brokenbeans
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Bloody hell.
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Golden Eagle Snatches Kid
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dragonlife
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I said, "Holy shit," and proceeded to laugh at the slow-mo version.
fizzelopeguss
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That's a high res gif you've got there.
Maybe if the eagle had been successful it would have attempted to raise the baby as it's own.
When it realised that the baby was unable to fly it would have let the baby ride on a tiny saddle on the eagle's back like Brian Blessed in fucking Flash Gordon.
For a few months the baby and the eagle would happily live together, flying high over the land hunting for other babies with which to form their infant army. Babies start being snatched throughout Montreal and teams of baby piloted eagles begin terrorising the area.
The babies are happy with this arrangement, but the eagles have an altogether more sinister agenda and begin using the tiny aviators as live bombs, dropping them onto their own grieving parents killing them in a shower of baby-matter.
The army responds but it is too late. The eagles have won and Canada has fallen.
And to think we all laughed when we saw the video that started it all.
What a bunch of bastards we've become.
When it realised that the baby was unable to fly it would have let the baby ride on a tiny saddle on the eagle's back like Brian Blessed in fucking Flash Gordon.
For a few months the baby and the eagle would happily live together, flying high over the land hunting for other babies with which to form their infant army. Babies start being snatched throughout Montreal and teams of baby piloted eagles begin terrorising the area.
The babies are happy with this arrangement, but the eagles have an altogether more sinister agenda and begin using the tiny aviators as live bombs, dropping them onto their own grieving parents killing them in a shower of baby-matter.
The army responds but it is too late. The eagles have won and Canada has fallen.
And to think we all laughed when we saw the video that started it all.
What a bunch of bastards we've become.
It is called inertia. The boy was moving up, and he will continue to move up for a while even though the eagle lets go.
I still say that video shows nothing.
IcyBlueStrawberry
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It looks completely fake imo.
The reaction of the two guys, the way the kid moves when he's being carried away, the way the eagle moves when it's flapping, and the shadows all look incorrect.
It would be an incredible video if it were real, but I doubt it is.
The reaction of the two guys, the way the kid moves when he's being carried away, the way the eagle moves when it's flapping, and the shadows all look incorrect.
It would be an incredible video if it were real, but I doubt it is.
Buba Big Guns
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Yea I dont think that video really proves anything.
I'd lean towards fake. The staging is perfectly imperfect, like most CG fake viral videos.
There's that funky moment in the beginning when the eagle's wing partially disappears.
Plus the oddness where the eagle's shadow just suddenly appears, and there's no logical reason why it wouldn't already be on the ground. It just pops in.
There's that funky moment in the beginning when the eagle's wing partially disappears.
Plus the oddness where the eagle's shadow just suddenly appears, and there's no logical reason why it wouldn't already be on the ground. It just pops in.
That's when I knew it was fake.
Awesome
But more topical is "Why couldn't it fly him to the damn Lonely Mountain?"
I believe that version of the video was posted by Deadspin. They add music a lot of times with a slow-mo replay.
Or I guess not.
Looks like you can see evidence of the compositing too, when the eagle passes behind the man.
Whole thing reminds me of this "Amazing Cat Gives Thumbs Up" video, which was apparently a viral prelude to the "Cats With Thumbs" ad campaign that launched like a week later in the UK.
No, it's on the apparent original posting.
Whole thing reminds me of this "Amazing Cat Gives Thumbs Up" video, which was apparently a viral prelude to the "Cats With Thumbs" ad campaign that launched like a week later in the UK.
No, it's on the apparent original posting.
LightofRohan
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It's crazy that with 10 days left of the year, a video comes around and steals Video of the Year instantly... a little too crazy.
BUT, I'm fairly decent w/ spotting fakes and a lot of the camera work in this video (too perfect) sets it off that it could actually be fake (look for decent composition in hectic scenarios!). But it's a beautifully done fake if it is... but, I'd have to go w/ fake. Especially with the convenient cutaway to close up of crying kid.
Ahhh, thought so. Pretty well fucking done though. But the tracking looked like it slipped for a bit.
BUT, I'm fairly decent w/ spotting fakes and a lot of the camera work in this video (too perfect) sets it off that it could actually be fake (look for decent composition in hectic scenarios!). But it's a beautifully done fake if it is... but, I'd have to go w/ fake. Especially with the convenient cutaway to close up of crying kid.
Aaaaand it's fake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOljUMc-Nc
Pretty well made, but still not good enough
Ahhh, thought so. Pretty well fucking done though. But the tracking looked like it slipped for a bit.
LyleLanley
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ReturnOfTheRAT
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If it's for an ad, what could they be selling?
LyleLanley
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Eagle insurance.
Always-honest
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LightofRohan
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Nah probably just compositing practice. People at my school do this stuff all the time and I have the class next term.
Freezie KO
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This is why it's cool that dinosaurs have feathers.
edit: except it's fake.
edit: except it's fake.
That's quite a connection if you're right, but it sounds like a shitty stock sample at a different pitch.
Boss Doggie
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Must be doing lifts. Alternatively...
They try for dogs so why wouldn't they try to grab a little kid
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
That and there's a lack of total distress when the baby gets snatched. And well, the opening shot.
I like how they run away instead of helping him in the first couple of seconds
Bjoern the Smexy
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Holy crap, that video in the OP was legitimately scary O_O
Every man for himself!
You are joooooking.... riiiight?
Anticitizen One
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Rescuers down under was more realistic than a Nolan movie
What if the eagle had a gun?
Monocle
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If cameras automatically shot bullets at everything they filmed, this wouldn't be a problem.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Condors are scavengers.
You livin' on the moon brah??
Eagles hate guns, but they love knives, everybody knows that
ChosenPredator
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Viral marketing for the pokemon live action film and how Ash ketchum got inspired to be a trainer.
The eagle is flying downward in all those clips. It's not really comparable to lifting a prey off the ground with no momentum.
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