VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 49 

thank you for writing this. i was literally screaming at the screen haha. Obviously Matrix won an Oscar, it beat Star Wars Episode 1.

Do some FOCKEN research guys, it's not that hard.

Yea, its always important to remember that when a movie comes out usually it contends for the oscars of the following year not the year that it premiers.

This 100%

Also the effects were insane in my opinion

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How has someone never seen Stargate? That’s like having never seen Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, or Firefly, just to start. TOP TIER SCI-FI TV.

@@2nd-place probably someone who doesnt watch sci-fi. kinda sucks tho cuz the sci-fi genre is beautiful

@@2nd-place I'm not from western country. In 3rd world country back when they aired, only the rich would have access to those. Cables were really expensive back then. Sci-fi was not big here on that era, so those only aired very late at night or never even get licensed. I was a kid back then, so obviously can't watch something that late.

The og film was free with ads on RU-vid last time I checked

Yep I can't believe they got it wrong, it would have been illegal not to assign the visual effects Oscar to The Matrix in 1999.

Those guys must have been on top of the world back then, feeling like King Midas

@@jacklxv Honestly, What Dreams May Come is on par with the Matrix, imo, from a technical perspective. The "Living Painting" shot is only one of many absolutely stunning artistically produced VFX from the movie.

@@TheDeconstructivist Thank you. Yes, the Matrix shots are groundbreaking, but had they come out in the same year it wouldn't have been absurd for What Dreams May Come to have won.

@@robertcampbell8070 agreed, What Dreams May Come is my favorite film.. excellent acting, writing, and effects made this movie undeniable..

We love you, Clint!

Welcome back!

We missed you Clint!

Can't wait for Dynamic Machines montage

we love you Clint! good to see you again

and, ya know what, for asking your job back you are, you guessed it (and quite obviously) fiiiiiiired

@@zomazoma3609 Nobody clicks on links that are without context; nothing says SPAM quite like a naked link.

Maybe Emmerich had reported a few crew members too few to the catering table and so he needed to fire the one guy every day over lunch break so they don't run out? :D

“Where were you? Photographing squirrels? You're fired” “Sir, we still have more effects shots to do” “Oh, right. You're unfired! I need you, c'mere!”

I mean we are talking about the guy who's so petty he included characters named Ebert and Siskel in his 1998 Godzilla just to get back at the real life critics for giving bad reviews to his films (the funniest thing about that whole ordeal was Ebert's reaction "if you're going to put me in your movie at least have Godzilla stomp on me!") Although, it is interesting hearing how much Emmerich was against visual effects at the start of his career, considering how fully he embraced them later on (then again, he also did a 180 on 3D, first calling it a gimmick and then referring to it as the way of the future).

Have you watched The Expanse? If you are a stargate fan it's a must see. Amazon are in the process of buying MGM for ~$8.5B and there are plans to bring stargate back with original actors and writers from the TV series. Hope we get something good.

Yikes i never considered the "star" as a genre...huh

@@serwinzzalot9989 Starwars Star trek Stargate And there's another one that I've seen which was about people discovering an alien spaceship in the antarctic that had a miraculous sugar which allowed people to live a life span hundreds of years longer, of which I forgot the name

@@Oyakinya-Izuki There's also Battlestar Galactica! I used to love that one in particular. And with all the remakes you could argue A Star is Born counts, lol

SWEET!!!

I have the special edition DVD that has that featurette.

Look upo

@@davidcarter3830 Or

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"Long time" vro, he left in March 😂😂

"Long time" maybe if you're 7

@@devong1838 @AboveTopSecretGaming I know ya'll are having a pleasant time nitpicking, but you realize that's part of the joke? Implying that months ago is years ago just like in the scene the How to Train Your Dragon 2 quote the comment is using?

good idea

Good one 😊

Yessss!

Chalmers: Is that the same one where the Vizir & the fat little Sultan look _exactly_ like their Alladin counterparts? (or vice versa)

Holy shit thanks I remember watching it when I was younger but could never remember it thanks man

Now Clifford looks like dried blood! :P

@@Insertnamesz Dried blood is black

It’s Clifford the Big Red Stab Wound!

Still don’t like this red but maybe it’s prelim. Meh

@@johnyesjustjohn A man of culture I see~

Spoiler warning :p

@@far22186 for the first 60 seconds of the video? Lol.

@@far22186 he's in the thumbnail

Wait... he’s not CG?

​@@tekuaniaakab2050 maybe...

I'd love to see this recreated with modern technology, see how far we've come!

@@CoolAsFreya "We recreated this scene from the Invisible Man in 2 hours."

I agree. That’s an awesome one.

JUST FEATURE THIS CLIP ALREADY CORRIDOR!

DO IT.

