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    Image of carrick149 carrick149
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    The music is rods and cones by blue man group (slightly edited) in case anyone is interested.
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    Image of MePerson MePerson
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    You can't possibly leave out 2012 - just look at the trailer!
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    Image of TatsuFX TatsuFX
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    I'm seriously amazed at the comments this video elicits. A friend working in visual effects, made this to show to a classroom full of 5th graders before talking a little bit about working in the industry. Nowhere, anywhere does it say that this is a definitive list of visual effects films, nor does it claim they are the most influential films from the past century. I had assumed when it showed up on Giz that the comments would be slightly more enlightened than those on Youtube. Imagine my dismay. Anyway, go read the notes from the guy who posted it on youtube: "...a collection of clips and making-of footage from notable visual effects films of the past century..." That's it.
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    ScottRose promoted this comment TatsuFX was starred TatsuFX was unstarred
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    08/28/09

    @TatsuFX: No one's yelling "first" or posting ROLFCOPTERS (or whatever it is that the kids on YouTube are doing nowadays). Though perhaps those comments have since been removed by the mods here.

    The commenters were just responding to the author's question:

    "Did your favorite visual effect get left out?"

    Obviously that's going to start people talking about what "should have been" in the video. Sorry you're dismayed by that.

    Personally I thought the clip had a great flow, and fit to the soundtrack really well. The target demo does explain why there was a drop in the music track to the vocals from Roger Rabbit.

    To answer the author: The Matrix, definitely. Also, the original Star Trek (which is boring as hell, but had some great effects for its day).
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    Image of TatsuFX TatsuFX
    08/28/09

    @ScottRose: Fantastic point. I missed that line at the end or just glossed over it. I am now officially The Douche in the room. In all honesty, the guy who made the video and I have been laughing about most of the youtube comments over the last few days.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    Ah... Blue Man Group. Awesome soundtrack choice.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    This list is bullshit. You guys forgot the greatest scene in special F/X history.
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    Blasphemy! This is 108 years of Visual Effects, not 100!
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    08/28/09

    @Kakkoii: It's like getting an extra scoop of ice cream. Bonus treat.
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    Image of Scazza Scazza
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    So this guy went through a handful of his DVDs he had on his shelf and ripped parts of the special features into a shoddy youtube clip? Seriously minimal effort on his part.

    I recognize most of the modern films from their dvd commentary/how-tos that he ripped.

    Also yeah, he jumped from the 20s to Oz, then to tron, there was 100s of important films inbetween.
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    Image of morcheeba morcheeba
    08/28/09

    @Scazza: ... I'm looking forward to your version of this, with your 100's of important films in there. Like you said, it'll be a seriously minimal effort.
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    Scazza promoted this comment morcheeba was starred morcheeba was unstarred
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    08/29/09

    @morcheeba: @badsponge: Meh, I'm lazy. Just saying, If I was going to make a video like this, I would put some effort into it.
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    Image of Andrew Andrew
    08/28/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    Uhh... Where was the Matrix?
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    GitEmSteveDave_♥'sRenegadeIrishman promoted this comment Andrew was starred Andrew was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    08/28/09

    @Andrew: THAT is the question Neo. If you want to find out, choose a pill..
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    Image of chknstrp chknstrp
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    If anyone's interested the background song is Rods and Cones by Blue Man Group
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    Image of thehacker123 thehacker123
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    +1 For blue man group music :)
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    08/28/09

    @thehacker123: Rods and Cones, from their CD, released in 5:1 sound.
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    Image of pushmonk pushmonk
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    Ok, here's my gripe.

    Where are some of the "firsts"?

    Young Sherlock Holmes. The first time a computer animated figure interacts with live action.

    The Last Starfighter. The first time computer created sets were used in conjunction with actual sets (ie. you see the bottom of the ship in the hanger, and it's a real set piece, but when they show the whole ship, it's CG).
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    Image of yungjerry703 yungjerry703
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    i may not be old enough but i think the star wars clip (when the death star explodes) was from the current spruced up version not the 1977 og version. the ring around the explosion looked fraudulent.
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    EBone promoted this comment Edited by yungjerry703 at 08/27/09 10:00 PM yungjerry703 was starred yungjerry703 was unstarred
    Image of MacBandit MacBandit
    08/27/09

    @yungjerry703:

    You are absolutely correct. I was wondering if anyone else had caught that.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    08/27/09

    @yungjerry703: Correct. The 1977 version did not have the "halo" effect after the explosion of the death star.
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    Image of okeribok okeribok
    08/28/09

    @EBone: Speaking of that halo, does anybody know any explanation for it, other than "it just looks cool"? Halo explosions have been bothering me for quite some time now...
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    Image of sick_and_ashamed sick_and_ashamed
    08/28/09

    @okeribok: I think they got the halo idea from the opening of Star Trek VI when Praxis explodes and Excelsior gets smacked by the shockwave.

    But as for why the Praxis explosion had a halo... well, it looked cool, didn't it?
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    EBone promoted this comment sick_and_ashamed was starred sick_and_ashamed was unstarred
    Image of EBone EBone
    08/28/09

    @sick_and_ashamed: The Praxis explosion was the first time I had seen the halo effect. No explanation other than most people think two-dimensionally (KHAAAAAAN) and it looks cool.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    As a Digital Effects student I've watched this video many times over. Just great. When the new year starts I'll be showing this to my tutor right away.
    I'm still amazed at Jurassic park though. Still looks great over a decade since it's release, whereas some modern effects are looking crap after a few years.
    I'm surprised to see no bullet time though. I guess it was very quickly ground into the dirt though and now is a bit risky to use without looking tacky.
    Ray Harryhausen's work is also amazing. Sure it's aged, but it looks good, and would of amazed audiences at the time.
    And then there's T2...damn some of the stuff they did then is hard to do now, never mind the primitive 3D tools they had at the time.
    and obviously I aspire to one day have some of my work on "The greatest effects of the past 200 years"
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    08/28/09

    @deanbmmv: Well, don't forget the T-rex was animated with a Dinosaur Input Device, so it was both stop motion AND cgi. And without The Abyss, there would be no T-1000.
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    Image of DUOPHONIX.com DUOPHONIX.com
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    The sheer imagination and genius of the Jupiter and Beyond section of 2001 deserves a mention!

    Not to mention the rest of the film! Especially considering it was made way before star wars and even Lucas admits modelling his special effects on those from 2001!!!

    I mean, making a film set in space and on the moon before we had even seen the earth from an orbit is impressive enough!!!
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    Image of electricarchie electricarchie
    08/27/09

    @DUOPHONIX.com: Thinking about how they made the stewardesses walk from the floors onto the walls and ceilings blew my mind. Also the scene with dave running around the outside of the ring of the spaceship was really incredible.
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    08/27/09

    @electricarchie: exactly! All done without even a sniff on a computer!

    Ive been doing 3d CGI work professionaly for years and i specialise in doing photorealistic stuff, and even with this bias and love of 3d, the scenes in 2001 are still the most realistic bits of special effects i have ever seen, they look beautiful in HD too!
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    Image of dingus dingus
    08/27/09

    @DUOPHONIX.com: Show some kids who've never seen 2001 shots of the space station and then scenes from the latest Star Trek and ask them which one looks more fake.
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    Image of Amplified Hustler Amplified Hustler
    08/27/09

    In reply to Take Five Minutes to Watch 100 Years of Visual Effects
    What, no Matrix?
    That was a biggie in terms of visual effects for the span between Jurassic Park and Spiderman 2.
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