Slicing Adam Savage's Nose - Can VFX Beat Doing it for Real? 

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We cannot WAIT to do this again.

This 100,000% needs to be a recurring series: Corridor's Practical vs. Digital Effects, with Adam Savage. This is the first series I would actually pay for on either channel.

Not going to lie I thought Adam Savage was going to let you guys slice open his face out of pure dedication

It’s so refreshing when you see ppl especially experienced adults, still getting excited, and acting like a child when doing the career they love. It adds extra passion and quality to the thing they produce

This could be a whole series of practical versus CG. You could have even guests come in to add their specialties or recreate their shots on time and money budgets.

THIS needs to be an actual show “VFX vs Real”. This was really fun.

I think the biggest thing that makes practical effects stand out is the reactions from everyone involved. The genuine surprise from the blood splattering on the face of the guy holding Adam really sells the scene in my opinion

Wren's expressions when being splattered with blood is so convincing like "man i CAN'T believe you messed me up too"

I’d love to see the reverse of this where you guys create a vfx shot and set the time limit. And Adam has to match it practically

Wrens expression of the blood getting on his face is just perfect, his shocked expression is great and how he changes back to being serious is just amazing

Adam and Wren flinching back from the actual blood splattering their face really was the lynchpin, wasn't it? It sold that hit so well!

I definitely think that cleaned up practical takes the cake, mostly for Wren's reaction. He had no idea he was going to get splattered, and all the subsequent takes that reaction never seems to match the utter surprise in that first shot.

This should be a whole series. Both sides having experts in their crafts, and both having such a clear respect for each other. I could watch this all day long

Holy cow. Wrens reaction was absolutely phenomenal. He seems so genuinely disgusted and shocked about the blood being on him for just the right amount of time and then immediately snaps right back into bad guy mode and even tightens his grip on Adam. Really great stuff

I wonder how long it would have taken them, if they first did the digital. They kinda had a head start, because they could see and use the practical footage. But I totally agree with the end-conclusion: the mixture of practical and vfx is the best.

I couldn't get over wren's facial expressions cause they we're so good

I think my favorite part of the practical is the flash of just *disgust* that shows on Wren's face when the blood hits him. It's such a minor movement, one that he probably didn't even realize he did, but like they were saying at the end it's so much more real for it.

Wren's reaction in the practical scene sells it, the man knows how to act, his reaction to the blood splatter is perfect, half second of "UGH!" and then right back to being the baddies minion

You know. I think the BIGGEST difference here is how much fun they had in the practical shot vs how much stress the VFX artist was experiencing trying to match the time. I think stress and time constrains would be the biggest factor in this competition.

Adam seems like the funnest guy to be around. Even back in Mythbusters, his childlike wonder and passion are so inspiring!

It’s amazing you guys have developed a relationship with Adam. So cool seeing a childhood hero working with my favourite creators

I love seeing Adam so genuinely excited to hang out and create with the Corridor people. The two of you share the same boundless enthusiasm for *process* and artistry, but counterbalance each other perfectly with your respective fields and experience. This isn't just production, it's *play* - and to me that's the essence of creating art. Hope to see much more Adam content in the future, not just for my enjoyment, but clearly Adam's as well. Such genuine work, folks - great job!

Practical take 1 might be my new all time favourite blood splatter. The pattern, the timing, the reaction, everything just came together in pure perfection!

9:54 You can REALLY see the difference in ren's acting because in one you're getting your face covered in blood and in the other neither of you are.

This needs to be an actual series. A collab between Corridor Digital and Adam Savage where you guys compete in every episode to see who can create the best special effects. I would absolutely watch the s*** out of that show! You can even bring in guest artists in both practical and digital effects. Please make this happen!

Watching the pure joy and fun that Adam is having with these guys is so special, they have great chemistry. Not a single ounce of passion has dwindled for the industry in all his years, that's magic

@6:44 "under the most egregious duress" is a phrase with such a lovely texture.

You can get some really good stuff with VFX, but that practical effect as an aid for the acting just really shows. Wren's face when he gets splattered with blood is absolutely visceral and genuine and I love it.

This might be too complicated, but the face melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark would make an excellent practical/digital test.

The satisfied laughter of Adam after seeing a project come together is just such a joy every time. Great video guys!!

I absolutely loved this video. The fact that everyone had so much fun doing it just makes it even better. This definitely needs to become a regular thing.

This was so awesome! As someone who really loves physical effects actually seeing how they compare with digital through the eyes of production and not just results was really neat. And the practical with finishing effects is just so clean and makes my heart happy. You’ve gotta do this again!

I'm sold on this being a fully produced series! The first two acts of every episode is all about building the effects, the design process, hiccups and breakthroughs, the third act is bringing them together, showing it off, and pointing out the advantages and setbacks of both methods. Really brings back my nostalgia of Mythbusters.

