Me: submits dissertation for VFX degree and hops on KZread to forget about it VOX: *Shiny Ball*

@pleaseboi3410

3 жыл бұрын

Yay!

@kaviyandeena5158

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!

@KESTRAL23

3 жыл бұрын

pumped up kicks

@isaiahsaul1769

3 жыл бұрын

Decides to switch video and sees you commented on the hai video I clicked on... well this is awkward

@LannasMissingLink

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh im still writing mine...

"I've been in the industry for 17 years" Dude looks about 25

@ddlakes

3 жыл бұрын

Dude looks like young lean

@annamienam

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he’s been searching since he was 8 you got a problem with that

@Saffrati

3 жыл бұрын

James Harden without the beard

@wanjevi

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahh nice one

@SnailHatan

3 жыл бұрын

@@annamienam Searching? What were you trying to say? Your comment makes no sense

Sometimes I forgot how hands on, creative, and difficult jobs like VFX are. I almost always think of them as sitting at a computer but they do so much more than that

@waywardmind

3 жыл бұрын

If you haven't already, you should check out Corridor Crew channel. They do a ton of VFX work themselves, and they have a series called VFX Artists React that is excellent.

@lizzyol

3 жыл бұрын

@@waywardmind lol literally came here to say that

@SioGG

3 жыл бұрын

@@waywardmind I'm so glad they started that series, now I have an actual reason to tell people about Corridor

@rodom303

3 жыл бұрын

You’ve never watched vfx artist react?

@EthanFilms

3 жыл бұрын

@@waywardmind yooo that show rocks! Been a corridor fan since like, 2010 around when I first discovered freddiew

ah yes the holy ball of the visual effect artists

@pshindigamingmobilegamer2609

3 жыл бұрын

For $20.99

@Parras...

3 жыл бұрын

@ps. Bruh😂😂

@samuraiboi2735

3 жыл бұрын

@@pshindigamingmobilegamer2609 for 4 dollars from a scammer.Pls buy my ball🤣

@Andromeda1612

3 жыл бұрын

@@pshindigamingmobilegamer2609 ⁶m b know that k) is E

@javonteanthony7956

3 жыл бұрын

Why is in on a call with a black person

What normal people think of VFX: Green screen VFX artists: Cheap Shiny Ball

@HelgaCavoli

3 жыл бұрын

That's just the execution. Stuff is all around us, but not everyone sees things (and apply into problems).

@777Mikos

3 жыл бұрын

VFX artist: Google search for something that looks close

@samuraiboi2735

3 жыл бұрын

Pls buy my cheap shiny ball from a scammer pls🥺

@TheGenSmit

3 жыл бұрын

Hey the Grey ball is just as important!

@qu765

3 жыл бұрын

they equally important. But usually Green screens are used to do things quick ,with a big budget you can get people to manually mask stuff out

With production values like this, this is just an honorary Captain Disillusion video

@hectoralejandrotorrespopoc9232

3 жыл бұрын

And an honorary Tom Scott video uwu

@DinoBoiRex

3 жыл бұрын

it's fun stuff to watch

@PhilEdwardsInc

3 жыл бұрын

If only I knew how to use Blender instead of C4D....maybe Captain D's intern Alan can teach me someday.

@teknopoju

3 жыл бұрын

Corridor digital ;)

Video: *about a VFX secret* Me: "Haha wide Spiderman"

@trays1503

3 жыл бұрын

Timestap?

@Klrfl101

3 жыл бұрын

@@trays1503 thumbnail

@atticusv668

3 жыл бұрын

Widerman

@blobman1238

3 жыл бұрын

@@atticusv668 loll xD

Why am I watching this video explaining what an hdri is. I'M A CG ARTIST, I AM USING ONE RIGHT NOW.

@albertdedeaux8921

3 жыл бұрын

Ok we get it youre an "artist",stop bragging

@Mikaelj

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha me too, i took some hdri in the weekend. but its funny see how non vfx people explain our stuff 😆😆

@HelgaCavoli

3 жыл бұрын

'Cos it's a well done video. Also, you're checking if they got stuff right.

@aronsalamon4490

3 жыл бұрын

hdri haven

@crionidel

3 жыл бұрын

@@albertdedeaux8921 sorry coach, i'll do better next time i swear

This is I love watching Vox, I learn things I didn't think I would ever want to know.

