Spotted a UFO in my GTI

[Time for a GTI]

Wait, wait, wait. Hooooold on a sec. You think this:

is real? You're trollin dude. I refuse to believe otherwise.

[Anim8or]

lol. Nice try pal. Most of those were shot before you were even born. Dolt.

BWAAAHAAAAAHAAAA "shot before you were even born" WAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAA! "Dolt" BWAAAAAHAAA, OHHH MAN, you're a riot.

Fist time I've run into this level of stupidity on VW Vortex. Alright blocking your posts from my browser now. Enough idiocracy for one day!

Cheers.

[PrimaVW]

Yea...nope. A mothership materializing out of nowhere with no sound? I'm sorry, but there's no way to violate the laws of thermodynamics. A vast amount of energy MUST be spent to do something like that.

Laws of thermodynamics cannot be broken but yet the laws of physics are already being broken outside in space...

[feels_road]

lol. Nice try pal. Most of those were shot before you were even born. Dolt.

The Hanebau one is funny - not only does the architecture post-date Nazi Germany by at least 20-30 years, but this and similar crafts are inventions of neo-Nazis - not really a group most people like to associate themselves with.

[Anim8or]

800'ish hours. That's a bunch of hours for a 40 second clip.

The students came in the last month. About 200 artist hours total.

[Anim8or]

checks out OP's post. looks at OP's name. nice work OP.

Thanks

[Mr Miyagi]

Yea...nope. A mothership materializing out of nowhere with no sound? I'm sorry, but there's no way to violate the laws of thermodynamics. A vast amount of energy MUST be spent to do something like that.

Get the **** out.

[Cooper]

They must've visited to abduct the GTI and discover the wonder of German Engineering.

Hope they took extra coilpacks with them.

[C4 A6]

Get the **** out.

Joke





















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You.

[VMPhil]

The ones I was lucky to spot, were just round gray discs in the sky (no blinking beacons)....one up front and two following at a distance behind.

Earlier, there were others that cruised with Orange lights on (solid, not blinking)...then would disappear.

My guess is they cruise with the lights shut down, when they want to see something or whatever they light up. Were like glowing orange objects that moved up and down.

They weren't planes, weather balloons, helicopters, Chinese lanterns, etc.



Interesting night, others saw them as well. Very surreal, big skeptic here before that.

Spotted a gray Disk hovering over lake Michigan about 6 years ago. It wasnt the first shyt ive seen tho.

[Anim8or]

Spotted a gray Disk hovering over lake Michigan about 6 years ago. It wasnt the first shyt ive seen tho.

Awesome that you saw an actual UFO. Would love to see something like that myself, regardless of whether its meteorological phenomenon or something man-made.

My video was meant to trick the viewer, but not into thinking that the UFO's were real, but rather that everything else was.

[TJSwoboda]

Laws of thermodynamics cannot be broken but yet the laws of physics are already being broken outside in space...

Are you trolling?

[Anim8or]

I love how nerdy the trolling is on this thread.

[Porridgehead]

I love how nerdy the trolling is on this thread.

So what program(s) did your students use to create this sequence?

[Anim8or]

So what program(s) did your students use to create this sequence?

We used Maya for all the 3D (Sky, landscape, car, UFO's). Composited in After FX, with a bit of Nuke as well. Video CoPilot's Lens FX was used for the lens flares. Mudbox for 3D painting. Photoshop for traditional painting.

The most difficult element was the landscape because it had hundreds of millions of polygons, so we instanced most of the trees/bushes,grass.

[feels_road]

I love how nerdy the trolling is on this thread.

On that note, if there is more to an event horizon than Hawking radiation, MFactor actually has a point.

[koko12]

Yea...nope. A mothership materializing out of nowhere with no sound? I'm sorry, but there's no way to violate the laws of thermodynamics. A vast amount of energy MUST be spent to do something like that.

Assuming something like that was true, do you think such an advanced species would fall under the constrains of our limited understanding of physics?

[BmwFanBoy]

Lens FX was used for the lens flares

I just bought these apps for my iPhone, pretty cool editing tools. OP do you have a website with other projects? And have you done anything we seen in the theaters?

[MFactor]

Are you trolling?

I'm trolling how? The brilliant C4 A6 once again makes a masterful post, this time by making a statement of how the laws of thermodynamics cannot be broken on a short sci-fi CGI film. I make a point that our scientific laws are not perfect as there are far too many things outside of our world that we do not yet understand. As I pointed out, an example would be singularity. If something like this truly does exist, what would make you believe in absolute certainty that the object would have to make a lot of sound for it to disappear?

[MFactor]

I love how nerdy the trolling is on this thread.

Hey man, don't call us nerds. You're the one that created the UFO video.

[Porridgehead]

If something like this truly does exist, what would make you believe in absolute certainty that the object would have to make a lot of sound for it to disappear?

A sound is transmitted by the vibration of the molecules of air. If no molecules were vibrated during the apparition or dissolution of the object, then no sound would occur. One way to achieve this would be to have the molecules of the object occupy the space between the existing air molecules, thereby creating minimal disturbance when appearing or disappearing. A molecule of oxygen has the size of approximately 292 picometers (using the covalent radii equal to 1/2 the distance between the covalent bonding nuclei, natch). The space between air molecules, at STP, is about 3.3 nanometers, so there's quite a bit of wiggle room for a motivated molecule to sneak in.
Nevertheless, given the number of molecules occupying that space, it would be a considerable feat indeed. Thus, the ability to beam a troller into a wall is not going to come anytime soon. Sadly.

[Air and water do mix]

Hey man, don't call us nerds. You're the one that created the UFO video.

"They call us nerds but we've no regrets."