DO MORE of THIS. Amazing! You have a TON of content about that

I just re-watched this video 'cause I absolutely love not only the collaboration of Corridor and Adam, but the duality of practical vs digital. Dissecting practical stunts/effects is super fun and recreating it is a very interesting. I'm sure it's crossed everyone's minds at Corridor, but I do miss this. Adam seemed super enthusiastic about doing another and I think everyone in the audience wants to see more as well.

This is so great! I loved how Wren was struggling not to smile during filming. I want more of this! I love the combination of practical and digital, it's a huge part of why productions like the LotR series and the Jurassic Park series were as beautiful as they were! You all implemented that beautifully! You guys with Adam are the PERFECT combination! 🥰

There is something magical seeing Adam with all his experience and passion for practical effects with people that has the same amount of passion and energy for VFX just going at it. The chemistry between these people is just perfect, cause they are so alike. The absolute joy when seeing something cool, the need to figure something out and the ability to not only do things well, but also explain it well due to their understanding of their craft and experience. I for one toss another vote in for more Practical vs Digital!

A collaboration of different VFX generations! You can tell Adam and Corridor really have a fun synergy about them!

Vex are great but the hardest part is always interacting with actors . I think they both have their practical places.

Probably my favorite corridor video so far. I’d love a series like this with you guys and Adam.

The mythbusters crew remain as the coolest people to me to this day. I always admire people who can build stuff that works.

having Adam savage himself tell you that your work is amazing and that he'd love to do more in the future as a graphics artist must be possibly the highest praise you could ever receive

Can I just say how good everyone's acting in this was. Especially Adams glare before the knife slashes his nose and Rens reaction to the blood and mean look as he struggles to hold Adam.

I hope these two channels and all those behind them just go on to collaborate until they're done with the platform! I love seeing these guys together!

Hearing Adam say that this is the most fun he's had in a while warms my heart. You guys mean a lot to us, even to the ones you guys look up to! ♥

I was thinking that Adam would be a great guest for the Noob-does-CGI series, but then I thought "nah, he'd just disassemble the computer and make the sistine chapel out of the parts"

Loved seeing you guys working with Adam, I really enjoy his prop making videos.

Tested + Corridor Crew = perfect and fun! I would love to see more crossovers with all of you fine folks!

I would love to see more of this! One note: I think next time you shouldn't show the practical shot to the VFX artist before they do their take. Having the practical take as a reference gives the vfx artist a big advantage

I think you nailed it when noticing the performance/acting difference - - that's what sells practical for me. The actors react genuinely and everything looks real as a result.

Honestly, one of the best vids I've seen on RU-vid. This was really fun and you guys should definitely do a series of these VFX vs PRACTICAL experiments!!

I love how the thumbnail and title both imply that you actually cut Adam Savage's nose, no fake knife.

The camaraderie that formed between Adam and the Corridor Crew is so profound and I'm glad to have witnessed it.

This is what cgi is really good at, not replacing everything but enhancing what is there Making a prop look more like the real thing

I totally agree, it's not about one technique over the other but recognising the strengths and weaknesses of each medium and using them accordingly/ in conjunction.

I love this exploration of resolutions to visual effects! Both techniques are complex and amazing in their own way. I would love to see more of this in the future videos :)

This video had me smiling so much :D

Every single time the practical shot was shown all I could look at was Wrens reaction. It is just such a good reaction. Both him and Adam are stunned and then when Adam starts to struggle you can see Wren holds him back and his face just tightens. So good.

This is such a great example of how practical and cgi can work together in conjunction to enhance an effect. There are drawbacks to both, with ofc the positives, and being able to combine them together helps sell it more than ever. A radical time

Duuuudes, please make this into a series. This was so fun!

Two things: 1.) I would actually argue the thing that gave away the digital effect was the extension of the knife's tip as it went into the nose. Something wasn't quite right there, though it's tough for me to put my finger on *what*. 2.) The next *obvious* choice for this series (which is genuinely AWESOME, btw) is a a bullet-to-body impact squib vs GCI shot. It's more blood, but there's a lot going on with a character shooting another character, which could make it a pretty interesting "competition."

This has a lot of mythbustery vibes, setting up a question about something and finding out the answer as an exploration by doing the thing with skilled people explaining all the pitfalls. So satisfying

This is the crossover I never knew I needed. Magnificent.

This is an awesome collaboration! I love seeing both sides of the effects process!

Would love see more of this!

It's so much fun seeing how much fun Mr. Savage was having with this challenge. Assuming it wasn't faking of course, but it certainly seemed genuine.

This was such an awesome video! Such a cool concept! Hope to see many more. Adam Savage as always, the greatest of personalities.

