VFX Artists React to TOLLYWOOD Bad and Great CGi 

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I was one of the stuntmans on the movie, Interesting fact is that the movie started shooting in 2018, we went 4 years in a roll to shoot the move, and that jumping with the torches and animals shot was i think about 27 takes to get it as the director wanted, we started gambling on how many shots it will take.

12:00 The flag represents Ram fight for the whole country, the child represent that Bheem fights for a child. Then they switch 🔥

You guys are the reason that my friends and I watched RRR.. and now we are obsessed with it and also sooo glad that it has been nominated and also won a Golden Globe! Thank you for introducing us to this amazing movie and genre

I work at a cinema. RRR easily had the best atmosphere of any film I’ve worked for - including Infinity War, Endgame and No Way Home. The cheers blasted through the soundproofing and we had to turn the volume up multiple times!

I had the opportunity to work on this movie as a VFX lighting lead. Unfortunately, studios like Prana & Rhythm & Hues who worked on Animal fight sequences were shut down during or just before Pandemic hit. Later VFX supervisors got the work done from other VFX studios, they also did an excellent justice to the quality of shots.

i was born in southern philippine, it is in our tradition to born with bollywood movies since 90s. we know many actors, we can sing pretty much all indian songs and even speak and understand basic hindi. i know it's sounds unbelievable. it's because we are closser to malayasia and malaysia, indonesia loves hindi and so are we in southern philippine. we witness what's separate bollywood from anything out there is the story will drop you a lot of tears.

I wish I could thank Corridor in person for exposing me to RRR. This movie is the best gem I have ever stumbled on.

Fun Fact: Usually in movies the actors do their shots first and then the animals are cgi'd later. By doing so, the animals are cgi'd to be slower than normal to match w the actors speed. The director SS Rajmouli instead decided to cgi the animals first and in order to create a reference point for how fast they were going he used lasers. The actors had to react accordingly. By doing so, the speed of the animal is more realistic. The amount of dedication from the director is insane.

@4:19 … it wasn’t a comp - it was in-camera. However we did add extra crowd and the rock mound in the background in the eye reflection…!

I haven't seen anyone mention it, but the fireworks that were meant to be there. That is 100% intentional since it's supposed to be symbolism for Ram being good. The firework that loops around Ram's head is a halo commonly used in depictions of gods and since Ram shares a name with one and is a good guy in the movie, that shot is 105% intentional.

RRR is insane! I have an employee from India who mentioned it to me. I watched it alone in my home theater on my 120” screen like a little kid. I’ve been watching Freddie’s videos since he started by the way. Love this

There's a lot of Hindu and patriotic symbolism in RRR (and in both Baahubalis too) that is understandably lost on non-natives but really adds to the depth of many scenes. Would love to see an Indian VFX artist on the sofa some day! I see Srinivas Mohan commenting...you know what to do!

All these Indian VFX houses and Indian VFX artists themselves have been doing outsourcing for bigger western productions for years under really tight budgets. Now we're getting to the point where they are re investing all that knowledge into their own stuff, and they are doing amazing stuff. Same is happening around the world of game development in china.

It's been awhile since a movie made me feel so much. Was an incredible experience

I consider RRR a masterclass on film making. They really knew the tools available to them and utilized them all. Miniatures, drones, sets, blue screen, cgi, crowd and set extensions. Old school stuff like Rahm on the bridge waving down, he's up on a cherry picker with like 5 feet of bridge railing in front of him. And the build out the world around him, but they have something practical to match lighting too, and you get real depth. You never lose focus on where people are, no matter how chaotic it gets. And some of the stuff in there you really do question if its vfx or not. The barbwire show in the street, the rolling tire on fire. The train. So much stuff.

Fun Trivia : The Naatu Naatu song was filmed in front of the Kyiv Palace. Apparently Zelensky was living there in the presidential palace while the shooting was going on. The cast have said in multiple interviews that they are in touch with their Ukrainian crew and trying to help them in any way they can.

The Japanese should start hiring Indian studios to make live-action version of their animes. Seriously.

I loved this movie so hard. I have not laughed & yelled and gone away smiling from a movie like this ever. EVER!! I feel like I need to watch this again. Next time I have 3+ hours....😂 but seriously. This is the best of everything ❤️

Marvel should give this director a chance to do one of their movies. It would be soooo different and exciting.

I saw this movie in the theater (in Utah). After it was over, the entire audience erupted into cheers; we literally could not help ourselves.

Corridor Crew talking these types/styles of films is hands-down my favorite of their VFX videos. I clicked on the video so fast!

The Eye shot, you should hear what the VFX Supervisor Pete had to say for it. It is not completely VFX !

