VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 108

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Kevin Bacon fully painted in black with black contact lenses actually looks terrifying. Not even Wes Borland can look that creepy.

Hollow Man, boy that was a blast from the past!. I did the lighting of about half of those shots you showed for the smoke extinguisher sequence. It was my very first film and for the life of me I don't know why they would assigned those to me. I spent months thinking "I'm getting fired any minute now", but the VFX supervisor Craig Hayes really talked me through the whole thing day by day in dailies. The lighting comp was pretty close to the final comp and is one of the reasons these shots look so good to this day. And by they way, that was all old fashion lighting and comp tricks done in Renderman, no global illumination or PBR anything back then.

That rain scene from Hollowman is actually mind-blowing 😮.

Dinosaur was a childhood favorite movie for me. I watched it so many times and I still think it holds up pretty well. The mix of CGI and practical environments was really well done

Every time Corridor reacts to cgi dinosaurs, I am a 100% invested

Hollow Man is a basic horror story with absolutely insane execution. So good.

That work on Hollow Man is genuinely mind blowing. That team pulled off the modern day equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci mastering the human form in his art by studying anatomy. What an achievement. Oh my god. Absolutely insane flex, pardon the pun

For a film that's been out over 20 years, Hollow Man still looks fantastic, it looks better than some fx heavy films being released today, it's such a technical achievment

Dinosaur is such a throwback, I was 3 when it came out and recently watched it again (I'm 26 now) and it still holds up well enough for me. Even if it's a very simple, generic story with some dated CGI, it still worked for me🦖🦕😄.

Dinosaur always looked awesome. Specifically the Carno’s head peeking through the water while they’re in the cave hiding.

That cut to Jake squinting and saying, "You know what I see - "
Legendary transition skills.

I'm glad you guys took a look at Dinosaur! I remember being amazed by that movie at the time! Something I remember seeing back in the day was that they composited different elements to make the background unique. Like a sky from one location, a midground from a different location and the foreground from yet another location so it was something that never existed in real life.

Hollow man is absolute insanity. It freaked me out.

My suggestion is to look at Walking With Dinosaurs and it's two sequel series, Walking With Beasts and Walking With Monsters. Really shows some great progression of CGI

Hollow man is one of those movie that just has an okay story, but astonishing film making. Even the Invisible Man from 1933 still looks awesome now.

Here's a recommendation. The creators of The X-Files made a sci-fi series for fox that was one of the first tv series to use extensive photo realistic CG. It was called Space: Above and Beyond, and the work they did remains impressive even today. In addition to the things you'd expect (spaceships and dogfights) there's a ton of CG that flew under everyone's radar in the form of set extensions. The FX house that did much of the work was called Area 51, I believe they also worked on the movie Lord of illusion.

My favorite thing is these videos is how genuinely excited/impressed they are by early innovations. The whole Dinosaur conversation was so fun seeing them react!

This series can never get old lol

They all have very different kinds of body language and expression, but that gleam in the eye when they saw hollow man was universal 😂 true appreciate for the craft