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Filmmakers use Visual Effects to create the illusion of achieving things that, to do for real, would either be too dangerous, too expensive, too complicated, or just plain impossible.
Whether it’s to give someone superpowers, make them fly through the air, or fall from a massive height, make them look like they’re interacting with a Computer generated beast, or actually becoming one themselves.
The hardest part for the VFX team is finding the best method, or inventing the right technique to obtain the best result possible.
The hardest part for the actors is trying to remain in character and give a convincing performance whilst looking like, well, like a bit of a twit.
For Alice in Wonderland, the visual effects teams made. Matt Lucas perform as Tweedledee and Tweedledum dressed in a fat green costume on stilts, they made Johnny Depp talk to a green stick, Mia Wasikowska fight against, well, absolutely nothing and Crispin Glover ride this odd-looking contraption.
Interestingly enough, for this shot, they only used Crispen’s head, everything else was CGI, which begs the question,
Why bother with the whole contraption in the first place? and,
Is everything the VFX teams do, really necessary? or are they just having a bit of fun making the actors look stupid?
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simply magic…Truly it gives life to your imagination. My tribute to the hard working VFX/CGI professionals (oh and the software).
This has to be the dumbest and biased video I have ever seen. obviously the person who make this video has no clue how movies a made.
You point on the wrong things, at least with the masks, heads and the hippo body. Those are to interact and act better.
People act better to something than to tennisballs. And those Dino heads give the correct eyelines.
Being completely in green screen land without things and people to interact with, that is mean. (See Ian McKellen, making of the Hobbit)
It's not about having reference as much as having 2 options. Directors want to stay with live action as much as possible to avoid an overly digital look. But that method often doesn't work and they have to replace it with full digital imagery. If it was all about reference they wouldn't be putting everything in green screen, which is the last thing you'd want for reference. They're shooting live action with those mattes (at great expense) hoping it might make the final shot, but they can't know for sure.
Answering… yes, it is neccesary to get the most precisely match between CGI and live action and, in the other hand, actors don't think in silly, they play their characters and that's all, hey, they actually need to get into situation through body and facial expression even if the character is a CGI doll
Shoutout to District 9 by Neill Blomkamp, the CGI was ahead of it's time.
lol 1:22 and how they removed all that dark shadows? i cant believe it !
Vay be
I think is more easy for actors to have an idea of how and where the head of the creature is, then just point to someone and say, here is the creature, and look like this artwork on this paper.
Great visuals. But “begs the question” is incorrectly used, showing lack of language knowledge.
Wow, a whole channel presented by someone who knows nothing about filmmaking. There's two main reasons for this. One, all of this stuff gives the VFX artists reference for how things should move or look. Second, it helps the actors get into the scene and feel the moment better.
It's a great collection of the on-set shots, thanks for that. but I strongly disagree that the actor's performance as a CGI character is useless. Actually the opposite – they reference how the character should move and which emotions to convey, otherwise the director would have to do the same job in post, telling VFX-artists how to play the character.
Superman should have shaved his mustache. Petty and shameful not to.
or they just make many things that actually not needed for making over budget looks normal.
At the end we all know ita vfx but we love it
2:15 yes the flash needs to do that I'm sure you know this by now tho
There's gona Com a time where they won't need actors anymore, just all CGI.
Amazing video 👍🏻
The thing with Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug was that he did the full body motion capture as least partially for his method acting. It helped him get into character and figure out how to sound, use the right tone of voice, behave, etc.
I think we need to use VFX less. Not that they aren't amazing, and I love them as much as anyone else. Something seems to be lost though in using CGI for all effects. The models that places like Industrial Light and Magic used to make added certain qualities that just can't be replicated. The best documentation of this that I can think of is in "The Crystal Calls Making the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" which details how they decided to go with actual Henson style animatronics and enhanced them with CGI. This resulted in something that was amazing allowing for great CGI but retains the real-world physics and shadows from the animatronics.
Every artist knows how difficult it is to work without a reference. Imagine animating something without it.
Puppeteers for the cape? Really?
Eh what the hell, it's only 1am, I got time
People need more illusion for their reality.
Someone has never heard of method acting.
