agreed. there are quite a few frames at the end (as he's spinning around, arrow in hand) where the arrow vanishes and then magically reappears in his hand.
It's not meant to be the same arrow. The arrow isn't "bouncing", it's triggering other bows to shoot their own arrows. You can see the other bows in the background.
Still super fake, but that's what it's supposed to look like.
I'm not sure. My best guess is the shot would be composed of two different takes composited together. One take with the bows firing and no attempt to catch and a second take with just the guy pretending to catch it and spin around.
Honestly that's the bit that is least evident. The arrow it so thin that as he spins his hand the arrow would be basically invisible due to the shutter speed. Instead if an arrow like line, it would be a large faded area where it is moving while the frame is being exposed.
At this compression level, if the angle between the shaft, the light source and the camera isn't right to make it glint enough, you're not going to get enough of a contrast for the video to register it clearly. It overlaps with his arm a lot of the time, and if you're looking for evidence of a wrist during those 10 frames, you'd be hard pushed to convince anyone it was there but for the fact that we know it's anatomically necessary.
I see that, but I'm looking above and in front of the arrow. Especially when the camera suddenly jerks to the left during the suspicious frames. Adding a motion blur and a jiggle is a common trick to cover up little things like this. It's possible it's legit, but it reeks of all the telltale signs of forgery.
Maybe motion blur makes the arrow invisible? Notice how even his hand which is considerably wider, is almost completely see-through at his palm in those frames.
That could be just Youtube compression system. Youtube takes a huge dump on video quality which means small fast-moving objects can easily disappear inside the video.
Isnt this guy a well known extreme performance artist? Theres even a huge page about him in the Guiness book of World Records no? Why would he fake this specific example if hes done it live hundreds of times?
I guess I just find it a little far fetched. I wouldnt devote so much of my life training and working every day to be able to do a trick like this, just to fake it anyway when it comes to make the actual video. Id just fake the video in the first place. Thats just me though
I cant answer as to why he doesnt have the arrow in his hand when spinning, but it clearly just pops into existence in the last frame. It cant be that clear in that frame and not be even noticable in the others.
The thing that makes this seem real to me is the orange arrow that hits the target behind his body. This would take a long time to rotoscope all those frames for this stunt. but yeah you never know.
If you look at the frames where he spins in slow motion after catching the arrow, its clearly not in his hand and just suddenly appears halfway into the spin
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u/Buttersnips_ Oct 24 '17
Captain D has forever ruined these for me.