@@Business_News Matte painters get paid well, but the work is very stressful and the painting itself is very difficult. The kind of creative pressure you're under mixed with the deadlines looming are plenty to make some hairs go grey. There's a reason he probably makes a decent paycheck. Working in the moment on those kinds of projects sucks ass.
and its why we slowly but surely make plugins and addons that eliminate these needs its why we actually are in a great time where a lot a people ar eno longer needed making smaller teams able to do really neat shit
dude, i did lightsaber effects for my new video on my channel and it took 20 hours to do 58 seconds of lightsaber fighting so its a big pain in the ass
I cant imagine the job of being a film director of this scale. You got so much stuff to look after, the initial script, studio paperwork to get things going, finding producers and teams, 1st unit, 2nd unit, performance review, set review, VFX review, SFX review, etc etc etc. How they dont go crazy after a single film is beyond me.
The CGI was much better in Episode 3 than the other two prequel trilogy movies. Especially the opening scene, the space battle looked pretty good and I'm sure it's going to hold up very well. I mean yeah some shots do look really fake but a lot of stuff holds up in this movie. Heck they even recorded a actual lava explosion and used it in the Mustafar duel.
@@yodaphyomni3749 It did not, but it aged fairly well. You know, there has to be progress within ten years, so in my opinion it is torelable. It is not like Jurassic Park and Jurassic World where the old movies somehow happen to be more intense. It would be really sad to see no progress in a franchise that has been defining for CGI over ten years.
@AsSeenOnTV The fuck did he do to u? THAT is the kind of shit that continues to break the community apart. Useless pieces of shit like yourself. Go ruin another community
It's Star Wars guys. The best thing to happen in cinema. There is bound to be love and hate. I personally love them all. III is my fav. To say someone is mentally retarded for liking this movie is quite a retarded statement in and of itself.
@@hereisnegan6633 At no point did the OP say that Revenge of the Sith was the best Star Wars film, you illiterate mongoloid. Just that it was their favourite. ESB is definitely the best one, but it isn't my favourite one.
2013: "Nope" 2014: "Nope" 2015: "Not yet" 2016: "Not yet..." 2017: "Still no." 2018: "Don't bother." 2019: "Is this still on RU-vid?" *2020: "CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO ABOUT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS BEHIND EPISODE III!"*
@Zachary Peterson always getting crazy with V and X By the way I saw the film. I wasn't a huge fan and I don't think it's nearly as good as the old movies. ...but I gave it a chance...
@@ssssssssssssssssss50 There was excitement for Episode 1, then when that movie turned out to be a massive disappointment, the excitement was exceedingly less for Episode II, which was even worse than The Phantom Menace. After that, moviegoers were far more interested in Spider-Man and the Lord of the Rings than Star Wars.
While I do have respect for the cg artists, costume designers, creature designers, and pretty much all of the practical elements of the movie, the terrible writing/acting/overuse of cg kind of lessens the respect I have for them.
Undefined Integer Yeah, no one ever complains about the CGI in Lord of the Rings or Sin City or 300 or any of the Marvel Movies. That's because no one concentrates on the CGI because they're too invested in what's happening with the characters and story to notice.
Matthew Mallory Yes, a lot of things changed, but 10 years ago the cinema's industry already had technology enough to do amazing stuffs. The first trilogy CGI was fantastic.
Thiago Monteiro Martins; Well, if you watch the real original Star War of 70's, you will find that it's a little bit cringe. A lot of footage you see nowaday of the first trilogy are digital, it's reshoot or remaster. Lucasfilm keep update those footage and make it better. For the prequel, I think CGI is quite good at that time, not saying a lot of top blockbuster nowaday had horrible CGI to compare with the prequel.
This is why the original star wars movies are some of the finest film ever shot...because of all this effort plus the talent and passion which combined with amazing stories and character development created incredible footage.
One of the best film experiences I've ever had was going to the pre-release screening with my friend. We brought our lightsabers (mine was Anakin's Episode II, he had Qui-Gon's) of course and sparred after the film. We were 17 back then but felt like we were 6 again. I still love watching these docs on the prequels. Massive respect to ILM and Mr. Lucas!
If you really think that, I suggest you watch: - Inglourious Basterds - 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Clockwork Orange - Trainspotting - The Dark Knight - Pulp Fiction - Good Fellas
This is just an excerpt from the Episode III Documentary "Within an Minute". Wanna know the real tragedy about the whole Documentary? The segment about the Script Writing is over in less than a minute - i'm not kidding!
