Thanks! I always appreciate it when you post things like this.

Nice Special Effects.

awesome man thenx a lot

very cool, great effects

Awesome!
I really like your posted (behind the scenes) videos

Wow great! its awesome!

that is awesome really cool effects!!

thanks for this Andrew

This was one of those movies where I thought that some of the visual effect work was amazing while others were almost video game quality. It seems like Digial Domain only had their hand in the good shots, because there were some like the sand, and the CG polar bear that were just terrible. I still havn’t figured out there rationalization of creating a poor CG polar bear instead of simply filming one, it doesn’t seem to difficult to me. Thats just my 2 cents though:)

Wow that was amazing

OMG Do you know how long I have been searching for this!!! This is one of my favorite company’s!

omg thats just amazing thanks andrew:P

Wow Nice Andrew Kramer

This is my favourite website, you’ve helped me so mcu

THANK YOU

Greetings Holland

awesome
really interesting to view behind those fx used in the movie…
I liked the GIJoe^^

Very cool thanks for sharing

Andrew you made the 3D model of starfleet symbol at the begining for the startrek movie right?

Thanks for sharing! It would be really cool with a tutorial showing how to build a scenery similar to the one they built around the eiffel tower.

Great Work with the Effects

More:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7VrW4vA3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5aQYbX3bU&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-bWqETd_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ3D4CqHbJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vda2RAEuW_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhYbVepwXi0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WBpNX7AL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pADLcr5LrE

i have a question… do they use after effects for these big movies? or what programs do they use

Hey this is amazing! check out the list of artists that will do the gnomon master classes this year, there is so much to learn! Andrew you should be part of that! http://www.gnomonschool.com/master/

Crazy! I always wonder how many terabytes of memory something like these scenes require, how vast are the render farms to process them and so on. I recall a couple of years ago reading about a madman who had created an animated film entirely in his home computer and his final render went on for literally month after month. He had a number of backup batteries to cover for any power interruptions. I couldn’t get over the notion of one mouse click and then walk away, you won’t see your finished product until spring and what if you see it and realize something needs to be changed lol. Very cool stuff Andrew, thanks!

I still got a lot to learn from you MASTER

good stuff thanx for sharing

Andrew Im out of condoms. Is sandwich bag ok to use?

Thanks from Iowa

Hi!
I really like it when you post things like this in the blog. It gives us readers more insight in the buisness and you can show us what you get inspiration from.

I have suggestion that would really make this site exeptionally good; I would love to see you teaching us in how to plan a shot, set up the scene, perform it (equipment and things to remember) and THEN how to edit it in After Effects. I want to learn how i can make my shots better, and how to adapt the editing to MY scene.

An examlpe would be to take a normal camcorder with you when you plan and shoot the scenes for the tutorial. As your videoblog gets better you can start learning us tips and tricks not only in editing but in the filming-process. Just upload a video to the blog or put it in a tutorial.

This is just a request that i would like to see in the future.. I can see that you are really busy at times, so this may be too much. But thanks anyway. Keep up the good work!

Greetings from Norway! (22nd )

We love this kind of posts on your blog Andrew, thanks so much!

This is awesome!!!!….unlike the movie! awesome effects can’t just be the only good thing about the movie. the plot sucked. oh well, all i can say is the effects were amazing!

I’ve been inside this building! It’s awesome.

WOW! Very awesome. Love the behind the scenes stuff.

That was really cool and shows us all just how much work has to be put in to make great effects.. I wonder how much coffee is consumed.. and donuts, jelly filled delicious doughnuts…..

*runs away to get a doughnut*

Thanks!

nice, thanks for posting this fantastic find Andrew.

Awesome video! Thanks man!

I always wanted to know about this :O!

The short overhead clip of the Eiffel Tower at the end looks like it could be done using:

1. Camera mapping for everything other than the Eiffel Tower (In fact I believe, given the last part of the video, this is exactly how they did it).
2. The Tower in 3dsMax (Yikes! Even procedurally it’s got to be a nightmare to model!).
3. Combined motion control between Max and AE (I know you can do this but I have never had a project requiring this. Knock on wood.)

unreal. I knew it was effects heavy but to be in total control of recreating scenes… and doing it well. Great post, thank you for the inspiration and inside peak.

Very nice post Andrew!!!! Always love to see what the industry is up to.

@ Daniel They did say that the particle system was houdini which is a node based compositor. Most High end industry studios use node based systems not layer based as after effects is. For more information on those creativecow.net has some good posts.

that was pretty cool…. I hope to see a tutorial on this one pretty soon. LOL

Ya, that’s amazing!!! I wish I was that good at 3d Animation!

