ILM: Behind the Magic of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens 

@@ohio K

The better the effects, the shittier the story. That holds true at least for Star Wars.

*visual effects. special fx are created on set

SparrowNoblePoland I Guess they sacrificed story for better effects😂

I just find it a bit boring when you know that everything is digital and nothing is real. Model FX creates a certain feeling by being tangible.

Weta learned from ILM. But it's a real good company too. Ur right! :)

@@purefoldnz3070 Double Negative did Interstellar and BR 2049. Its right up there with ILM & WETA

@@purefoldnz3070 ILM is the originator of the vfx art

S_MAGIC _ONE Agreed! One of the best, in my opinion!

Purefoldnz no I think ILM comes first ( VFX artist’s opinion )

blender softwer ??

lll no he’s talking about Industrial companies not free to use simple softwares

@@sonyl1143 Use Maya if you want to work at a place like ILM, Blender just isn't quite there yet...

@@thespalitine oh tq

@@kholwayd9839 oh

You spelt explicit wrong and that means bad it's the wrong word to use cmon use ya brain

They all do have some visual flare but this is all the sequel trilogy has because everything else is crap

308328928 wrong.

Obviously, they are the newest ones.

those water simulations in the end too were superb.

could'nt agree more!!!!

Reggie F For a Movie that was hyped up on it’s practical effects, this is an immensely digital movie

If George Lucas was in charge, he would straight away use large miniature models for that. Just look the the prequels.

@@ReviveHF That or a digital matte painting. Also used in those movies.

You'd be quite surprised at how much detail goes into any effects, CG or practical, even if they would be seen for only a single frame

cokedrinker941 well, the sequels were good entertainment wise, but not storyline and continuity wise. I think the same thing could "maybe" be said about the prequels.

No you just like crappy, lazy, nostalgia baiting, movies, made by an evil corporation, that are giant insults to the creator of Star Wars, and the fans of Star Wars

@@alcarbo8613 alright calm down dude I don’t like TFA either but I still think ur being rude

You're fine.

Im glad I'm not alone

Not arguably they did, almost every environment in the prequels were real miniature effects

Sadly, this film marketing started that trend we see today (Nolan, Barbie, Top Gun...) to sh£t on VFX for marketing buzz... so disrespectful of their talent, but hey.

Yes but he didn’t look like that in real life they gave him a different face using CGI

It's all about the detail, @Mike vom Mars. More details mean much more closer to reality. I am sure, you'd agree that reality isn't just normal height maps, but levels of detailed geometry on levels, on other levels, on other levels, and it goes on until you can't even notice the difference. If you get what I mean.

Too bad the actors' performances suffered because of it

Will Mashy You mean like VFX artist should tweaked the CGI Graphic to make it look more realistic like in the newer Star Wars movies for a new Special Edition in the Original Trilogy and Prequel Trilogy to make look better than the previous Special Edition had?

Will Mashy they tried, ever heard of the Special Editions? They didn’t pan out well

@@kidicaras2719 And it just cost an entire star wars trilogy.

My thoughts exactly. If you look at the behind the scenes for the prequel trilogy, you'll see that they're actually full of way more real sets and miniatures than this!

The Skelligs were practical.

They built a forest full of fake snow.

@@gibberish1014 Guess that's the best they got for practical

@@nikolaivii5766 This is... bullshit. Just bullshit. Omfg! I can't believe there are really people who thinks this. W.t.f. Yeah, dude, sure the prequels with the tagline of Rick McCallum "every single shot has a digital effect" has surely less CGI than a real dessert... oh boy...

Nope Proprietary software Caricature and iSculpt , they also use Softimage right from the days of Star Wars "A New Hope."

Cause we are VFX Artists :)

In case we're gonna reuse it

Attention to detail

It has to be like that because CGI has to completely fool you. If there was a random chance that the lighting looked off on something because the set wasn't modelled realistically, your brain would register that inconsistency immediately. Having everything be as detailed as possible ensures lighting and volumetrics will appear perfectly. Your brain notices the difference subconciously

Because they had the money and the time to do it like this. Actually you'll never know if the director will change his mind throughout the production. He may suddenly decide it's day instead of night and the assets have to be ready for that eventuality. I agree that they're way too much unnecessary details though XD

Yes VFX in The Force Awakens are the best

Yeah, that's exatly what they did. Lmfao

​@@christianschmidt8476 Looked like a lot of CGI to me.

