Real, or CGI?

Lashout_UK · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:15

Only a quick one this, so I apologise.

These:

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/12/2009-corvette-zr1-with-620hp.html

Real, or CGI?

Bit of a debate about it.

Obviously the ones very close to the bottom are CGI ....well, do you know, not actually sure on that either!

I was hoping Tom might stumble in here, being the HDR fella and all that jazz

Not my area of expertise!

Biohazard · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:17

yhack · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:18

Lashout_UK · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:18

And so it begins.

Biohazard · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:18

the ones moving with the guy in it... surely not?

olv · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:19

what's not real about them? plus they have exif soooo...

Lashout_UK · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:20

Really? Does that automatically entail they came off a camera?

daveydave · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:24

All real

Hxc · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:24

It's possible someone made fake exif info but it's a lot of hassle to go to. Occam's razor.

olv · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:24

Lashout_UK said:
Really? Does that automatically entail they came off a camera?

yes

although exif can be faked but i really don't see that being the case here. they all look like photographs. they were shot with canon SLRs aside from the last shots which where shot with a digital medium format camera. probably just chopped them out and stuck them on the backgrounds which is why they look like cgi.

Lashout_UK · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:25

I love you.

olv · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:26

steady now

danza · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:28

olv said:
what's not real about them? plus they have exif soooo...

Exactly.

I don't like the bonnet 'window', but the rest of the car is made of win. :cool:

Memphis · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:30

How on earth are people thinking they are CGI?

Lashout_UK · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:39

I dunno, confused me too.

olv · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:39

Memphis said:
How on earth are people thinking they are CGI?

because they are very very clean, smooth and stylised shots. it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they were computer generated.

Akira · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:42

Course they're real. The pics have just been HDR'ed a bit to compensate for the swirls. Seriously.

olv · 14 Jul 2008 at 23:57

there's no trace of HDR treatment there

Lashout_UK · 15 Jul 2008 at 00:04

Dup · 15 Jul 2008 at 00:40

They are all real. Some are over processed studio shots which can look fake as all the background is purposeful and the reflections are all staged. The laters ones look like they might have been photoshopped.

I've seen a lot of CG cars and these pics don't really stand out to me as such. They are very well cleaned up either before or after the shots and the blue versions in the middle have had the backdrop added in at a later point.

So, they're CG in a touched up Photoshop way, not a 3D rendered aspect.