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

Subscribe to Corridor Crew: youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/ Watch Slicing Adam Savage's Nose - Can VFX Beat Doing it for Real? https://youtu.be/aNJQdruGAbs Which scene we should take on for the next Practical vs. FX Challenge? Which scene recreation -- practical or FX -- do you think took longer and/or looks better?

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

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

Here’s an idea for another Digital vs Practical FX: spaceship explosion. 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”. The CC guys have to make a small ship from scratch and do the explosion digitally.

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!!

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

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

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. What I suppose, though, given the "keep it as simple as possible" 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. Delightful build either way! But that probably would have saved Adam about an hour on the challenge timer, haha.

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

As CG enjoyer I'm gonna say... practical looks so f-ing good. The flinch is so natural, the blood is not static, it "bleeds", gets in the mouth/teeth/hair, the "surprised" blinks on both "actors", the knife-tip small *clink and small little "ah" sells the "cut" so real. I myself flinched and blinked like 6 times in a row rewatching it xd really nice job on this one

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

I would love to see this again! It's a great way to see the strengths and weaknesses of both effect styles. A couple interesting head to heads I would love to see are, bullet squib vs VFX bullet impact, make up and prosthetics vs VFX appearance manipulation, and pyrotechnics vs VFX explosions.

Love the collab between Adam and Corridor Digital. Loved seeing you on their couch and them in your "cave"! :)

The timer should be a standard. To watch Adam work in such speeds is mesmerizing- and educational.

As a long LONG time Mythbusters fan and Tested fan when I found it years ago and also a long time Corridor Digital fan, been over a decade for both now I've realized. Lol these collabs have been so surprising and SO cool, seeing two of my favorite channels working together on fun stuff is something I never thought I'd see! I hope there will be many more in the future cause these are amazing!

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

I can't wait for the next Digital vs. Practical. This is such a cool idea and you guys are the perfect team to do it.

This channel gives me the feel of what it may be like to work in an environment like ILM. It's like a free training course and some hang out time with one of my favorite humans. Such great content.

Awesome challenge. You guys need to do more of these. I think it would be fun to choose a skill in your mastery, a skill in the Corridor Crews mastery, and then neutral ones that neither has done before. I think in the end that showcases both of you working in and out of your comfort zone and using your distinct library of experiences to get through the task.

It turned out so good. Also Wren's mobster face killed me.