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VFX Artist Breaks Down Oscar-Nominated CGI | WIRED
The five films nominated for an Academy Award this year for visual effects were each selected for their own unique reasons. Kevin Baillie, a VFX artist who was worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest movies, breaks down the visual effects in this year’s Oscar nominees. See what makes the VFX for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home,’…
Dhiren Rai
March 21, 2022 at 7:59 pm
So, basically, what you’re trying to say is that DUNE is getting the Oscar for visual effects. Got it!
Mads D
March 21, 2022 at 8:17 pm
It’s Rebecca Ferguson – not Jessica 😉
GATTACA
March 21, 2022 at 8:18 pm
He looks like Xbox boss Phil Spencer.
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March 21, 2022 at 8:43 pm
Dune definitely deserves the win for this category. I looked amazing and the fact that they did so much of it practically and enhanced it with CGI is also really cool. It’s also just a really good movie.
QuackAtIt
March 21, 2022 at 8:52 pm
Bruh.
Joseph McGolrick
March 21, 2022 at 9:02 pm
I’m confused. Where’s the couch??
GIKart
March 21, 2022 at 9:03 pm
Dune, dunno how the rest is getting nominated.
Maxi Iroh
March 21, 2022 at 9:11 pm
So, Dune then.
Darius Sale Petru
March 21, 2022 at 9:12 pm
Really? Why Free Guy got in? Matrix Resurrections should’ve been nominated
Bel xxx
March 21, 2022 at 9:12 pm
I just watched the spiderman movie and comparing it Dune…IDK Could tell alot of Spiderman was CGI but both were great
Jeniffer-H0T Girl-C0me 0ver L!ve
March 21, 2022 at 9:28 pm
This guy is who I aspire to be. I’ve always wanted to be a VFX artist
_ androo _
March 21, 2022 at 9:31 pm
Hearing him describe how new techniques and ideas are something that causes films to be nominated for VFX really makes me wonder how Aquaman didn’t get nominated at all. Yet every year there seems to be an MCU movie in the running.
Tiago Barbosa
March 21, 2022 at 9:36 pm
DUNE will win!
KillerTacos
March 21, 2022 at 9:52 pm
Love these VFX breakdown videos so much
Moritz Strohriegel
March 21, 2022 at 9:58 pm
dune should win if you ask me.
ShadoSpartan
March 21, 2022 at 10:49 pm
i think dune will win because there were so many times i wasn’t sure what was practical and what was CGI.
love_otter
March 21, 2022 at 10:51 pm
Hate that the fact that Tom Holland is wearing a suit on set that later gets slathered in completely pointless CGI is being brought up as a positive here. All it does is make the protagonist of your entire film look fake for no adequate reason. Just use the real suit!
Cletus Mcflapjack
March 21, 2022 at 10:59 pm
I cant believe Eternals wasnt nominated, its easily on of Marvel’s most visually stunning movies
tjorven
March 21, 2022 at 10:59 pm
Dune is an overrated pretentious snorefest
There
I said it
JDH
March 21, 2022 at 11:11 pm
This is basically 12 minutes of “Tell me you think Dune should win w/o telling me you think Dune should win.”
Nhlanhla Sithole
March 22, 2022 at 12:29 am
I mean even Cameron was creaming over Dune. People want reality CGI. All that powers and spells stuff is for the kids
Alex Townley
March 22, 2022 at 12:34 am
Her name is REBECCA not JESSICA…. 😂
HAW
March 22, 2022 at 12:40 am
Basically, vote for Dune in your office Oscar’s pool.
Bhon Andrei
March 22, 2022 at 12:48 am
in conlusion: dune should take the academy award 2022 (base on this guy)
vicente fuentes
March 22, 2022 at 1:17 am
6:18 REBECCA Ferguson Jessica is her caracheter
richie's_muse
March 22, 2022 at 8:16 am
Dune wins it… 💯
Matteo Ferrarotto
March 22, 2022 at 9:29 am
Dune deserves to win at least best special effects, best photography and sound
Mathew Omolo
March 22, 2022 at 11:00 am
Dune should win for not overdoing it. And it looks so good.
albert tarimo
March 22, 2022 at 11:30 am
Eternals should’ve been nominated too
Darius Sale Petru
March 22, 2022 at 1:59 pm
Or Matrix Resurrections
albert tarimo
March 22, 2022 at 2:25 pm
@Darius Sale Petru why, what interested you?
