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Greetings children, gather around Captain Disillusion and I will tell you a story. The epic tail of Beowulf, I mean Barzolff, Barzolff814. It journeyed from France to the cursive land of crappy online UFO videos and single handedly raised the bar on realism. Admit it, the first time you saw the famed Hattie UFO video, the unexpected visual combined with the sound of the woman gasping from off screen, sent a genuine shield down your spine.
It is an impressive piece of work in and itself but what is most remarkable about it is how quickly and categorically its appearance separated the skeptics from the believers. To the skeptics, this was just too good to be true. Right away they noticed little things like identical palm trees and the existence of another video containing what looks like preliminary test of the animation. Barzolff expertly used lighting with radiosity and a combination of key frame and procedural animation techniques to imitate natural hand held camcorder behavior and create a stunningly realistic, but completely computer generated shot.
The skeptics all settled on the fact that it was a really cool video. A cool fake video, but to the believers it was something different. It was a vine that which to grasp to keep there imaginary world of unseen forces alive.
On websites with articles detailing how the effect was done. They commented with opinions about minute details that might prove the video to be real. They were debunking it in reverse and even though Barzolff explained his work through an interview in an LA Times article and CNN headline news aired a piece about the LA Times article and even though the mighty sword with which Barzolff accomplished this speed, otherwise known as Vue 6 Infinite by Ion Software was sited by many animators and the infamous palm tree clone model can be easily found and examined inside the program. Still, they wanted to believe.
So, Barzolff created something new. He posted a video of two ladies playing with a remote control toy version of the Hattie spaceship in effect debunking his own video and the reactions poured in. The believers protested with comments like “There is a great deal of difference between the two crafts and the footage. The two UFO Hattie craft could not look more real, because they are real,” and “Oh my God, why these guys trying to convince other people that UFOs are fake?” Well, the vindicated skeptics proclaimed “That is the UFO to a UFO Hattie. I do not now how this guy gets 6 million views in a faked video but it pisses off,” and “I have one of those”.
But, what they did not know was that this video was faked too. This was another illusion. There are not levitating toys like this, it was a slightly altered version of the ship model animated 3d motion tract and composted it to live action footage.
Some people did figure this out but, that would not make my story very interesting. Barzolff tricked everyone without ever making false claims or revealing his identity until; tonight, where you see, I am Barzolff. No, I am just kidding with you kids. That would have been cool. A hero can dream though.
But now I am afraid, it is time for me to go kids. There is a voice calling me, it saying something over and over, but I cannot understand very much. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Are you coming? Yes, I am coming. Remember navigator, move with your heart, but use your head for everything else. Captain Disillusion.
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