VFX Artists React 102: Real Steel, Unrecord, The Gate 

ABSOLUTELY! In part, it was Disney's fault. In my country, the ads were really bad...to the point where I saw the movie and got lost. The ad shows something completely different.

If there's a movie that makes me shed real tears is reel steel. The entire third act High Jackman's character in slow motion shadow fighting always warms my heart af. This film will always have a special place in my heart.

What Wren said about the reference is also so true. One of the reasons baby Yoda was so shocking is because they didn't even try to make a fully imagined creature. They just went off of the way the puppet itself moved. So even when it's CG, it moves in this yanky, puppet-like way that truly matches with the prop used for the close up shots, and the combination and consistency just sells that Grogu is there in the scene. It's also a reason why Iron Man suit got worse over the years: they started off with this realistic, highly based on an actual prop suit and movie by movie they steered away from it, until in Infinity War and Endgame it became that nano-suit weird thing that had no reference to go off and became impossible to actually sell on scene. VFX artists are amazingly talented these days, and the MCU has top-notch people working in their movies... but they're not magicians, and with the tight schedules that they have and no real reference to go off of, there's no way on Earth for them to actually pull off everything they're asked to do.

The VFX were great but it really bothered me (to the point where it took me out of the movie) how bad the kid's dialogue was. The entire time I felt like "have the writers ever spoken to a 13 year old kid?"

@@keithws2779 ah... that's true. It's very hard to find a well-written, well-acted kid in cinema. I think nobody actually listens or makes a conscious effort to understand kids, and it just shows in fiction... they're either kid actors trying to fit into an quasi-adult character (see "The Adam Project"), or just written as dumb monkeys (see... I dunno, maybe this movie? Or Jurassic Park?)

Agreed. How about a three tier challenge? Where one is done Darby style, with the full set and distancing. Another done where it's live actors and FX to either add in or alter footage to give the combined scene. And then a final one where the entire scene is done in FX. They could have a side by side by side comparison to show how the same shot three ways looks depending on the technique used.

Seconded!

they need to team up with Adam Savage again for this challenge. he would have the experience of model making and creating the practical effects.

Great idea!

Don’t think it’s really feasible considering how relatively cheap vfx are nowadays compared to the cost and time of making believable sets and costumes for use in the perspective shots. At least not for a throwaway: “we did it three ways” take for an episode.

I have rewatched it over 50 times🥺

Yea in somehwere around the 50 times rewatched

I'm not allowed to watch it I've watched it to many times

they have said that there will be a show in Disney+ for Real Steel

And it's getting a series with Disney+, I've waited for years for something to happen!

Yeah.... I don't even watch a lot of movies but that movie was special

One of my favourite movies ever. So moving ❤

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Same!

So much math too

This stuff blows my mind when I finally see how they did it. So so so much work and math for a few seconds of footage. Really makes you appreciate these older films

yeah old pre CGI visual effects people came up with some of the most insane things to make shots like this work, the part to me that most shows how they did it is when the little clay men are first running around one goes close to the kids feet, but his shadow doesn't appear until it's past what must have been the foreground section of wall with the kids to force the perspective

Compared to (most) CGI those practical in-camera shots are so much more artistic. Really appreciate Corridor Crew to showcase these films here!

Love it when art students say they won't need math

and at 15:08 they give you hearing damage.

@@SnifferSockYou already had hearing damage.

@@SnifferSock 🤣

@@SnifferSockthe beyblade sound effect

I have yet to see it, but I heard that the limited motion that the robots show far outshines films where the robots have lips, pupils, actual voices, etc. Also, I loved the last robot movie I saw with Hugh Jackman! :D

there is but with tiny robots i think one day we will get to this level or something like maglobox where fighters use exoskeletons

I honestly never watched it when it came it, largely just because I had the wife, two little kids, and I worked 80ish hours a week. Eventually I became significantly less busy but never recalled hearing anything all that good about it, not that I heard bad, I just didn't get any impressions. So I think it's now on my list for this week. Hugh Jackman, Rock 'em, Sock' em Robots, I'm down.

Or immortal grand prix either or would be awesome

I made a suggestion about a Tom Hanks film from the 80s I believe where it zooms in from the universal logo, to a real earth, then satellite view, then all the way down to Tom Hanks

@@akeem2752 Oh nice! I'll have to look for it, sound interesting especially for the time

@@akeem2752 holy shit i know ive seen that but i cant remember what movie

@@akeem2752 how about a full episode on seamless transitions??

@@akeem2752 what movie is this from? I wanna watch it!

Dude, I saw this when I was seven and it was the only movie to have actually scared me up to that point.

I watched that on tv when I was like 17 on tv and I thought I imagined it I could remember the name I thought it was called the hole , wow I can’t believe the budget that movie should make a comeback I’m gonna watch again for fun , lol and I remember the neighborhood was like McMansions from the 80s huge friggin houses

True

pity how many of you don't know the source material or the old 1960s tv show that had an episode based off it

@@toomanyaccounts Nobody cares.

@@dem160d i believe that was what the foster agency said when asked why you kept getting dropped off on the side of the road

So underrated!

i agreed! it was done so well! although i know it was a some form of CGI but back then since im a kid idk what or how they can composite that now i know

yeah apparently they used actual boxers when they mo-capped it, it really lets the bots move and feel alive in terms of just moving right ya know

I'm pretty sure a higher up in the creation of the movie said the story ended and that's it

Very true.

