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-…like, they paid attention
to every detail…
...wow, look at that, let me
just do that again!
Oh, f[beep]ck!
On the one part this is
bad visual effects,
in my opinion,
or again, it's that creative choice.
[Cinecom's Intro music]
So, since the invention of YouTube,
react videos has been very popular.
I mean, the Finebros even
treie to copyright react,
fortunately, they didn't win that.
Now recently we've also seen Corridor
and Peter McKinnon reacting to videos
and they’re cool.
And it's really awesome.
And so I thought we have to jump
on that trend as well.
I need to react to videos as well.
And since we have a series called
Copy Cat Friday every week
here on the channel where
we recreate effects
from famous films and music videos,
we thought let's do reaction videos
on music videos or films
that we haven't recreated yet, or that
are just impossible to recreate,
or are hard to recreate, I don't know.
Yannick created a playlist for me.
Yeah, picked out some videos,
also some comments from
you guys asking us to recreate that
and we haven't done it yet.
So I'm gonna react to those videos,
I'm gonna take a look at those
see how they were made,
how the effects were done
and…
…let’s just react!
We'll start off with an
easy one to warm up.
Thank You Yannick!
Here we go, video number 1.
I've seen that oh, yeah!
This is the video that Yannick
wanted to recreate on Copy Cats.
Yeah, he's been saying this
every week, we have to do this!
I'm like ‘no, this actually it's not simple
but it's not much visual effects-wise’.
It’s really cool, Wow!
You know, the big thing
about this thing is this set itself.
They have created the sets that
allows these transitions to happen
and also it's not that hard actually.
For instance, here he opens
up the door you cut,
you see this door opening up
and in that door
you would see the sofa also turning,
and that is just simply, actually
the sofa turning there.
So we could explain that
in a Copy Cat video,
but I don't think it's that world shocking.
But it's definitely the way
that they've done it,
it’s really cool, it's really awesome.
I think this really shows that simple effects,
practical effects can look really great.
You don't need advanced special
effects to make cool-looking music videos.
This really looks great.
Alright, the next one!
This is gonna include all the
videos that Yannick wants to make,
things are getting weird.
Okay, this is just…
this is easy, right?
A glass of water just going empty.
Think that is easy.
It's either stop-motion…
-That’s not it, Jordy.
-That’s not it?
-Keep watching.
-Oh, f[beep]ck!
I haven't seen this yet!
That it's great, people get
so creative in music videos!
I was not expecting this!
Guys, we can do this!
We never thought about it.
We can do this!
this is… this is easy.
No, it is not easy, it looks easy.
Probably when we start doing it,
we're like ‘f@%k, this is not easy’.
We once did a video about… oh!
Oh, no!
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We can't do it, yeah, maybe we can.
If you have a stock clip,
we just suck at 3D.
If we have a stock clip
we could put it in there.
But yeah, this is a good idea,
let us know guys!
Do you want us to recreate this?
Let us know in the description below!
Requested but impossible
for us, that's the next thing.
Oh, yeah, that's latest video
from Ed Sheeran!
That is impossible, damn!
A lot of people have requested us,
‘hey Cinecom, can you recreate that?’
Yeah, sure, let's just grab out
our motion controlled suit,
They have some really
advanced stuff there!
This is a motion controlled suit,
I'm pretty sure of that, you know,
it’s a suit with a bunch of sensors
on it and if you move around
the central would captured that
and you basically have
all of that data of your movement
inside your editing program.
So you can use that to
make yourself 3D,
so you make a 3D model of yourself
and it instantly takes over the exact
movements of what you're doing.
That’s as far as I think
that this goes, of course.
So, as you can see right here we got
the golden guy doing dance moves
well that is just the movement
of the actual dancer
so it's copying that over, really awesome!
Do we have such a suit?
-But maybe we can count that Corridor!
-Yeah, Corridor, if
you're watching this
please let us collaborate together.
I want to use your suit,
not in a filthy way.
Yeah, I think some music videos
really take it to the next level these days.
If you look at the old music
videos, like in the 90s
those were pretty cool,
they had their charme.
But it was just like camera work,
the MTV style
and recently it's always 3D,
special effects,
that's high-end stuff, you know.
It's not like your neighbor kid
who's doing the special effects
in your music video,
no, it's high-end stuff recently.
It's really cool!
How about this from Ed Sheeran?
So, I was just explaining that
that visual effects looks really good,
this was not scripted, I didn’t
know that this was coming.
Super high-end,
so, this is an example of your
neighbor kid doing the special effects.
There's probably a reason
why that they've done it,
I’m not a fan of it.
I don't know why.
I don't know, there’s
probably a reason behind this.
I haven't listened to the lyrics yet.
This is really bad!
