Can meteors exist?

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:37 am

You tell me.

http://media.putfile.com/meteoor32

Merrypaws · Post by **Merrypaws** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:54 am

Is that for real? Can that be for real?

Ah well, it's entertaining anyhoo.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:48 am

Maybe it's a truck commercial. Perhaps they left off the "Chevy: Like a Rock" at the end.

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:46 am

It's so painfully obvious that it is a scripted SFX scene (with a 99.95% chance of being a commercial for that truck) that it's not even funny.

...and yet some of the comments below the video are from people who honestly believe it was real.

Maybe it's just because I watch too many sci-fi/ action movies and play too many videogames, but the "fingerprint" of sfx image manipulation is all over this video, and is obvious to the trained eye.

True as it may be that meteors really do strike the earth like this from time to time...it doesn't look like that when it happens. (Plus, guys goofing off in the desert don't use a camera like that...not to mention that the ejected debris from the impact would have destroyed the camera and injured and/or killed the cameraman.)

...Real?...Yeah right...

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:10 am

It looked real. But after close observation, its fake. Besides, it had to be a really big meteor for it not to burn up in the atmosphere. If it was a commercial, then thats an odd way of selling a truck.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:14 am

I agree, it looks like something they did for a commercial.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:59 pm

Vuldari wrote:It's so painfully obvious that it is a scripted SFX scene (with a 99.95% chance of being a commercial for that truck) that it's not even funny.

*nods* You'd be surprised how easy it is to provide highly realistic FX these days; the commercial companies now have better equipment than George Lucas did the first time he filmed Star Wars.

Somebody once sent me this clip and asked if it was real. Convincing, yes, but too good to be true.

The home video approach does add to that illusion, but they blow it with the laws of physics. The meteor looks cool coming in, but a meteor that size would have made more than just a crater, and even if a meteor was small enough to be observed at close range, it would have kicked up more dirt and debris than pyrotechnics.

Though it's really the truck that gives it away. If you watch closely, you'll notice that the meteor lands right on the truck. It's hard to tell due to the dust cloud, but I think it's the same one that comes out of it.

white · Post by **white** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:33 pm

Some nice CG there, but that's quite clearly what it is. I'm surprised that some of the people there actually seem to thing it's real; as others have said, a metor that size would kill everyone in sight with debri, and kick up a LOT more dust, and a smaller one wouldn't do anything even remotely resembling an explosion. Fun little clip, though.

@Terastas: Hrm. Perhaps there are people who just don't have a good idea of how to tell SFX from reality.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:14 pm

My first thoughts were the same. "Ots a commercial" A meteror that big would have lkeft a pretty big crater and everyone would be flying.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:42 pm

It's a comercial i've seen it on tv it's for the toyota four runner....so it's fake

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:46 pm

What do you guys think of this one?

http://media.putfile.com/omaVSmercedes

Miguel · Post by **Miguel** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:51 pm

The old woman is a moron...knocking up someone's mercedes.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:06 pm

lol totaly staged funny though

Prowler · Post by **Prowler** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:08 pm

Thats one hyper sencitive air bag

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:20 pm

First time I saw that I though: WOAH!! Thats really sweet looking! Ofcource what popped through my head a second later was: cheesy. Though the effects look great, its just something about it that doesn't fit what I've imagine meotors (sp?) looked like falling. Really cool though, you have to give them credit for that!

I think one reason is because it fell slanted, wouldn't it fall strait down?

Stone Wolf · Post by **Stone Wolf** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:27 pm

The meteor did look kind of cool, but not real... I've seen a lot of crap fall out of the sky and it doesn't look like that..

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:52 pm

ha ha ha ha, NICE! staged but but hillarious though

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:36 pm

hmm they should have a giant meteor fall on a guys head and the guys walks out of a cloud of smoke with out a single scracth.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:10 pm

Figarou wrote:What do you guys think of this one?

http://media.putfile.com/omaVSmercedes

Funny yes, but still too good to be true.

Raith Lupus wrote:@Terastas: Hrm. Perhaps there are people who just don't have a good idea of how to tell SFX from reality.

Rememeber when Jurassic Park introduced us to CGI and some people speculated that they had actually used real-life dinosaurs? Well, that's just the pattern: whenever a breakthrough comes about, some people fail to recognize it as such.

In this case, it's not so much a breakthrough in technology as it is a breakthrough in technique. Advertising companies now have the same tools that Spielberg did, and they've discovered the home-video feel makes it all the more convincing.

Just think: some day you might be able to make stuff like this on your PC.

Miguel · Post by **Miguel** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:12 pm

Duhhhh...kind thiught it would kill them in real life but

STILL FUNNY

Searif · Post by **Searif** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:34 pm

they all look quite real, the meteor one looks the best, but this one beats them all http://analogik.com/multimedia/video/tetra_vaal.mov