Reminds me of how I've asked them for nearly a year to review the 70+ minute one-take action scene in Crazy Samurai Musashi (also called Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1) for their Stuntmen React series, but has not happened yet. They ask for impressive one-take action scenes -- it's basically the longest in existence. They ask for good sword fights -- the whole movie is basically one giant sword fight. They ask for good foreign films -- it's a Japanese film that more people should be aware of. I've seen other people mention it as well here and there. Whoever reads their comment section for suggestions (I know it was Christian at least at one point) seems to really not want to acknowledge it, lol. I feel your pain for Legends of the Guardians as well. I've seen that recommended so many times but they've never acknowledged that one either. I get that they only have time for so much at a time, but at least a shout-out to be like "Hey, we see you, and we're getting there" would be appreciated, lol. Maybe they're just annoyed that I've asked so many times that they're ignoring it out of spite now. Who knows, but I hope not.

@@DeathBringer769 Yeah, it's sad. I'm guessing they just don't read enough in the comments. I guess with how often they upload, sifting through the comments would be a full-time job.

Beat me to it 👍

Seems they were confused and conflated the 1999 Oscars with the year 1999. Since the Oscars usually take place in like February they generally apply to films from the previous calendar year (though IIRC sometimes if a film comes out in January it can be eligibile, not sure exactly how that works)

Yes! I caught that immediately. Looks like they got confused between the 1999 Oscars (for movies that came out in 1998) and the Matrix coming out in 1999 and winning the Oscar in 2000. They also say that Armageddon and Mighty Joe Young came out in 1999, which both came out in 1998.

Thank you. Now I don’t have to leave this same comment. Lol.

Also come on that shit looks incredible. How often do we get to see glitch art like that in mainstream cinema?

That movie is phenomenal imo. Its a bit out there but the whole story gets you in the feels

Would be cool to see an entire episode focused on star trek! Could compare how effects have changed throughout the different series from the early days right up to today - not many TV franchises/series have been around as long as star trek has

That is a great scene

They already did it on the "The Mummy" episode.

Seriously. The misinformation on this channel really bugs me sometimes. What Dreams May Come was released in 1998, not 1999. Also, how are these guys into visual effects but have never seen Stargate? That’s so odd

Also He was supposed to walking through his dead wife's paintings in those scenes,,,not just dodging bullets; like in the Matrix.

Glad someone caught it.

Yeah when he said 1999 I was like no hold up. I don’t have a good memory but I always remember the year movies came out

@@MrGittz they’re young. Stargate is probably a “hidden gem” to them lol

don't worry, he got rehired!

@@Oceanic2409 then got fired again

@@curtsanchez9897 yeah... that was a shame...

I wonder if it is similar to Star Wars, in the original the plates for the ships were semi see through. you can still see it in the original print, same with empire strikes back with the snow speeders. I can see that if they used the same tech from their era, how an effect that semi worked for solid objects would be perfect for a semi invisible person. Idk, that shot just reminded me of the masking plates from star wars.

@@MrCrazyhamster28 I'm sorry, I meant the view from the cockpit, the plate for the ship's structure, you can see the terrain behind it. it is more apparent in 5 when inside the snowspeader. you can see the background clearly. effects using the same overlay method were probably used. Maybe underdeveloping the invisible man film and overlaying that on top of a fully developed copy. or a slightly underdeveloped copy so the overlay adds up to what would be proper exposure for the background and a semi invisible man. now I really hope a vid does happen. I am vested.

Indeed.

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They make me feel old. I was 23 when stargate was in theaters.

I’ve been waiting to see it pop up in a VFX episode, this makes a lot of sense now.

Atlantis is my favorite, always loved these history channel aliens stuff

I think that movie is alright, but I liked the first original show a lot more. Great characters, and for starting in 1997, great VFX and CGI!

Or more importantly, they haven't seen the series SG-1!

I guess when it's not their thing, they just miss it. There are other movies I get surprised they didn't see, since they are VFX heavy and some of them considered movie classics by now.

There isn't a trillion+ people on the planet to click the like button, though.

@@DarthWombat it's possible but well life just say no with black death and plaque so here we are

And Lawnmower Man!

I remember being blown away by Hollow Man....

I will second this motion.

King Kong movie from 1933 too🧞‍♂️

I feel like they have already?!

Yeah same here 😂😂😂 like he always brought funny moments to the crew

Also fun trivia, in-universe the woosh is basically an hard start for the Stargate, in other words is not really supposed to do that. In an episode someone (I don't recall if it was a Goa'uld) starts the Stargate very cleanly (the portal just appears in a smooth transition inside the frame) and mocks SG-1 for mistreating the equipment like that

@@Yrouel86 the goa'uld at many times are seen activating the gate with a woosh, that's how the goa'uld normally activate it as well. The only time the woosh doesn't happen was when the Nox or the Asgard used it.

