Hi Arbitrageur,
Thanks, but I’m actually no CG beginner at all. I have quite some experience with 3D software especially with 3ds Max/ Vray. I am new to After Effects, though.
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I'm still thinking it's more likely to be real, as in the elaborate kite theory. But if someone can propose more evidence it's CG I'm willing to look at it
Okay, I had to realise that my argument wasn’t that easy to understand; neither in this nor the other thread. I tried to explain it as good as I could and again have to point out that it’s *not* about ‘recreating the video’.
I thought that you (I mean also ‘you’ in general) perhaps might understand my argument better if you could see that the effect which can be seen over Mexico City is simply a built-in preset in Trapcode Particular. Even less than that. It’s merely the default settings plus some minor changes which yield the desired result in less than a minute. Due to the sheer amount of different parameter settings it is of course difficult, if not impossible to match *exactly* the same result.
Please take the time to download the file (3.2MB 1280x960px) and have a look at it. I hope you’ll see what I mean.
It is exactly at this point when I say: “How likely is it that a sphere ejecting behaviour of some kind which you can find in a software package appears above Mexico City?
PS: Thanks to you and Zorgon for the help with the video and embedding it. I was having a wrong ID error from YouTube that day (???).
