VFX Artists React to Bad and Great CGi 105

Don't forget that the VFX of the Mask hold up because it isn't supposed to look 100% real, but rather, like a cartoon pulled out of the screen into the real world.

Hi! Italy here! My Granpa's brother worked as a runner and assistaint on The Palm Beach Story. I had the chance to hear the full story about this shot, and it is absolutely mind-blowing. He was there during the 3 weeks needed to make this. During the production, they initially attempted to manually create camera motion using some ingenious gear mechanism to maintain a constant speed. Countless takes were done in a single day, and they thought they had nailed it. However, when they got to the lab (no monitors back then), they discovered three major problems: First, the camera angle was off. People in the background were caught in the transition line between takes, and no single shot matched perfectly. Second, they realized that for a seamless result, they had to start the shot with the camera in motion and end it the same way, which meant no cool ending titles. Finally, the transition line between the takes was quite visible, as they had no idea how to blend it seamlessly. As a result, they dedicated an entire week in the lab, tirelessly inventing a method to blend the transition line between two shots. They were thrilled, thinking they had come up with a film editing groundbreaking technique, only to find out later that it had already been done before. Undeterred, they embarked on another week of attempts. The first day alone was filled with challenges, dealing with smoke, noise, and hour-long pauses between shots. Why? Because the camera was mounted on diagonal rails, connected to chains, which were then linked to a car engine. Yes, they had a motorized camera motion setup! Countless takes were captured over two days. But finally, they achieved their goal. The camera angle was fixed, no one crossed the cutting line, and the shots blended seamlessly.

In the case of Baby's Day Out, it wasn't just robots and a real baby. Verne Troyer, the actor who plays Mini Me in Austin Powers, also doubled for the Baby for some of the more complicated stunts.

What a fun breakdown you guys did of our film! You guessed pretty close on most things, but if you ever want to know the REAL story behind ANY shot we did, I'm happy to drop by!

the wedding scene is a lot simpler than it appears, its done with a duvetyne black curtain, motion control did exist in that period, Lydecker and Gillespie had motion control systems both of them FX gurus at the time. Also ford factory had a motion control system for the automotive production pipeline, it was done with punch cards and motor control systems using the punch card to control on and off switching, it was also used by animators. So the camera is on a moco track. The shot is done using a bipack magazine on the camera, so the first pass was the two on the left, with the set blacked off with flags and the duvetyne curtain and a script supervisor with a stopwatch calling out the moves, first pass is done, then the curtain is moved across, blacking out the first pass area, exposing for the wedding guests on the right. Script supervisor calls out the timings. The shot is then done. The glass shot on the window, the explanation was correct, the multiplane move trick had been used on other films notably King Kong, but that was how it was done, with the rear projection.

The transformation scene, after they inject him with the invisibility serum in the lab, from The Hollow Man definitely scarred me for a life as a kid. I still had nightmares about it up to at least my early 20's. There is a reason why our ugly insides are covered up by this lovely organ known as skin (and shoutout to hair too)

I was always scared to death of all the “face morphs” in “The devils advocate”. It was people morphing into demons and it terrified me.

Absolutely terrified when Bishop was ripped apart in Aliens. My dad fell asleep watching the film. I’d been put to bed but came downstairs aged no more than 6 and watched the end of the movie. I wrote about how scared I was in my diary at school accompanied by a drawn picture of Ripley vs the Alien. My teacher asked to see my parents as a result 😂😅

Niko and Wren describing a multi-plane camera at 14:06. Technology that Disney used to make their animated film and give depth with forward and backward motion.

Not sure if you've covered it yet or not, but the scene with the scarab beetle crawling under the skin in the original "The Mummy" definitely spooked me out when I saw it! Would love to see a VFX artists react going over it :)

As a kid, having Earth get blown up in the opening scene of Titan A.E., even as an animated film, was so well done it was crazy. The city lights winking out, the pacing of the evacuation and story, the ongoing battle in orbit, stuff getting caught in the explosion. It was amazing.

The "You wanna see something really scary?" scene with Dan Aykroyd in the Twilight Zone movie freaked me out as a kid. Also the TV creature scene from the "it's a Good Life" segment and the "Gremlin on the wing" scene from the same movie.

Dark City is an overlooked classic. Glad to see it get some shine on this channel.

More people should see Dark City!! LOVE that thing. It does such an amazing job of building up 'wait, what?' tension until things go nuts.

That one scene from Doctor Who, the empty child, where that elderly doctor grows a mask from nowhere scared me as a kid and to this day, I'm still scared of gas masks. It will never not haunt me.

4:41 The one scene from my childhood that instantly comes to mind for me is the scene in Superman 3 when the woman gets turned into a cyborg. That really used to give me the creeps as a kid.

When I was a kid I used to be terrified by the final scene with Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The scene that really freaked me out as a kid was in the the Fellowship of the Ring when Bilbo tries to grab the ring from Frodo and his face turns absolutely demonic! It still gives me jump scares 😆

Baby’s Day Out and The Mask were my childhood go to movies 🙌🏾

A movie that scared me as a kid was Small Soldiers, I don't know if there was a lot of CG in it but there is great puppetry to look at