@@Yrouel86 If you happen to remember the episode, let me know- I vaguely recall it, but kinda need to see that scene again

@@Sephiroth144 I found it maybe, it's Season 2 Episode 21 "1969" Cassandra toward the end of the episode opens the Stargate cleanly to send SG-1 back to their time. She doesn't acknowledge the absence of the whoosh though but I distinctly remember an episode where it's acknowledged but I can't find it

@@Yrouel86 This is just not true, the Kawoosh is part of the normal function of the Stargate. It is most evident by the fact that it happens even when dialing with a DHD which were created by the ancients along with the Stargates as a means to dial them. The fact that these more advanced species can open the gate without a Kawoosh is never addressed and the Tau'ri certainly were not insulted for it, if anything the advanced races were impressed that they were able to make it work at all without a DHD.

Sometimes things are just so fucked you can't even stop to be rational about it.

The difference in that was that the effects weren't really that horrendous it was the design of the character that was horrible

There's a difference between criticizing shadows and character design

Yep. They’re way to afraid of poking fun these days. That is a perfect example. Clifford looks bad, just like sonic did.

@@bigbossignition what u talking about Clifford doesn't look that bad

Yeah sure, let's make fun of the relatable one who doesn't have time to watch every single movie showcased in this series.

SG1 is my favorite. Continuum is one of my favorite movies ever

@@mathunit1 Come on people are going to poke fun IN JEST at a guy that's critiquing movies but hasn't seen most movies a lot of us would consider essential watching. So yeah people will make jokes when you haven't seen Stargate, Predator, The Matrix, Avengers & so on.

DUNDER I BRALLAN!!!

💯💯 I hope they do!

I was around eighteen when I watched it that was three years ago

I am 16 and i have seen all of them. My father has all of the episodes.

Well, I have friends that feel old when they see kids today do not recognize Clifford'Tv show and most of us are from late 90's to euarly 2000's

You'd need a backhoe for a pooper-scooper.

Or you don't teach it to wait for its food and it eats you instead.

Ohhh.... never thought of that

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Yees he'd be slower, take more time before committing to a jump, everything would shift underneath him. And the ground he stands on, area around him all would constantly shake and vibrate just from his weight interacting with it. When he moves around a closed place, the windows would vibrate and curtains would probably move around from the air that he pushes around by quickly turning or jumping.

It was that time in the movie history when things where changing completely and some people had a hard time accepting cgi. Emmerich got over it pretty quickly considering that right after Stargate he shot Independence Day, which was soaked in cgi. Something similar happened during the production of Jurassic Park, the vfx artist got told not to bother with a cgi t-rex, but proceeded to do it anyway and it was so good it elevated the whole movie to something never seen before in history.

Yeah, but then we might not have gotten the legendary Kawoosh! Not that I'm defending Emmerich, but still.

Wait legit? That makes more sense

Yeah, because the Oscars are always the Spring after the nominees’ year of release. So, The Matrix won the Best VFX for 2000 while being released in ‘99.

TriStar's Godzilla came out the same year too.

@@aleaanderson6600 It wasn't nominated.

@@jp3813 Yeah, and understandably so. I like that Mighty Joe Young's effects were nominated.

Yes! My favorite sci-fi series!

Boosting this!

That would really engage my chevrons

No way… how did I not notice this!? I have to go look now.

SNORLOSKA I LÖFBLÅSAREN!!!

Yeah he’s like a bad version of Michael Bay

Even just 4 years later with Godzilla he was playing with CGI.

There should be insurance for rooting lol

I asked for it under their last video! whether or not they saw that request is less important than the fact that they actually did it.

I'm a simple man, I see someone like Stargate, I like

What's up checkmark?

yasureyoubetcha

@@Jake-jo1iz yea, i stopped asking a while ago

I’d argue some parts of Lamentis-1 look pretty bad.

I agree- the last two episodes look amazing

Pretty sure they did that one.

@@Nipponing oh sweet do you know the link or the episode

@@Nipponing they reacted to Davy Jones in general but not specifically that scene

Deep meaning: Go outside and touch more grass, people will notice you and you'll start making friends.

Yeah, I'd love to see them react to the development of the CG for the Asgard. It was pretty garbage in the first season they used CG (season 2 I think?) But it genuinely gets good in the later seasons.

@@McGregor43 the Asgards are so funny, specially when they jump from the weird puppet to the bad CGI.

Independence Day used miniatures and practical effects heavily, in fact I'm pretty sure they've covered it on this channel! Can't argue with the others though lol, what can we say, the guy changed his mind very drastically.

In all fairness, the more special effects his movies have, the worst they are, then again that's probably just because he keeps making worse movies than the one before

Well he was kind of right then. Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla have a ton of practical effects. And even the scenes in which CGi was used are often embedded in real film recordings. And these films look very good to this day. Bring the feeling of real stuff, real explosions, real impact. While Independence Day 2, 10000 BC and 2012 are newer and rely heavily on CGI but already look out of date today.

Visual effects are not the same as special effects....

@@MarCuseus oof. u must be fun at parties...