"NO CGI" is really just INVISIBLE CGI (4/4)

This series (and channel) is a blessing. Thank you for the amazing videos!

I cant believe these Videos took NO CGI

Denis Villeneuve flew in an actual sandworm from his hometown Montreal to star in Dune 2. the worm asked to be uncredited, that's why you don't see his name in the closing credits. what a bunch of legends.

VFX artist here with 9 years in the business. I have been credited directly only 4 times out of more than 100 projects. So when you see the credited VFX folks, that is probably just 10% of the total number of people that have worked on the project. Also the amount of things that get tweaked, removed, replaced or enhanced in a shot is mind boggling, normal movie watchers have no clue that what they are seeing is CGI. The problem is directors not planning for VFX and/or crappy VFX supervisors on set, changing entire storylines, removing entire characters from the movie(A list actor in one instance), and the whole we'll fix it in post mentality. But the biggest problem of all, the deadlines. As a good friend of mine and a beast of a compositor once said: "There is nothing we cant do if they give us enough time".

I was waiting for you to say "I've been CGI this whole time"

I feel so bad for anyone working in vfx. Imagine putting hours and hours into making a shot just perfect, only for the director and actors to pretend your work doesn't exist and it was all someone else's work that made it look great. Such an underappreciated job..

25 years in VFX on my side. People have NO IDEA how much CGI are in movies and TV series. I do. This series was amazing! Thank you so much! I hope studios will not boycott you because of it. :-)

I believe one of the underlying goals of this "NO CGI" propaganda from the studios is to demoralize the CG Artists as a way to help crush any talk of unionizing. CGI VFX Artists have worked w/o union protections for years, making them the most easily exploited workforce in the entertainment industry. This exploitation has a negative effect on wages and benefits, but also manifests itself in Credits and Awards; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has greatly truncated it list of awards for VFX, and often for smaller VFX houses the credit for a film or episode will be little more than a nod to the company in total. By constantly bad-mouthing the work of CGI Artists, it appears to rob the discipline of its value (despite the fact that there is almost no production that completes without using their talents), making the Artist less likely to make a stink when they are forced to work long hours for diminished wages under impossible deadlines for demanding and unreasonable clients.

I was a set dresser on The Last of Us Season 1. I personally dressed the exterior sets that Pedro Pascal is talking about when referring to a “dressed downtown Calgary”. His comments are correct but leave out how much work came after because like you said, he couldn’t see any of that work during filming. We dressed every street from the ground to about 30ft up. Everything after that achieved with visual effects and “cgi”. I am incredibly proud of the physical work we did on that show, I’m also proud of the artists that took our work over the top.

VFX compositor here... THANK YOU.

As the average viewer who would never know, your first video on this is when I suddenly realized why so often I had looked at "practical no CGI shots" and kept wondering "but how did they do it?" Because so many shots advertised this way aren't physically possible. They have things like holes in people, hundreds of tendrils moving in a way that can't be done with hydraulics or wires or whatever.. and I just kept wondering "but how?" And it never occurred to me they were just lying. Every piece of evidence that it was a lie I filed away as "well they weren't talking about THAT shot". I kinda forgot about that first video and YouTube didn't recommend the others to me until just now, so I missed seeing them as they were published, but I'm glad to get to the end of it now and finally finish making that connection.

That shot from Jurassic Park was the perfect way to end this series! Thank you for the great work, Jonas!

I laughed having seen Gran Turismo and their "no CGI" having seen it and then going back and reading their claims afterwards

There's no going back for you dude, you are currently the best VFX related Youtuber and you gotta keep making the best videos on the internet about VFX.

As a military aviation nerd it was so funny to keep seeing people talking about the no CGI thing in Top Gun: Maverick. Yeah I‘m pretty sure the filmmakers didn’t go to Iran to get some of the last flightworthy F-14 Tomcats for some movie. And I‘m also pretty sure the Russians didn’t give them their most advanced fighter jet just so someone could brag about not using CGI lol.

Gotta respect Neill Blomkamp's dedication to practical. Couldn't believe he made an actual sentient robot for Chappie

My favorite part is not knowing I was watching CGI. Like the examples here of adding snow to a scene, or other examples like making a city skyline, or the grass greener of the shot was filed in Autumn. Hats off to all the wizards that make the magic happen. CGI artist should be both represented more and paid more.

hearing all practical effects in movie promos gives me same vibes as when companies talk about how they are carbon neutral lol.

The biggest embarrassment about directors lying about the use of CGI is the erasure of just how good the VFX teams have gotten. Plan your filming around VFX, pay the VFX teams a fair wage, give them recognition for their successes, and you get a good result that most audience don't even notice aren't practical. Skimp out on any of those, and you get The Flash. I think you might still have some legs for future videos diving into subtle CGI work. I mean, I watch Corridor every weekend for a neat VFX breakdown, and CD when he remembers to exist, but I'm pretty sure there's room for more if you wanted to keep the channel going and build an audience even more.

The amount of CGI coming in Beetlejuice 2 will never be entirely disclosed, with artists working once again in the shadows. Thanks a lot for this amazing series of videos, I look forward to see what you have in stock for the future of this great channel!