Darius Sale Petru
March 22, 2022 at 2:28 pm
The robots
iWhacko
March 22, 2022 at 12:09 pm
Great WIRED ripping off yet another Youtube channel’s original idea.
Charlie_Alpha_LimaLima_Me
March 22, 2022 at 1:29 pm
This was really cool. Can you make a version of this where Kevin talks specifically to us vfx artists who understand how all this stuff works? That way he can get way more in-depth. Just make it an hour long video and we’ll be very happy
Darius Sale Petru
March 22, 2022 at 1:59 pm
Dune will win
Darius Sale Petru
March 22, 2022 at 2:01 pm
Really? Free Guy is nominated? Come on! Matrix Resurrections should’ve been nominated instead of Free Guy
THE STORY OF US
March 22, 2022 at 2:42 pm
To earn this award, I really think movies have to tell a story with the effects, the effects should have meaning, they should tell us things, all on top of being exceptional in quality. Dune’s effects are superb and are crucial to the story it tells, without the effects, it’s not Dune.
Oh and at 6:20, you got her name completely wrong, it’s REBECCA Ferguson, not Jessica…
Natalia Jimenez
March 22, 2022 at 8:50 pm
In fairness, she plays Lady JESSICA
Couer Garnet
March 22, 2022 at 3:09 pm
So basically we are watching animation and not live action?
Troy McClure
March 22, 2022 at 6:31 pm
Nice to see that you’ve stolen Corridor Digitals thing. Real genius people!
MrWadeBarrett
March 22, 2022 at 7:46 pm
Dude, fix your audio levels…The narrator is killing my ear and cant hear Kevin at all
Zen
March 22, 2022 at 8:26 pm
This seems familiar…
Ella Ayekoue
March 22, 2022 at 9:04 pm
I just saw tom holland and timothée chalamet and I click
Nick
March 22, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Dam. Wired ripping off Corridor Crew.
A Afedola
March 22, 2022 at 10:51 pm
great video
Ashraf Wahid
March 22, 2022 at 10:51 pm
Shang-Chi’s last act is terrible!
threat_level: Orange
March 22, 2022 at 11:31 pm
Corridor crew made this possible
TADW 15
March 22, 2022 at 11:38 pm
I swear Spider-Man is getting subtly shat on for its VFX by just putting it next to these other films 😂😭
They clearly struggled to say anything interesting about the VFX so just said lots of people worked on it, there was lots of it and everyone watched it.
CroshWorld
March 22, 2022 at 11:42 pm
Wait, this isn’t Corridor!
muscular 2014
March 22, 2022 at 11:53 pm
Everyone complains about cgi in movies, look what visual effects artist were able to accomplish without being practical.
C U
March 22, 2022 at 11:54 pm
Only if there was any yt channel doing explicitly this
Shaun Pattinson
March 23, 2022 at 12:05 am
Rebecca.
Shrek
March 23, 2022 at 12:18 am
Fun fact alfred molina (doc ock) was deaged for the entire film
Mizantics
March 23, 2022 at 12:18 am
Fun fact alfred molina (doc ock) was deaged for the entire film
jcriley76
March 23, 2022 at 12:45 am
Dune was brilliant. I loved the feel of the movie, felt very realistic and I didn’t think of Hollywood for a single second watching it! Can’t wait for part 2!
Yarbloco
March 23, 2022 at 1:35 am
obviously gotta be Dune
RandomAccount007
March 23, 2022 at 3:02 am
He makes an error and says Jessica Ferguson halfway through @wired
Rocky H
March 23, 2022 at 5:04 am
Dune is my fav movie 🔥
Gautam Gupta
March 23, 2022 at 7:10 am
Why didn’t the ETERNALS got nominated for the best VFX is beyond my understanding……
I mean it totally deserved it.
Brendan Anthony
March 23, 2022 at 8:36 am
Dune is basically just a film about a Jewish house being toppled and their Jewish messiah child’s journey towards his fate as a sand worm.
The Mythic Fire
March 23, 2022 at 5:55 pm
No..its a Greek house. And a Zensunni messiah
Brendan Anthony
March 23, 2022 at 6:41 pm
@The Mythic Fire all the actors playing the atreides house are jewish.
Lone Wolf
March 23, 2022 at 10:24 am
Whether it’s Dune or Spiderman that ends up bagging the award, I’ll feel bad for the other film. Great selection of movies.
pathologicaldoubt
March 23, 2022 at 11:07 am
@6:15 I think he meant Rebecca Ferguson, not “Jessica Ferguson”
Kyle Hall 3D
March 23, 2022 at 1:06 pm
Notice how “dude” had a full beard and they replaced his face with clean shaven ryan? explain that on batman v superman.
