:-) Good comment, but it needs to be there to get lost in the first place. If all the exteriors of the buildings were just flat and undecorated (if that is even a word) you would notice it in a heartbeat.

it's how all creatives work: detail and structure, then poetry. the poetry is the light and the fog.

Loren Westbrook-Fritts ...and the single colour filter the equivalent of putting a Mid++ EQ across the entire track.

Loren Westbrook-Fritts I agree.

I thought the same, there's probably months worth of hard work that didn't make it at all in the final composite, it's kinda heartbreaking

build entire city.

My PC Can't even run Blender...

@@theneplz5889 rip

then start watching Ian's videos.

based on the triangulation it looks like a lot of 3d scans to me @5:21

what triangulation lol?

they did scan miniatures that were built for this film I think (=

Ah...that makes more sense

SuperSocco It could definitely be a 3d scan, but it could also be procedurally fractured (in order to create all the cracks and imperfections) which causes those disorganized polygons.

Got fuck all to do with the gpu

Hype Uprise yeah rendering doesn’t have shit to do with graphical processing

Nameless Nomad ASMR if you for a second believe this was rendered using gpu you are living in some alternate universe 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Hype Uprise really depends on the render tech but since you seem to know everything 🤷‍♂️

Nameless Nomad ASMR I am no expert but I can assure you that cpu is used most of the time for rendering in production. Gpu Tendring = vram limitations, and it would work out to be way more expensive to render using gpu. Also most of the time cpu rendering is a lot more stable (but that depends on renderer ofc)

zer0bpm Two different monsters. The superman thing was because reshoots and not giving enough time to the VFX team.

A man of culture, thank god

Good one!

Also, as far as I know the Warner's Blade Runner sequel was made by Sony, unless somehow they're the same and I never noticed XD

Oscar A. Díaz Glez. Sony did the global distribution but it is a Warner Bros. Production

Welcome to VFX haha.

Well yes but actually no When the art director says he wants a city in fog, he doesn’t just want a city in fog, but actually a CITY in fog. In vfx, when something occludes something else, you don’t think "no one will see it anyway" because you don’t know that you see it’s missing. There’s so many details the human eye is trained to distinguish since birth that the MOMENT something isn’t right, you can’t really tell why, but it feels OFF. Since everything 3D is pretty much using raytracing, every reflection, refraction, shadow and ambient occlusion makes any object have an impact on the final result.

Once I heard that a sound designer had to create the sound of an eye blinking, which in real life doesn't make any sound at all. But when I met a sound designer he said that "if the sound is there, the viewer won't notice it. However if the sound isn't there, the viewer will notice it's not." I think it's a similar case in vfx. They created a detailed city covered in fog so the audience notices it only subconsciously, had it not been there, it would've looked noticeably poor. Good thing they won an oscar though lol

3Danimationmaster Excellent analogy

If you notice in later shots, different parts of it are used. So basically, they created the city itself, and then were able to position the locations of the shots/fog later

If it loses to Planet of the Apes or SW, I'm going to lose my freaking mind. It will be the biggest example of money talking rather than who deserves it winning.

Why would be winning the oscar for best vfx???? dude, are you serious? there are hundreds of movies with better fx... hahahaha. You guys are unbelievable :p, most of you really need to watch more sci fic movies, for real.

BR 2049 has, objectively, better VFX than almost any film released. That is objective. There have been numerous articles written on how intricate the FX work was on the Joi/K love scene with the other replicant and all of the incredible work that was done with practical FX as well as the ridiculously well done scene with Rachel. Hundreds of movies with better FX? I dare you to name 3. There is a reason BR 2049 won both Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography at the academy awards, and it is because it has some of the best visuals of any film ever made. To say anything less just goes to show either personal bias, or genuine lack of understanding on what makes amazing visuals.

tell me some. I would love to watch them!

@@reerjgiorge why did it win Oscar then?

Thats a complete lie. So you know. There are no fx in this movie worthy of that much lol. I mean, there are not even fx worthy of 1 million. People just believe everything they read / hear. Also fx in this movie are not better than 90% of the science fiction movies from today. Again, people nowadays is completely blind, unfortunately.

except with the majority of science fiction movies these days, the effects are very in your face and don't actually seem connected with the real characters and environments around them. just because a movie like Guardians of the Galaxy or Transformers has a bunch of big, flashy cgi action fests doesn't make it any good. movies like Blade Runner merge the effects with the real characters almost seamlessly, and never in a way where they're trying to show it off. especially in certain scenes with the hologram girl, it looks impressive and weird, but never out of place or cgi'd.

degraded tardigrade Exactly. It's one of the rare times when I think these effects might stand the test of time

I think what George R meant was that Blade Runner was not nearly as fx heavy as Guardians of the Galaxy 2 for example.

It's all because of planning.

agree

Because vfx have nothing to do with it and are actually pretty basic. It looks like this because of the cinematography and art direction.

you are correct.. simplicity isnt easy.. but this film was stunning in its colors and design.. the fact that it flopped financially makes me happy since it means mainstream does not understand the awesomeness of what Blade Runner truly means.. Great work to all the artist ♥

The fact that it flopped made you happy. Really? It should make you incredibly disappointed for all the talented and special people who worked their asses off so you could see this amazing movie. It should make you upset that a lot of people don't understand these movies or even try to understand them. This just goes to show that you like the fact that you "get it" more than you like "it."

All these people thinking that vfx and cgi makes a movie great...

PacTheOne Financial failure means you are *LESS* likely to see films along these lines in the future because studios won't take the risk. That shouldn't make you happy.

Cg is directorial. bravo Villeneuve.

