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Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) at a Crossroads: New, Advanced Programs that Are Obscuring Reality

With Recent New Additions of Digital Programs Available for Anybody to Buy--Trying to Discern Real Media Clips from Reality May Be on a Dangerous Slippery Slope

By Gregoriancant, published Aug 22, 2007
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In early August of this year, a strange new video appeared on Youtube. (Not that it's all that unusual that a strange video appears on Youtube.) But this video www.youtube.com/watch showed what appeared to be two crude-looking disc-shaped aircraft flying over a group of palm trees that were swaying in the breeze. The person capturing it on video can be heard gasping as these ominous-looking UFO's fly over overhead and then fly away at an off-angle formation into the sky. As the craft reach a certain point, you can see other strange lights in the sky closing in with these two craft as if joining one another eventually. Unfortunately (or maybe conveniently)--the footage ends there. A "Part 2" video showed up later on Youtube showing the same (and other off-shaped craft) flying close to ground level. The person who posted the first video claims it was taken in Haiti (and Dominican Republic) on August 6, 2007 and claimed to witness more incredible things beyond what the footage shows. Of course, this caused a huge sensation on Youtube with the usual mix of intelligent and (mostly) moronic or juvenile comments written in the comment section.

And then the comments started pouring in:

"That's fake! They just used a new digital program called Vue that recently released a new upgrade (Vue 6)."

Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) at a Crossroads: New, Advanced Programs that Are Obscuring Reality
Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) at a Crossroads: New, Advanced Programs that Are Obscuring Reality

A possible CGI nightmare...

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Sorry for the typos. Crappy keyboard.

Posted on 08/29/2007 at 10:08:00 AM

 
I'm always inntriqued by the people who claim they can "spot" CGI...more often than not, they catch the obvious - the dinosaurs, the spaceships - but miss the subtle work. At any rate, as of 1993, CGI started looking more real than models and animation - which is really the point. O'Brian's Kong may have charm, but it's hardly convincing anymore. (And for that matter, reality is over-rated. Angelina Jolie is worked over via make-up to look better on film than she does in reality.) Vue was also used togenerate the landscapes in Pirates of the Carribean - more convincing than matte paintings, which again is the point.

Posted on 08/29/2007 at 10:08:00 AM

 
Digital trickery is staggering - & it's just getting better/worse - etc. It's like it will get to the point that we'll have to have digital "watermarks" on everything to differentiate fake/real - tho I guess a good CGI program can then fabricate a "watermark" - lol - it just never ends....

Posted on 08/28/2007 at 7:08:00 PM

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