Diplomjodler@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoCalifornia Is Exploring High-Speed Buses That Connect LA and San Francisco in Just Over 3 Hoursgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1245arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia Is Exploring High-Speed Buses That Connect LA and San Francisco in Just Over 3 Hoursgizmodo.comDiplomjodler@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square77linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoSo… that shot actually largely did rely on the laws of physics. They really did jump a bus. They just CGI’d out the ramp that got the bus’s nose up, and CGI’d out part of the landing zone, to make up a jumped gap that looked more impressive. https://youtube.com/watch?v=NPhNIS69ayQ This was back before you could just CGI generate an entire scene like this… you had to actually do a lot of it for real. See if you can spot which exact shots/cuts/parts of shots are real, and which are fake, in that sequence.
So… that shot actually largely did rely on the laws of physics.
They really did jump a bus.
They just CGI’d out the ramp that got the bus’s nose up, and CGI’d out part of the landing zone, to make up a jumped gap that looked more impressive.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NPhNIS69ayQ
This was back before you could just CGI generate an entire scene like this… you had to actually do a lot of it for real.
See if you can spot which exact shots/cuts/parts of shots are real, and which are fake, in that sequence.