VFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi

Corridor Crew · 6.7M views · 2021-11-13 · 21:41

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Corridor Crew VFX artists react to the visual effects of the 2021 Dune and compare them with David Lynch's 1984 version. They discuss which effects were practical and which were CGI.

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HN commenters cite it in debates about practical effects versus CGI, as a fun comparison of old and new Dune.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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Animation & visual effects Film analysis & criticism

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tedunangst · 2023-09 · Recommendation
If you like this, I like corridor crew on YouTube. Here's one discussing how effects in Dune, old and new, were done, some of which were pretty surprising. [VIDEO]
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michaelbuckbee · 2022-02 · Recommendation
So much of this is just how _much_ work had to be done to get practical effects to work, and how practical and CGI are often good for different things. For an insane example of this checkout this video of how they did the ship landing in the original Dune movie (of which step 1 was "rent a stadium"). [VIDEO] Also, I think there's a very selective bias against CGI where when it looks _real_ we just assume it's real and don't notice so we're only criticizing the portion where it failed to live up to reality.
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shagie · 2022-02 · Recommendation
Another series that I've enjoyed watching is the Corridor Crew. Their take on Dune (both versions) is [VIDEO]
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