I haven’t watched the hyper left wing movie, but the clip that I did see… I gotta say that with their awesome knowledge about VFX, they completely messed up a shot. When one of the Joe’s or maybe two, jump through the bus that is going perpendicular, inertia and simple physics was not accounted for at all. I noticed the front Joe crash through the left bus window (right window in the shot; I know…confusing.), and exiting the adjacent right bus window. Even a bullet wouldn’t be fast enough to crash through the adjacent window. OOPS! Great FX, hands down, but common, you make a movie like that, you don’t have to have a mathematician to figure that out. Just hire me! I win a T-shirt.

awesome post!
Digital Domain uses a node based compositor called “nuke”.
I tried nuke last month on linux pc.
it is truely awesome and very fast.
but you know what, I didn’t find the “TIMELINE”
Well for an after effect user like me is a little difficult
to grab.

Andrew, you could make it much better !!!!

Cool video Andrew,That chopper at the end looks like the one you posted before showing the real one and the cgi you made.Hmmmm?

Veeeeery nice!!!!

Green-screen plates if any one is needs/wants/has-to-have!

http://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/greenscreenplates.html

X the is

sorry!

Amen .Bro.Bill and Sevis

:/ Stunned + blown away

Thanks very much Sir…

Digital Domain is and always has been one of my favorite VFX houses. And each time they do some more work for a feature film, i get reminded of WHY they are.

I loved the Eiffel-Tower and the Digital Environment-stuff…

Awesome.

I think, these tasks would have been a lot tougher, if not impossible, without using NUKE.

Oh, and @abhay sharma:

The Timeline in Nuke is directly under the Viewer =)

@abhay sharma Nuke is a Node Based working environment.. and a bit difficult to get used to

btw Andrew … Awesome as always…!!!

Go here http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php/vfx-breakdowns.html

to see a lot of vfx breakdown…

The street chase scene!
Was that 3d projection or is it my idea???
Awsome!

Looking forward to see a Tutorial for the Environment-Scene at the End of the Video!

If only G.I. Joe was worth a penny as a storyline or if it had anything original at all..
Id probably like this review..
Anyway, Im an animator, but also a viewer, so I must say, the FX are mind-blowing and sadly, they are the only thing that looks good in the entire movie
Thanx for sharing it with us, Andrew, I always love to see some behind-the-scenes action

thanks It’s grate

cool stuff, thanks vcp.

I wasnt going to see this movie at all, but now I will just for the effects.

WOW…i can’t believe DD did the effects for GI Joe…..personally….i thought alot of the effects in the movie were…….BAD!….maybe they just did the money shots….like the GI JOE plane…awful! Me and the company i work at went to go see it …we were very disappointed.
i saw alot of green on the rotoshots as well….and the chase scene with the delta suits….maybe the animators didn’t study physics…just wasn’t believable….anyway..thats my rant for the day….but i do love all the info you provide on this site…i check it everyday…keep it up….and where do i get my hands on a Video Copilot T-shirt?

Nice.
Digital Domain is really good!
But my favourite is ILM.

The movie was quite crappy, but the effects were just amazing!

I loved the end of the video when they stopped the footage and showed each layer of the CGI process as it was added. That is always fun to see.

i love CGI Process thanks

Best site ever for courses on tracking and visual effects with tons of free HD tracking plates, footage, and much more for exercises:

http://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/greenscreenplates.html

Amazing! Thank you, AK!

Greetings from Argentina.

I just can’t believe how they do those special effects, they look so real. Especially the Eiffel Tower scene.

It’s kind of tragic when you think about the tremendous amount of work that goes into the effects of a movie like this, and then the finished movie ends up being a shitty and forgettable summer popcorn flick.

Honestly I wasn’t really too impressed with the SE in GIJOE.

Nack, me too.

After seeing MATRIX, nothing impress me.

omg.look how much creativity you have to have to do what they do!it’s so hard and complicated!

Man, I just watched TODAY an here in Brazil (Pixel Show) event where the creative director of Digital Domain speech. Those guys are just awesome.

This is exactly why this website is so awesome, cause of Andrews amazing enthusiasm in share anything of interest with… I love this place…

Thanks man, fantastic link…

Iuliu i agree wid u 100%

@daniel they most likely use flame and maya bro.

Why don’t you do a behind the scenes of VideoCoPilot.net?

Ahh crap… Can’t see the video on iPod touch..

Will chxk it out soon!!