I think we can all agree that episode 3 was the best movie in the prequel trilogy. The music is great and it was more interesting than the other two. Just my opinion. ;)
+Lendanto Plus Uhh.. His opinion is that we can all agree. I see why you are confused, but think about a different interpretation for 'just my opinion'
RJrules64 Because he's claiming everyone thinks the same way and has the same opinion as he does. That doesn't make any fucking sense, since it stop "just being an opinion' and becomes a statement.
Swiftburn If anything, that's sort of a plot hole from the OT. For RotS to work, for Anakin to completely turn, and not know he had children, Padme must die. If Padme lived, there would be no denouement and conclusion to episode 3, and the OT wouldn't make sense, and it would be awful storytelling. Like, why would Padme abandon Luke, but not Leia? How would Vader not know that he didn't have children? Besides, Leia's comments are so vague, that Episode 3 can have Padme die, and everything else make sense. She says "Just images...feelings mostly"
Yes it does! Because the use of Matte paintings, proper design that captures the atmosphere correctly and plainly because V is the best out of all of them. III is just too much over-saturated CGI with nothing coming off as real save for the sets, non-CGI characters, and the Mustafar lava...
Chas Gregg The originals were dull. Just because they use real sets, doesn't mean its better. What people don't understand is that CGI is an asset. Like you have space battles and lava planets, and you want them to be practical? GTFO
Chas Gregg That's how movies are. Honestly, its a fucking Sci Fi movie. Of course their going to use a lot of CGI. Why does no one bitch about Guardians of the Galaxy?
And 2000 and 2001 and 2002 and 2003 and 2004. When you think about it, after AOTC was released George immediately jumped onto episode 3 and wrote the first draft. Then pre production happens which probably started in mid to late 2001, then production which probably lasts from early 2003 to early 2004 and then post production which would last from early 2003 to 2005. Plus reshoots. It takes years to make. Heck the last shots of Revenge of the Sith were the first shots they filmed for Revenge of The Sith as they were in Africa for Episode 2. That was probably after reshoots in early 2001. It's insane.
What ever you may think of the prequels, you can't dispute the hard work and effort by everyone involved. Massive respect to them and also they should get far more credit.
Stunning how much work and care went into that Mustifar scene. And it really shows through pretty much all of the fx in that scene looking incredible and believable
I dunno what you guys are talking about, the special effects in this movie was top notch. Maybe there is something I'm missing but LOR movies had the facthtat it as grounded on earth like environments and had enemies that you could replicate with leather. I mean Mustafar looked really real. It's hard to make something like that happen
I love the originals due to story telling but even then George was trying to raise the bar and do something not done before in movies . Yes the acting was not so great in the prequels but everyone lets just be honest neither was it in the original films . From working media field looking back at this film that was 10 years ago this was simply breath taking and I have to give props to this effect team because they were raising the bar back in 2005 with this if it wasn't for stuff like this you wouldn't have the iron man armor you see today in marvel films as they are the same company who did that . So mad props to these guys we should really give these guys a hand as it's hard to create a visual from a script / someone's mind and bring it to life
Hands down, the practical lava effect was the best thing about this whole documentary. That just shows how the magic lies within the reality, not within digitally animated environments.
So interesting watching these making of prequels seeing lots of small decisions being made which in the end affected the movies in large ways. Fascinating stuff.
Not really. At least the last jedi turned out completely different than what audiences expected. Revenge of the sith just felt like an obligation. We all knew how it was going g to turn out what they should have did. Was tell a story about obi1kinobi and anakin having a great friendship. Episode one should have been they meet and start his training. Episode 2 should have been completing his training and 3 should have been his down fall.
+Shiba Inu Mochi No matter how impressive the visual and sound effects are, they can't compensate for the horrible dialog and acting (mostly from Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman) but also other things like the alien and droid voices, Yoda's voice (he talks agonizingly slow compared to how he talks in the OT) and the abomination that is Jar-jar
For anyone who may not know, John Knoll and his brother were the creators of the first Photoshop. He also works at ILM to this day as a VFX supervisor and the Chief Creative Officer. He's pretty great.
I don’t think it is, I don’t really like The Last Jedi, but I find the prequels to be some of the worse big budget movies of all time. Scenes that are meant to be serious and dramatic, made me laugh by how stupid and ridiculous they are.
It's easy to criticize the obvious CG effects in the prequels (or ANY movie for that matter), but what people need to understand is that these artists work their asses off to develop these VFX sequences in the way that fulfills the director's vision within the confines of their budget. And, honestly, if they do look fake, make up for it by making it look cool and stylish.
