VFX Artists React to STAR WARS Bad & Great CGi
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Published 2019-12-14
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Niko, Clint, and Wren sit down to react to some of the zestiest CGi moments from the original STAR WARS trilogy: What makes a visual effect bad? What makes one great?
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All Comments (21)
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Niko - the "so here's how they did it" guy Wren - the "I love this movie!" guy Clint - the guy that never saw a single iconic movie guy.
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Fun fact: Mark Hammil's sword didn't break, it was ejected so he could "cut through" Vader's hand, whereas if the blade wasn't ejected it would just wack the top of his wrist.
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imagine how you mind must have been blown if you were actually there when those movies came out and saw these vfx for the first time
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Honestly, it's far more fascinating to find out how non-CGI special effects were done.
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The weird thing is... if you watch the original trilogy now, the worst effects are generally the crap cgi additions that were added 20+ years later
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I just realized at the beginning of this video, Obi-Wan says his iconic “hello there” to a droid each time
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The Emperor’s Death Star landing bay filled with Imperial Storm Troopers was a matte painting as big as a door. The artist who painted it , painted a “Smiley Face” on one of the Storm Troopers helmets. I saw the actual painting back in 1989. A Ghost Busters II matte painting has penguins on a rooftop building for no reason other then the amusement for the matte painter.
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Some of the asteroids in the background of the chase scene were potatoes.
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i’m a stop motion animator, i cannot imagine what an absolute nightmare these movies were to make. their work obviously paid off though!!!
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People who were kids in the 80s will remember that "The Making Of..." documentaries about Star Wars were on network television constantly. Knowing how much clever innovation and painstaking craftsmanship went into the films only made me a bigger fan.
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I love how the Death Star exlposion is a practical explosion filmed from below, so that all the pieces actually fall into the camera. Ingenuity.
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So fun story: I know the guy who sold the rig they used to do all the motion for the models/camera. The crane they used was a rig used on nuclear reactors. The rig could move in all degrees of freedom and was used in the reactor so that people didn't have to actually go into the reactor for inspection. He sold it to Lucas for pennies on the dollar because they needed to clear out the warehouse space and was surprised when a year or so later got a ticket for the premiere to a movie called "star wars"
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The thing I find so inspiring about old movies is just how primitive everything really was. They didn't have editing softwares tailored to their specific needs. Most of the things we can do so simply now on a computer must've taken weeks or months to do. Even basic dissolves, and despite all this, they still managed to create something great.
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When I was younger and saw the original trilogy, I had no idea nor questioned when they had come out. I assumed, from seeing how good they looked, they must be mid-90's at least. Once I learned the true release date of A New Hope when I was in my mid teens it blew my mind. To this day a lot of the space shots involving ships still look fantastic. The Millennium Falcon strafing toward the camera then away is amazing.
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Watching how painstakingly careful AT-AT model technicians were makes me cry 😢 All for a nimble few seconds of absolute movie magic... 👍👍👍
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The original trilogy is truly the definition of movie magic
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”I am a Jeddy like my father before me.”
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And then when you see how The Mandalorion did some of its scenes in the same sort of style as this with the ships it just feels like such a nice nod
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Love this. When I was a kid in the 1970's, watching Star Wars multiple times in the theaters, I dreamed not only of flying my own spaceships but also of being one of the SFX geniuses who brought that stuff to life.