I just watched this movie on Netflix. It was the best (end of my seat) action movie I have seen in a while...seriously exciting! I will be watching this one again...thats for sure! 3hours-5minutes long and not one boring second.👍❤️

I have sent this to all my friends and will be organising a viewing party. I might dress up as a tiger

Guys. Thank you SO MUCH for introducing me to this movie. I have not had such an emotional rollercoaster in YEARS. I rated it 5 stars. No joke. It’s a masterpiece

btw RRR original language is TELUGU, not Hindi bro...

I waited til there was english sub/dub, and watched it with both on. That gave me a more rounded translation of the movie, imo. I loved this movie SO MUCH!! It was fun, and moving, and I loved that they used the marwari/kathiawari horses, which you never see anywhere else in film!

For the interval sequence with animals rajamouli shot for around 65 nights, each night they spent around 75lakhs for the shoot itself... In that interval sequence they had to imagine animals were there n fight accordingly, for that to happen n so that each n every background artist to be in sync with the CG animals rajamouli employed different tactics while shooting which were not even used in Hollywood movies, a) for bear they used a person wearing green blanket, since the movement of bear is slow similar to a human being... b)For shots with tiger, tiger moves much faster than humans, so they can't just place a human with green blanket, so rajamouli positioned laser lights following the head position of the tiger, so that camera man n actors can imagine the position of tiger n act accordingly. c) for wolves they used dogs which were trained to catch a ball, while shooting the sequence they randomly throw the balls in middle of men, so the dogs chase the balls, in that way rajamouli captured peoples reactions to wolves, later on during CG he replaced the dogs with wolves... d) for other fast moving animals like deers, they used remote controlled cars moving in between the actors.... Rajamouli in an interview said in Hollywood movies they get to use very expensive cameras n equipment to get these kind of shots coz they have such huge budgets, but to attempt such shots in limited budget we hv to innovate things (jugaad) to get these shots for a minimal budget... One such innovation is using laser lights to represent animal's head movements, he took the help of IT students to place laser lights where required.. Rajamouli says the reason y most of the times we fail to get the animal shots right is animals in real life move at a fast speed any human could imagine, first we shoot the humans part n then we animate animals, so humans imagine animal coming towards them n act accordingly, but in his imagination animal moves slowly, so while animating animator has to slow down the animal's movements to keep sync with human's reactions, ultimately making the animal move slow, which looks fake for us, for this film what he did is he animated animal shots first n then placed laser lights on the set to reflect animals moving n then shot the scenes... He literally made humans run faster n faster, even in the making video named "Roar of RRR" we can hear him screeming "faster, faster" to Jr.NTR while shooting his intro scene😂😂 For that fire crackers scene he could hv done everything in CG but he chose to go with real fire crackers placed on threads, n later on he enhanced it in CG... There was even a mishap where one fire cracker changed its course n went so close to Ram charan's eye, later in an interview Ram charan jovially said that he was looking for the thread after the scene, he was scared later on realising that there was no thread beside his eye😂😂😂.. Rajamouli explains that we should get 80% of the shot by using real props (fire, smokes, wires, miniatures, fire crackers, water hoses etc), then we should enhance it by CG, if we do everything on CG it looks fake...

I paused this at 5 min, watched the whole 3 hour movie, and came back here. Amazed. Thank you guys, you've made my covid isolation day much better. 😀

I love the extra Corridor Crew members in the background laughing at you guys as you react. lol

Thanks to this video, I learned the existence of this movie, told my siblings about it, watched it as soon as school was over (the family room has never been so loud at 9:30 PM), then I showed my parents. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!! BTW, Bheem vs Ram, the final battle and pretty much the entire movie were my favorite parts.

I think we are often too obsessed with creating a "realistic" environment for movies to seem relatable that we forget the joy of the visual medium. Movies like this reaffirm why film/tv (the visual medium of entertainment) is so valuable. Stories are one thing but if you can embolden them with style and craft, its even more amazing. Thanks for giving Indian movies a chance!

One thing that never gets mentioned on this channel is how VFX artists in places like India (and all over the world) are worked into the ground for very little pay to create these shots. I don't think Corridor has ever discussed how companies like Rhythm and Hues went bankrupt because of how thankless this industry can be, especially since they won the Oscar for Life of Pi in that same year. There's too many struggling artists out there, this shouldn't be acceptable.

The way Freddie is over the moon with watching clips of this movie is how I have felt each time I have watched this movie and I have watched it several times.

Thank you Freddie! I just watched the whole movie with my friends. We had sooo much fun. And it's thanks to you, cause I first heard about RRR right here. Amazing =]

The shot at the end of the movie, where Ram emerges with bow and arrow in the middle of the forest was one of the best, if not the best in the history of cinema!