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March 23, 2022 at 1:13 pm
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lucianofang
March 23, 2022 at 1:21 pm
Yo corridor digital, where y’all at?
Firman Firdaus
March 23, 2022 at 1:53 pm
ok, dune win
Andy Drew
March 23, 2022 at 3:19 pm
Finally Wired ripped off corridor
Rob M
March 23, 2022 at 4:04 pm
All these movies “belong on this list.” But Dune is the first movie since Avatar to be truly revolutionary. Really. Nothing the MCU has done compares to the scale and realism of Dune.
Harry Pothead
March 23, 2022 at 4:10 pm
What about GvK?😠
filmmaker610
March 23, 2022 at 6:45 pm
Didn’t get nominated.
AlienBoy13
March 23, 2022 at 5:29 pm
We really need to stop demonizing vfx CGI. There really are great artists working behind them.
Arthur Zhu
March 23, 2022 at 9:18 pm
the more VFX it has the crappier it gets
Les Zani
March 23, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Corridor? oh wait
Jose A Nieto
March 24, 2022 at 1:42 am
This was fun!
Tahiri Perera
March 24, 2022 at 3:04 am
I can tell by this video that Dune should win
Diane Snell Itoh
March 24, 2022 at 3:15 am
1:34 Using the law of physics to make the computer simulation looks real. Well, All hail to the law of physics!, Like how many laws of physics Dune’s VFX had to apply to make that movie stimulates the brain and trigger detailed hallucinations?
Gwynbleidd
March 24, 2022 at 3:57 am
Respect to the other nominees but Dune really deserves the award.
Purple Pockets
March 24, 2022 at 4:52 am
Notice he spent WAAY more time talking about Dune than any of the other films. Dune has a really unique look to it that I’ve never seen in another movie. I’ll be very surprised if it doesn’t get this Oscar.
Ellory
March 24, 2022 at 5:44 am
one of these things is not like the other
Aniket Khandelwal
March 24, 2022 at 7:17 am
WHY DOES THE GUY TALKING SEEMS TO BE VFX, MORE THAN MARK ZUKERBERG
Navaneeth C M
March 24, 2022 at 7:36 am
I wonder how Shang Chi got nominated but not Eternals
UtangNaLoobTV
March 24, 2022 at 7:38 am
How about the VFX artists’ salaries? Is it worth the job? How much is the salary of a VFX artist?
Cassie Carpenter
March 24, 2022 at 8:07 am
Rooting for Dune!
Rất Là Xấu Trai
March 24, 2022 at 8:29 am
6:17 “Jessica Ferguson” 😅
Brice Petit
March 24, 2022 at 9:49 am
thanks what an awesome video
Stace de Bruges
March 24, 2022 at 11:39 am
IF DUNE DOESN’T GET THE AWARD I’LL BE PISSED !
Alberto Seibeb
March 24, 2022 at 11:44 am
“kitchen sink’s worth” first time hearing such an unimpressive phrase
UK Constantin
March 24, 2022 at 11:46 am
So Kevin, did you hint that Dune is a clear winner, or do we still have to wait until the official announcement? 😁😉
murmurrrr
March 24, 2022 at 12:44 pm
Dune is done on such an insane level of art and perfection compared to the other nominees.
Mr Mestizo
March 24, 2022 at 12:44 pm
This clip just confirms my wish for Dune to receive the Oscar for best Visual Effects. Anybody else notice him saying “Jessica” instead of Rebecca Ferguson?
Dr Doom
March 24, 2022 at 2:34 pm
Eternals deserve to be in this list instead of Shang chi.
Darius Sale Petru
March 26, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Not Shang-Chi! Instead of Free Guy
Sofyan Nanda Fahrurrozi
March 24, 2022 at 2:53 pm
Nico Pueringer should talk about this..
Waldtraut Wald
March 24, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Lots of great nominees this year but come on, everybody wants Dune to win and everybody knows that it’s going to win. It’s not even a competition.