CFlame In episode 7 the wanted a more original George Lucas’s so they went with making props and costumes and George in episode 3 since cg was new they wanted to give it their all and it’s done in a really intricate way because it was still new
I’m not a big fan of the prequels but this whole lava battle scene was pretty darned awesome and I love that a lot of it was model work and practical elements, which means it doesn’t all look like a PC game ten years later, but along with the music and sound effects the whole scene just worked great and still does.
Bro look at those thiccccc computers i cant even begin to imagine trying to create something out of cgi on those .... props to them they may get hate but i love their work and they certainly worked their asses off
All this work, wow. It looked beautiful in the end. Having said this, I can understand why some Star Wars purists believe that in many ways this was more of an animated movie than a live action move.
I'm wondering how accurate the colors were on those old CRT monitors. They didn't even have LCD's back then to do all the editing on-- and the effects and environments still seem to be very convincing.
John Knoll. The man who's idea sparked off the creation of the first Star Wars stand-alone, "Anthology," movie. Say what you want about post-Disney Lucasfilm, but Rogue One was definitely an excellent addition to the source material.
They extracted the lava and smoke from real elements. Impressive. Nowadays those things can easily be done completely CG and be 100% believable and realistic (with WAY more flexibility than filming the real thing). The only "holy grails" left in CG are _completely_ realistic eyes/eye movements and mouth movement and syncing. Probably within the next 3 to 5 years this will be perfected. Everything else: Skin, fire, smoke, water, hair, etc are pretty much perfect.
Jueece Inahoven So while being distracted by fake looking CG in a scene, folks should additionally think of the artist's hard work. What's happened with just watching a movie?
That preview of the bridge is like 5 FPS. I can't imagine what it'd be like modeling that damn think when it's eating up the performance of your ILM workstation. Hot damn.
Alias Maya’s 3D viewport actually had very good performance for the time. That version of Maya in particular (seems to be Maya Unlimited 5.0-6.0) does this no matter what machine you run it on. Keep in mind: they would also have the ability to script out the hi-res models for low-res versions to animate with and then swap them with the hi-res models for final render.
It would be nice to think George was interested in this level of technical CG integration because he wanted to enhance the future of cinematic creativity ... but I suspect it was more about a future of filming on the cheap entirely in a virtual environment without ever having to go out to any actual location to shoot.
Ira ProV Hauling all of the crew and equipment, paying the taxes, building real sets and figuring out the logistics to house and feed everyone for extended periods of time is, in fact, infinitely more expensive than shooting everything on one soundstage with greenscreen, CG and all. Remember how difficult it was for George to film the original Star Wars? A good director is this era of the all mighty computer is going to have to know how to balance CG effects, practical effects and practical locations (Lord Of The Rings ...) for the best results on screen. Shooting out in the Tunisian desert, or in Norway was probably a big pain the ass, and it probably would have been so much easier to film the original Star Wars movies against a big fat green screen while George sat and stared at monitors while drinking his coffee, but the end result would have looked as crappy as the prequels, which for the most part look completely dated. By the way, I really hope you don't think you sound smart with that last part of your comment ...
Yh but Lucas didn't want to do that effort again and let's not forget they still had to go back to Tunisia to film the tataween scenes and they did some scenes in Italy and they went to Italy to film mt etna erupt and its modern day films so chill winston
***** thing is with LotR it holds up better because they spliced togetherr real things and used practical effects, like building model cities to paste over a landscape so it looks real because it is real, but not really there. When everything is CGI it makes it harder for the actors to gain an appreciation for what they're doing so results in a worse performance. The Grevious battle with Obi Wan, Ewan McGregor literally didn't know what was happening as there was nothing there to fight, just a computer. The main issue with the Mustafar battle is that it goes on too long and you lose the sense of danger for the main characters.
***** thing is with LotR it holds up better because they spliced togetherr real things and used practical effects, like building model cities to paste over a landscape so it looks real because it is real, but not really there. When everything is CGI it makes it harder for the actors to gain an appreciation for what they're doing so results in a worse performance. The Grevious battle with Obi Wan, Ewan McGregor literally didn't know what was happening as there was nothing there to fight, just a computer. The main issue with the Mustafar battle is that it goes on too long and you lose the sense of danger for the main characters.