I saw this movie with my family and we went so crazy like we were watching a soccer match.

Oh my God I didn't know foreigners are impressed with RRR. We definitely need to send this for Academy awards

Wow... Even I haven't noticed such detail perfection on each shots. Now my respect for Rajamauli has increased by many folds. Even with the given budget he could pull off something that perfect which even the MCU movies couldn't. Now imagine what he can do with the backing of MCU

After seeing RRR I don't know why I ever need to see another film ever again.

I quite literally went and watched RRR after this was posted. Holy shit that movie was incredible! It was basically an entire movie 50% of the way through, and then you get a whole other incredible movie for the second half. Thanks for the recommendation, that's a new instant favorite.

Thank you Freddie for evangelizing this movie. Even though I am an Indian, I typically don't watch Bollywood movies often, but thanks to your passionate words and this reaction video, I watched this movie and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thank you! RRR is my first official Bollywood film. Holy shit!! The dance off!!!! And I'm not even finished yet!

I am really Happy that certain Indian movies that actually deserve attention and appreciation are getting them by audiences all over the world. Especially Corridor, I am really glad you are doing this... I always love watching this series because it makes me proud of the artistry of some really good film makers here. Ofc, some times i get second hand embaressment.. but atleast its funny.

I'm trying to organize a movie night to make all of my friends watch this movie because it's a must-watch and I've only seen it alone since none of the encoRRRe showings have been in theaters near me.

Thanks for appreciating. At the same time it’s very important to give credits to the industry from where the movie came from. Please remember word TOLLYWOOD. You have to listen it so many times in future. Thanks to Rajamouli sir👏

Now that Natu Natu has won the Golden Globe, I would love to see the extended vfx breakdown on youtube please

I saw it in a theater in Telugu, knowing very little about what I was about to see. And I was totally floored. ALSO, can't believe I'm saying this, but of all the INSANE fight scenes in the movie, the best scene might be the dance sequence. It's that good.

Saw THIS video yesterday morning, immediately logged onto Netflix, and watched "RRR." All I can say is, "THANK YOU!"

14:41 did'nt know Lenardo d'caprio had a cameo in the movie

Thank you for doing an episode of this amazing film. I was completely rocked by it, and had a ton of fun watching the analysis of a few scenes of what is definitely one of my top ten movies of all time (I never thought a NEW movie would be able to surpass some of my classic favorites).

A friend recommended RRR to me and when I saw its runtime I was like: Woah! But then I blocked one evening to soak it all in and loved every second of its Dragon Ball Braveheart craziness. 🤯

Just finished watching this movie with my family half an hour ago. IT IS A GLORIOUS MASTERPIECE

Thanks for the awesome details on the CGI. I heard about RRR thanks to an interview Chris Gore did for Film Courage. I've watched it three times. I'm obsessed. I still cry. I cheer. I can't get enough of the soundtrack.

Bheem's flogging scene is easily my favorite scene of the movie and one of my favorites in cinema. NTR's acting chops are out of this world, and the song is extraordinarily moving and beautiful. Plus, they convey the power of that whip so effectively.

I had 10 of my friends over at my house, half the guys went to pickup joints, the other half went to get wings and I set up a projector in my back yard and we watched RRR. and holy SHIT it was an AMAZING experience, shit was so funny but also genuinely good and everyone else loved it my favorite part personally was the fire intro, shit was WAY too good😭😭

I want to personally thank you guys for taking me down a 3hr rabbit hole of watching RRR last night. I was so invested in the characters and the plot. Thank you Corridor Creww!!!

Note: it's not from Bollywood. It's from tollywood ❤️❤️

I used to think Thor's Entry in the battle of Wakanda was the best entry for an actor in any movie, but here the Entry of NTR with all the animals is the biggest entry scene of all time

That dancing scene was filmed last year in Kyiv, and the blue building is the Maryinski Palace. We wondered why the traffic were redirected and someone told us that it's a Bolliwood movie filming. So then we were surprised how Indian people reached us in their screen endeavors. It's not uncommon for our city to host western production: movies, music videos and so on, it was just new to host a full-scale Bolliwood action. I'm glad that everything worked out and now we got powerful Indian action in the world. :) Hope that after war we'll have many cool collabs with different people and studios from around the world.

Man I adored this movie. It's just the best mix of wild unbelievable hype moments and a good story. Such a fun ride. They didn't let realism or rules get in the way of just telling a good story a really fun way. Pretty rare now a'days, deserves all the success

Irony is, RRR didn't even get nominations for Oscars, I think it deserved

Was a great, insane, fun movie, and this is a great nerd-tastic piece. Thanks! There's nothing in the world that's better for me than being completely over the top passionate about stuff I do, and watching others do the same!