@kilmersklassiskakanal

3 жыл бұрын

So true!

@localwillow9948

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing I don’t like about vox is their politics videos but I like everything else.

@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012

3 жыл бұрын

They would be my favorite channel if they didn't make political videos

@maugb17

3 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@patricktsai2303

3 жыл бұрын

I learn more things from Vox than school

Thanks for posting this! I was the VFX Wrangler on set for the most recent season of American Gods and I used that ridiculous ball EVERY DAY. Definitely my secret weapon 👌

@rylanlucyk6931

3 жыл бұрын

do you know which software they used to import the hdr mirror ball data into the rendering? I have a theta 360 and I would like to start rending with it. Thank you

@mangomanftw5538

3 жыл бұрын

@@rylanlucyk6931 hahahaha he'll have to google that 😂😂

@LannasMissingLink

3 жыл бұрын

@@rylanlucyk6931 ptgui is the best software for stitching a hdri together. Then photoshop to blend the exposures together and to clone stamp stuff out (like the tripod or colour checker)

@Langwidere903

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness the VFX have been phenomenal so far these first 3 episodes! Great job!

As someone who's having to work on a scene without an HDRI this video hits hard

@LannasMissingLink

3 жыл бұрын

Oof... i dont envy you

@-Burb

3 жыл бұрын

Dang that sounds tedious. I know next to nothing about any VFX stuff, so I’m just curious: why aren’t you able to use an HDRi for your specific project? I would’ve assumed they could be used as a starting point for lights on any set.

@briankloc

3 жыл бұрын

@@-Burb sometimes they don’t shoot HDRIs on set for a take or forget to capture a lighting setup. It’s not that they can’t use HDRI, it’s probably that one is not available from the shoot.

@LannasMissingLink

3 жыл бұрын

@@-Burb you cant just use any hdri cause it wouldnt be the same lighting that was on set. Vfx only works if you can integrate the cg perfectly, so you cant tell whats cg and whats real. That doesnt work if the lighting of the cg object doesnt match the live action plate

@-Burb

3 жыл бұрын

Ah I see. Thanks to both of you for explaining! :D

I was just writing about HDRI's for my thesis, then this video popped up in my subscriptions. The coincidence scared me. :)

@yunanda

3 жыл бұрын

Your phone hears you

@mukuldev9199

3 жыл бұрын

This usually happens with me too

@egodreas

3 жыл бұрын

Just make sure you don't actually use anything from this video in your thesis, or you're quite likely to get an F. The guy doesn't really know what he's talking about :-)

@kimisaacbuelagala1314

3 жыл бұрын

@@egodreas what are the wrong information here?

@egodreas

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimisaacbuelagala1314 While there are a few things that are outright wrong, it's mostly a case of incomplete and confused information. For instance, HDR images does in no way require a chrome ball (which the on-set VFX crew would refer to as a "light probe"). The chrome ball is just one of many ways of capturing a panoramic image of the scene (technically referred to as an "environment map"). Although we generally do want our environment maps to also be HDR, those are technically two completely independent concepts, and conflating them the way he does in the video just makes for a confusing explanation. Also, he never explains what HDRIs actually are. What he is talking about instead is "tone mapping", which is a random example of something one can use high dynamic images for, but doesn't really say anything about HDRIs themselves. In fact, tone mapping is something we definitely will never want to do on an HDR environment map, so it's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

I can’t imagine how a VFX artist must feel having to edit out non actors from the shots “Is that an actor or a guys wearing a long red coat?”

The spider man in the cover reminds me of wide Putin

@arfan_hafiz

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, I see you're a man of culture.....

@techmad8204

3 жыл бұрын

wide Putin!

@alti2b

3 жыл бұрын

W I D E P U T I N

@clint5406

3 жыл бұрын

Or Ben Swolo

@antoniasalinas513

3 жыл бұрын

Wide Parker Walking but he's always in frame

1991: In 30 years, we’ll probably have flying cars. 2021: Shiny Mirror Ball

@localwillow9948

3 жыл бұрын

Planes are essentially flying cars. Both fly, both have wheels, both use fuel.

