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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:42 PM Mar 2013

How the Best Fake UFO Video Ever Was Made -entire video is fake. Car, driver, sky, powerlines...

Video is at link below

Special effects have become so good that digital media artists can now create entire videos on their computers and make them look completely real, even if it's a UFO sighting. That's what filmmaker Aristomenis "Meni" Tsirbas has done with his stunning 39-second UFO video of a driver supposedly spotting alien spacecraft over the skies of California.

YouTube viewers were quick to point out that the alien ships were fake, and they were right. But as it turned out, everything else was fake, too. The entire video was CGI (computer-generated imagery). There was no driver, there was no car and there was no road or landscape.

"The point of the video was to prove that CGI can look natural and convincing,” Tsirbas said in an interview with Wired. "Everybody assumes the background and car are real, and that the UFOs are probably fake, especially the over-the-top mothership at the end. The general reaction is disbelief, so I usually have to prove it by showing a wireframe of the entire shot to prove that nothing is real."

In a subsequent video, the director shows how he did it.

http://mashable.com/2013/03/07/fake-ufo-video/

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How the Best Fake UFO Video Ever Was Made -entire video is fake. Car, driver, sky, powerlines... (Original Post) The Straight Story Mar 2013 OP
How to make a convincing UFO video: onehandle Mar 2013 #1
And there are conspiracy theorists claiming the explanation that the video is all-CGI... JHB Mar 2013 #2
Education, what is it good for snooper2 Mar 2013 #3
That's as artificial and contrived as the video. leveymg Mar 2013 #7
I know. And there are others that think us humans are the only intelligence Whisp Mar 2013 #8
Some of us even doubt this whole concept of "human intelligence" BlueStreak Mar 2013 #17
yeh, that jumbo shrimp thing. n/t Whisp Mar 2013 #19
Donald Trump is not real BlueStreak Mar 2013 #13
May as well embed it here... hunter Mar 2013 #4
Completely fake terror attacks OnyxCollie Mar 2013 #5
I thought "Life of Pi" all the proof needed "that CGI can look natural and convincing". . . Journeyman Mar 2013 #6
Its fantastic work, flawless...nt and-justice-for-all Mar 2013 #9
Not nearly as good as District 9 or Battle for Los Angeles. Very fake mother ship. leveymg Mar 2013 #20
Yeah right...sure it's fake. zappaman Mar 2013 #10
Many here will still believe it! Logical Mar 2013 #11
That's the obvious point of posting it, isn't it? leveymg Mar 2013 #21
MY GOD PEOPLE WAKE UP. THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE IS CG!!!! WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TO LATE! Katashi_itto Mar 2013 #12
Please disregard the posts by Katashi_itto. Somebody hacked my computer BlueStreak Mar 2013 #14
Snicker :) Katashi_itto Mar 2013 #15
There is a story that the artists that made Shrek had to redo the actors because they were too real. Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #16
therefore, ALL UFO videos are fake. librechik Mar 2013 #18

JHB

(37,160 posts)
2. And there are conspiracy theorists claiming the explanation that the video is all-CGI...
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:50 PM
Mar 2013

...is a government coverup story.


gotta love it.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
7. That's as artificial and contrived as the video.
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:24 PM
Mar 2013

All part of a lovely piece of digital marketing designed to attract hits. Well, they got one from me, but I can't remember the content of the web ad I just saw, either. So, we're about even.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
8. I know. And there are others that think us humans are the only intelligence
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:25 PM
Mar 2013

in all known and unknown universes!

gotta love it.

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
13. Donald Trump is not real
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:32 PM
Mar 2013

All those videos of him asking for the birth certificate? That's all CGI.

Come on, that hair could not happen on its own anywhere in the universe.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
20. Not nearly as good as District 9 or Battle for Los Angeles. Very fake mother ship.
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:44 PM
Mar 2013

The smaller craft also moved in a very evidently animated way. The sky and sun were simply a matt based upon a video of the real thing - not completely digital. This whole thing is just BS.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
10. Yeah right...sure it's fake.
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:28 PM
Mar 2013

That's what they WANT you to think.
Another example of the government(I wouldn't be surprised if the BFEE were involved) covering up our contact with aliens.
That is real footage no matter what anyone says!

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
21. That's the obvious point of posting it, isn't it?
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:45 PM
Mar 2013

Aise from the hits - someone hopes this generates enough bogus controversy so it goes viral and pays off.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
12. MY GOD PEOPLE WAKE UP. THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE IS CG!!!! WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TO LATE!
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:31 PM
Mar 2013

Skinner is an Alien!!!

(Sits and babbles in the corner)






 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
14. Please disregard the posts by Katashi_itto. Somebody hacked my computer
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:33 PM
Mar 2013

and it is now autonomously making silly posts under that name.

My deepest apologies.

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
16. There is a story that the artists that made Shrek had to redo the actors because they were too real.
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:35 PM
Mar 2013

Test audiences couldn't tell that all of the human characters were CGI.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
18. therefore, ALL UFO videos are fake.
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:37 PM
Mar 2013

It's only logical, especially since anyone who actually tapes one is either delusional or mistaken.

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