A Completely Fake UFO Video
We’ve yet to see an authentic and convincing UFO video, and this one takes the cake. It is completely fake. Not one thing in it is real. Seriously. If you haven’t yet seen or heard about the “UFO Over Santa Clarita” video (above), it appears to be footage taken from a handheld camera, shakily taking shots from within a moving car. Then a spaceship darts across the sky, and the gasping filmmaker stops the car, only see a huge hovering mothership grab the first ship and disappear.
The filmmaker, Aristomenis “Meni” Tsirbas, revealed to Wired that, as many suspected, the video was fake. But impressively, absolutely everything in the film, from the car’s interior to the sky to the UFOs, is not real. It is all CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).
“The video is 100 percent CGI through and through,” Tsirbas told Wired. “The electric towers [seen alongside the road] are 3-D geometry and the sky is a 3-D dome that has a texture map on it that’s a combination of painting, volumetric clouds and photogrammetry.”
Tsirbas has now produced a new video showing the breakdown of the CGI, and it’s quite impressive:
“The point of the video was to prove that CGI can look natural and convincing,” Tsirbas told Wired in another article. ”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.”
Tsirbas has worked on movies such as Titanic and Hellboy and several Star Trektelevision shows. Wired said Tsirbas and his team spent about four months mimicking the look of an accidental extraterrestrial encounter captured on a smartphone.
As impressive as Tsirbas’ handiwork is, what is most perplexing is the reaction to the video by some of the UFOer crowd.
“But the most unusual comments come from a growing chorus of people who insist that the announcement of the hoax is actually part of an elaborate government plan to cover up the fact that the video is real,” Tsirbas said in Wired. “I even received a mildly threatening personal e-mail from one of these people.”
Go figure.
Screenshot from the “UFO Over Santa Clarita VFX Breakdown” video.
Article by Nancy Atkinson originally posted on Universe Today
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Mar 06, 2013 @ 23:20:44
And what exactly should be "authentic and convincing" about an UNIDENTIFIED Flying Object?
Mar 06, 2013 @ 23:21:12
And obviously this is CGI, fof f*ck's sake.
Mar 06, 2013 @ 23:40:27
lol government cover up. it was actually real.
Mar 06, 2013 @ 23:47:47
No, Connor, it wasn't. A teenager would know it was faked, especially since wire-frames were shown…
Mar 07, 2013 @ 00:02:33
In Connors defense it is not hard to wire frame a real video. A teenager, who was also blind, would not be able to tell. Truth be told, anything is possible so Sasha, get off your horse k.
Mar 07, 2013 @ 00:59:44
No, not ANYthing is possible, and not everything is a conspiracy. There are things that are plausible, and then there are fantasies and delusions.
Apr 09, 2013 @ 05:35:20
If you know anything about science you will know that this whole video (fake or not) is a plausible scenario. Alien life exist, its a matter of when we encounter them – not if.
Mar 07, 2013 @ 00:54:44
You know how you can tell it's fake? By the video right under the main video that shows how they used CGI to create it. GASP*
Mar 07, 2013 @ 02:39:48
they see me rollin'…be trollin…making me laugh super hard. welcome to the internet. strap on in and get ready for your butt to be hurt. first time?
Apr 08, 2013 @ 14:15:17
Por que alguém perderia tanto tempo em sua vida fazendo um vídeo fake sobre OVIN? Ou é completamente idiota ou não tem o que fazer! E outro tentando provar que é fake? Se for mesmo fake merece um premio!
Apr 08, 2013 @ 14:21:34
Cool video, so it says everything can be faked now. By the way. Anyone knows the software that was used to visual effects? Which program is the best for this kind of stuff?