I haven’t seen the movie, but remember thinking the trailer gfx didn’t look believable, same with the scenes in this behind-the-scenes montage. Very impressive work, but something always just looks unbelievable. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I see it in HD.

you should really make some FX from gi joe yourself andrew and tutorials

Woah, that is so inspiring! It must have taken so much time and effort to make all those details the way they wanted it to be.. I just have to admire those who have done it, maybe someday some of us might be doing stuff like that in movies, who knows? :> great post!

o my god this is my best thank u dear andrew

wow, that movie is completely a special effect movie.
Nice, thank you.

Nice Special Effects.
thx for posting it

Warf …
dream at all in this forum I think …

So awesome. I did not realize that a lot of the scenes in the movie involved greenscreen and not cgi.

i whatched yesterday and in some of airplanes aren’t so amazing ,, they somewhere havent played whith the light corectly i think transformer 2 first half was better interects with the world

Andrew could never do such effects ;P.

What good is a effect shot without a good story?

GIJoe was really upsetting. On the other hand, TERMINATOR SALVATION kick ass job with good story.

Hari

this makes me wonder. have you done vfx for any movies?? if so which ones??….

oh well… in this case the sentence “we’ll fix that in post” is very relevant xD
but amazing CGI work!

Each time I see how movies are done, I’m always impress! Can’t believed how much work and and problems that they need to resolve to get it done!

Like your post Andrew!

Hey Andrew, Happy Canadian Thanksgiving.

GI Joe looks VFX don’t look very good.

wow!!!!
it’s beautiful.
good job!

Thanks for Sharing AK!!

very cool!
I really like your posted (behind the scenes) videos

Agent2018,

If you are questioning me. I have produced two movies. One got sold to FOX international and its currently playing in Showtime channel which was shot on super 35mm. The other in post production a scifi genre shot on RED. I am working as digital compostior on Fusion and Aftereffects in addition to producign and investing int he project. So if you want more details i can give you so you can check it out. Both are independent productions. So it is tough to make a low budget movie within the budget.

I know how much work it takes to get movies done especially visual effects oriented movie. At the end of the day the movie should be interesting for the audience with a good story. There is no good in making a movie without a good story.

As a vfx artist you can careless about the story becuase you want to get a job becuase it pays your bills.

Its irrelavant to talk and explain about this here. Becuase this is basically a place to learn the skills of VFX. Which i am greatful for Andrew for helping us to understand the inner workings of how much time it takes to get a job done and how tough it is.

Best,
Hari

Very exciting stuff!! Makes me want to quit my day job and rotoscope frames all day! xD

thanks man
http://www.moving-picture.com for more stuff

Go JOE…. Go Kramer…..

Watch… please rate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfX-HHzfzMs

Okay I have to see this movie!!!!

How about a tutorial regarding Rigid Body Dynamics and prodedural modeling in Houdini? Anybody here familiar with Voxels (pixels with volumetric data)? Any good Houdini resources? odforce.net is the only one i know.

thank andrew that’s so awesome

@ Hari

I think Agent2018 was querying if AK had done any cinema VFX as he is wondering if there is reason to Andrews posting of VFX breakdowns.

In any case, can you link to your work? Would be interested in checking it out.

That’s just my guess anyhow, maybe he WAS dissing on you

wow.. that gi joe bts vid was awesome

cg channel has just knocked redtube of the number one spot for my top 10 sites JK he he

PS HARI

Man I walked out of Terminator, glad you liked it, I would have rather had sat on a chair and watched myself burn in the mirror. Im a big fan of cheese, GI JOE all the way for me, entertaining story and awesome graphics!

Let down of the century!!! Superman returns!! Shame on Bryan Singer.. it should have gone to BAY & Spielberg!

Hari, do you have a link to your Work?

Its amazing and also sad. Seeing such talented people put such hard work into a cheesy worthless film like GI JOE.

it’s probably not worthless when they’re at the bank cashing their checks.

wow, this is great i always like to watch movies like this..thanks for posting..its very amazing

I Agree with Rimington. These shots were awesome but some other like the desert scene looked really unrealistic, and even more unrealistic when watching it in HD…

Wow! amazing visual effects in gi joe! thanks for sharing! greetings from Brazil

GHOSTIMAGE is the name of the movie. I feel terrible this is Andrews site and thread I am not supposed to promote my work in his place.

Hari

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I did not believe a single shot…The computer work is visible everywhere. And I think they are not supposed to be visible.
I know as a VFX artist you should go for what “looks good” instead of what looks “real”. But this is far away from being believable.
Game aesthetics in a movie. Not the best thing to do…

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