We also looked at this, I know,
and we were talking about ‘should
we do a Copy Cat about this as well?’
Like how to do bad visual effects.
All right, the next video.
‘We tried but failed’.
Oh man, yeah!
This is hard.
You see, here.
On the one part this is bad
visual effects, in my opinion.
Or again, it's that creative choice.
With music videos you can
get away with everything
but you can kind of see here that
the visual effects go out of the frame
and they just kind of scaled
down their clips.
Then you can see it
right here perfectly.
But on the other hand the
effect itself is pretty cool
and we've been trying to recreate
that, do we have shots of that?
We tried to recreate it but we couldn’t.
So that was too bad,
because this was a hit,
this is pretty cool.
Oh, Coldplay, Up&Up!
The amount of times that people
have been requesting this is insane.
we did a video about this.
These was the very early days.
Two years ago, I think.
We did a turtle effect,
we did that entirely inside Premiere Pro.
We’ve got a stock clip of a sea turtle
and we blended that in into
a shot of me running over the street.
Wow!
And people still keep asking for it.
Like, how did he do it?
Essentially, it's not hard,
I mean, it is hard to get
the realism there,
but the techniques are not that hard.
Because it just comes down
to blending two clips.
It's quite simple but the idea
is just so good,
that’s the thing with music videos,
the idea has to be good,
the visual effect doesn’t
have to be high-end or anything,
the idea just has to be good.
Even if that is simple,
usually the simple ideas are good.
The next one: ‘we did an effect from it
but thought about doing another’.
First of all, they have
rerecorded everything, I think,
then they just masked out the faces
and then it's just a matter
of 3D tracking the space.
So that you can fit the masks
into that 3D space.
The only hard thing here is
she actually takes off one of her faces
so she interacts with one of them.
Clearly that is tracking.
She's not actually holding that, of course
but she is holding something.
I think it's just like a plane mask
or something that she's just holding.
And then they track the face onto it,
I think that is how they've done it.
I think we can do that for a Copy Cat.
Sometimes tricks, effects are easy
but it's hard to get them look realistic.
Like to get the lighting right.
For example, pulling
a green key is easy,
just take the color picker, bang!
You've got a green key
But pulling a green key that
looks good, that is hard to do.
and it's the same thing
with this effect, it's easy
but to make it look good
that's hard to do.
The next one.
Wait a second, it rings a bell.
That’s an older video, right?
-It’s Michael Jackson with
‘Black and White’.
-Oh, yeah of course.
-And it's the best face
morphing ever done.
-Who says that?
-I said that.
-Ah, you said that.
Of course, I know this song but
I never watched the music video.
I think Michael Jackson’s
a little bit before my time.
I was a very young kid back then.
So I never seen the music videos,
I know the songs, I listen
to them every day.
Not every day, I listen to them.
But I haven't seen this music video yet.
Maybe I should do that,
just look up some old music and see
what their music videos are like.
Let me see here, can't we do that?
Damn, that is, Oh!
They've done that in the 90s,
that is before After Effects.
Anyways, this is really good.
That is insane.
Wow, the hair!
That is insane!
Face morph is one thing,
but the hair.
They paid attention to every detail.
You can really see the
hair popping out of her.
Look at that, it's like if
it instantly grows.
How did they do that?
-The hair that was dropping
it's like it drops for real,
like they held it up and
then they dropped it
and then like they cut it,
so it was dropping and
morphing at the same time.
-Okay, this looks good.
For the 90s you would see so many
bad visual effects in the 90s.
So many bad visual effects.
If you would see this,
I mean your mind was blown.
‘Thought about it, what's not doable’.
That's the next one.
We can do everything at Cinecom,
everything is possible.
Oh, that one, yeah.
That's Eminem, right?
-It’s Kendrick Lamar.
Oh yeah, this one came out not
too much after ‘Humble’, right?
We were in the whole trend
of Kendrick Lamar,
we did ‘Humble’, we did two
or three views from it,
we did like sinking through the grounds,
that was not from Humble, but it was
a different music video from him.
Which is still, in my opinion, the
best copy-cat that we've ever done.
Yannick was just sinking
through the floor.
That was inspired by Kendrick Lamar.
This one is just pure CGI.
I mean the boat floating is not that hard,
just sit on the boat on
a green screen or something
and maybe we have some kind of motor
just going a little bit back and forward.
Then you just key him out,
put him in an entire CGI world
and that's how you do it.
Now, in a serious note guys,
it was really fun
making this reaction video,
I think that we should do this more
often, what do you guys think?
just let us know in the comments below.
Just let us know, guys.
It was a lot of fun thank you all
so much for watching, guys,
thank you Storyblocks Video
for the support, link below.
And, as always...
[Yannick] -Stay Creative!
-That’s my line.
Stay Creative!
