MPC Film - 1917 VFX Breakdown 

I would literally pay money to get a version of the film with just this. This is a master class course level stuff for anyone interested in film making, especially tracking shots.

A have waited for the breakdown of this movie more then the movie itself. Thank you for this breakdown .

I didn‘t understand why it was nominated for best Vfx, but no i do. Insane work

As a fellow VFX artist (programmer), I’m glad that my assumption was right that there are digital doubles to hide the cut. As well as digital foregrounds, but it’s invisible and well hidden with a camera move behind their backs, so that textures that close up will be blended in motion blur. I was shocked to find out, though, that in the last battle sequence (where Sco is running to the Colonel’s bunker) that there was a dirt road there. It’s so flawlessly composited (at least on my HD TV :) ). That shot must have been a hell, to create, frankly I didn’t see it and I watched it twice after finding that out. So kudos! It’s one of those shots that “seem” simple but are laborious and taxing, especially with the 100s of extras running across that road and real dirt mortars going off.I think you could come a long way with keying their army greens and comping it on top of a 3D grass plate but having the CG dirt be behind the me is still a roto nightmare (but perhaps that was just the sort charge). But the amount of cleanup in that long shot, must have taken time and effort. And what I wonder is whether you walking on a cascading nightmare! You probably need to work in sequence if your team, if you want to keep it all lining up and matching up. In my job as a programmer, I always had to really coordinate the teams to get the interfaces between components just right to match up. But in technology you can force that. In VFX you can’t so you need to have all elements shared between two shots lined up perfectly. Lot of Nuke scripts were probably shared between compositors :)

1:58 How many roto artists died to make this scene?

One of the best VFX works I've seen. Although not the best breakdown. Would love to see a 60 min document with interviews of the director and vfx team supervisor.

No wonder this movie got a Oscar for BEST Visual Effects

The post colour grading is so well choosen Amazing movie

oh my god they roto'd the WATER :O

When i see MPC..i know it gonna be f.awsome

1:06 is this a drone? On the left side in the background.

The jump to river scene looks below the level of vfx of other scenes. Especially in theatre it was looking too fake. Other than that, outstanding work.

That's really good job. Congrats for all team

I want to see the vfx breakdown when he’s running from the bombs

i too wanted to see the invisible fx in the movie more than the movie

Great work, but that 3D animation of Schofield falling is subpar for any kind of big movie this day and age. Looked like something out of that big Matrix fight scene - the bad one

00:26 WOW I didn't know they had to create digital doubles to connect two shots. I guess it's just much harder to make this "one-long-shot" movie than we normal people think. And of cause it's based CG technology advanced enough to be able to make digital doubles looking complete real even in closeup shots.

if you could roto like this, you can pretty much do anything

0:28 for what purpose 3d models?

Amazing job!

Great job MPC. I think studio also working on big Indian film RRR.

Now why wasn't the VFX breakdown / post production featurette included on the disc?

like this movie one short

Whoever were the rotoscope artists on this film deserve to be millionaires holy shit

Impressive!!!

whether its Lion king or 1917 MPC won the oscar

wowww love it

amazing

But wait......all the movie reviewers have been telling that this whole film was shot in one take. I'm crushed

I want BTS footage with the same runtime as the movie.

0:26 I don't understand why they used Digital double in this scene. Can't they just walk up? Is there anyone can explain about this?

00:27 How it takes to cut the people from the background?

Alittle confused, Is the first shot full CG?

WHOA....................

Sometimes I kinda wonder how these movies win the vex award over stuff Lion King. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy this won, but I think I might have an answer that isn’t the continuous shots. Sometimes, it’s not what it’s CGI on sight, sometimes it’s what you don’t see that is obvious CGI. Some movies cleverly hides that fact.

i am groot

Im not sure what going on in the first shot? Can anyone try to decode it?

Y we sujia ka lm

they must have put every roto artist in every Indian studio to roto this movie

0:27 What??? Why did they do modeling????????????

weak vfx tbh