VFX Artists React to NO WAY HOME Bad and Great CGi 

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I've noticed that despite these videos being called 'bad and great cgi' they really don't focus on the bad anymore. Which is a shame, breaking down the flaws in CGI was always way more interesting than just saying "this is why it's good" to me at least.

Fun fact: for the movie Rango, they pretty much shot the whole movie twice. Once with the actors in live action with very cheap and quick props and sets, and then a second time animating it so they could truly grasp the characters

A good way to segue into the "bad cgi" portion could be to simply ask the guest, "What do you feel was the weakest shot VFX wise in this film?". I know its not fun to bring someone on to talk about their project and then to badmouth it, but I do think there is a smart and polite way to still get that bad cgi component,

It's always crazy to me that ENTIRE digital cities and blocks have to be rendered to get the backgrounds of shots that go by in seconds...

The de-aging work on Alfred Molina deserves some real props, I didn't even notice it! I just assumed he'd aged unnaturally well (which he has, but still, it's been almost 20 years).

I wish they talked about Doc Ock's arm's. seeing as how they were all CGI with no practical arms this time during filming

Seeing the scene with Matt Murdock again, I was thinking "Wouldn't Peter also notice the brick with his Spider Sense?" And then I noticed he actually tries to catch it too but Matt is faster. Nice detail.

Corridor 8 months ago: Garfield’s suit looks the best out of all of them with the loose fabric as he swings. Corridor now: everyone wants no wrinkles!

Notice how they didn't comment on having to de-age Willem Dafoe. This is because Dafoe has been 55-ish years old for the past 40 years. He's like a reverse Paul Rudd.

I'm gonna be honest, sitting down with my cup of coffee every Saturday to watch these reacts is one of the most enjoyable times of the week. Thanks Corridor, keep doing what you're doing!

“I would say, that secret did not leak”Newrockstars made a video dissecting the scene where Tom landed there in the trailer and noticed that a tiny bit of the area on the left moved and concluded one of the other spider-men must’ve been edited out.

The worst CG in this movie, is the physics when Andrew landed while catching Zendeya, there's no signs of impact on the ground, the drop speed was too fast, zendeya's head didn't even jolt back like Gwen Stacy, Andrew's right arm was raised up when they landed, so zendeya's head should have jolted..

I know this is silly, but when I first saw Alfred Molina in the No Way Home trailer I just assumed he aged incredibly. I didn't even consider that they de-aged him lol. It looks incredible

Anyone else missing the "BAD CGI" part from their Good and Bad CGI videos?

While it's understandable that this series has shifted gears now that you have greater access to big names in the industry, there is something lost in not having any substantial critical analysis of these big budget films. No Way Home presents a lot of immediately obvious issues in its CGI; obviously a decision is being made between having a expert guest on or potentially burning that bridge with contemporary criticism but choosing to continue making these videos of under "VFX react to...bad and good" brand really reinforces bad CGI practices that saturate the market.

Sandman’s cgi and vfx always fascinated me because back then it would’ve been extremely difficult to simulate due to some of the technology not being available until today. It’s such a gorgeous scene to watch him rising out of the ground and struggling to build himself back up.

That's interesting. I really hated how they had handled Sandman and The Lizard in this movie, but it sounds more like it was more of a shooting constraint rather than a creative choice. I did notice the shots of them transforming at the end looked kinda suspect, if not recycled, then at least deliberately shot to look like their respective movies. Insight on this things is always phenomenal. Keep it up, fellas!

Im glad they decided to do the whole movie, because I wanted them to realize that some shots of the villians were from the previous spider-man movies. Awesome video.

4:27, that’s exactly what we want to see. It makes it feel to cgi when there aren’t wrinkles

I'd love to see Corridor look at Master & Commander (2003): A stunning, overlooked and underrated masterpiece featuring sublime cinematography supported by flawless VFX. It's a mix of full-scale sets, miniatures, and CGI by WETA (their first big project after finishing Lord of the Rings), and it's so well-made that it's actually really hard to tell which shots are 100% practical and which are VFX. Some of the most visually impressive sequences are the opening battle, the storm, and the final battle, but there's a lot of subtle VFX work as well, such as the shots in the Galapagos islands.

Here's two I'd really like to see Corridor break down: Thing from the 1991 Addams Family movie, specifically when Thing is jumping on lily pads in the swamp. And the second is a "single-take" shot from Narcos S2E06 around the 43:00 minute mark of the episode. It looks like there's only one hidden cut but I wanted the experts to dissect it.