I had to look so far down for someone to mention this. We should ask him to look at some poison ivy footage haha

Came to the comments for this.

Ik I saw i was the only saying this

Glad I wasn't the only one that caught that

@@shiro3188 -- That's why this comment needs to be bumped up.

Ah yes, the immortal Lee Marvin. Today is his 30th birthday.

……body cam footage IS real life……. not sure what the misrepresentation is here

​@@suryapanditi3161 don't confuse dae more than they already are.

@@notahotshot who is dae

​@suryapanditi3161 seeing something on bodycam isn't the same as seeing it with your own eyes. The game looks like you seeing footage from a body cam or gopro, not like seeing it with your own eyes. The fidelity is different, the movement is different, perspective, etc. It's not the same thing.

We need more movies like The Gate and House, those were the days!

I know this is super random but exactly your comment is why I love corridor so much. They have this amazing ability of bringing everybody who loves films and filmmaking together. Doesn't matter how old you are, like I'm in my late twenties and obviously you're older but we both share that same love of film, and it makes it possible for people to share their different experiences about the same subject. It's really cool 🙂

haha yeah, redlettermedia has a great re:view on it going into a lot of the cool stuff in that flick. but idk, i saw it as a kid in the late 90s in like 4th grade, robocop, starship troopers, the thing, absolutely loved em, it wasnt too violent or scary or anything haha, people are way too uptight about that stuff

i saw it in 4th grade, like 1999 and thought it was a fun ride, i was a big fan of horror and 80s action movies, starship troopers had just come out, another legendary one, if youre already a fan of horror/action movies it doesnt phase you, maybe if a kid only saw spongebob it might freak them out haha the RLM episode on it is great though

@@KaladinVegapunk For context, I'm currently 19, and I was about 6-7 when I watched it. I haven't rewatched it since because I never owned the movie (my father had rented it at the time). Unfortunately, with age has come a grueling desensitisation to pretty much anything horror-related. If I ever do rewatch it and/or watch Star Troopers, I'll give you an update. It's a shame I didn't watch Star Troopers earlier in my life.

The gate was a good movie 😊

Yeah, kids movies in the 1980s were a different beast compared to today! We got so messed up. xD

GROOVY!! Glad I'm not the only one. Evil Dead Rise was so good and Ash vs Evil Dead is underrated af

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That is a cool movie they don’t make enough movies like that that are just these mid sized movies with a fun concept.

YeeeeESSSSS

+1

Seconding this suggestion!

I totally just assumed they did already... Plllzz do that one, like one of my more tame childhood movies i loved.. other than Alien, Predator, Starship Troopers, Terminator.. also "Thee" Crocodile Hunter

Same for me... The melting parents terrified me when i was younger.

Poltergeist was mine. I vividly remember how much it scared the crap out of me as a small child.

Ditto, except it was the Hand in the Eye that terrified me...

I'm not the only one then, probably shouldn't have watched it at aged 8.

YOU'VE BEEN BADDDDDDDD

Funny enough my dad is in IT and uses DC names for all his computers and his PC in his office is Poison Ivy. He's had to get some pretty obscure ones as the office grows. One of his newer coworkers' PC is Black Canary, and he even has a Polka Dot Man.

Psyco mantis?

Haven't seen it in decades, but I don't remember it being particularly cheesy.

Now if only someone would just get them to stop mispronouncing it...

Yup I too grew up on 80s horror.

For real

YESS!!!!

Maybe they could do a "stage fighters react" with @Jill Bearup?

They covered that in an earlier video. If I recall, they were film in B&W but used color filters over the lens. So if they did her scary makeup in red, but blocked the red light, you couldn't see it until they removed the filter. Since it was B&W you don't see a color shift, you just see the blotches appear. Now, I surely have that kinda wrong, but it's the right idea.

To be fair, compared to Corridor Crew's work, it looks totally real.

It's kinda giving off that uncanny valley feeling for me, what gave it off for me was the animation when the hand reached for the radio in the clip

@@ReikiMaulana It got a little uncanny for me too. I think working 3rd shift security at two old factories for 2 years, having a trained eye for graphite/charcoal art, and watching lots of police body cam shootings is why I didn't even consider it to be real. Oh and dabbling in Skyrim modding to try to get rid of every horrible hard edge in the game and failing. Lol.

@@sutton4791 lol i have like 160 mods running on mine, that's probably why i had the uncanny feeling as well

There's also the fact that if you watch it frame by frame you can see the lack of details that give away the assets being photo scans. A good indicator is the container he walks around. You can clearly see the texture is laid onto a rectangular object as the 3d model doesn't match the texture. Also the perpetrators animation. They lack the gravity in their movement which clearly shows they are an NPC and not real people.

That's a great idea

Everyone was on cocaine

oh yeah, i wish too i was traumatised. good times man good times.

@@Leo-ws6cp thanks for putting words in my mouth. getting creeped out or surprised as a kid means being traumatized in your eyes ? to play devils advocate , if gross , creepy stuff is traumatizing than i’m sure stupid, dumb, cutesy crap they put in kids movies and shows now is traumatizing as well.

It was a PG-13 movie. So it presumed a certain level of maturity in kids.

There is a good reason why it's absolutely not recommended to watch movies like these as a kid nowdays. Yes, they can be traumatized, and it doesn't mean they will be patients in mental institutes, but these can affect parts of their lives, for example giving them irrational fears even as an adult. Not a terribly huge deal, but doesn't worth it at all.