I seen this exact CGI ufo over a sky scraper in China... dissapears exactly the same... with the ring of blue lights. I'll find the video for you.

EDIT: Ok, I've searched and searched and cannot find it, my apologies... I would like to know if I'm imagining seeing this ufo in another context.. anyone else think this video is familiar?

[edit on 3-7-2009 by and14263]

Its extremely difficult to make a CG film with a shaky camera that looks smooth.

In saying that, you gotta figure out if your seeing the whole picture...for instance, take a big picture, then put a smaller box on the picture...lets say that box is the pretend camera shot...you can then put a UFO, Unicorn, etc on the original picture and then make it appear like your holding and wiggling the camera, bringing the ufo in and out of the camera.

then you simply make the ufo zoom off in cool fashion.

One way to get past this is to see whats being viewed...if they pan far to the side, spin the camera around, etc...then bring the camera back to view of the ufo, then thats a pretty solid film.

This film does go a little bit from one side to another...which means..

well, it means its not impossible CG, but certainly one of the more complex ones if it is CG.

Sorry I just wanted to see if anyone else saw the connection. Even if it did rain I'm not sure how the marks would disappear overnight like that.

The Nanjing video, looks fake to me. The movement of the craft and how purposefully blurry it was shows me that it was done cheaply on your everyday computer with some video editing software. Not convincing at all.

Originally posted by SaturnFX
Its extremely difficult to make a CG film with a shaky camera that looks smooth.

In saying that, you gotta figure out if your seeing the whole picture...for instance, take a big picture, then put a smaller box on the picture...lets say that box is the pretend camera shot...you can then put a UFO, Unicorn, etc on the original picture and then make it appear like your holding and wiggling the camera, bringing the ufo in and out of the camera.

then you simply make the ufo zoom off in cool fashion.

One way to get past this is to see whats being viewed...if they pan far to the side, spin the camera around, etc...then bring the camera back to view of the ufo, then thats a pretty solid film.

This film does go a little bit from one side to another...which means..

well, it means its not impossible CG, but certainly one of the more complex ones if it is CG.

Its not that hard to add 3D to a shaking camera. You just need to track it.. There is software that does this automatically. 2 main ones are Boujou, and PFtrack.

this video in particular has a great object to track to... the building.

Or you can just make a 3D camera and hand track it..

People, people, I can't believe what I'm reading. It's so clearly a fake. I t couldn't be more fake if it had a huge neon sign on top of it which flashed, "I AM FAKE".