Cloud interacts with man

[qubit]

This is some weird shit fake video, but it's still entertaining anyway:

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[qubit]

No one got anything to say about our mystery cloud? It looks cool if nothing else, lol.

[Solaris17]

you can make cooler shit in after effects.

[qubit]

you can make cooler shit in after effects.

I know sod all about creating CGI effects and I'm curious how something like this is made?

[erocker]

No one got anything to say about our mystery cloud? It looks cool if nothing else, lol.

Yeah, it's not a cloud. It's foam, cotton or something like that.

[Solaris17]

I know sod all about creating CGI effects and I'm curious how something like this is made?

something like this is hard to guess. their are alot of ways to do it like the cloud could be green screened. for example take fake cloud play it via wire on green screen. overlay onto scene played out. but doing so is hard consumes a ton of resources and requires alot of skill. id bank on this being a freak accident. maybe a shit ton of floating cotton. it is a desert it looks like heat vortexs arent uncommon. The give away is that a cloud even if this was a cloud would not react that way when tolching an object. it also wouldnt bounce when it touched ground it would spread out. not to mention fast movements like that would tear it apart.

[Steevo]

polyester fiberfill and very thin wires or fishing line, plus stop motion and after effects.


And there is nothing hard about a video overlay. I have done a few with any color backdrop, except it omits that color from the final cut as it searches the pixels of each frame and erases it and then substitutes the layer underneath, and can add shadows.

[qubit]

something like this is hard to guess. their are alot of ways to do it like the cloud could be green screened. for example take fake cloud play it via wire on green screen. overlay onto scene played out. but doing so is hard consumes a ton of resources and requires alot of skill. id bank on this being a freak accident. maybe a shit ton of floating cotton. it is a desert it looks like heat vortexs arent uncommon. The give away is that a cloud even if this was a cloud would not react that way when tolching an object. it also wouldnt bounce when it touched ground it would spread out. not to mention fast movements like that would tear it apart.

Yes, a green screen sounds plausible and the bold bit is really pertinent.

Tell you what: the video is wonderfully low quality and jerky so you can't really see anything properly, like all the best fakes, lol. Notice at 3:05, when they zoom into the cloud, how the video artifacting simply gets bigger and you don't see any more detail than you did before. This shows that it's an intentionally low-res render and they don't want you to see any more detail, which would show up the fakery. Unfortunately for them, they tripped up on this one. ;) Still, I think it's an intriguing special effect and would make for a good storyline in a drama about the supernatural.

Finally, for a cloud to really look like that close up and with such sharp edges, it would have to be very dense indeed, much more than normal and I don't think the air could hold that much water vapour.

[remixedcat]

we interact with clouds all the time.... they power many of the websites we access day to day.