VFX Artist Answers Movie & TV VFX Questions From Twitter | Tech Support

VFX Artist Answers Movie & TV VFX Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

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Todd Vaziri, one of the most accomplished visual effects artists working today, uses the power of Twitter to answer some of the internet's burning questions about visual effects. What movies have some of the best VFX ever? Why does The Mandalorian look so good? How come Jurassic Park still holds its own today?
Todd Vaziri is a Visual Effects Artist whose work includes: Black Widow, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Thor: Ragnarök, Rogue One, Captain America: Winter Soldier, The Avengers, Star Trek, and Transformers.
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VFX Artist Answers Movie & TV VFX Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

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@raxanimations7215 3 жыл бұрын

*VFX artists deserve more attention*

@jrmybrbr13gmailcom 3 жыл бұрын

How much, exactly?

@Narutoninjashadow 3 жыл бұрын

Corridor Crew.

@luddbroth 2 жыл бұрын

yea at least they could have write his name

@nevelyn3960 2 жыл бұрын

I think they're getting it now, probably largely thanks to people like the Corridor Crew. It seems that every movie that comes out these days has featurettes and interviews with VFX artists.

@theActionMovieKid 3 жыл бұрын

Preach, Todd! More of these please, Wired!

@NateCrownwell 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Dan!

@joycepierce8448 3 жыл бұрын

@@hughsc4213 hi

@hughsc4213 3 жыл бұрын

@@joycepierce8448 hi

@AntonWongVideo 3 жыл бұрын

8:33 It's Patrick (H) Willems! y'all should watch his feature-length video essay about Francis Ford Coppola! It's amazing!

@lockdown550 3 жыл бұрын

For the unaware, Todd has worked on mission impossible Pirates of the carribean Transformers Star wars Star trek Harry potter And more

@jrmybrbr13gmailcom 3 жыл бұрын

yeah, we don't care this video is boring.

@brimi4419 3 жыл бұрын

@@jrmybrbr13gmailcom ok

@whocantexplain 3 жыл бұрын

I love And more

@lockdown550 3 жыл бұрын

@@jrmybrbr13gmailcom yet here you are Jeremy

@scythixs7663 3 жыл бұрын

@@jrmybrbr13gmailcom but here you are.And you aint talking for us.

@darthcreepio 3 жыл бұрын

Todd is so generous with his expertise, love his posts and explanations. Glad you had him as a guest!

@pinkywinky911 3 жыл бұрын

Since I started watching VFX Artists Reacts videos by the Corridor Crew I found new respect to VFX Artists and appreciation to what they do. Even though they get lost in the end credits I think they’re the most passionate and most hardworking members of a film crew. 😄

@missvidabom 3 жыл бұрын

1,000% accurate! And unfortunately, the most impressive effects are the ones that no one notices. :(

@TheDaniel9 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! The great Paint Department got a shoutout :D I mostly did roto, but sometime got to paint. Todd's right, it's pretty intense. My friend got to do this amazing paint shot in Warcraft, recreating a wicker basket on a shot where the camera swings around an actor holding it moving at a different rate than the camera. For 300 frames.

@jasondulin7376 3 жыл бұрын

I watched a vignette with Phil Tippet where he said when they switched to CGI for Jurassic Park he thought his career was over, but they realized they needed his expertise to achieve realistic movement, so that's the role he switched to.

@GuanoLad 3 жыл бұрын

They also created a special device, which they called the DID, a crude model of the dinosaurs with all of the joints included, each recording data to a computer, so that the stop-motion movement applied to them could then be transferred to the fully digital creature. That may have been developed for the first sequel only (The Lost World).

@jasondulin7376 3 жыл бұрын

@@GuanoLadthat's right! I forgot about that. So freaking cool. 😀

@chrischauhan1649 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone here who watches Corridor Crew. Those guys are the best.

@gonderage 3 жыл бұрын

oh yeah, man. i love their vfx artist react series

@marksutter182 3 жыл бұрын

I love the corridor crew. Todd Vaziri is just a great follow on Twitter though.

@RMoribayashi 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to reccomend them to anyone who liked this. Their Mandalorian deep fake was so much better than the original. Plus they are as funny as all get out.

@marksutter182 3 жыл бұрын

@@RMoribayashi I don’t know if it was “better” but it was better at some things while worse at others. The tech is so close to being nearly perfect though.

@RMoribayashi 3 жыл бұрын

@@marksutter182 I meant that it was harder to tell that it wasn't really Mark Hamil. The original one looked really fake. Whether it was a better performance is a matter of taste. Maybe they'll do a "Special Edition" when the technology improves. 😉

@Tobias_R 3 жыл бұрын

Yooo! Todd Vaziri! This dude is a VFX legend. The stuff he’s worked on..

@Biring1 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. His track record is immaculate.

@aaabbasi97 3 жыл бұрын

This man is doing what he loves

@noblejack9882 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is really good at talking. Thank you so much

@619gandhi 3 жыл бұрын

I'm taking a visual effects class this semester so it's really exciting to see this video

@ItoNarasimha 3 жыл бұрын

I love this dude. You can see that he is so passionate about his career, he knows so much

@9outof10 3 жыл бұрын

I guess the Jurassic Park thing shows how important good direction and artistic vision is to making sure the effects hold up. Theory: John Williams' music is a big part of why the VFX in JP hold up. Your emotional reaction to it counts.

@sammysoso207 3 жыл бұрын

More Todd!! He's great!

@allluckyseven 3 жыл бұрын

One question I have about The Mandalorian and Stagecraft: Doesn't the movement of the digital background elements make the actors feel at least uncomfortable if not disoriented or motion sick? Because the background is moving in conjunction with the cameras and according to their POVs, not the actors' POV, so they're actually seeing everything besides actual props move around them all the time.

@marksutter182 3 жыл бұрын

Largely, this movement in background happens behind the actors’ lines of sight so I wonder if it’s a problem.

@thijmendevalk 3 жыл бұрын

Not quite. Only the bit seen by the camera is moving. Everything else is still shown static, so the actors see a static virtual set, except when they look at the exact part of the screen the camera is filming. Which, like Mark Sutter said, will usually be behind the actors.

@GuanoLad 3 жыл бұрын

@@thijmendevalk Yes, this is particularly important to maintain reflections in armour and visors, as those wouldn't move around either. The limited area that's in frame behind is not usually seen reflected (though if it does, they would go in and clean that up).

@missvidabom 3 жыл бұрын

It’s actually an amazing technology that helps actors. Instead of having to look at a tennis ball that will be animated later, they get to see the exact environment around them. It’s immersive instead of the actor imagining what the shot may look like in post. They’re actually using a video game engine, Unreal, that allows them to change the scenes in real time. The Mandalorian is shot with the visuals in mind and as a result, the effects are real magic.

@gyrogis9429 3 жыл бұрын

This video is so cool!🔥 I learned a lot about movies I love. By the way, VFX artists are underrated

@leeks1408 3 жыл бұрын

You should check out VFX Artists React on the Corridor Crew channel

@gyrogis9429 3 жыл бұрын

@@leeks1408 Thank you!

@IAmMamunHasan 3 жыл бұрын

I came in the comment section just to see comments about Corridor Crew... 😆😆😆😆😆😆

@shuaibsalim6616 3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist :This guy is completely digitally generated..

@ross-carlson 3 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to touch up the render on the left side of his lip, there's a blurry white spot they missed

@mx.menacing 3 жыл бұрын

@@ross-carlson Looks like vitiligo.

@jackoftheclubs 3 жыл бұрын

I'm kinda sad that he didn't mention during the mandalorian bit that the comouter graphics are using a videogame engine. The unreal engine to be specific. I love that fact because it shows the crossover that can happen between games and movies

@missvidabom 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s the most important part that actually makes it possible. It doesn’t even begin to cover what the technology really does. If anyone is looking for more info, they need to watch a true behind-the-scenes to witness the magnitude of how it affects visual effects.

@WhiskyCanuck 3 жыл бұрын

Part of why the effects in Jurassic Park are still so impressive is that people today overestimate how much was CG vs how much were puppets, sometimes really huge puppets like the T-Rex head. Pretty much if you didn't see the whole dinosaur, it was probably a puppet.

@coregeek 3 жыл бұрын

Todd has been one of my favorite follows on twitter for years. So much insight and knowledge in vfx.

@haberjeff 3 жыл бұрын

This is not a man.... THIS IS A LEGEND

@WhiteWolf496 3 жыл бұрын

Great video with great questions! Praise the VFX artists!!!!!!!

@axelfoley133 3 жыл бұрын

Patrick Willems making a cameo. Nice

@RobVanElven 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this. This was great.

@BelaCurcio 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly Corridor’s Luke gives me the most hope even though it wasn’t perfect.

@albertlerey2387 3 жыл бұрын

A part 2 of this please!!!!!

@tribesman6344 3 жыл бұрын

Todd Vaziri is the house! Master craftsman!

@kizmu2003 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Hoping for another one :)

@holasoyjuansm 3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know I had VFX doubts but this video answered a lot of them

@TomMartinek 3 жыл бұрын

Great job Todd!

@Robbajor 3 жыл бұрын

Super duper good video. Thanks for this!

@mrIlovethe90s1 3 жыл бұрын

Could listen to this gent all day.

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

Awwww.

@daklakdaily3671 3 жыл бұрын

So blessed sharing . Thank you for the good video . Been looking for this .👍🔔🙏🙏❤️❤️

@fadeldarmawan7255 3 жыл бұрын

Love this kind of vids

@jondenby9040 3 жыл бұрын

I have followed this guy on twitter for a long time and for some reason this is not what I thought his voice would sound like.

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

sorry

@jondenby9040 3 жыл бұрын

@@tvaziri sorry. great video by the way

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

@@jondenby9040 :)

@pageoneproductions1040 3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: this todd is actually 100% cg character made by the actual todd

@mrflipperinvader7922 3 жыл бұрын

8:35 oh hey patrick!

@TheRolexseller 3 жыл бұрын

The Thing is still my favorite style with all the practical effects !

@mikepettengill2706 3 жыл бұрын

That was great!

@nicolaswalli4722 2 жыл бұрын

The iconic Patrick Willems guest stars!

@ryanmellor2238 3 жыл бұрын

Enemy mine was made back to back with never ending story utilising the sets as an epic 2 man play with one of the best prosthetic performances of all time

@WhiskyCanuck 3 жыл бұрын

The part about de-aging really brought to mind young Nick Fury in Captain marvel. You can sometimes really see this odd thing of seeing a young Sam Jackson running around & fighting while having the body language of an old man.

@yaboytroy357 3 жыл бұрын

ALSO in 1982 is ET which, ET himself, is an amazing special effect

@CharleneCTX 3 жыл бұрын

If you want more details on The Mandalorian, check out the documentary series on Disney+.

@xxBONGHUNTER420xx 3 жыл бұрын

Poltergeist , The Thing , the return of the living dead and evil dead 2 are wanna of my favourite 80s horror films that are practical and cgi

@biggabenne 3 жыл бұрын

I bet everyone wants to get into VFX for cool camera tricks and great CGI, but I bet nobody wanted to film ALL the film grain and digital noise samples to have a library to use. WOW that's gotta take so much time - imagine losing the data.

@tahirqureshitgq7892 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive, thanks.

@r1s136 3 жыл бұрын

It would be great if you could show more of the images and videos you are talking about. Also, show them full screen! The ones you had were in a little top left corner. Thanks.

@ReservoirDolphin 3 жыл бұрын

Everybody go follow Todd on Twitter. So many great tidbits, all the time.

@WhiteWolf496 3 жыл бұрын

More like toddbits 😎

@williamw 3 жыл бұрын

Todd is the king

@Purrfect_Werecat 3 жыл бұрын

so is the rear projection stuff that weird visual in old movies of people in a car but are clearly not really moving or in the location shown outside? lol

@prakharpaliwal8536 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and it's come such a long way that in shows like Mandalorian some shots consist of the actor being the only real element and we don't even notice. The future of vfx is wild.

@AndyGarcia-jd8qz 2 жыл бұрын

I just want to paint out the spots on the wall behind Todd.... ;)

@drwhoscumrag 3 жыл бұрын

Phil Tippet! You had one job!

@jeroen1989 3 жыл бұрын

Bit to late but got myself questioning after the photoshop answer if having wires and filming props in green would make it easier to remove?

@au.g.-m.1308 3 жыл бұрын

No, not really, it would just create green spill for nothing.

@efp722 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man. I see Todd, I watch, I leave a thumbs up.

@rosecheelo2518 3 жыл бұрын

He looks like the throwback version of Mike Epps

@geiroveeilertsen7112 3 жыл бұрын

17:15 For muzzle flashes, you should really look into Corridor Crew's videos on KZfaq. They have several videos explaining why several muzzle flashes in a row shouldn't look exactly similar, even if lighting and the rest of the environment is the same. Several VFX studios also have a tendency to exaggerate them. Again, look at Corridor Crew's (Corridor Digital?) version of one of the John Wick shootout scenes vs the original.

@ehdyn 3 жыл бұрын

"Each muzzle flash is a snowflake" lol

@mattieRcox 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! I know him 😊

@johnames6430 3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping you would comment on Parasite (it's on youtube if anyone hasn't seen it, Korean film)

@animauxnaturerelaxation9366 3 жыл бұрын

Win money with this music 2021

@tierneymartin7225 3 жыл бұрын

Patrick Willems is a god!

@JonathanCirillo 3 жыл бұрын

TODD

@wimgrundyearth5753 2 жыл бұрын

ANYthing by Peter Ellenshaw!

