VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 113 (ft. Weta FX)

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Corridor Crew should do an episode where they digitally replace themselves in the whole episode just to see if they can do it well enough no one notices.

To be fair I think Jordan’s John Cena joke was extremely well placed 😂

The complete CGI shot of Smith on the motorcycle brandishing the pistol was the single most convincing live-action-replacement shot I’ve ever seen. It makes Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One look like video game NPCs. WETA engineers are geniuses. The pore, melanin, and eye techniques are all game-changers. Incredible.

Besides the ridiculously high frame rate and obvious uncanny valley issue, Gemini Man tripped up because literally everyone knows what young Will looked like. They had to go back to Season 1 of Fresh Prince.

That Will Smith close up on the bike is INSANE. You can not tell it was CG. Hats of to Weta

While Weta's approach to realism is often more science than art, the talent and skill of the artists are the only way that approach could even work. Their models could literally be used for medical research purposes in some cases, and the level of detail and knowledge each artist utilizes is so vast and in-depth, they could almost be experts in the scientific fields of study of the real-life subjects they're tasked with recreating. I'm constantly amazed by the work they do, and it's awesome to see and hear them talk about their craft. Great episode.

It will always be so incredible to me how science-y vfx are. They almost need a human science/biology degree to be good at their job. When they talk about the muscles and melanin and eye structure it takes me back to my anatomy and physiology classes.

That Will Smith head replacement (current, not the aged down one) was insane. I've never seen a digital face look that good.

The tongue flapping around when the eagle rides in a car with the window rolled down like a dog is what sells that shot and I absolutely love it

Anytime someone from Weta or ILM drops by is always incredible

Those eyes in She-Hulk are incredible. Bringing depth and presence to the eyes has been such a challenge. Guy and the Wētā FX team have done wonders!

The more i watch vfx artist react the more i realize that the best artists understand human anatomy to the level of a doctor.

That pore effect was unreal. Definitely worth a video.

Please do a special video about the evolution of special effects and the milestones that were achieved between 1985 and today and what movies they were achieved in, like first cloth simulation, first ray-tracing, first HDRI lighting, first motion capture performance, first realistic water simulation, first realistic physics simulation etc.

I could listen to about 10 more minutes of talk on how skin pigmentation and pores work. Fascinating stuff. Also, the pun game was so strong in this episode. I'm proud of y'all.

There was an episode of the "Farscape" TV series that opened on a closeup of a pair of eyes, and you could feel the grief and sorrow radiating from them (a major character had died at the end of the previous episode). Then the camera pulled back, revealing that it was Rygel, one of the puppets created by The Jim Henson Company. They got more emotion from a puppet than a lot of human actors can manage.

It's awesome to see the bts of awesome CGI, but I think it would be interesting to have the guests telling about their bad CGI/VFX, to see what happened and what went wrong

The main takeaway from this video should be how Weta learns anatomy to make CG characters look real

Jordan's crushing it. I hope he never "outgrows" Corridor and only helps the whole team elevate; he's a treasure.