Jacob Raebiger
March 24, 2022 at 6:29 pm
Wired y’all are great and all but this is corridors job let’s not step on toes here
Simon Bauer
March 24, 2022 at 9:14 pm
dune >
Moritz Strohriegel
March 24, 2022 at 9:48 pm
dune is cool.
wheezebook
March 24, 2022 at 11:39 pm
still surprised eternals wasn’t nominated for visual effects
Darius Sale Petru
March 26, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Me too
JeskidoYT
March 25, 2022 at 2:08 am
Okay dune is gonna win we get it
9:50 huh, deep fake . That’s gonna be a pass for me guy
Luke Lee
March 25, 2022 at 3:01 am
Sounds like he worked on dune. 😅
Overly
March 25, 2022 at 3:08 am
corridor rip-off
TookEk
March 25, 2022 at 4:12 am
11:13 seamless? I wouldn’t go that far.
Adarsh PP
March 25, 2022 at 7:47 am
Dune was just boring.
Kirsten Stevenson
March 25, 2022 at 8:19 am
Her name is Rebecca Ferguson. Not Jessica Ferguson.
R.H.
March 25, 2022 at 11:32 am
DUNE has in the bag
Rui Francisco
March 25, 2022 at 12:05 pm
So, in a 12-min video, 5 are for Dune and 6 for the other four nominees.
It really tells you everything you should know about who deserves that Oscar
gabi
March 25, 2022 at 1:41 pm
imagine free guy wins. we would all be confused but it would be epic
C0d0ps
March 25, 2022 at 2:32 pm
Commenting for youtube algorithms3
Nicole
March 25, 2022 at 5:58 pm
“My video essay on why Dune should win the Oscar, with honorable mentions to other films.”
Chairman Meow
March 25, 2022 at 6:03 pm
the effects in dune completely blew my mind. Ive never seen anything like it.
Maria Pires
March 25, 2022 at 9:11 pm
Shang-Chi was so beautiful, visually
abidamn
March 26, 2022 at 11:18 am
06:22 It’s Rebecca Ferguson, not Jessica.
Funny enough, when I Googled Jessica Ferguson, it showed up Rebecca Ferguson as the result.
Paul Kyle
March 27, 2022 at 6:38 am
1) Rebecca plays lady Jessica
2) He later calls Rebecca Rebecca
so he got just a tiny bit confused
RICK SAGE
March 26, 2022 at 4:37 pm
Him wearing a sand shirt with pyramids shows you that dune deserves to win.
Salatyel F.
March 26, 2022 at 6:38 pm
“VFX Artist Breaks Down Oscar-Nominated CGI” or “Why Dune Deserves the Oscar for Best Visual/Special Effects”
kalaraja
March 26, 2022 at 10:14 pm
The spiderman CGI was bad
William Cade Foster
March 27, 2022 at 1:51 am
i started dying laughing when he talked all about how dune carefully planned out every single shot in the real world before going into post and then the best thing he could say about shang-chi is that they used real cars and people.
Frankie Cuellar
March 27, 2022 at 2:48 am
omg how is free guy on this list!???
JoshandErik
March 27, 2022 at 3:02 am
This video would have been much better if Kevin was on the couch with the crew.
Egan Yi
March 27, 2022 at 3:50 am
Jessica Ferguson
CarlosBeo
March 27, 2022 at 3:51 am
WTF is going on with humanitiy. We spend millions do get a minor serotonin hit. So stupid.
Abraham Ebuka
March 27, 2022 at 7:59 am
Dune has to win this award
1MrBryn
March 27, 2022 at 8:46 am
Everything else here really just looks cheap and unfinished when compared to Dune.
I enjoyed Shang Chi, but it was a pretty awful looking movie with white frankly terrible CGI.
Khalid Hasan Zibon
March 27, 2022 at 8:56 am
This is a feast to my eyes and mind! Dune was breathtaking!
AlexJCorona
March 27, 2022 at 9:18 am
If you like this video, you should check out Corridor Crew: VFX artists react
Bobbi Hansel
March 27, 2022 at 2:36 pm
This was great!
SirWrender
March 27, 2022 at 4:03 pm
What a great video! Excellent explanations of the reasoning by VFX choices!
Derek Arthur
March 27, 2022 at 11:13 pm
I was thinking of you guys the whole time I was watching this. Do you think they leaned more on rotoscoping, or Luma keys for the Dune tan screen effects?
Derek Arthur
March 27, 2022 at 11:13 pm
I was thinking of you guys the whole time I was watching this. Do you think they leaned more on rotoscoping, or Luma keys for the Dune “tan screen” effects?
