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The latest VFX Artists React connects painted-out crash pads, conspicuous CG animals and an oil-rig explosion lit by a screen.
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VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 249
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- 0:04The hosts identify animation and lighting choices that make Disclosure Day's digital deer and fox look artificial.
- 5:07CGI deer and last-second rescue clichés inspire proposals for mock tier lists.
- 7:19Executive Decision combines miniature aircraft with compositing; Seagal's digital double draws criticism for abruptly stopping its rotation.
- 10:11The Furious uses painted-out crash pads and digital body distortions to support practical stunt work.
- 16:20Deepwater Horizon combines practical high-pressure mud with digital fluid and fire simulations.
- 20:15An overhead LED wall displaying fire footage supplies interactive lighting and reflections on the practical oil-rig set.
A stunt performer hits the ground, and Niko Pueringer spots the giveaway in the shadow: a crash pad that has been erased from the finished shot. In The Furious, the effects aren't just adding spectacle. They're helping conceal how the action was safely filmed.
That distinction gives Corridor Crew's "VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 249" its thread. Jordan Allen, Sam Gorski and Niko examine digital distortions that make punches land harder, alongside practical falls whose protective equipment disappears in post-production.
As Jordan puts it: "People only say VFX are bad because they only notice the VFX they notice."
There is plenty of noticeable work here, too. The trio picks apart deer animation and lighting on a fox in Disclosure Day, then revisits Executive Decision's miniature aircraft and Steven Seagal's digital double. Niko's objection is specific: the falling figure starts flipping, then abruptly stops rotating as it flies away.
The animal discussion also produces a less technical proposal: a CGI deer tier list. Viewers are asking for that to become real, along with rankings of familiar last-second rescue tropes.
The episode, which includes a sponsored segment, has drawn roughly 880,000 views. Its most revealing production detail comes near the end, in the Deepwater Horizon breakdown. Niko shows how a practical oil-rig set in a Louisiana parking lot was illuminated by fire footage on a 60-foot LED wall. The screen supplied real light and reflections before digital fire was added, giving the effects artists something physical to work with rather than asking them to create everything afterward.
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I'd be down for a CGI deer tier list.
Also you guys STILL need to cover 2010: The Year We Make Contact.@jasonblalock4429See it on YouTubeYou guys should make "Trope: The Movie". Been ages since you made a short film like mini guns. This one should just be movie tropes front to back.
@ZeisSee it on YouTubeHappy you guys covered The Furious. Didn't know so much CGI was implemented!
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5:28 to add to these tropes; the one where a plane goes off the edge of a cliff off camera only to reveal WOW they were able to pull up!
@zzzyheadSee it on YouTubeCounterpoint on the Executive Decision flip: the first flip was visible because he was holding onto the breaking tunnel a moment before. After he let's go, the plane is still moving at 400 mph while he is rapidly losing momentum without thrust. So you won't see the rotational movement as much as the plane continues past him.
@dark-shogun-1See it on YouTubeI truly 1000% want a CGI deer tier list AND a falling hand-grab tier list ASAP! 🙌
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Who directed Deepwater Horizon?
Peter Berg directed the 2016 film Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg.