Corridor Crew supplies the gunfire for Obsession director Curry Barker

Barker learned filmmaking from their videos; now Niko, Matt and Jordan are helping build the effects for his horror short.

Channel: Corridor Crew Story of November 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

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We did VFX for the Director of Obsession

Curry Barker has a thank-you to deliver before the effects work begins. The Obsession director tells Corridor Crew that their videos taught him skills he has put into his own filmmaking. This time, he is hiring them.

"We did VFX for the Director of Obsession" takes that connection onto a working horror set, then back to the computers where muzzle flashes, bullet impacts and digital blood become part of the finished scene. The upload has drawn about 668,000 views in its first 21 hours.

The shoot provides a particularly good demonstration of why a promising effects idea still needs testing. Niko Pueringer tries a sound-activated lighting rig designed to flash when a gun fires. On shoot day, screaming sets it off too.

From there, the work splits into distinct jobs. Jordan Allen builds blood-squib simulations in Houdini. Matt Cook handles digital cleanup, bullet impacts and relighting, while Niko layers muzzle flashes with the surrounding glow and smoke. The breakdown makes clear that a convincing gunshot involves more than putting a bright shape at the end of a barrel: the light needs to belong in the room.

The video is sponsored by Windows and includes prominent Surface laptop demonstrations. That placement has become a running subject in the comments, alongside viewers discussing effects they had mistaken for practical work, particularly the blood on a shirt.

Barker joins Matt and Niko to review the finished shots near the end. His response turns the opening thank-you into a possible next brief: "I gotta hire you guys for my bigger stuff."

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The numbers

The behind-the-scenes collaboration drew a substantial audience before completing its first day online.

subscribers

7,190,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,631,655,906

views per day

1,772,140

typical day: 1,026,007

the video

views

459,337

likes

13,794

comments

738

days online

1

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