Wow, I'm so impressed! One digital effect that breaks immersion for me almost every time is rubble/rocks scattering. They feel too weightless and clean, at least in my opinion. Would be really neat to see the real vs digital take on that :)

I feel like with a small effect like this it makes sense to go with Practical. For the next one you should look at something like explosions or destruction. Compare miniatures to VFX and see which one wins

Adam is always so encouraging I love his attitude

Surely bring Adam back and a a full film using a hybrid of practical and digital effects and see if viewers can notice the difference! Absolutely loved the video!

It’s so cool you guys are helping out a guy like Adam I feel like one day he’ll blow up and get a tv show or something

Hybrid take (practical plus cleanup) was by FAR the superior take. I think there's always going to be a place for both practical AND advanced digital effects. Using them both to good effect yields AMAZING results.

This is SUCH a fun challenge!!! Please do more practical vs vfx competitions with Adam

YOU GUYS NEED TO DO MORE THINGS LIKE THIS WITH ADAM, im sure he would love to

I cannot stress enough how much I need this to be an entire series!

another huge advantage of the practical effect, specifically for this challenge: Adam got 40 minutes of cool footage of him making the prop while Fenner clicked on a computer for three hours.

Practical vs Digital: EXPLOSIONS ! ! !

Y’all have so much respect for each other

This collab was awesome.

For a practical vs digital idea, try doing a missing limb. Really curious to see the differences in the approach, and the pros and cons with each method

The guy holding Adam back as they cut him is so invested in his role, his facial expressions almost convinced me that this scene was legit

we NEED more of this concept

You know how in western movies when there’s a big bar fight and the final shot is someone getting thrown through a window. I feel like that shot of someone getting thrown through a window would be awesome to test practical and digital. With practical you can talk about sugar glass, framing, and stunt work. As opposed to with digital there is 3-D renders and lighting and fluid motion of breaking glass. There’s a lot of challenges on both ends that I think will make a really interesting competition.

I’m genuinely so excited both corridor crew and Adam are starting to do more stuff together because it’s two worlds/two channels I’ve been a fan of for years coming together to just inspire, teach, and entertains an insane number of people. ITS AWESOME!

Yo, guys! It's about time you did another one of these!! It's too good of an idea to only do one.

This was to fun to watch to not watch again! You guys and Adam, please make more! MOOAAAR! 😂

"I built the prop I want to be killed with" is one hell of a line

Please start a practical vs visual effects series with Adam! There are soooo many cool things you could try!

I love the hybrid version and i hope if you continue the series you continue to show what it can do in comparison to "purist" versions. Also it would be nice to know how much time they take.

I love these team ups! Thanks guys!

Since miniatures are one of Adam's past jobs, it would be interesting to see a miniature setup or built, lit and shot vs a digital version. Not sure if having a pre-built model would work better (like the Jurasic Park Jeeps you did) or a scratch build.

The thing you haven't mentioned is that, the VFX done would have looked very different if they hadn't had the physical effects to base it on.

Over the last few days I’ve been on Freddie’s channel node and here and it’s making me sad for a happier time in my life but now Adam savage is here too

My suggestion for digital versus practical: human body through glass window. Excited for the next one. Good luck.

My favorite thing about this "timed trial" match up is that Adam is so used to working with aluminum and resin and whatnot that he forgot one of the chief properties of steel going into this build, which cost him a ton of time. And he STILL came out ahead on the timer. With a softer metal or a resin cast of a prop, any time you cut a section off of your workpiece you will loose the small kerf of material where your cutting tool passed through the work piece, so if you want a tight fit and a seamless join in a two-piece prop you have to "donate" the tip from a second piece and sand/grind the adjoining surfaces to fit together properly. But hardened steel, like that in these knife blades, is very very difficult to cut through, as it's HARD and a little brittle. If you want a seamless joint on a thin steel prop, it's better to SNAP the blade where it needs to separate. A clean break will need minimal-to-no grinding to fit back on seamlessly, with no material lost to a kerf. If you watch his video, you see that Adam spent one *entire hour* of his build time struggling with cutting the two steel blades and grinding the mating surfaces of the base blade and donated tip to fit to each other, whereas the propmaker in the 1970s probably just clamped the tip of one blunted knife in a vice, whacked it sideways with a mallet to break it off, then continued building. He could have easily completed the build in less time if he'd started with the simpler method. The corridor boys benefited from that lapse in judgement TWICE, in that it gave them more time at home for computer wizardry and in that Adam was kind enough to give them the other tipless knife for shooting their VFX plate. On a more even playing field the boys would have had to remove the tip of a knife for their own shoot themselves and add that workshop time in, or find a suitable stand-in that they'd have to roto out and replace with a CGI knife later.

like Jay from Red Letter Media said on their last video, is so much interesting to watch pratical effects being made than digital ones

So glad I watched Adam’s video first!! Awesome collaboration! 👍🏽

Love you guys so amazing! I didn’t even know I cared about vfx this much until you guys! 💜💜💜