I Can’t Believe How Much Of Mad Max: Fury Road Isn’t CGI

8 responses to “I Can’t Believe How Much Of Mad Max: Fury Road Isn’t CGI”

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   ladygrace

   September 12, 2016 at 1:31 pm

   How about you link the 30 minute behinds the scenes as well? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKAHGwCyamc

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   slyph

   September 12, 2016 at 2:35 pm

   It makes me proud to be Australian, frankly.

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   pokedad

   September 12, 2016 at 2:52 pm

   The practical stunts were just mind blowing. Best movie of 2015.

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   nazrat

   September 12, 2016 at 2:58 pm

   Very disingenuous description and frankly disrespectful to all my mates in VFX who worked on that film. They shot a tremendous amount of fantastic real footage, but created an equal amount digitally and worked every single shot. They did such a great job you don’t notice/don’t realise its cg.
   Iloura breakdown
   
   Fantastic breakdown on why great cg isn’t noticed
   

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      mattroe

      September 12, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      Agreed. Didn’t have the privilege of working on Fury Road but have worked on other VFX-heavy films (yes, despite what you hear, Fury Road was definitely a VFX-heavy film) and it frustrates me how people claim that CGI and VFX are ruining cinema while completely falling for, without exaggeration, 99% of digital effects.

      VFX is every bit the craft that SFX is and just as much love, care and ingenuity goes into it, but for whatever reason, SFX is highly regarded and VFX is considered a cheap cop out. Annoys me, especially considering that there are some big name VFX vendors and a growing VFX industry here in Australia.

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      morphole

      September 13, 2016 at 9:51 am

      Came here to say exactly the same, nothing gets me more angry than filmmakers who rely so heavily on the sweat of FX artists touting how much they do things “for real”.

      Well… actually that’s not true. People who say VFX has ruined movies and how they’re the “easy way” to do things, disgusting disrespect for the amount of hard work and talent that goes into them.

      Good on you for the links, glad to see people get the recognition they deserve (make no mistake the VFX work on Mad Max nearly killed a lot of people long after the stunts were over)

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   anderi

   September 13, 2016 at 9:44 pm

   I like how it’s now called “Practical Effects”. When, right up until the ’90s it was just “Special Effects”.

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   poobleton

   September 14, 2016 at 4:11 pm

   Can we just appreciate the stuntmen GODDAMN GOING AT LEAST AT 60K/PH HANGING ON THESE POLES THAT WOBBLE BACK AND FORTH ABOVE THE GROUND

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