, gotta be honest, the very first beast you see has some really... puppet like movements.
@@747lch "Bad and Great CGI"
Best thing about the Balrog: it's not a Gray CGI Monster like all the thousands we've had since.
right, it's a black cgi monster.
The Lord of the Rings movies are like a gold mine for any kind of artists. So inspirational.
The miniatures in the matrix, they called it “bigatures”
And you can catch Adam Savage working on them in the extras 😏
Gateaux Q really?? I didn’t notice 😮
pikachus?
same with the LOTR, they say so in the special features
Oof! The Nebuchadnezzar scene where it blasts through those giant doors...!
“For the lord of the rings, heck yeah!”
That's the nerd motto. football huddles have go team we have that.
This needs like 2 more parts
So many things I'd like you to react to (elephants, those ghosts, the spider...)
I would like to see a spot for Narnia, Why:
The good & interesting:
Aslan (Still holds up really well IMHO)
Also makes use of MASSIVE
For the practical effects they used RC controlled elements quite a bit (also, aslan lying on the stone table is actually a animatronic)
The ugly:
Poorly aged greenscreen shots (Bad lighting maybe?)
Some cgi characters didn't age well
I agree with this
Slow motion in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and also the Expanse CG space shots and intro
For that they should collab with Gavino Free, the guy who did the slomo for Sherlock Holmes
Yes, do a collab with Gav and Dan. You know you want to play with the high speed cameras, and then we can live vicariously through you.
I can’t copy the URL on my phone, but you might enjoy this video from another great RUclips channel: ‘Sherlock Holmes - How To Do Visual Action | Film Perfection‘ 👍
LotR - Both movies and books are just a gift that keeps on giving.
So you're telling me that LOTR did a night battle way better and memorable than GOT using outdated technology?
Bro, that whole battle did not even make any sense :l
GoT focused heavily on cgi. Whereas Peter Jackson utilized both practical effects and cgi.
I mean, there's also the fact that the Two Towers had a budget of 94 million dollars, which would be the equivalent of around 140 million today. In comparison to the Blackwater episode, which had a budget of 8 million. It's also important to point out that the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed and edited over around 4-5 years. All in all each season of Game of Thrones, excluding the final season, had only a year to complete an entire season, which was often longer than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in runtime.
I have many gripes with Game of Thrones, and the final season was an unfortunate disaster, but we should also be fair to the hard working people who tried their best to bring us something amazing - and for the most part they did.
@@peterbabicki8252 no, got was all about money, they don’t know how to make the audience happy and they don’t care
@@Bazoeti then why waste millions of dollars? At the start it was a fantastic show since it followed the books until they reached where they had NO book to use and so had to make it all original. That's the issue GoT has with the finale season or 2 (I forgot if if it was last season or last 2 seasons). Even so, we shouldn't just disrespect the artists, animators, those work on custumes that the show became bad due to the director's and corporate stuff. Like for example, you were hired to be one of the developers of a movie (doing modelling of stuff), how would you feel if they said same thing you said to them, you did not do it cause ya love but for the money. You be pretty heartbroken that people think you don't care but you do.
The Lord of the Rings is a massive achievement. One that even the academy recognized when they gave Peter Jackson the Best Directing Oscar. While it's true that some of the VFX look dated, the trilogy is still one of the best ever made
Gotta respect everyone that has worked on the entire Lord of The Rings trilogy.
Do Mad Max: Fury Road. The CG is so good in that most people think it’s all practical
And maybe some 'The Book of Eli' which has a lot of similar effects and practicals. ('Love this movie!)
They've already done that in another video!
Sam: “oh they have a cave troll now!”
Frodo: “they have a cave troll now?”
Gandalf: “they have a cave troll now”
Rise of Skywalker flashbacks...
@@tide_fighter3192
"They fly now!" 😂
Would’ve liked to see a breakdown of the Balrog and Gandalf fighting while falling. Love the shot right before they come out of the hole in the roof into the lake.
This needs to go into way more detail, I don't care if it has to be half an hour long
I could eat up 2 hours of them talking about this trilogy
Gabriel Hornbrook yes please
I will pay for more Lord of the Ring and Star Wars reactions
They're just winging it these days.
they need to make an extended edition of this vfx react. I could watch this for 12 hours, divided in videos of 4 hour.
I'm kinda really sad they didn't talk about king theoden's transformation in the second movie
Check out the appendices in the special extended editions. They’re really informative. If you want to know about it, it was a painstaking bit by bit time lapse essentially. They would film a bit of it with Bernard hill in the right makeup, change his makeup, and then line him up with the previous shot and then blend it all together.
