I just spotted something absolutely insane in the credits of everything
everywhere all at once that kind of makes me love this movie even more just take a
look at this visual effects seven people now that's crazy because this movie has over 500
VFX shots now to put this into perspective let's just compare this against the lost
city a movie released in the same month with a similar amount of VFX shot well less 426.
125 people and why not just for fun let's compare it against the most recent Marvel movie at the
time of making this video Ant-Man and the WASP quantumania yikes I'm not even gonna begin to
count how many that is it it keeps going and going so how did these seven people take on a whole
movie worth of the effects well it's actually quite ingenious really here's how first they
used clever tricks to speed up the VFX process one trick was in this sequence where Evelyn jumps
through different universes one of the directors Daniel Quan used a small 4k camera and just shot
footage as he walked around different places this footage was to be used as the background image
however in order for it to look like Evelyn was actually traveling through each of these places
different lighting would have to reflect on her as she went through each one so in order to achieve
this quickly and cheaply they used a technique similar to industrial Light and magix stagecraft
that was used on series such as the Mandalorian but instead of using the massively expensive high
def LED screen walls that industrial Legend magic do they just used two cheap LED panels
as you can see here the pixels are massive but still it was good enough to create the correct
color Reflections on her face so that she would sit well on the background images another trick
was for the rock scene where they sticks pulleys and strings to push and pull the rocks through
the gravel and sand but cutting those things out of the shot was a difficult and time-consuming
process so in order to make it quicker and easier they used an AI rotoscoping tool or an AI cutting
out tool from Runway called green screen with this tool instead of taking half a day to complete the
process they could cut the characters out and place them cleanly in the shot in just minutes
another trick was in the rakakuni scene here the Hibachi chef has to juggle with vegetables but to
speed things up and therefore save both time and money instead of going full CG in 3D modeling they
used a paintbrush inside after effects to draw the vegetables and then animate them secondly
they try to avoid using VFX as much as possible so whenever they could do something using practical
effects or done for real they did for example the hands in the hot dog Universe were actually gloves
made from molds of the actor's hands but before the molds set Jason hammer and his team replaced
their fingers with real hot dog wieners for the rakikuni universe Jason Hammer made an animatronic
raccoon the brief he was given was to make it look like bad taxidermy and so he did by using a
real Taxidermy Raccoon as a skeleton for both the internal machinery and the external Prosthetics
and then painting on the fur to give it the cheap quick and dirty look for the pinky of Fury scene
they made a mechanical hand so that they could Flex the pinky finger inside this there was an
airline that ran a little balloon that could be inflated to simulate the muscle bulge and
in the scene where Evelyn fights Deidre you notice here that the door closes away from the camera how
however this would have meant that later on in the scene here Deidre wouldn't have been able to pull
the door open you can actually see the hinges and strike plate are on the wrong side here so they
built a styrofoam door to mimic the real door and then had crew members pull it off shot from this
side and other crew members dumped dust and debris on Deirdre from this side making it all look like
Deidre had somehow ripped the door right off its hinges this is it's Short Round anyway lastly
and perhaps most importantly they overcame all their technological and financial shortcomings
with flexibility and Ingenuity as we said before everything everywhere all at once only had seven
VFX artists five of these artists were self-taught having learned from Video Copilot in YouTube
videos and they alone completed 90 of the VFX shots two of those five artists Matt welcome and
Jeff deism completed their shots using old 2017 MacBook Pros Matt even found that he couldn't use
his auxiliary monitor when rendering because it slowed down his render times cutting down on the
render time required by more elaborate effects was key to getting the work done on time and on budget
and they did this by once again getting creative the first time you see the bagel come in through
the curtain in this scene you'd think that the entire environment was CG but it wasn't they
actually just had one render of the bagel with the lighting the way they wanted it to be then
everything else was done in 2D and after effects so it was just all composite they treated it as
though they were actually lighting it on set except they were doing it as a 2d thing that
they could have immediate feedback on another clever solution they came up with was how to
clearly Define each Universe in order to stop the viewer from getting confused to achieve this
they gave each Universe its own visual language and they did this by using color palettes lens
choices and aspect ratios when in the normal verse they used a Zeiss super speed lens at a
185 to 1 aspect ratio however should they move into an action sequence they would change to a
hawk anamorphic lens and a wider 239 to 1 aspect ratio flashback scenes were in the four to three
to give the feel of old VHS camera footage the movie Universe used a Canon k35 lens and a green
color palette paying homage to one car wise film In the Mood for Love the hot dog finger Universe
used a baltal lens and brown and yellow color palette referencing Todd Haynes 2015 film Carol
the rakakuna universe not only paid homage to Pixar's 2007 film Ratatouille but its color
palette mimicked that of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 film Punch Drunk Love
by combining all of these factors in original script creative narrative passionate cast
members resoluted filmmakers a wide range of aspect ratios multiple film genre references
clever practical effects effective digital effects intelligent editing puppets animatronics stunts
and gags not only did they manage to make a great movie on a relatively small budget but they also
managed to make it live up to its title because it really did have everything everywhere all at
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