@zami5534

3 жыл бұрын

@@localwillow9948 ok so i will drive my plane in a highway.

@vinujabandara1566

3 жыл бұрын

@@zami5534 there is an actual flying car it functions like plane with extendable wings.

@zami5534

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinujabandara1566 wow, is it a prototype or can you actually buy it publicly?

@vinujabandara1566

3 жыл бұрын

@@zami5534 it’s not technically public but you can preorder it I think and when they start production you can get one.

When I was at ILM, we use a fisheye lens and a Nodal tripod to shoot multi bracketed photos and then stitched together using PTGui. When I was learning about VFX, I also bought a gazing ball and experimented with it. With a relatively affordable 360 camera like the OneX, I don't have to go through the steps of setting up the large DSLR with a heavy FishEye lens and shooting all the shots. I can easily take a 360 HDRI image remotely with my phone. I am now seeing a lot of multi sensor ball camera systems coming out of Shen Zhen and Hong Kong, China, these devices can take massive gigapixel high resolution 360 HDR photos with just a single click on your phone. Taking 360 photos have never been easier.

I feel like Vox has just been watching corridor crew and analysing their comments and techniques!

@SirWrender

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with that ;)

@jjgunt

3 жыл бұрын

@@SirWrender do you guys ever work with the reflective ball or do you take Panoramas/360°- Camera images?

@SirWrender

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjgunt We composite a bunch of 360 images into a single HDRI image for our reflections

Some KZreadrs: Excessive spend on lighting, camera, and editing VFX artists: BEHOLD MY SHINY BALL!

@MrRoboticeyes

3 жыл бұрын

@@cottonballs185 wrong, 'bad' VFX is the one that has manufactured look and not going to fool adult, 'good' VFX however are already fooling you without you even knowing it's there.

@Bluestroke_

3 жыл бұрын

Bold of you to asume cinema doesnt spend tons in lighting camera and editing 😔

@haziq3636

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bluestroke_ No i didn't. If anything i'm just making fun of certain youtubers who overspent their money on unnecessary things without improving their content 😅

@Colourisedspoon

3 жыл бұрын

@@cottonballs185 then you have not seen any worthy animation and renderings yet

@Alex-kh8zj

3 жыл бұрын

@@cottonballs185 obviously movies aren't going to make vfx better than needed

I now understand the importance of that teapot object and sphere ball in 3D's Max. 😅

@KawaiiCat2

3 жыл бұрын

Lol haha I always wondered why it was in Maya. Now I know

And to think of just how good VFX are getting, I never thought it’s a whole art form

@XxamorOo

3 жыл бұрын

VFX is at its very best when it's unnoticeable, so that's why most of the time vfx artists are inappreciated when they do a good job

Only here to say 1 thing: *W I D E S P I D E R M A N*

@FrattaTV

3 жыл бұрын

Why I see the W and N larger than ide spiderma?

@dixie_rekd9601

3 жыл бұрын

widerman.

@ryxnpierce

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrattaTV you got seeing problems?

6:54, Of course a guy obsessed with light will choose Impressionism

Vibes that i got from the thumbnail : "Mom i peed the bed again"

So that’s why the mandalorian looks so beautiful. He’s a big shiny hooman

@garuttinho

3 жыл бұрын

the mandalorian actually uses LED pannels instead of green screens, that's why

I just realized that I didn't actually understand HDR. My sun photos will be better now 😄😂

This reminded me of that scam called "Fushigi" for some reason.

@donnymcjonny6531

3 жыл бұрын

Contact juggling is real and can be super interesting, Fushigi just never told people it would take years to get decent at it.

6:20 HDRI Haven! Most HDRI repositories are really expensive (because taking and processing these HDRI paronamas is _really_ tedious and itself expensive in the first place), while HDRI Haven instead releases everything they take into the public domain (via the CC0 license) and relies on donation.

@cruzefx3652

3 жыл бұрын

We aren't deserving of HDRI Haven

@roofoofighter

2 жыл бұрын

It’s now Poly Haven

I love this. Thank you Vox.

Upvoted just for HDRI Haven... It's the lifesaver!

Me: green screen Vox: ball that cost 20 bucks

@pshindigamingmobilegamer2609

3 жыл бұрын

That is not secret

@SentinelSeptim

3 жыл бұрын

This is gonna be an r/woosh comment but they play different roles. Green screens for importing CG/outside media and the chrome ball for imitating a light source to better make the object/scene believable.