[jrmcm]

This is car related?

[feels_road]

This is car related?

Yes.

[Anim8or]

This is car related?

Yeah. We modeled a 2012 GTI from scratch. I'll post a wireframe breakdown soon...

[MFactor]

A sound is transmitted by the vibration of the molecules of air. If no molecules were vibrated during the apparition or dissolution of the object, then no sound would occur. One way to achieve this would be to have the molecules of the object occupy the space between the existing air molecules, thereby creating minimal disturbance when appearing or disappearing. A molecule of oxygen has the size of approximately 292 picometers (using the covalent radii equal to 1/2 the distance between the covalent bonding nuclei, natch). The space between air molecules, at STP, is about 3.3 nanometers, so there's quite a bit of wiggle room for a motivated molecule to sneak in.
Nevertheless, given the number of molecules occupying that space, it would be a considerable feat indeed. Thus, the ability to beam a troller into a wall is not going to come anytime soon. Sadly.

Yep. One creative way to think of it is, the craft may not make any sound because there's a vacuum around the UFO. Maybe the same vacuum that allows it to float without any jet like propulsion? Energy does not always equal audible sound. Take the sun for a example. A huge ball of energy but the vacuum of space will not allow the molecules to emit what we would consider "sound".

[Porridgehead]

Yeah. We modeled a 2012 GTI from scratch. I'll post a wireframe breakdown soon...

Oooh... I look forward to that.

[feels_road]

Take the sun for a example. A huge ball of energy but the vacuum of space will not allow the molecules to emit what we would consider "sound".

It's a magnetized plasma - not a vacuum between the Earth (and spacecraft) and the sun. That actually allows for a number of different waves, among them also acoustic-like (longitudinal) ones. However, the power of these waves is very small, especially in the audible range. /nerd

[Anim8or]

Oooh... I look forward to that.

I'm making the breakdown now. Thinking of also including CG turntables of the GTI. Is that something you'd like to see?

[OrangeA4]

I'm making the breakdown now. Thinking of also including CG turntables of the GTI. Is that something you'd like to see?

Yeah, I'd like to see that too. Cool. Plus you never responded to my personal message.
You looking to do any work on a feature film?

[C4 A6]

A sound is transmitted by the vibration of the molecules of air. If no molecules were vibrated during the apparition or dissolution of the object, then no sound would occur. One way to achieve this would be to have the molecules of the object occupy the space between the existing air molecules, thereby creating minimal disturbance when appearing or disappearing. A molecule of oxygen has the size of approximately 292 picometers (using the covalent radii equal to 1/2 the distance between the covalent bonding nuclei, natch). The space between air molecules, at STP, is about 3.3 nanometers, so there's quite a bit of wiggle room for a motivated molecule to sneak in.
Nevertheless, given the number of molecules occupying that space, it would be a considerable feat indeed. Thus, the ability to beam a troller into a wall is not going to come anytime soon. Sadly.

If I'm reading this correctly, then you're saying that the ship would have to materialize "in parts" where every single molecule of the ship would sneak in between air molecules in the exact same orientation each time to completely materialize the ship without making a sound, right?

Then how would the molecules of the ship 1) know where to go exactly and 2) rebond with each other upon materialization so the ship doesn't just fall apart into tiny atoms upon materializing in our atmosphere?

I'm trolling how? The brilliant C4 A6 once again makes a masterful post, this time by making a statement of how the laws of thermodynamics cannot be broken on a short sci-fi CGI film. I make a point that our scientific laws are not perfect as there are far too many things outside of our world that we do not yet understand. As I pointed out, an example would be singularity. If something like this truly does exist, what would make you believe in absolute certainty that the object would have to make a lot of sound for it to disappear?

Lay off, dick. It's all good fun, and besides, aren't sci-fi films supposed to be both otherworldly yet "believable" to an extent?

Hell, lightsabers didn't need to make a sound when waved, but you can think about it as a fluorescent tube. If you take one of those fluorescent light tubes and turned it on, you can hear the humming of the ballast that's containing the gas that produces the light. You can think of the lightsaber as a fluorescent light without a solid ballast, but one present none the less (or else the light would just escape into the air every time you turned it on, and it would be good for only one use.) So you turn on the lightsaber and the humming may be the ballast containing the high energy/high temperature gas.

Again, it's all good fun to try and logically explain, whether in favor or against, any sci-fi phenomena.

[Anim8or]

Yeah, I'd like to see that too. Cool. Plus you never responded to my personal message.
You looking to do any work on a feature film?

Hey, Sorry for the late response. Message sent.

[thebanker]

Now that you mention it, I did not see any CEL at all. So that tells me that the cluster is CGI.

Also, I've seen a UFO in real life... It was weird, and more or less un-dramatic. Some people dismiss it, others believe me. What I saw... was what I saw.

[Porridgehead]

Did it look like this?

[Porridgehead]

If I'm reading this correctly, then you're saying that the ship would have to materialize "in parts" where every single molecule of the ship would sneak in between air molecules in the exact same orientation each time to completely materialize the ship without making a sound, right?

Then how would the molecules of the ship 1) know where to go exactly and 2) rebond with each other upon materialization so the ship doesn't just fall apart into tiny atoms upon materializing in our atmosphere?



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Like I said, it wouldn't be easy. Especially that bonding part. Troublesome, that bit. Not to mention the reanimation of all life-forms and the energizing of any electronic components. Anything in motion at the time is left to fend for itself because I'll be dipped if I can figure out how that would work.
Now that I think about it, it would be much easier and a whole lot more fun if the ship appeared and disappeared with a great thundering whallop to let everybody know that they had best pay attention because something very important just happened.