VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi 

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>Reacting to the Prequels. >Not a single Episode 3 scene. *Execute order 66.*

“Solo decided that Maul is still alive” Clone wars: Gentlemen

Corridor crew: let’s do an episode on the prequels but not touch the mustafar scene

“Your forearm is perfectly designed to touch your shoulder.” Everyone: *tries it*

"Solo decided that Darth Maul is still alive" Maul: "Unfortunatelly for you, history won't see it that way"

I'm disappointed they didn't look at our favorite coughing cyborg.

The actor who played jar jar was suicidal due to the backlash. Felt pretty bad for him. Thankfully he's alive today.

Hate them or not, the prequels gave us Ewan McGregor as obi wan. That's a definite win

its ridiculous how they didn't say anything about general grevious

so when I was re-watching Phantom Menace recently, I decided to watch the first official release of it on Home Video to see if there are any differences from the Blu Ray, and when I got to the Duel with Darth Maul at the end, I noticed that on this version, the mistake where you could see through the lightsabers was a lot less noticeable. So, I have a feeling that it only really became more noticeable with the 2011 Blu Ray release. I don't know how it was in theaters, because I wasn't alive then, but it just seemed a lot less noticeable.

"Solo says Maul is alive" Clone Wars & Rebels: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

*sees 50 other Maul clone wars comments* “Eh I don’t think they got it yet”

The pod race was done on Macs with Electric Image Animation System. Incredible renderer for its time. I was rendering volumetric smoke with it to help out another artist who couldn't make his deadline using an SGI. EIAS was so fast. Mark Granger was the brians behind EIAS' speed. He then moved on to LightWave. Both underrated packages.

That clone Vs droid dust shot might be one of my favourite shots in Star Wars. I wanna make a fan film that’s pretty much the exact same thing but on a bigger scale

“How is he standing on that!?!” “The dark side of the force is a pathway to abilities many consider to be unnatural.”

Corridor doesn’t include episode 3 Me: “Impossible perhaps the archives are incomplete”

They really said solo ruined hard earned story points: no, the clone wars took advantage of those points and made them so much stronger and more relateable that maul became one of the most interesting characters in star wars

Yoda: walks in with a cane Also Yoda: pinball mode ACTIVATE

you blame solo, but watch the clone wars and you'll discover it's done incredibly well

“Solo said Maul is still alive” *Star Wars the Clone Wars and Rebels* : Am I a joke to you

When Darth Mail is fighting Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and Maul is retreating from Qui-Gon through the energy gates, Maul’s lightsaber blade passes right through the gate mechanism without affecting it. I’m surprised you didn’t catch it. It’s really hard for me to ignore after I noticed it.

When I was a kid we had this guy come in to talk about magnets in our science class and told us that the pod racing was all done for real with magnets and I never really thought about it but just took that as fact until now. I’m 21.

insults something the Clone wars series did. Clone wars fans: So you have chosen... death...

i find your lack of clone wars knowledge disturbing

“Everyone loves to hate the prequels” Me: LIAR!

I remember in the behind the scenes documentary of Episode 2, ILM campaigned heavily for Lucas to go CGI with Yoda. It was impressive for the time, especially clothing simulation and translucency of his ears to imitate the Frank Oz puppet. Episode 2 is also very heavy on CGI as opposed to Episode 1, which did a lot of practical effects - including yoda. Which was subsequently changed in modern renditions of the movie.

“And then the movie SOLO basically just said Darth Maul is still alive” Clone wars, rebels, and a multitude of canon comic sources: “am I a joke to you?” P.S. Darth Maul “dying” at the end of the phantom menace wasn’t a hard earned story point, he was on screen for 6 minutes of the film.

7:57 “Christopher Lee is just fighting the air, such a great actor”. The stunt double who had his face replaced: 👁👄👁

There are a handful of shots in _The Phantom Menace_ showing the practical Jar Jar costume. Pretty much any shot that doesn't show his head -- for instance, a close up of his hands or feet -- is practical. The fact that the practical blends seamlessly with the CGI is astounding for a film released in 1999.

I've been watching a lot of your VFX breakdown vids lately and I have to say I'm blown away by the level of knowledge you guys have, the minor details you spot and then breakdown or explain what went right or wrong is amazing.

"Solo brought Maul back" *_Clone Wars noises_*

How can you guys not use revenge of the sith?!? The best CG of the prequels for sure

I'm blown away at how knowledgeable and sharp these guys are with catching very minute details and being able to break it down on the spot simply speaking from experience and expertise in their field. Fantastic content

"Solo decided that Maul is still alive" Clone Wars: Am I a joke to you?