If I sit down think for million years..... I wouldn't have thought about that shiny ball

I do this digitally for video games! Capturing a digital environment’s shadows and lighting

This is hella dope. No more needs to be said.

This guy looks like he’s 12 and 55 at the same time.

Thank you Vox 🙏... Another great video 📹

As someone who does professional architectural renderings, I too love my mirror ball :) thanks for making this!

Noobies: Adding VFX in film is not my cup of tea. *VFX artists: Hold my tea pot.*

@gonderage

3 жыл бұрын

blender vfx artists: hold my monke

@AVeraFluidProject

3 жыл бұрын

@@gonderage a blender user will always appear when least expected.

@XxamorOo

3 жыл бұрын

As a 3ds max user, i approve of the tea pot

I watched the whole video but I still feel clueless.

This video is so high quality, cant deny it.

Thanks Vox for constantly enlightening me on subjects I’ve never even thought about ?

The slack notification at 7:00 got me😁

@doctordothraki4378

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if anyone else commented this

00:27 Phil Edwards is a GARY OLDMAN doppelgangar

The amount of times I've spent hours trying to manually light a scene and have it look nice, only to plop an hdri in and instantly it looks amazing XD. HDRI Haven is a godsend!

@thisdanguy

3 жыл бұрын

The fact that it's available for free amazes me

Mind Blown. .. Wow! Thank you!!

more of random things like this that i never knew i needed lol

VFX is a wonderful field, it's a beautiful culmination of science, engineering and art, it's amazing how innovations in computer vision and Artificial intelligence are turned around info beautiful masterpieces in the form of cinematic art.

@alystdesign

3 жыл бұрын

agreed. despite what people think there's science in this kinds of things

@ishandubey4767

3 жыл бұрын

@@alystdesign indeed there's cutting edge research that goes into it, most of the big studio productions have their own R&D centres, with highly qualified scientist and researchers.

I really like these episodes about film making.

awesome vibes ! love the Degas answer about obsession ;)) cheerz to Leo Bovell at Tryptyc studio !

that thumbnail tho

@jyto87yo987

3 жыл бұрын

haha wide spidermnan

Bruh it's a ball he bought for $20.99

@superkobster

3 жыл бұрын

no, its a key to making virtual objects look real

@olik1905

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh Bruh Bruh

@zonzaykay

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh Bruh Bruh

@watchdealer11

3 жыл бұрын

@@olik1905 bruh

@srirachanoodles6914

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh

I was there that day they shot for Handmaid’s Tale, it was really cool to see what the edited product turned out to be.

Fantastic episode!! Thanks for sharing this.

This is new to me

@davidtran3053

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, The Great Ray Mak has arrived

@vancisgd

3 жыл бұрын

hi ray mak 😊

@danksbrother

3 жыл бұрын

Hi ray

@angeloiturriaga1327

3 жыл бұрын

Yo

@paulwebb2078

3 жыл бұрын

You are everywhere

Just relax and watch

Awesome work Vox Team!

This is one of the most fascinating videos I’ve seen in a long time! 🤩🙌🔥

As a 3D artist, let me tell you that HDRI haven (6:44) is Gods gift unto mankind.

@diablolaggo870

3 жыл бұрын

Frickin true

How far we've come in twenty years. I can't wait for technology to advance further, and one day we'll get to live in VR worlds like star-trek instead of being confined to our tiny apartments.

FINALLY SOMEONE SPEAKS ON THIS

We also use these for reflection textures in 3D modelling for video games as well!

Video editors : Aaaaah, Video editing is soo tough, I guess how tough doing VFX work might be Meanwhile VFX guys : *Shiny Ball go brrrrrrrrr*

I saw that scene from The Handmaid's Tale

Vfx artist always had a ball of steel, to not sleep during deadline

3 yrs since seeing this HDR option on phone. Got to know about it today. You are welcome to see my birthday party videos.

I thought this was another video about Tobey Maguire and spiderman multiverse😂😂

Last time I was this early government was actualy doing stuff and compromising

@spencerhall4953

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody asked

@jacklai8933

3 жыл бұрын

@@spencerhall4953 no one asked for any of these comments, yet they still expect to see one.

chrome ball the hero of all.