*Talking about Barad-dûr* "They only had a 25 foot model of the tower" *Shows Orthanc*
I can imagine these guys in a movie theater
Was expecting a breakdown of the scene where King Theoden goes from old dude to young dude in one shot. Disappointed.
that actually was basically just a combination of a number of shots they did with bernard hill in different makeup
watch the behind the scenes documentaries dude, most of them are on RUclips and they are some of the most relaxing and fun videos there are if you're a Tolkien fan.
They said there's gonna be 3 parts. Any shot from Minas Tirith and Pellenor Battle has been shown yet either. 😉
Watch their first video on LOTR. This is part 2.
What do i think it is Morph tho i dont know how old is this soft
Here's some VFX that haven't aged well: the Spy kids films
TBH those effect shots were outdated the day after they were finished.
Shark Boy and Lava Girl^ 👌🏼
Or Speed Racer which I actually find awesome!
They never looked convincing. Though they got worse as the films went on, I think. I’m pretty sure the director wanted them to look cartoony and out of place.
Picking on the Spy Kids films is pretty low. They did the job.
I'd like to see a comparison of movies that were filmed in actual 3D, vs ones that were converted to 3D in post.
It’d have to be a 3D video to actually see what they’d be talking about.
Ooh that would be fun!
These movies are so incredible...The Writing, Acting, Cinematography, Action Sequences, VFX, the Music!!!! It’s all soooo good!!!!!!!!!
Do Narnia is please. No one talks about how good Aslan is, and that’s the point of VFX
u know, aslan is turkish for lion. kinda funny huh
@GamersOnVideos
1. Accidentally Racist
2. Baad
Lion King: Sorry, 3D lions can't emote
Narnia, 14 years earlier: Hold my Turkish Delight...
Spy Kids series? There's a lot of weird stuff to talk about there, Shark Boy and Lava Girl too!
Have they looked at “the lion the witch and the wardrobe” yet, because Aslan looks better in that than almost any other cgi animal today.
THAT IS SOO TRUE
YES
AMEN
My favorite thing about the balrog is went it blows fire out of its mouth, it creates a mirage type heat effect on its mandible where it visually waves due to the intense heat.
I need a Total War: Lord of the Rings after watching this. Holy hell.
Medieval 2 total war; Third Age Mod , Divide and conquer submod.
@Tito Marina Battle for Middleearth is yearsssssss old though
Man I spent countless hours on LOTR:BFME. The music and voice work from the actors themselves/from the film! Excellent game!
@Tito Marina that was the RPG one right? I think I played that on ps2, I do remember The Two Towers and Return of the King game was awesome, back in the days when EA was great too
@@amudpuddle6159 I love that mod/game. It's a hidden gem that any strategy fan has to play.
You guys should do an episode on "The Expanse" series.
On both VFX and the _science,_ since it's fascinating how much they had done _right_
Random fun fact regarding Christopher Lee in the films: He actually made Peter Jackson change the script so he didn't scream when he was stabbed in the back. His reason: I have done this to people and they never scream.
(He was a special operative during WW2)
And as cool as that is, it made me realise that other people scream when big things hit them. Like the dude who gets whacked in the chest by a ladder arrow in Helm's Deep. He screams, but his lungs would have been compacted instantly. But oh well.
He actually didn't say he had done it, but he did suggest he knew the fact and Peter Jackson didn't press the matter 😂
He didnt outright admit to have done it. He only implied he “knew” which I think is even more badass. He was actually in the winter war in Finland
Here it is:
ruclips.net/video/adJdBSdMGKU/видео.html
The Balrog is still probably my all time favorite all CGI monster ever in film. those effects havent aged a day
Extended Edition is the only way to watch Lord of The Rings.
5+ hour Return Of The King.... Here I come
@@doctor-atuti Actually, 4+. The extended edition is about 62 minutes longer than the thaetrical version, which was abot 3h 20m.
... but you have to watch The Hobbit trilogy in one sitting first.
JOKING!
True it fills in a few things I found that it did not feel longer . That's what she said. Sorry had to put in my own dad joke.
Stfu
You guys need to review "legend of guardians: owls of gahoole"
oh yeah
I love that movie, YES PLEAAASEE!!!
God that movie is underrated. Does anyone else remember the books?
I remember this film.
Such a good movie!!!
*clears throat*... Peter Jackson did not direct Hot Fuzz, he just has a cameo in it
Quite indeed.
Edgar Wright. Class director
These movies were made with passion and pure love
I really want to hear your thoughts on the de-aging effects in The Irishman.
Your mom thought they looked great
The Irishman: the de-aging effects
There's actually a video on RUclips where they kinda 'fixed' the deaging effects using DeepFaceLab...
Esp when DeNiro is curb-stomping that dude and looks like he's worried about breaking his hip.
I’m waiting for when they tackle all the special effects in Harry Potter
me too!
there's so much to unpack with all the practical effects and the models they build and thanks to the Warner Bros studios there should be a lot of material for the video
I want to see how they did the Gemino curse