OK, now you have to do the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Particularly the evolution of Gollum and the Balrog fight.

You owe that guy $10 cuz Jake Lloyd was indeed the kid from Jingle All the Way.

In the Phantom Menace lightsaber scene, the three actors constantly missed their queue. So there were times where the actors swung at nothing.

There was no sound on the pod racers and I still heard that metalic passing sound they used in the canyon. Haven't watched that movie in what must be a decade.

Fans of the Clone Wars and Rebels knew about Darth Maul being alive for years before Solo came out.

“The movie solo said Darth maul was still alive” No, maul’s return was done in the Clone Wars TV show which explain how he survived

it's insane that it took until the sequel trilogy for anybody to realize that they can use practical lighting for lightsabers so they actually look like sabers of light that interact with their surroundings.

I remember back in the day the one scene that didn't sell for me with Jar Jar Binks was when he jumped in the water. I remember thinking it was the water splash dynamics but when I watched it back it was just that the character animation didn't sell as real physics. It's funny what pulls you out of it even as a kid, in this case a kid crazy obsessed with CGI so that didn't help.

Clone Wars brought Maul back as fanservice to old legends material, his storyline was really well done there

Darth Maul was shown that he survived in the clone wars TV show first a while ago.

Guess one of the things the star wars sequels did right was using modern led lightsabers so they cast practical light on the actors and environment which looked pretty awesome 👌

8:10 One of the things I've enjoyed about "Kenobi" is that they use light-emitting sabers. It makes those shots look great.

"Solo brought Maul back..." Me: Filthy Casuals...

"Blur it, smooth it, send it out." You gotta know this gets said A LOT. 🤣

Lmao it’s like they never watched the clone wars whose showrunner Dave Filoni did an amazing job with maul

7:32 iirc, there was also some shots in that scene, if not all of them, were they had to remove the enormous amount of flies in the shots with CGI by hand. It looks great too.

Me seeing no episode III “this is outrages, it’s unfair”

Episode 3: Exists Corridor: Ima act like I didn't see that

Professional VFX artists reacts mostly positively to the prequels. Me: A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

2:36 that’s the metal flaps peeling off due to the out of control speed, and not an explosion

INTERSTELLAR had some amazing visual effects work. And almost no green screen!

People: Solo brought Maul back for no reason, lol Clone Wars Show: Am I a joke to you?

The special effects teams on 1984's Ghostbusters, used salt to create the effect of a broken fire hydrant spraying water, they developed it because using actual water doesn't scale when using miniatures.

The light thing with the Christopher Lee fight is super interesting because earlier in that fight against Anakin they make the room completely dark so that both characters can be bathed in the red and blue light completely. Weird for them to completely abandon it like 5 minutes later.

X-Men: Morphing of Mystique as she goes from character to character

*not a single clip out of RotS used* „I don’t think the system works...“

9:27 this happens a lot in this fight, not only with the lightsabers but also with those giant glowing energy tubes. My guess is that they purposely brought the exposure down because they'd be way too bright in a movie theater.

Christopher Lee actually didn't fight with Yoda. It was a stunt men and they replaced his face . You can watch it here on youtube and on the blue ray extra behind the scenes

"Solo decided that Maul is still allive" Clone Wars TV: Hello there!

“Solo they decided that Maul was still alive.” Sam Witwer: *Visible Confusion* Dave Filoni: “We stand here amongst my achievement!”

Historically, AotC would have been green screen because it was the first major movie shot completely on digital and Green screens work better on digital where blue screens are better on film. What is interesting about AotC being shot completely on digital is that George decided to do that because if they were going to have to do a bunch of digital effects, why shoot on film when that just requires an extra unnecessary conversion process. The camera crews were understandably upset because their industry had spent the last half a century refining film cameras to make them more mobile, where switching to digital restarted the whole process of innovation from the start. But looking at the person of George Lucas, 100 years from now, he will likely be remembered more for his contributions to technology over his films. If George didn’t decide to consistently go against Hollywood, and everything that was normal in filmmaking in his time with visual effects and digital technology, the entire film Industry would likely be years behind what it is today. People will always criticize his unique writing style, (which I find charming and actually prefer the prequels over the originals and sequels) but what we need to do is understand that George Lucas never let anything rest fully on the script. He saw it more of a guideline for his ideas. He said that he considers himself more of a visual storyteller which is always an important thing to remember when analyzing his films. At the end of the day, he is somebody who despite receiving vast criticism throughout every step of his career, someone who dramatically changed filmmaking forever.