@@nineleafclover Yeah... you know... you can't build a live size star destroyer... They filmed in a real desert! Rub' al Khali was the location for all Jakku scenes.

@@christianschmidt8476 They could have used a model for the Star Destroyer. Some of the desert scenes are clearly CGI.

@@nineleafclover Would it help? The star destroyer looks real. It can't look more real, lol. Ok. Do you have examples? I watched the movie yesterday and all desert scenes look absolutely real.

Chewbacca sold the ship to Hondo and it he lost it to the fat guy and that’s how it ended up on jakku

Makes no sense that there’s a worm living in asteroids and the falcon flies in it.

And it isn't even locked.

They try to create a reaction in the viewer by making references to real history, eg. D-Day and fascism.

Yeah. People really only poop on prequel CGI because it's outdated, but it was used quite fairly, compared to the sequels.

Why?

Ok karen

@@MichaelM28 michael you've been playing battlefront games for 2 years straight now, sucking at it and occasionally emoting over other peoples bodies and uploading it on youtube. Maybe its a good idea to just step away from your computer now to take a few deep breaths. Compose yourself michael, don't be so rude.

@@Nihito Yes... He wasn't the kindest. I whole heartedly agree. Although, he has a point. It was a great movie, and the opposite of the prequels...

I don't know your standard is but tfa is decent at the very least

@@deadshot5007 If TFA was decent, TLJ was abysmal.

No

sooo animated movies aren't movies either?

No of cource, just like you say - they are ANIMATED movies. Of cource making a space movie without cgi is quite hard and some stuff is impossible, but take out from this movie all of its actors and whats left? nothing, some props maybe and couple of wide open shots of nature, if this is called filmmaking today then ok i must be wrong. Movies in past whatever they were space operas or just sci fi stories, were far more real than this, you did beliave in that worlds, stories and etc. but today it is just a CGI stuff and some acting below mid lvl. Back in the day all felt real, cause it was real is some ways, they build massive decorations, environment, props and stuff, like in Aliens, old Star Wars movies, even Phantom Menace had quite a LOT of practical stuff. Even Pandorum (2009) had quite impressive stuff they build for it. This movie is just a bunch of cgi stuff. I cant say it was bad cgi, though in few places it was far from perfect, and people who did work on graphics are pretty solid professionals, but for a movie, even for star wars movie this had way tooo many cgi stuff...

@@shadow_dancer with minimal set design and costumes the acting resemble more a theatrical play, not a movie per se; one of the reason of blank acting in many modern movies is this trend of replacing real sets, or filming on location with a bare minimum of elements for interaction.

I would certainly like to know your thoughts on the prequels.

Well i guess this would be a very long and big discussion but i try to put it short) Phantom Menace - Actually this movie had quite a lot of partical stuff, some of which i thought was cgi, but when saw making of videos, i understood i was wrong. Yeah the PM had cgi and some of it holds pretty nice but some not. I understand that they used cgi for robots but i still think gungans could be done with real ppl and some serious makeup and etc. Would be more realistic. Some cgi explosions looks bad for today standarts. Some shots which combine real nature with cgi stuff still looks pretty amazing today. I think final act of the movie is suffer from cgi overuse. Final fight between Obi & Qui Gin vs Darth still holds up very good , though in some shots they filmed on green screen and characters masked out pretty badly and background looks very fake it these shots. Underwater city looks good, but underwater sequence with sea creatures looks not that good today, in therms of story i would completely cut that sequence. As for Jar Jar , he looks surprisingly good even today, but not in all shots though. (as for character itself, for me , i dont mind him in a story but would make him much less comedic character, his appearance was quite annoying through the story not everywhere though but in a lot of places for me.)Last time i saw this movie some long time ago, so i dont remember everything. Acting from main cast was good, story have some plot holes but wasnt terrible. I wish this movie was more darker than it is, and that cgi was better in some sequences., wish Jar Jar part was much less comedic than it is, and his screen time was much shorter. Darth Maul was damn good villian i would be happy if he somehow survived for the next movie (though in this case Qui Gon death wont be avenged in this movie) Overall i enjoyed this movie for what it was, though would cut some stuff out completely, like underwater sequence with creatures, the final battle with gungans for me was quite lite, i wish it was more darker in tone. Some cgi stuff in this movie still holds up pretty well today some unfortunately not. At the end i cant say this movie was cgi fest, half of the movie yes, but not all. (second movie Attack of the Clones was a CGI fest though, but i will talk later about this)