@GeirGunnarss 3 жыл бұрын

For fantastic practical stunt/vfx see the entire Bond franchise.

@Nobody___ 3 жыл бұрын

Moreeeeeeee

@amon_san 3 жыл бұрын

check out corridor crew vfx artists react series

@PinkMarz 2 жыл бұрын

I'm one of those artists that have painted frame by frame 😊

@blacklight683 3 жыл бұрын

where did bill nye go? i didn't see him long time ago

@Slamchunk 3 жыл бұрын

Death Becomes Her was made two years before Forrest Gump so no, Zemeckis and ILM did not take what they learned on Gump to an extreme on Death Becoms Her.

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I got that wrong! I made a 'show notes' page, and included my correction: fxrant.blogspot.com/2021/02/vfx-artist-todd-vaziri-answers-movie-tv.html

@AndrewNiccol Жыл бұрын

Death Become Her released before Forrest Gump.

@SkokingProductions 3 жыл бұрын

he forgot to mention; Time and Money

@jamestheprotogen7554 3 жыл бұрын

we not gonna talk about the 1982 Tron movie and how they did pretty much everything? All the CG the movie had was done purely with math and they wouldn´t know how it looks until AFTER it was renderd! edit: I also want him to react to and break down astartes

@LoveMakeShareTV 3 жыл бұрын

I'm the first to shout "TRON" whenever groundbreaking VFX comes up but, like, 1982 was also Wrath of Khan and Blade Runner. Other than The Thing I don't hear the others talked about all that much as movies that are impressive and still hold up. I like the variety.

@retroreem3242 3 жыл бұрын

"Step it back candypants!"

@yurielcundangan9090 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nick Kroll

@billtang79 3 жыл бұрын

Have to ask. What do he thinks of the Amazon sci-fi The Expanse

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen it.

@meisam9592 3 жыл бұрын

Was this whole interview CG and an elaborate VFX?

@windmacher 3 жыл бұрын

this guy VFX's

@twopeaksnorth8184 2 жыл бұрын

*explains over-exposure but not muscle flash* Me: 🤨

@gambello1195 3 жыл бұрын

Wait you dont just press "Generate VFX" button and call it a day?

@giannisksanthopoulos4300 3 жыл бұрын

You all should watch Corridor Crew channel on youtube...

@w_i_i 3 жыл бұрын

it's interesting that none of his favourite movies are modern ones

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

They didn't ask me what my favorite movies are.

@chellediggory840 3 жыл бұрын

Someone get Brian Mcfadden here cause I got a lot of questions

@archangel9092 3 жыл бұрын

Bro didnt even bring Blade Runner smh, best looking movie of the 80’s

@missvidabom 3 жыл бұрын

And the VFX in the new one, too.

@jellyfishionado 2 жыл бұрын

please give me more film support

@DjDec3ptive 3 жыл бұрын

Who played that character? havn't seen the credits yet. Yall ain't above law, Hollywood

@viperapexpredator9247 3 жыл бұрын

#wired #snydercut bring Zack Snyder next 😳

@tatianacantor742 3 жыл бұрын

Someones know what happend with his twitter account?

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

I'm at @tvaziri. I think the @WI_VFXSupport handle is a prop.

@tatianacantor742 3 жыл бұрын

@@tvaziri thanks!!! I was looking for you tuit about the movies, is in that account? I like to watch it all that list

@heatherwaldorf 3 жыл бұрын

@@tvaziri is your twitter your safe haven for your racist rants? 😎

@heatherwaldorf 3 жыл бұрын

@@tatianacantor742 he’s hiding because the mob is going after him. 😎

@markgarel77 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Wired, it's been more than a year already, can we have another video of Ken Jeong? doc support?

@shannonjohns3220 3 жыл бұрын

ngl this man look like white mike epps

@dannyvizor3403 3 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute, that's not Niko 🤨

@whijdndndnnd1273 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh moment

@Cadenrieman 3 жыл бұрын

Noice

@icecoffee981 3 жыл бұрын

early. 4th

@code_monkey_steve 3 жыл бұрын

Here's an interesting video on making realistic muzzle flashes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7WTq8mn2ZvFdIk.html

@TARUNPOPSTAR 3 жыл бұрын

First

@MotoCat91 3 жыл бұрын

But did Tony Stark's pores stretch?

@YuriusSan 3 жыл бұрын

My name is Yuri and I also have a question Todd, What is that white patch under your mouth, Thanks.

@tvaziri 3 жыл бұрын

For some reason I have no pigment there, and the skin and hair that grows there is white. It's been like that since I was in middle school.