4:40… Don’t want to see stitching and wrinkles? I think those things make it more grounded and relatable

I know y'all don't want to scare off future guests but surely there's still a way to talk about bad cgi with your guests and the challenges that led to that final product. I think it's really hurting this shows format. If we never see the bad cgi it makes the good not as impressive and overall makes this less entertaining, less funny, and watered down white bread type stuff

You should take a look at The Nevers, they had surprisingly many interesting and well-made CGi effects.

Would’ve loved to hear about the CG suits for Tobey and Andrew, or when Andrew popped in through the portal and how they handle that

Such a good breakdown of the vfx in this film. Absolutely loved this video.

Recommendation: the 1929 Soviet movie 'Fragments of an Empire' has an interesting scene at the start where the main character is talking to himself (as he regains his memory) and I think it's a technical achievement in itself because it looks so good for a 100-year-old film!

I like how they never talked about the terrible tobey spiderman CGI

4:40 That’s the main problem with the new suits for me. I don’t know why they think no one wants to see stitching or wrinkles. When they smooth him out so perfectly he just looks too fake in my opinion. TASM2 had the best look in my opinion, CG suits can be done well and realistically. Edit: changed some wording to avoid generalizing, my bad

Would love to see them do an episode on Everything, Everywhere, All At Once when it's available. That film is wall-to-wall effects and stunts and they're pretty great.

I think a fun fact worth explaining is even though the effects for "The Fountain" (2006) are amazing, their cost was actually relatively inexpensive.

“you don’t want to see wrinkles” You Are Everything That Is Wrong With CGI

Not sure if you guys have done this one before, but The Martian has some really cool vfx shots in there, and id love to see a breakdown

Wow, it's amazing how much work was put in, even for just the trailers alone.

Some of these shots would give VFX artists PTSD flashbacks while watching the movie.

I still can't get over the fact that Toby and Andrew are in this movie

not to knock the incredibly amazing hardwork these VFX creators do but Disney should know that most people dont mind seeing wrinkles and stitching. theres a difference between something looking realistic and cheap. wild too cause Andrew's suit in the movie basically looked better than Tom's at points. still a great video and love to learn from these amazing artists

Although No Way Home released some months ago and has just gotten its digital release recently, I somehow feel like I've been waiting YEARS for this very episode.

I love the doctor strange bit. The fact that Dr strange is just he's real name has been a running joke and plot point before in the comics so seeing it in the movie is really cool

I absolutely love these single film deep dive episodes, they are so damn fun, informative and educational, please, please continue to do more single movie episodes like this

"I don't get any sleep and I don't get any of that box office." Alright, maybe it is time to unionize. These guys should be living comfortably.

The lack of effects used in Last Night in Soho is amazing. The way they swap between the two characters.

3:30 the easiest way is to just shoot at 90° shutter, key/roto everything and then just add the motion blur in post with ReelSmart or just simple Pixel Motion Blur in After Effects! Even more convincing imo is to render the CG background without motion blur and add the motion blur in composition on both the keyed plate AND the CG render at the same time.

If you guys ever do another "amateur film breakdown", I'd love to have you watch "Matrix XP", a now almost 20 year old German fan film which had pretty spectacular effects for a hobbyists project back then. They even did their own bullet time sequence... a cake time sequence actually 😅

I was hoping this video would go more into “bad” CGI in the movie but I know they don’t wanna say bad things about a movie when they have someone that worked on it their self.

What made me love the costume in the first Spidey film was that it felt like a guy in a real costume, and that would make me feel like Spider-Man on Halloween because I could do all the same stuff he did when putting it on. I like the designs in these newer movies but it never feels like something that could be put on real life. Even though the eye spacing was kind of weird the suits original look in the shot at 4:28 is great!

You have to take a look at the 1955 movie "A journey to the beginning of time" from the Czech director Karel Zeman. For its time, it has one of the most groundbreaking VFX. You should make a whole episode about this guy, he made a ton of Jules Verne inspired films. It is even available with English subtitles on Netflix.

The smirk at 10:07 when he knew he got the Spider-Man layers thing right! Bruh, you good!

I was really hoping they would discuss the shot of Andrew landing after rescuing Zendaya. Something about the speed and animation of his legs on impact just looks off.

