CGI (computer Graphics Imagery)
Hollywood animator Aristomenis Tsirbas' 40-second clip of a UFO zipping over Santa Clarita, Calif., may be the most incredible UFO clip ever. Viewers may be shocked to learn what's real and what isn't.
As UFO videos go, this could the best we've ever seen.
Instead of blurred footage filmed on a shaky camera phone, viewers can clearly see the dark latticed spaceship flying overhead.
With the driver sounding more and more shocked, the object zips over Santa Clarita, Calif., several times.
Its mothership then appears to collect the UFO, before both of them vanish into thin air.
That's because it's entirely the work of Hollywood animator Aristomenis Tsirbas, who spent four months creating the CGI masterpiece.
The 45-year-old director, who worked on Titanic, Hellboy and Star Trek, said he wanted to prove CGI could look "natural and convincing".
The 45-year-old director, who worked on Titanic, Hellboy and Star Trek, said he wanted to prove CGI could look "natural and convincing".
To prove it, everything in the clip — including the car, skies and the scenery — is computer generated.
Speaking to Wired, he said: "Everybody assumes the background and car are real, and that the UFOs are probably fake, especially the over-the-top mothership at the end.
"The general reaction is disbelief, so I usually have to prove it by showing a wire frame of the entire shot to prove that nothing is real."
He worked with students from the Gnomon School of Visual Effects to create the hoax.
