Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Chinatown Stunt Knife (Corridor Crew FX Challenge!)

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  @tested · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Subscribe to Corridor Crew: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/">https://www.youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/</a> <br>Watch Slicing Adam Savage&apos;s Nose - Can VFX Beat Doing it for Real? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNJQdruGAbs">https://youtu.be/aNJQdruGAbs</a><br>Which scene we should take on for the next Practical vs. FX Challenge?<br>Which scene recreation -- practical or FX -- do you think took longer and/or looks better?

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  @SirWrender · 4 years ago

  What an awesome time!! Adam it was a blast working on this project with you! It&apos;s so cool to watch this video with the context that this happened BEFORE we tried doing the actual shot!

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  @CorridorCrew · 4 years ago

  SO happy we got to work together on this project! It was fun to replicate the actual effect! I&apos;m looking forward to doing more of these collabs!!

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  @davidwilliams5497 · 4 years ago

  Here’s an idea for another Digital vs Practical FX: spaceship explosion. <br><br>Adam builds a small ship from scratch with styrene and kitbashing, and then they set off a small slo-mo pyro charge explosion of the model as the actual “film shoot”. <br><br>The CC guys have to make a small ship from scratch and do the explosion digitally.

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  @CronicDemise · 4 years ago

  Practical vs Digital: Iron Man 1, Pepper Pots sticking her hand in Tony&apos;s chest to repair his reactor!

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  @njso18 · 4 years ago

  This was a wonderful collaboration! Would watch more versions of digital vs. practical VFX videos with them, love the Corridor Digital team.

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  @mattheww7345 · 9 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPTu47FBkpg&amp;t=1580">26:20</a> “lets clean up a little bit— ooh coffee!” &nbsp;adhd mood of the year

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  @justintuesday8483 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Love seeing Wren and Niko in the cave!! Very exciting, very cool!! Love both of your channels!! Can’t wait to see more collaboration between you guys!!

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  @ClaytonStone895 · 4 years ago

  I’ve wondered about this effect since seeing it as a teen in the ‘80s and did the <b>exact</b> same rewind-&gt;freeze frame analysis back then, too! This was fantastic!

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  @LunarEclipsism1 · 4 years ago

  Now of course, Adam went through all this trouble matching up the tip from one knife with the blade of another and gradually grinding them to fit together because no matter what tool you use to cut off the tip of something, the missing kerf from where the tool went through the workpiece will prevent that cutoff from matching up seamlessly if you put it back on. &nbsp;<br><br>What I suppose, though, given the &quot;keep it as simple as possible&quot; philosophy of the 1970s propmasters, is that because hardened steel is so much of a hassle to cut through in the first place (as Adam once again demonstrated with his bandsaw troubles), the original maker simply clamped the tip in a vice and SNAPPED it off, no cutting and fitting necessary. The uneven curve of the break point looking less like a conspicuous perpendicular angle would then be a happy accident.<br><br>Delightful build either way! But that probably would have saved Adam about an hour on the challenge timer, haha.

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  @flower4000 · 4 years ago (edited)

  this such a great series concept, id love to see cgi space ships vs practical model ships

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  @gamerkingdom1442 · 4 years ago

  I just saw the Corridor Crew video!! I absolutely love you guys keep doing these COLAB videos!! <br>To see both sides of VISUAL EFFECTS, as one who studied CGI animation, what a blast with these videos!!

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