One scene in the prequels a storm trooper fell on the floor before he even got shot. My conputer froze while watching this and i saw this thing

You NEED to go through The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and do a compare/contrast episode!!!!

Lord of the Rings! I'd love to see a comparison to the Hobbit. The Hobbit already looks outdated but LOTR has held up really, really well.

Awesome video guys! Love your content, really top notch breakdowns. I can't help but ask, why did you leave out Revenge of the Sith when talking Prequels? That has the best effects. Just curious if there will be a separate video or if there is one that already exists? Thanks again.

Honestly wish this video was longer. This was amazing

10:22 Clone wars: „We stand here amidst MY achievement, NOT YOURS!!!“ And they also did a perfect Job of bringing him back

You guys didn't talk about Revenge of the Sith. So I'm hoping there will be a Part 2 for the Prequels VFX reactions.

Theirs a whole story on how maul survived in the tv show the clone wars. You guys didn't watch it? It's awesome. Everyone should watch it. And the final fight scene between maul and Kenobi takes place in rebels and is magical.

Yall gotta do Tron Legacy, 2010 and pretty much blew everyones minds with the quality

I really wanted them to review General Grievous’ cgi

Idk if you guys have seen The Clone Wars but that was what brought back Darth Maul and they actually did it really well, and that’s when he started taking comptroller of his own crime syndicate. The Darth Maul in Solo is the continuation of his story from The Clone Wars and it’s concluded in Rebels.

Can’t believe these fools haven’t seen clone wars. ANIMATORS REACT TO CLONE WARS PLEASE!!!

I think you should react to the VFX of Avatar and Lord of the Rings.

I find your lack of Episode 3 disturbing. I was really curious abou your opinion abou Grievous.

They always call out SO much I'd never notice if they hadnt, it kinda makes the movies feel more personal in a weird way haha, love you guys

I loved so much the Jar Jar section when I was child.

Solo didn’t bring Maul back, the Clone Wars tv show did

You should have definitely reacted to the CGI of Episode 3... it's like 1000 times better.

I am amazed how you guys catch small details

Never thought about it but Vaders suit would reflect everything around him so you'd be able to see not only his lightsaber reflected but Obi-Wans and Obi-Wan himself as well as the background. I wonder if they went that far in rogue one. Gotta rewatch now!

"Solo decided that Maul is still alive." Clone Wars: *Unfortunately for you, history will not see it that way."*

Star Wars had amazing CGI in that era. And the fact that C-3PO was a puppet controlled by a person is just mind-blowing.

"Solo basically said 'oh by the way darth maul is still alive'" Everyone: excuse you? Also the maul revival in the clone wars was one of the best things to happen to star wars since the prequels (I like the prequels)

I’m surprised you complimented Christopher Lee fighting Yoda because it was a digital head replacement! The close ups yes, the longer stuff where he’s faster was a stunt double they replaced the head for. Also watch the Clone Wars. Yes you have to suspend your disbelief to an extra about Maul in terms of ‘he survived because dark side’, but it’s funny to think with all the stuff that goes on with Maul during the Clone Wars and then Rebels that people who’d only seen the films had no idea why he was there at the end of Solo

React to the X-Men quicksilver scenes!!

You guys missed a perfect opportunity to react to the fight between Grievous and Obi-Wan

"Jar Jar Binks was the first ever truly successful CGI character, because nobody complains about his CGI - they only complain about how insufferable his character was. We all COMPLETELY believe in Jar Jar Binks." -Leigh Grainer, Mostly Walking, 2018

Regarding some of the slightly "off" effects moments, I remember hearing that Lucas would sometimes view a scene in editing and say "print it". The FX guys would say, "but we haven't fine-tuned it yet" and he'd be like "don't worry about it, people will buy it, they won't notice". And many times he was right, even though in hindsight scrutinization and analysis reveals the flaws.

You should all react to the Harry Potter movies to see how the VFX improved throughout the series.

You didn’t even react to General Grievous from episode 3? Please make a part 2.

As a star wars fan I am offe.. surprised that maul being alive in solo was a shock to you guys

I never thought or noticed the lighting before in a lightsaber battle like Count Duku not getting light saber reflective lighting.

You have to do the Lord of the Rings and then The Hobbit series!

solo? dude maul being alive was confirmed all the way back in clone wars