I didnt like the first 2 prequels, there were good parts in all the films but as an older fan who watched the originals first time round the E3 was very good, in fact watching it was emotional for me because it ties all the films together, like when it is gathering towards the end and we see the blockade runner, great movie. I had been discussing this very thing recently, there is a difference for those older fans to later fans.
I like 1 and 3; 2 on the other hand I appreciate what's good about it but most all my understanding with where people are coming from relate to AOTC. I'd put TFA reluctantly ahead of Episode II but the others are far above it the way I see it!
Can you imagine going on a date.. OR just meeting somebody at your parent's party, and they ask, what your occupation is.. And you just show them that little business card of yours, while saying:" I'm an ILM ingineer.."
Here is my complaint with people that hate the prequels... Obviously the films have flaws, but there is certainly enough enjoyment in the movies to make for good entertainment. There are plenty of practical effects and even more beautiful CG effects that are very good, and when you complain about some of the lesser quality ones, I invite you to look at how absolutely convincing every effect in the original trilogy was. Some effects in the old movies look downright silly. It can be painful to think of what the prequels could have been with better writing, etc, but it's been over 10 years. Either enjoy them for what they are or get over it.
Excellent movie, it´s a George Lucas worth movie, the most important proyect that I ever whatched it sad that the Star Wars episode VII made by DYSNEY CORPORATION it wasnt created shuch as episode III, I will miss this kind of movie. I think Gorge Lucas commited a mistake to have sold to this corrupt corporation.
Rebecca Norris Star wars belongs now to Disney, and episoe VII was made by untalented people of this Company, George Lucas had nothing to do about this bullshit.
Nothing ruined the movies. The Prequels were nominated for Oscars for the effects. Continue to make yourselves all sound like jackasses. But the Prequels will always be a part of Star Wars no matter how many people protest.
The people of ILM did an amazing job on the visuals and over all effects. What ruined the movies was that they had bad scripts, boring dialouge, bad directing and uninteresting characters. It has nothing to do with not liking new stuff. The new Star Trek movies had lots of CGI, but it was used in a tasteful manner, the characters were interesting and the scripts were good, thus people cared about the story.
The screenplays and dialogue were terrible I agree but I enjoyed the characters such as young ob1 chancellor Palpatinre mace windy, anakin at times depending who he was with his chemistry with Natalie was terrible but not as bad as the dialogue there were given, his scenes with ob1 and Palpatinre were better. And I don't think the directing was poor maybe not great but not poor. But a poor screenplay and dialogue can ruin the film without anything else anyway only revenge of the sith had some sort of real plot and adventure and it still wasn't great compared to the originals but nothing ever will be
liam holloway I agree Palpatine was pretty damn good. Especially in Episode 3. He was the only thing that really stood out to me. Also, there was a lot less filler in Episode 3. The scenes felt more important.
The prequel trilogy gave necessary background on the characters and makes the original trilogy more emotional. Some fans don't like the prequel trilogy because they have to think of what the meaning is behind some of the dialogue, or they have to do research to find similar dialogue in other movies recognized as good movies.
The one problem I had with the mustphar scene was that if the characters were actually sitting on a piece of structure on top of a lava flow the ambient temp would be like a 1000 degrees - they would have melted. In the end as anakin/darth lies mortally wounded, his clothing and some of his skin just ignites.
Very cool video. Imagine recording the audio and just hanging out and bullshitting with George. I like how at one point you see Hayden doing push ups to get his breathing up to simulate being taxed from the sword fight.
Episode 3 clearly saved the prequels, it's clearly the best of the 3 and it remains one of the best Star Wars films, period. Hell of a lot better than anything Disney has done, certainly.
This still a beautiful movie today. I remember when i watched it the first time. I really couldn't believe they weren't at Mustafar. Everything seemed to be so alive. People like to whine about the prequels, but i think they are just as good as the old ones. Actually, the old ones are kinda boring with this "hero's journey'' cliche.
Crazy that you can now do 99% of this kind of thing in consumer programs such as the free Blender 3D modeler and animator and Davinci Resolve editor and compositor.
@@UnknownUser-gd3ls I guess that depends on how talented the user is, but you should check out what is possible with After Effects and any number of powerful 3D modeling/rendering/animation programs that are out there for the consumer. Even free ones such as Blender and Davinci Resolve are quite capable.
Does anyone know what documentary this behind the scenes is cut from? Like the whole documentary on Episode 3... I would love to watch the whole thing.
+LFX Studios For anyone else wondering, it's called "Within a Minute" and it isn't actually much longer than this--the idea is to focus on the work that went into one 60-second portion of the film.
