Check out this clip, obviously I don't think it's real (way too good to be true). But how was this video manipulated to look this good? This is more impressive than half the shit I see in films in my opinion.
there was a thread about this earlier, including the original, UFO free video.
It is a decent job though.
Tried a couple of searches and couldn't find anything ...he's a French guy called Wanco. Those crazy Frenchies know how to do special fx, check out the film Irreversible, awesome fx!
I posted this in August.It was all over Digg. I think it may have got lost in the server crash. It's been explained.
The next morning, with all the good leads exhausted and most hope lost, the telephone rang…
It was a woman named Sam. From Corsica. “Hello,” she said. “I am calling on behalf of barzolff814.”
Barzolff814? Why, he was the person who had posted the No. 1 Haiti video!…
The 35-year-old Barzolff is a professional animator who attended one of the most prestigious art schools in France and has a decade of experience with computer graphics and commercial animation.
It took Barzolff a total of 17 hours to make both the Haiti and Dominican Republic videos. He did it all by himself using a MacBook Pro and a suite of commercially available 3-D animation programs, including Vue 6. The videos are 100% computer-generated.
The videos, he said, were intended as research for a feature film project he’s been working on with Partizan, the France-based production company responsible for, among others, Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
When contacted to verify the story, “Eternal Sunshine” producer Georges Bermann said it was all true, and that Barzolff was “an absolute genius” who could “make anything look entirely real.”
To prove that he was truly behind the videos, Barzolff agreed to provide the L.A. Times with a new spacecraft video. Called “Proof,” the video depicts a small version of one of the spacecraft floating above a Paris street. As the camera pans over, the viewer sees two elderly women at a cafe. One of whom is holding a remote control device. Humorously, of course, this video makes use of computer graphics as well.
The next morning, with all the good leads exhausted and most hope lost, the telephone rang…
It was a woman named Sam. From Corsica. “Hello,” she said. “I am calling on behalf of barzolff814.”
Barzolff814? Why, he was the person who had posted the No. 1 Haiti video!…
The 35-year-old Barzolff is a professional animator who attended one of the most prestigious art schools in France and has a decade of experience with computer graphics and commercial animation.
It took Barzolff a total of 17 hours to make both the Haiti and Dominican Republic videos. He did it all by himself using a MacBook Pro and a suite of commercially available 3-D animation programs, including Vue 6. The videos are 100% computer-generated.
The videos, he said, were intended as research for a feature film project he’s been working on with Partizan, the France-based production company responsible for, among others, Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
When contacted to verify the story, “Eternal Sunshine” producer Georges Bermann said it was all true, and that Barzolff was “an absolute genius” who could “make anything look entirely real.”
To prove that he was truly behind the videos, Barzolff agreed to provide the L.A. Times with a new spacecraft video. Called “Proof,” the video depicts a small version of one of the spacecraft floating above a Paris street. As the camera pans over, the viewer sees two elderly women at a cafe. One of whom is holding a remote control device. Humorously, of course, this video makes use of computer graphics as well.