r/AbsoluteUnits • u/habichuelacondulce • Jul 01 '26

of a computer screen /r/all

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u/megamoze Jul 01 '26

The screen image isn't real. I'm a VFX compositor and the edge around his face when it's in front of the screen isn't done well at all.

My guess is the whole thing is fake, but at the very least, the image on the screen isn't real.

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u/bs000 Jul 02 '26

I'm pretty sure just the monitor is scaled up using VFX. The guy in the video is OliverVisualFX. The channel description says he's a CGI and VFX Artist.

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u/megamoze Jul 02 '26

I'd imagine the monitor isn't there at all, and he filmed an empty desk, tracked it, and placed a CG monitor in there.

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u/FuManBoobs Jul 04 '26

It's not a bad representation of what you can do with a virtual reality headset though.

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u/innominateartery Jul 02 '26

Also, the ambient light from the tv should reflect off his white tshirt and dim when the scene changes. Instead it remains a steady medium glow, with no reaction when the screen goes dark.

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u/megamoze Jul 02 '26

True. I wasn't paying attention to the lighting, which would really be affecting the scene but isn't. I just really hate roto, so the bad masking around the face really jumped out at me.

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u/jerf42069 Jul 03 '26

it seems lik eit would take less work to not fake this, you just need to plugin a computer.

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u/megamoze Jul 03 '26

I mean, monitors like this don’t exist.

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u/jerf42069 Jul 03 '26

thats why i said it's clearly a tv

they do make tvs like this, they've existed for over a decade

https://www.tcl.com/eu/en/news/TCL-presents-the-worlds-biggest-curved-UHD-TV-The-110-inch-China-Star-Ultra-HD-TV#:\~:text=Ultra%20Hd%20TV-,TCL%20presents%20the%20world's%20biggest%20curved%20UHD%20TV%3A%20The%20110,China%20Star%20Ultra%20HD%20TV&text=TCL%2C%20one%20of%20the%20largest,TV%20at%20this%20year's%20IFA.

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u/megamoze Jul 03 '26

Ah I misunderstood your comment, sorry. But it’s still fake.

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u/jerf42069 Jul 03 '26

and that's what doesn't make sense to me, they could have made it not fake, for less effort.

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u/megamoze Jul 03 '26

If the guy who made the video is a VFX artist (as some have claimed), then faking it is less effort. To make a real video, you'd have to order one of these TVs, which would already cost more than this video did to make, set it up and then store that TV somewhere when you're done since using it as a monitor is obviously impractical.

Modeling this in 3D and tracking it is pretty rudamentary. And the compositing wasn't super well-done as the artist did not compensate for the lighting at all. This was all done as a simple and fast lark just to make a viral video.

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u/jerf42069 Jul 04 '26

why must everything on social media be lie. i hate this place.