Card Trick

Rabelais

Rabelais

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If this isn't CGI, I am stumped. Anyone got a clue how this might be done?

http://www.youtube.com/v/Uh0CMcLiRkw%26feature%3dshare
 
I'm sort of a hobby magician and I know some card tricks and can perform them as well (but not that good actually) but this one I bet is a computer generated thing or something like this.

as a hobby I try to figure magic tricks and illusions out some of them are very impressive when you don't know how they work.
a real good magician or illusionist not only has to master his technic of performans but most importanly the psychology of people and how to manipulate their perceptions through body language and emphasis of language.

it is really a form of art.
 
Hey R,

It may be explained in the comments at the link below:

_https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/worlds-greatest-card-trick/

To save people from going to That School of VISUAL ARTS is worth a browse ~ very interesting…

To save people having to go to Lou’s link Eric Wagner & Sharon Ma write:

“We created the card trick project to show off our 3D creature effects skills. From the beginning the video was designed to appear completely candid, as if someone just walked up and started recording a street magician with their cellphone. In reality, the footage was shot with two Canon 5D Mark II cameras on two separate days.

The majority of the people seen in this video were not planted in the audience. Other than the magician, only three of the dozens of people seen in the video were working with the crew. The crowd’s real reactions to the magician’s actual tricks helped sell the believability of the impossible 3D character.

With the use of Autodesk Match Mover we were able to create 3D animated cameras that follow the hand-held footage. This allowed the card creature to have his feet firmly planted on the ground despite the shaky camera work. This was done to further sell the idea that what you are seeing is completely candid and unplanned.

Autodesk Maya was the program of choice for the modeling, rigging, animation, surfacing, and lighting of the card monster. We scanned an entire deck of Bicycle playing cards to insure that there weren’t any duplicates on the creature or the ground by his feet.

The final VFX shot was the most complicated as it required the creature not only to move but also to completely come apart and fall into a pile of cards with a believable sense of weight and gravity. Though the build-up shot in the beginning of the piece worked well being hand-animated, the fall-apart shot required a series of dynamic simulations to achieve to ideal result.

The 3D rendered footage was then brought into Adobe After Effects for composting. A laundry list of adjustments and effects were added to achieve the final look of the card creature in the environment”
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Also at this link:

_http://portfolios.sva.edu/gallery/Greatest-Card-Trick-Ever/2118612
 
Thanks truth seeker. It was obvious that it was CGI, but very cleverly done. Its amazing what they can do with video these days. It also makes me go hmm on why there was the big push to make all TV transmission switch over to digital.
 
Solaris said:
Mainly to allow for the resale of the analogue signal bands, afaik.
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Yes, there is that, but I have a feeling that there might be another underlying purpose of darker importance. There can be little way of telling what subliminal or subconscious signals are being transmitted directly into viewer's minds without knowledge of the blacker projects of DARPA, et al. I have a sneaking suspicion that digital broadcast technologies may have made mass management of perceptions much easier.
 
As soon as I saw the "card man" I knew it was CGI. I think they could have done a little better to make it more convincing.
 
Yeah, notice the constantly changing pile of cards on the floor after he throws them down. Every shot after that shows the pile arranged differently, eventually having only a few cards.
 
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