James Cameron Avatar brought Wonder, Interstellar with it VFX did too, those space scene were CGI, Double Negative have breakdowns. Pacific Rim, Jungle Book, Avatar 2.

It's crazy that they did so much detail like the Statue of liberty, yet you barely notice it in the final product

I mean we don't necessairly notice it at first glance but vfx artists have to be very meticoulis about every frame. Otherwise we feel like something is off. The exposure of a frame and our perception of details is being processed on a subconcious level. But still one should not renounce any minutea just because it seems too ornate.

Stanley Nailed it. 👌🏻

Then they go and cover it up with dust and fog

And Villenueve's lack of compromise. I really don't think Villenueve is getting enough credit here or in the awards. As great as Roger Deakins is, Denis directed this entire masterpiece.

You realize that because there weren't green screens, al lot of this had to be rotoscoped by dozens of vfx people, right?

So much unnecessary roto because of small greenscreens, just look at 5:45

Actually it can be Luma keyed...

Well not really. Whenever you have overlap of the border of a green screen and the area above it, it's often times easier just to rotoscope the whole thing because of dealing with the edge between the screen and not the screen. A lot of those scenarios with half green screens were very useless.

TheAquabats I think they were, only that they were transferred to CG.

I think it's the camera movement that makes you think it's a model. I thought it too.

The city scape in Los Angeles is done with miniatures, not Vegas.

some of WETAs work were done with minitures.. check out their channel for more.. But this 3d work is awesome.. i love it so much. Thanks for sharing this ♥

I saw a photo of a Vegas miniature, so I think they actually had one.

Vegas Strip!

@TRAVELS WITH MY CAMERA Its the vegas knock off statue of liberty

​@TRAVELS WITH MY CAMERA No, there's a Las Vegas replica, and this is Las Vegas. Even the general topography of the city is correct, the positions of the Luxor (the pyramid), the Statue of Liberty, the Strip and MGM Grand are exactly where they should be.

You obviously didnt watch more than one or two science fiction movies, i guess. If you got amazed by the environments in this movie.. dude..... hahaha, you are going to fly when you see other movies. Hahahaha, even environments from the original Blade Runner are far better dude!! wake up! its not only about fx, you need a proper atmosphere, something that is completely missing, sorry.

I am just really impressed by the technical 3d work because I do such work myself...

And I still adored the Environment Design!

George R Dude the mashup between cinematography and FX in this movie is what's amazing, most of it's based on real environments and camera movements, the FX on top of it just bring the ambience to perfection! Villeneuve's imagination and interpretation is straight up genius and everyone who worked their asses off on this film did a fucking great job. If you can't respect that you're the one who should "wake up"

@@PascalWiemers No, don't you get it, a random idiot on KZfaq knows more about Sci-Fi and VFX than someone who actually works on that field, obviously

Alfons Schuhbeck IKR I wish Deakins and Denis had cut down a bit on the fog in this movie, so much work from the VFX crew that you end up not seeing

yes but if That detail wasn't there it would make it feel less real

It wasn't just fog and rain, it was smog and in the LV area, nuclear radiation and sand/dust.

Noahdaceo you can't see nuclear radiation

Certain types of nuclear radiation effect your eye in a way its starts to fluoresce where the ray hit. So in a sense, you are capable of seeing some nuclear radiation

Apocalypse hyped

Sooo hyped for Dune

Dune is good!!! Denis knows what the fuck he is doing.

@@brandonchutt312 not enough explosions for you huh?

@@brandonchutt312 it was an unusual movie for sure.. but just because it was boring for you, doesn‘t mean it is for others, right?

Just think of all the bitcoin they could have mined!

Eddison Bakita Already is mate

This movie is a waste of time. Almost 3 hours of NOTHING. But if you like a good movie to take a nap, this one is ideal, i give you that. And you are so obsessed and you are not even going to buy it on blu ray??? only on DVD?? hahahaha. You people are hilarious. I know they must pay you guys a lot of money to say nonsense in here but some of you should really think before you write/talk hahaha.

George R OK. Let's calm down a smidge. First off, you didn't like the movie, couldn't find one thing in that 3hrs that you did like and that's okay. I might have fan boyed a little hard earlier, watching all the amazing work being displayed here and was just excited to be back in that world again. Lastly, I'm still excited nonetheless to watch this on whatever medium it happens to be on, DVD/Blu-ray/VHS/media- streaming or Torrent.

George R why are you angrily replying to like every person in the comments? what weird vendetta do you have against this movie? get a hobby, dude.

dude i said George R, as in i was replying to George who replied to you.

Skippy Rhondell stfu Rick Mccollum

It's gonna be great.

Jarred Um fuck you rick berman

K’s a much funnier character than we’ve had so far. He’s the key to all this.

It sucked shit .

@@darcymcnabb9259 No need to talk so harshly about yourself

Lol

That's how every CG special effect artists started

I thought, there's 3 hours shot to hell.

Exactly. Renders. Renders have absolutely nothing to do with the final product.

@@reerjgiorge lol, yeah...laughing my ass of when I read "beautiful rendering"

@@reerjgiorge lol you tryna shit on this movie so bad

No hat for you

I will actually eat my hat if they actually win something.

How was the Hat?

Dumbass.

@ Aug24th They won the Oscar though.

Me too, I thought it was connected to wires to make it look like it was flying

Maurice R. It should win every oscar. Haha

Hahahaha, because everything else is shite.

@@jjryan1352 NO u just have poor taste honey

@@Whateveridksomething no, Bland Runner 2049 awful, both as a sequel and as a stand alone. Bland acting, bland dialogue, bland music, bland scenery, convoluted plot, weak action.

@@jjryan1352 bland trolling bruh

It's already been forgotten