Ruben Garcia
March 28, 2022 at 7:51 pm
Wren! Was hoping you were in the video but awesome 👌 and love your channel
matheus Santhiago
March 27, 2022 at 4:15 pm
yeah, yeah I know, Dune is great and most likely going to win
but can we take a minute to ponder how Shang-Chi is what a life action version of Avatar the last airbender should look like?
specially at 8:50 and 9:04
Darius Sale Petru
March 28, 2022 at 4:21 am
Best part in Shang-Chi vfx is the water not final battle
Kobra Editing
March 27, 2022 at 6:34 pm
Didn’t even have to watch this video or hear what the nominees were to know what the winner is going to be.
zZiL341yRj736
March 27, 2022 at 7:48 pm
They all sucked in visual.
Peter Trifunovic
March 27, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Jessica Ferguson?
tatesz
March 27, 2022 at 8:39 pm
I think CG makes a movie less real and more computer generated
Hey Nate
March 27, 2022 at 9:56 pm
I’m guessing Dune is gonna win, he talked about it more than the other films 🤣
Jonsen
March 27, 2022 at 11:12 pm
Non CGI is better, Chris Nolan my man
JonsenMidtun
March 27, 2022 at 11:12 pm
Non CGI is better, Chris Nolan my man
Hippocraticly
March 27, 2022 at 11:32 pm
Forgot to mention dune’s use of the 360 sand-screen, that was amazing
lilmil
March 27, 2022 at 11:35 pm
I always wanted a video breaking down the oscar nominees. This is better than the entire corridor crew channel
Alex Urban
March 28, 2022 at 12:39 am
I’m sorry but none of these films even come close to Dune. There was not a second where I was taken out of that world.
Muffin
March 28, 2022 at 4:08 am
tf?? will smith just slapped chris rock and the comments are all talking about dune?????
Andrew
March 28, 2022 at 4:55 am
Not a person in this comment section that doesn’t want to slap “wired” just like this.
Smitty Plays
March 28, 2022 at 4:59 am
How in the world is Godzilla Vs Kong not on here or even nominated?
Arun Rajeev
March 30, 2022 at 7:13 am
Lol, I still don’t understand how NWH got nominated instead of Godzilla V Kong.
Chren Sopheak
March 28, 2022 at 7:21 am
8:56 i don’t support when you said Shang Chi deserves to be on the list
Purefoldnz
March 28, 2022 at 7:43 am
Dune was the right pick to win.
Olle Selin
March 28, 2022 at 9:51 am
Can’t wait for how they will handle “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”
Akmal Danial
March 28, 2022 at 11:19 am
Did they change the thumbnail?
Joshua Moon
March 28, 2022 at 1:51 pm
I’ve seen so many more of these videos recently. Youtube really saw Corridor Digital popping off and just ran with it, huh?
Ian MacLellan
March 28, 2022 at 7:57 pm
Haven’t seen the Oscars, but it’s clear that Dune won
Stewart Fletcher
March 28, 2022 at 8:33 pm
Seeing Shang Chi play right after Dune is hilariously embarrassing. You can like that movie, I don’t care, but man those effects look like a joke compared to the immense beauty of Dune
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Kickback Theology
March 29, 2022 at 3:03 am
Corridor did it first
Warren Capes
March 29, 2022 at 2:35 pm
U get paid to promote dune?
Mustafa Berke Güreltöl
March 30, 2022 at 12:07 am
Bro even Doc Ock’s untextured CG stub model looks more like Doc Ock than Alfred Molina does…
xfloodcasual
March 30, 2022 at 2:23 am
So they won an oscar for changing a blue screen to beige?
914ThePro
March 30, 2022 at 6:17 am
i love dune even more after this video
Alexander Angelus
March 30, 2022 at 8:40 am
Love how he spends like 2 minutes talking about everything else and ten minutes on Dune 😂
KUZTOMIX
March 30, 2022 at 10:03 am
6:21 *Rebecca Atreides…
Ilan Penkower
March 30, 2022 at 10:17 am
get this man on VFX artists react rn 🙌
rdvgrd6
March 30, 2022 at 6:47 pm
Im glad marvel didn’t get anything
lator
March 30, 2022 at 6:56 pm
I could listen to this guy talk about VFX all day
RicoButtonPusher
March 30, 2022 at 8:23 pm
Oscar for stuntwork needs to happen. It’s long overdue
WizzelMay
March 30, 2022 at 10:14 pm
Take a shot every time he says “kitchen sink”
Bruce J
March 30, 2022 at 10:28 pm
nice intro Kevin
J Lit
March 30, 2022 at 11:58 pm
wow great job on the vid Nico, Wren, and Sam!