Diplomjodler@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCalifornia Is Exploring High-Speed Buses That Connect LA and San Francisco in Just Over 3 Hoursgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: nottheonion@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1225arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square72fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: nottheonion@sh.itjust.works
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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours 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.
physics need not apply
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.