16:25 : The Tiger and leopard is a reference to the two heros. In tollywood NT Rama Rao Jr is associated to tiger and Charan is associated to a cheetah or Leopard. So it’s foreshadowing their fight.

One thing that goes unappreciated is how fucking insane both actor's physique actually is.

I enjoyed the review as much as you guys enjoyed the movie with "excitement".

i am an indian and i just loved how you appreciated all the intricacies that goes behind the shots and how some of them are staple to the tollywood/bollywood.

This was the best bromance of history. A mash up between The Predator and Top Gun bromance .

I actually took your advice and went to see this in theaters with some friends. So much fun! Thanks for the recommendation

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Bollywood/Tollywood/etc. and damn I love these VFX reacts because the shots are so cool

An amazing movie where over the top and blatantly evident CGI blends perfectly with almost perfect and unrecognizable CGI, and the plot was amazing too. I think of this as the gold standard for the years to come, RRR really took the world by storm.

i didnt even watch the trailer, never heard of the show, the cast nor read any review about it at all, yet when my buddy says there is new indian movie, we goes to watch it right away, paying the overpriced ticket without any second thought, and it was legit SATISFYING AF

I love how Tollywood is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Proud of our Telugu community :)

Jr ntr is king of indian cinema he completes his scene in a one take , multi lingual , singer , dancer , awesome memory power , he doesn’t take rehearsals before dance he directely comes in to scene and boom God gifted actor proud to b Jr . NTR fan ❤

This is a huge honor for telugu film got this much accolades from you guys.. thanks 😊 🙏

The prison escape scene was my favourite moment. I was home sick from work and put RRR on with no context other than it was a Bollywood movie with some crazy beats and I was not disappointed!!

RRR was one of the only movies I went to the theaters to see so far this year, all because of the recommendation of a reviewer I trust, and it was MUCH better than even the hype. It is amazing.

watching you I realized how much efforts was put in to make this movie....My respect has increased for everyone that were involved.

I learnt such a nice perspective on cinema and CGI listening to you guys. 💯💯💯

Saw this movie on Netflix. Great stuff…too bad it didn’t came out in cinemas here in Italy

i just finished this movie..I thought I would find it lame but it blew me away. This is my first bollywood, tollywood and im really impressed by everything I saw. Respect

Thanks for recognising the tollywood..it really means a lot.

I could watch hours and hours of your content. It's amazing! But I want to thank you for being so humble and taking your time to explain things in a very fun way to the 'little people' like me who are just starting in all these forms of art in filmmaking. I'm pretty sure I speak for most of us. Oh, and, also.............. debit. Lots of love

Ok... when you said it was on netflix I was like, "cool, I'll finally get to watch one of these". How did you not mention this was gonna be my new favorite movie 🤣🤣🤣

I found it in Netflix. I gave it a shot... OH.MY.GOD. It was excellent! Not ONE second of this long, long movie was a waste! ❤

Nattu nattu wins Golden globe for original song... And i like the energy n the vibe of the song

I watched this movie just because of you guys and yes, I am obsessed with RRR now. It's awesome.

I came back to the video to confirm that I watched it because of you. My first movie from India. It was amazing. Thanks!!!

RRR is a perfect example for the world audience to understand how it feels like communal viewing experience in India.

The best scene is when Ram is whipping Bheam and he wipes the blood from his face an you see a single teat just as he is wiping the blood away with the tear together

I was encouraged to watch this movie from you guys with my family and it was an amazing experience especially because it was the first foreign movie we'd seen, so thank you for letting us find this movie

On behalf of everyone...can we get a part two of the Corridor Crew reacting to RRR?

We seriously need to learn from Tollywood here. Next level epic. Blows every "blockbuster" HW has produced completely out of the water. No comparison. People ain't lying, this film is 11/10 masterpiece!!!

i literally paused this half way, found RRR on Netflix, and watched it, then finished your review! Soo epic!! Would never have watched that if it werent for your reviews! thank you!!

indian movies : action: 100% story : 100% deep stare down: 100% physics : what now 🤨🤨🤨 ???

I have never in my life LOVE an action film! But it's not just action, it's romantic, it's comedy, it's just EVERYTHING. I first saw this when my dad was watching bc he said it was an action film and he loves those film. First scene I saw was when Bheem trying to help Ram for his snake bite THEN I JUST COULDN'T SLEEP. The whole fight scene was flawless, every scene is not a waste. Now I'm on my 6th rewatch! RRR is my new standard of film and should be everyone's

I literally paused this to go watch RRR. It was AMAZING! Do as Freddie says and go watch it already!

I showed this movie to my mate during his bachelor party. The boys lost their MINDS!!!

07:11 This shot though