The real question is, why do studios still resort to making movies and TV shows this way? It's common knowledge that VFX studios are going out of business and/or producing subpar work because nowadays they're being asked to practically make the entire movie in post production with a tiny budget and a ridiculous timeline. Movies in the 90's like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 look better than today's superhero and action movies because they used real sets and practical effects wherever possible, whereas now directors will default to making even the most basic scenes and ordinary characters completely out of CGI just so they can shoot the whole thing in the same room with minimal props, costumes, or even actors.
They should bring the VFX team on the Red Carpet !!
Smaug was imho really good played. Benedict did there really a good job. And the voice …
just because they did something for the movie, does not mean that the results obtained were useable. Similar to multiple takes on an everyday scene, sometimes the Director has to come up with an alternate way of getting what they want for the CGI to look correct to their vision. Would it have been nice that ALL of the MoCap content was used, of course. Obviously, the Director wanted to use it and that is why they paid money to do it. But, some results end up on the cutting room floor for reasons. MoCap content still suffers the same fate as normal film in the end.
Given how much CGI is used, all of these movies should be considered as Animation.
Okay, time for a little explanation:
Actually The actor in mo-cap suits or green screen suits are wearing helments when portraying animals to make it easier for the actors to see the head of the creature, not the head of the actor, because it would be weird if the actor was talking to the chest of the animal instead of it's head. In the case of Bennedict Cumberbatch, it probably was test footage to see how the performance would look.
In cases were motion is involved, like in Grant Gustin's performance, the actor is required to move his arms like that so it could later be used in post-production to track the tornado. If Grant hadn't done the performance, then it wouldn't turn out like that.
So please, next time you do a video about these topics, please make some research to know how the industry works, because to people that now how it does these videos seem like an insult.
I wanna see marvel movie without CGI
The title should be Ridiculous Things VFX departments have to do for Actors and directors
In the end all the glory goes to Actors/actresses
but the 2000 people working in the Background are paid like shiet!
i bet people don't even know the name of stunt doubles… for your favourite James Bond, Spiderman, Superman
people dont even know the writers, sound department, set designers, costume designers etc etc to name a few departments
it very informative 👍🏻👍🏻
There is no cause without effect.
Je trouve cela prodigieux, c'est un prodige ! Où ils vont trouver toutes ces techniques, tout ce temps et tout, ces efforts et tout cet argent pour au final produire et réaliser des films qui sont fondamentalement nul et ressemble autres autres films du même genre pour la plupart ? C'est prodigieux ! Moi perso ma m'emerderai de faire tout cela pour divertir des jacques bonhommes… et le pire c'est que apparemment c continue ils ne se fatiguent jamais les mecs ! Chapeau !
since which era did henry cavill dye his mustache green in man of steel movie?
Well after seeing this it makes me feel better watching all the CGI movies, because I see the actors really had to act, and it must be hard to act like that.
CGI always gives me motion sickness 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Speaking as a former actor it really does help to act with something rather than nothing.
Yes, they need all that to get in to character and look realistic at the end
OK remind me again why The two and only two Disney films that aren’t even out yet are getting trolled double duty for having POC leads but this crap flies by unscathed for over a decade? Asking for a friend.
I am a theater person and we always try a lot stuffs to make each scenes look the best in the way we want. For some complicated scenes it simply takes a lot of effort, like trying different costumes, props, and settings and this is super time & energy consuming. Those complicated CGI movies must have to try a lot more things to make the outcomes more appealings, thats what I thought. So maybe we see here a bunch of clips that didn't show in real movies, but I think the production did't know that when they planed them. A thousand of modifications must be made afterwords and it really doen‘t do the justice to the crew when you ask if it was necessary over and over again.
I would be the actor laughing all the time 🤦🏽♀️😅😂
“What appears to be” is the interesting phrase in your narration. It confirms the fact that you don’t know why they used the methods they did and instead of finding out the reason you’re just assuming it was to make actors look silly. “Did they really need to…” yes clearly at the time they thought they did. That much is obvious.
It seems that is your ignorance of visual effects techniques that leads you into making so many ludicrous comments – and publicly display your lack of understanding.
Finally got to the end of the into section, and… that was the whole video? What?
They wear fake heads to make sure the actors are looking at the correct place when the scene is finished.