Hey Vox, this is good! Thank you

I already saw this shinny ball in Chronicles of Narnia B.T.S.

I remember in highschool learning how to make HDR photos manually by stitching either digital photos or scanning and stitching physical photos on the computer. Now our phones do HDR. What a waste of a course lol

@secretscarlet8249

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, learning about the basics will help you in the long run.

@TriadAgone

2 жыл бұрын

@@secretscarlet8249 meh tbh it's like teaching someone to use an abacus unnecessarily

Mine sure is. They will love it.

Finally understood what HDR is

Thumbnail for this video: *exists* *song for Denise starts playing*

@wwkiam3795

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

Hi everyone! :D I hope you stay safe and have a nice day, God bless you!

That was fascinating and I have never heard of this at all!

I always knew that the shiny ball was special.

I was wondering why There was barely any comments Turns out This just came out-

@danielsteger8456

3 жыл бұрын

whoah dude no way

@Clover-lx8mh

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielsteger8456 🐝

It's cool how the Mandalorian set technology is slowly replacing this tool.

Very informative! Thanks sharing! Makes the vfx world easier to understand 👍

Love this

They’re all secretly magpies

Anyone else here the slack notification at 6:59?

I love your DeLorean!

Let's take a moment to appreciate the bit at the start dedicated to the box

Something's off here. Yeah. "Offred".

never been this early

@nautikient2151

3 жыл бұрын

We don't care

@bedwarscrypt

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I didn't ask you. And "we" more like "you"

@EndyMX

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares

@bedwarscrypt

3 жыл бұрын

@@EndyMX didnt you just see what i replied?

@EndyMX

3 жыл бұрын

NOBODY.

Great job. Videos like this would be great to have, when I began learning 3d. Here is a tiny story about what amazes me with this technique: What I found very interesting is, that you can get nearly 360 degree dome out of the chrome ball. At one shoot, I was hiding behind the chrome ball, when we took the hdri. I wasn't visible at all! And once unwrapped, you could see my arms and t-shirt clearly and they had an influence on lighting! That would be amazing to show in another video!

This has been there in video games for decades

17 years? What was he like 4 when he started?

Me thinking the whole time, why not just use a 360° camera... 2 minutes later: ....or use a 360° camera🙂

@NomTom

3 жыл бұрын

well a chrome ball is cheaper

@bhuvaneshkrishna8474

3 жыл бұрын

@@NomTom sure is

@MarkusLeist

3 жыл бұрын

@@NomTom I think it's one of the most expensive methods. A chrome ball is just a chrome ball. You need a proper camera, a lens and software to stitch the HDRI manually. Especially this manual process is quite labour intensive and therefore costly. No matter if you are a hobby 3D artist or a production company - it is quite probably more expensive to go the chromeball route than to buy a 360 camera and have an HDRI in minutes.

@ZalvaTionZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkusLeist Just saying that if you are a hobbist in stuff like this you might have a decent camera anyway so just adding chrome ball and time is cheaper.

I also like the shiny ball very much

Fascinating

6:59 that notification tho...probably slack?

5:15 the difference between that and the next one is so much that lighting is the last thing that makes it unrealistic. The first one moves with the camera and has no shadow. The next one has a shadow and the camera is on a tripod. The difference between the 2 was probably so little that you intentionally exaggurated the difference by changing other stuff than lighting

_Cut for them is like action for you_ 01:10 Probably the most underrated statement❤️

This is great!

No of people checking comments without watching full videos. 👇

@arnabpatnaik

3 жыл бұрын

Stop commenting for likes

@lachyhacking8330

3 жыл бұрын

No one cars bout yo comment

17 years in VFX and still using a 1.3 MP webcam... smh

@cityuser

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think he's modelling himself xD

@Braham_the_Terror

3 жыл бұрын

You say that as if he uses that camera at work...even chefs like to eat instant noodles at home.

@shize9ine

3 жыл бұрын

@@Braham_the_Terror I meant more like if you're a professional in a particular industry, you own or use professional tools. Even though chefs eat instant noodles, they still own a stainless pot.

Loved it!

Finally someone made this covered