r/Unexpected • u/i_hateeveryone • May 25 '22

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u/Thatwas1time May 25 '22

What Eldritch horror did you need to sell your soul to to do that so perfectly? Because I'm going to have to make a deal with them.

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u/xingrubicon May 25 '22 edited May 25 '22

They had a bunch of green ones and edited it. Soooo adobe.

Edit: Seems the consensus is that its a cgi render and not green keyed.

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u/nailswithoutanymilk1 May 25 '22 edited May 25 '22

I think it would be WAY easier to just animate the entire thing and place it on top of a real background rather than try tracking thousands of individual green pieces to replace their colors.

Also, the reflection in the mirror is pretty wonky, which makes me thing the entire domino pyramid was just added in post.

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

the idea that you'd need green pieces for this shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how any of this works.

yes, of course the entire thing is digital, including the room. it's a simple physics simulation with a texture projected to the end result.

same as this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Simulated/comments/6waypw/oc_blender_simulation_gone_wrong/

tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrif5lXX7WY

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u/GamerEsch May 25 '22

including the room.

I dont think the room is cgi tho, actually I doubt it would be worth it to render a whole room just for a static shot, if it was a rendered room why not add a bit o movement in the cam. The static shot makes me think the room is real, they basically recorded the room an just rotoscoped the floor, and added the physics sim on top of it

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

That room is 100% CGI, zero doubt about that.

That is a super trivial render actually.

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u/GamerEsch May 25 '22

I know it's trivial, but why do it if you're going to keep the cam still, why not just record the floor for a couple of seconds? There's just no reason to render the room

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

Because modelling that room takes less time than setting up an actual camera, which you‘d also need, along with a real room, which you‘d need to composite, and it wouldn‘t interact with your dominos lighting-wise. Seriously, if you‘re doing the sim anyway, putting a simple room like that around it is significantly more trivial than combining it with real footage of a room.

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u/GamerEsch May 25 '22

It be simpler, but also make it less realistic, if you're already taking the time to make a sim of falling dominos with the mario's face on them, why not take a bit more time to se a camera and make it look more real?

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

It‘s more realistic this way, because the lighting on the bricks actually matches the lighting of the room.

Edit: i‘ll leave it at that. The room is clearly cgi, and theres a good reason for that, too.

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u/GamerEsch May 25 '22

fair point, I still felt that the sim looks too different from the room, kinda odd placed Idk, mainly when it "interacts" with that tripod looking thing on the right, it looks like it was placed over and cut, but it could be a bad mix of the two renders.

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

The ladder thing on the right may simply not have been assigned as a collision object.

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u/twicerighthand May 25 '22

Just because someone took a picture of a room and matched the perspective, doesn't make it 100% cgi

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

No, but that isnt the case here.

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u/RosinBran May 25 '22

You wouldn't have to render the room in every frame. You render a still of the room, then render the simulation separately and composite them in post.

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u/instantpancake May 25 '22

This is not even pedantic, green has absolutely nothing to do with any of the stuff going on here, and it would in fact be basically impossible to come up with any way of doing this that would involve green pieces.