I always laugh at Peter being totally fine with the infinite multiverse being real, but will still be confused and surprised by a blind guy catching a brick.

Forgot to touch the part where Peter wore the black suit coming to the place Aunt May works to see Green Goblin, the neck part of the suit comes right through his neck, good stuff

I would love to see you guys break down master and commander. Everything from practical to visual effects is so underrated

Sandman CGI looked better in 2007 than it did in 2021💀

13:55 "If you think shooting it with machines, that Tony stark made for him(while showing Andrew's spiderman)" - Corridor Crew 2022

0:50 Bro the fifth element hit DIFFERENT! It's kind of one of those movies that everyone just kind of knew and had seen... There are SO MANY shows that reference the fifth element, (even steven universe) and if you haven't seen it, WATCH IT NOW!!!

I absolutely love the early VFX work in the first two terminators, and the awesome increase in the subsequent films, but I also love the practical effects used throughout all of them! yes, even T3, genesis, and dark fate even have practical effects lol but I also love the ways they created the miniature sets, the practical effects of the T-1000 (the squibs from when he's shot at aby point in the movie), the judgement day scenes and the post judgement day scenes, all of those are just so damn good! even the use of acid being poured on arnold during the first one still shocks me that james Cameron just straight up poured acid on him!

I’m kind disappointed that they didn’t cover bad vfx, like goblin in alley where his suite was really poorly traced especially in imax it was very noticeable and there are some other examples of bad graphics in this movie

I would've enjoyed if they also talked about the not so good CGI moments of No Way Home; it would've been interesting to hear his opinion as to the moments that most people didn't feel where quality enough for the movie budget. Other than that, amazing video, as per usual!

I’m glad you talked about the trailers for Marvel movies. I always appreciate that I can watch the trailer for their movies and they’ll change things to avoid revealing something that could give away a plot point or surprising/funny moment from the movie.

Brick scene was one my favourite scenes. I love how they included dare devil in this movie.

Nothing but respect for the entire crew that worked on this, from on-set to VFX (seriously everything looked, *amazing* in terms of visual fidelity) but, man... Jon Watts is such a boring filmmaker. All his shots are wide/medium shots that show the scene as seen from a drone, with shot/reverse shot for dialogue and shaky-cam for fight scenes. It's even more obvious watching this video that just has clips- all the shots shown are basically the same shot. Some kind of wide/medium shot with a little bit of motion. No POV shots, no transitions, they barely even move the camera most of the time... hell, they go to a crazy mirror dimension and they just show it through a series of slow-moving wide shots! It almost seemed deliberate when they compared the Spiderman 3 Sandman's cool arcing/dutch angle shot right next to the No Way Home shot where he's just sitting on the couch in a static wide shot. Really looking forward to the new Dr. Strange movie though, as Sam Rami is directing. Unless the studio guts his vision, I gotta believe we'll see the camera moving around, get some cool POV shots/transitions/dream sequences, with the VFX capability and fidelity that he's always deserved. Or we'll have proof that these are studio decisions to keep the films as boring-looking (accessible?) as possible.

I'm so happy they're dedicating an entire episode to this movie I hope they do a whole episode on the Doctor Strange movies when the 2nd one releases on DVD

12:58 Das a lot. So happy you all gave such a thorough breakdown of such an amazing movie

WHAT!? OF COURSE I WANNA SEE THE STITCHES AND THE WRINKLES OF THE SUIT! That's what makes the suit look real! TASM 1 and 2 nailed the realistic look of the suit by adding wrinkles to it even when it was 100% CG!

Throughout the whole movie I couldn't help but feel like there was something very wrong with Lizard's design

Fun Fact: Fate of the Furious - The Rock’s character, Hobbs, was initially filmed with a billygoat style Goatee that was probably 8-10 inches long. Was later removed with VFX on every shot The Rock was in.

I think it's in Gravity ? The film has a shot were you see a cosmonaut in the helmet's reflect of the first cosmonaut that we see on camera. And the second holds a camera like he was filming. Love it.

The worst spots for CGI IMO were Andrew landing with Zendaya and Tom picking up Green Goblin’s glider. Both felt really rough

While these are really great, I do wish they also covered movies like this and Shang Chi while they don’t have the vfx supervisor with them. Because both movies had some pretty glaring compositing mixed in with good shots (far more in Shang chi than this one). Would have loved for the crew to have a shot at explaining why some of those shots looked off.

