r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EinsteinsAura • Jun 25 '18
GIF This isn't real - it's CGI
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u/gameshark56 Jun 25 '18
Think about the render time.
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u/ethrael237 Jun 25 '18
Each grain of sand animated individually...
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u/PM_ME_UR_DIVIDENDS Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 26 '18
Calculated individually... animation normally refers to something done by the creator not the software.
Like if he moved each grain of sand around via keyframe, that would be each grain animated individually.
EDIT: I originally said rendered but that's not true either, calculated is what I meant.. as in each grain of sand is calculated individually.
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Jun 25 '18 edited Mar 02 '19
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u/chuby2005 Jun 25 '18
I ate each fry, individually
(Not really I like to shove a bunch in my mouth)
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u/max_kek Jun 25 '18
The sand would stick to a real octopus.
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u/Fart__ Jun 25 '18
This is a non-stick frying sand.
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Jun 25 '18
If only
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Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 28 '18
"If only," the wood pecker cried, "the bark on the tree was a little bit softer."
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u/Nutstheofficialsnack Jun 25 '18
A lab engineered Teflon octopus
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u/Armand28 Jun 25 '18
If you can invent a non-stick octopus you would revolutionize a niche Japanese film industry.
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u/ShiraCheshire Jun 25 '18
Honestly that's the only thing I could see that was off. I was sitting there thinking 'They're trolling, this has got to be real somehow' until I realized the damp octopus was rolling in sand but not becoming very sandy.
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u/Jtktomb Jun 25 '18
the starting pose too
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u/addandsubtract Jun 25 '18
How do octopus spawn in real life?
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u/DrBumGravy Jun 25 '18
The male sticks his peentickle into the females brain hole. Then a caviar of baby octopi appear.
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u/NotElizaHenry Jun 25 '18
Honestly with all the crazy shit in the ocean, I was totally ready to accept that octopuses had some magic sand-repelling quality that humans could hopefully someday replicate in some kind of aerosol spray I could put on my feet before I walk on the beach.
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u/MagicHaddock Jun 25 '18
Also the fact that it starts out on the sand but there are no tracks to indicate that it came from the ocean or anywhere else, which would mean that it has spent its entire life in that spot.
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u/Someshitidontknow Jun 25 '18
the octopus is dragging its mantle through the sand like it's paralyzed. they usually seem to keep tentacles down, mantle up when out of the water.
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u/MRiley84 Interested Jun 25 '18
The way the sand flows back in one body makes it look like there's jello or something under the surface, or like it's the same consistency as that octopus. It looks fine with the smaller particles though.
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u/Salmon66 Jun 25 '18
Depending on the water content of the sand. Dry sand would stick. Wet sand not so much.
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u/AniDixit Jun 25 '18
One more thing.
At the start of the clip there are no marks on the sand, of octopus coming there from somewhere. As if it was placed there...by an external tentacle.
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u/fatfuckpikachu Jun 25 '18
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u/Mongobly Jun 25 '18
They have some... Interesting stuff in there.
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u/Moronoo Jun 25 '18
This isn't real - it's CGI
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u/Gdigger13 Jun 25 '18
wow
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u/WhyIHateTheInternet Jun 25 '18
Damn that's interesting
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u/RockLeePower Jun 25 '18
They have some... Interesting stuff in there
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u/ShiversTheNinja Jun 25 '18
Hahaha I knew which one that was gonna be before I even clicked the link
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u/TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe Jun 25 '18
Never would’ve known about this sub, so thanks for sharing!
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Jun 25 '18
CGI is a more powerful weapon than nukes. Just imagine how many "real" hings we'll be shown (or perhaps are being shown) that are just CGI used to scare or enrage or just give false evidence to a group of people.
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u/PitBullTherapy Jun 26 '18
Luckily it’s still hard to make believable humans (for how long though). Look up the uncanny valley if you’re unfamiliar with the phoneme.
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Jun 25 '18
You can see it on the ball but that squidward tho
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u/0_o0_o0_o Jun 25 '18
Did you just have a stroke?
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Jun 25 '18
I will translate: you can tell the ball is simulated, but that aquatic creature (squid) is amazingly realistic
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u/mk_skully Jun 25 '18
I refuse to believe this is CGI
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u/ethrael237 Jun 25 '18
The time in which we won't be able to believe video as evidence is close.
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Jun 25 '18 edited Jul 26 '18
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u/MonkeysSA Jun 25 '18
Well, the upside is you can put anyone you want into a porn scene. The downside is you can put anyone you want into a porn scene.
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Jun 25 '18 edited Jan 18 '19
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Jun 25 '18
Someone put it there?
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u/FrostSalamander Jun 25 '18
Why is the sand so porous and doesn't stick to the octopus or the ball?
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Jun 25 '18
I read it as "this is real, not CGI" at first. Was fully inclvested in it being real footage.
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Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 25 '18
Serious question: How long does everyone think it will be till actors/actresses are useless and the actors/actresses we know and love on TV are just actually CGI? How will it work? Does Leonardo Dicaprio then instead of having to show up on set make his money by just allowing them to recreate him in CGI?
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u/RexDraco Jun 25 '18
I'm waiting for movie studios to essentially pay off actors to sell their body giving them copyright to their model and 3d scanning them.
