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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2008, 07:50:04 PM »
It's almost certainly a model airplane edited into real footage.  It just doesn't look real.  The resolution of the plane doesn't even match the resolution of the background.

Hell, parts of it look like the motion wasn't even real - the bounce looks like it was done, poorly, in some type of animation software.  It doesn't really resemble anything I've seen from actual physical objects; it simply decelerates too fast after it hits the ground again.

Oh, and the cheesy voice acting doesn't help to sell it either.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #51 on: October 31, 2008, 08:54:44 PM »
I still say the plane is 100% CG.
Very poor CG, but 100% nontheless.  Even the scene of the pilot getting out slowly was a CG plane.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #52 on: November 01, 2008, 12:50:38 AM »
What's the giveaway for spotting CGI? I'm not smart enough to tell the difference.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #53 on: November 01, 2008, 01:12:55 AM »
I don't think it's CGI, at least not until it starts to land.

When it's in the air, it looks just like a toy, plastic airplane.


280: CGI usually has less detail, the lighting isn't quite right, etc.  Good CGI is difficult to tell from the real thing; bad CGI is usually fairly obvious. 
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #54 on: November 01, 2008, 01:38:21 AM »
It's CGI - he can tell from the pixels and having seen a lot of CGI in his time.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #55 on: November 01, 2008, 12:28:03 PM »

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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #56 on: November 01, 2008, 12:31:16 PM »
Sorry, it's hard to describe how to note CG.  Just the way it looks and moves (especially when it comes in for a landing) looks VERY artificial to me.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #57 on: November 01, 2008, 09:35:34 PM »
For me CGI has unreal textures or too perfect textures.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #58 on: November 02, 2008, 12:07:20 AM »
If you watch the video again, around 37 seconds or so in you can see the missing wing magically reappear.
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Re: Oh Pilots... new twist?
« Reply #59 on: November 02, 2008, 10:24:34 AM »
I just recalled that something like this actually happened, to a pilot named Neil Williams, in 1970. His left lower wing attachment let go, so he rolled upsidedown, which pushed it back together. He made a normal landing approach and rolled upright at the last second.

http://www.aerobatics.org.uk/repeats/zlin_wing_failure.htm
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