Saw Everything Everywhere All At Once and am dying to see you guys break that down. My friend and I were trying to figure out how much of it was done practically because it seems like most of it was.

I'd love to see you guys talk about the Homer3 short from Treehouse of Horror VI, as one of the earliest 3D animations I was introduced to I've always been fascinated by it, it's such a different look for the Simpsons and you can tell they were showing off the tech at the time with water simulations, squashing and stretching and compositing. There are so many interesting shots to go over and it looks very impressive and surprisingly stylized for the time, would love to see you guys break it down!

Very appreciate that you've done this

To be honest, I want them to discuss some bad and eerie cgi in this. Especially with Flash, why they keep including him, even when he can't be on the set?

I’d love to see you guys react to “Everything Everywhere All at Once”! Nearly 500 VFX shots were worked on by just a team of five people! Plus you could also do a Stuntmen React episode on the movie; it’d be great to see the guys from Martial Club join you for that!

This break down was amazing! Please bring Kelly back. I really wanted to hear him talk about how they deaged William Defoe while still keeping his performance intact as he was emoting A LOT. I also wonder if they actually exaggerated/warped his facial expressions to make him look more terrifying?

I love watching your videos! I would love to see your VFX reactions for Olympus has Fallen, London has Fallen or even Angel has fallen

so many of these vfx supervisors you guys get on seem so wholesome, awesome guys!

I wish they'd show more imperfections without having CG cover them up all the time, it would make the films feel more like a film instead of a animated movie I genuinely adore when fabric suits look like fabric.

I have been waiting for this episode, finally it's realised 🥺 🎉

hi guys~ been watching your stuff i guess for a year now, really cool! loving all the insights to CGI, stunt work etc! would be kinda interested in looking at resident evil movie series breakdowns be it story telling, stunt work and of course CGI work! keep up the great work guys, cheers~

Honestly Apollo 13 is probably the biggest credit he's been on. My god that movie still puts so many blockbusters to shame. Despite its age, nothing in it looks like CGI

Attempt 33 Chronicle Telekinesis Scenes

I was rewatching some older episodes and I just now realized the swinging effects in NWH is how they should've done the 007 surfing sequence lol

7:21 I didn't even know or notice that Alfred Molina was de-aged. Good work!

I'm glad you guys did a whole episode on the movie to help bring some more positivity to the discussion surrounding the effects of this movie

You all have always been a top spot for digital effects artists to come and talk shop, but I feel this video really shows you all are THE place to come on RU-vid and discuss visual effects. You guys have the visual effects guy from the highest grossing move of the past 2 years on, right as the film is coming to Blu-ray. Congrats guys!

Thanks for running Node!

Hi guys, great video as always!!! I really would like to see GUI reacting to the sacrifice scene from Apocalipto 🙈⚰️ and also I think you didn’t review the awaking scene from Pandora yet - those floating bodies are surreal! Thank youuu 🙏 and happy Easter from Italy to you all :)

As far as your Spider-Man web shooter question goes, neither of your choices are correct. In the original comic, Peter invented the web fluid himself and also made his own web cartridges. The fact that he could run out of web fluid was a part of more than a few stories.

"If you think natural spinerettes, subscribe." "If you think tony tech shooters, hit the bell." So naturally. "If you think Pete made the shooters, don't do either."

*THIS* is the one I waited to watch!!!

FUN FACT: In the movie 'The One' Jet Li didn't use ANY wires to jump higher. They were actually used to pull him back down, because THAT'S how good is.

7:34 its really amazing to see a clip from SRK's fan to appear here when marvel's cgi is being discussed...

The brick scene has always looked so wonky to me. Now it all makes sense.

Nobody mentions this but what amazes me the most about the brick scene is that they are not on the ground floor and the brick is travelling that fast from that angle. Its like it was thrown by another super powered someone.

Another awesome video. I'd love to see a CGI/practical effects breakdown of anything from the Fantastic Beasts movies. I think a lot of the creatures and the obscurus looked really good. Or maybe the new Jurassic park films compared to the old ones and techniques used. Keep up the great work!

This is the VFX Artist Reacts I’ve been waiting for!

The Matt Murdoch scene was by far my favorite. MM: "You'll need a really good lawyer" *brick smashes through window, MM catches* PP: "How'd you do that?" MM: "I'm a really good lawyer"

I'm really excited to hear you thoughts on The Batman. I think it has some really good VFX and practical work.