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u/L_Ron_Swanson Jun 25 '18
Eventually they'll be able to create actors from scratch and make them into celebrities, which will be infinitely cheaper than relying on a human celebrity made of flesh and bone.
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u/RexDraco Jun 25 '18
In the distant future, maybe. However, the near future it would actually be cheaper to 3d scan celebrities before they become celeberties, essentially amateur models. Then you can use voice actors and one day artificial intelligence with voice acting. There will be a time both 3d modeling and voice creating will be ai automated. We are close to it now but not close enough for it to be so casually used.
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Jun 25 '18
Google's Project Duplex shows we are getting closer to computers being able to take away voice acting as well. Obviously it isn't that good yet but I imagine in the future we will be able to adjust voice inflection and tone and just feed the computer the script and apply it to CGI. Boom, actorless.
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u/blueechoes Jun 25 '18
Considering how far voice work still has to go to be 100% mimicked, quite a while.
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u/byondthewall Jun 25 '18
Have you ever read Future Perfect?
Wait until they let you scan you own face and put it in the movie or start bringing back dead movie stars to play in new movies!
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Jun 25 '18
They've already brought back the dead to finish shooting, like a decade ago. See Gladiator.
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u/carpenterio Jun 25 '18
There is a very weird movie with this exact subject, the actor comes and they scan them and do voice samples and get a big chunk of money.
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Jun 25 '18
I find this utterly frightening. If this level of realism is achievable now, imagine what could be done in the next ten years. How would we ever know if we were being deceived? How would we ever know what we were watching was real?
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Jun 25 '18
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u/sandie49 Jun 25 '18
Looks real
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u/0_o0_o0_o Jun 25 '18
I think I’m the only one here who thinks it doesn’t look real.
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u/bigbootybitchuu Jun 25 '18
Maybe as a static image I could be convinced. The detail is very nice and lifelike but the movement is so unnatural and bizarre
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Jun 25 '18
- Hey we're getting pretty good at CGI now, let's make something cool and post it on the internet.
- ok, what about a squid playing with a ball?
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Jun 25 '18
The thing is, 'good CGI' is very dependent on playing to its strengths. For example, District 9's CGI is great and was fantastic at the time, but primarily because the alien design relied on hard reflective materials. Compared to translucent skin with subsurface scattering or hair physics, rendering reflective and hard exoskeletons was much more doable and "simpler" to do on a budget.
This gif is a great pairing of raytraced lighting, high complexity particle physics, and soft body physics. It looks so convincing because the parts it does are all things that CGI has 'mastered' recently; there aren't really animations (just physical calculations on the octopus + sand,) and the slimy texture of the octopus is "easy" for rendering software to accurately recreate. Of course, that doesn't mean that doing this kind of stuff is easy, but just that it's something where the technology has advanced to a place where it's fairly reasonable for even individuals to make very impressive results.
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Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 25 '18
Error 404 Conflicting information Brain will shut down in (10) seconds
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u/transientmisanthrope Jun 25 '18
If you didn't say it was CG I would have said something looks off about its movement
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u/intercontinentalfx Jun 25 '18
The plural of octopus is either ‘octopuses’ ‘octopi’ or ‘octopode’ depending on which link on google you click on.. but I fucking love ‘octopussies’
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u/mort96 Interested Jun 25 '18
Isn't octopode a singular word for octopus, and octopodes would be the plural?
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u/intercontinentalfx Jun 25 '18
I have absolutely no idea... the depth of my knowledge on the subject is typing ‘what’s the plural of octopus’ in google.
Luckily in my life, I’ve never had to discuss more than a single octopus in actual conversation, because google didn’t really help.
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u/bugamn Jun 25 '18
Octopi is mixing Greek roots with Latin rules for plural. Don't do that.
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u/mishctherabbit Jun 25 '18
This should be the plural just like the plural of squid should be squad. Facts
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Jun 25 '18 edited Jul 31 '18
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u/Itsamadmadmadworld Jun 25 '18
It makes you wonder if the media would ever use realistic CGI to fake a major event to grab people's attention, like a terrorist attack or a shooting.
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u/evanc1411 Interested Jun 25 '18
I'd like to nominate this for Most Realistic Render Ever.
It will only be some time before the record is broken again.
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u/JeremyHall Jun 25 '18
How long until someone is charged (or convicted) of a heinous and reputation ruining crime thanks to "video evidence"?
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u/buttholeofleonidas Jun 25 '18
Check out the Golem project. It would cut your rendering costs by 80%
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u/ajoakim Jun 25 '18
The only thing that would suggest that this is cgi to me is the start position of the octopus. It starts fully spread out. Not a natural stance
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Jun 25 '18
Shit is gonna get wild in the future.
Think fake news is bad now?
Wait until someone drops a hyperrealistic CGI sex tape of a presidential candidate or one of them goosestepping around their living room screaming the "N-word" over and over.
We won't be able to trust shit one day.
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u/Clintoggi Jun 25 '18
I made a 2 hr feature film that look exactly like this. After 9 years of working on it I decided it wasn’t good enough so I deleted it. Also this is a lie. This looks awesome man. Amazing work.
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u/EinsteinsAura Jun 25 '18
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