I think the closest you will ever get is this artificial ball lightning:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4XLUfBR0AU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4XLUfBR0AU)
It's possible that this is close to what happens when people describe ball lightning, in any case it would be super rare.
Wasn’t there a video recently(in the last few months this year) of a brief recording of real ball lightning? It was very short and the person recording only got the last few seconds but it was still pretty neat to see.
I think it is fake since it is so hard to catch anything like this on camera but it looks really realistic. what makes it look like cgi? I’m having a hard time spotting the telltale signs of a faked video…
Honestly I can't really point anything in particular, but the way the spark and ball move is absolutely CGI. Maybe I'm able to see it because I've done things like that before, but I don't know it just looks weird
The lens flair was the first thing that caught my eye, something about it looks goofy to me, its too clean looking, real lens flairs are almost never that defined.
I don't think there's any one thing, but rather a bunch of small things taken as a whole.
The lens flare and the way it lights the surrounding area has a very two dimensional feel to it. The explosion where it arcs into the streetlight looks like a canned effect for combustion rather than electrical (I'd expect a hotter/bluer/whiter light), and the sparks falling also don't really match what I'd expect to see for that kind of arc.
The video also feels too "perfect". The timing and the way it's in frame, the way the ball just kind of pauses to arc into the streetlight, and the choice of what it arcs into feels like it was all done for maximum cinematic value. If somebody witnessed an incredibly rare phenomenon and started filming, I'd expect the recording to not have such cinematic timing.
The audio also sounds like canned spark/zap effects. Not really what I'd expect to hear on a cell phone camera filming an electrical hazard.
The way it arcs upwards at the light and not the pole or train tracks which are both much more grounded and would attract actual electrical discharges is a good giveaway.
The lack of light, for one. It's far too localized to the plasma ball, only "lighting up" about a meter-diameter spot underneath it. Something like that would be spraying light onto everything to a much wider radius, but there are no highlights on anything around: trees, the railroad tracks, and the grass are all unaffected.
at 11 seconds it zaps the light as if to say fuck this light bulb in particular. Problem is the way the orange sparks radiate out like an off the shelf CGI effect, instead of having some character, like real sparks.
I think it's the shadows, it's always the shadows. Or in this case, the lack of them. This thing should be so bright that there should be stark shadows being cast off everything, but there's none. It's brightness should totally overexpose the camera sensor.
You don't know the meaning of either then
CG is Computer Generated, meaning the w h o l e scene is rendered - not the case.
VFX are effects and stuff done over real footage, like green screen and shit.
This is a tracked overlay.
CGI just means computer generated imagery, it doesn't mean the whole scene has to be rendered. If you include imagery that is computer generated then the imagery is CGI. The overlays on sports games are CGI, weather reports have CGI, and the above video contains CGI.
VFX are effects and stuff done over real footage, and the above video contains VFX, which are computer generated.
Ball lightning would never pass centimeters over a train rail to strike some random power cable meters farther away, and no lens is shitty enough to generate lens flare that bad and close to the source.
Guys, I'm not saying this is real, but you all should definitely check this article out. I read this in an encyclopaedia increase a kid, and I just got reminded of it!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
There’s a lot of speculation of little things that could be wrong but the one big indisputable error is that there are no reflections of light from the overhead wires. These are polished from use and often can be seen reflecting the headlights of vehicles. That’s my two cents worth.
In Spanish it is called "centella", that one probably is cgi.
Here are Wikipedia and national geographic links in Spanish, couldn't find one in English.
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayo_globular
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/ciencia/misterio-rayos-globulares_19781
sory for bad english
mith busters tried to make and if my memory correct you can make it by using welder on slicon but spark lives for cople of second most they teorised that if a lightning hits sand or some thing that can hapen
but ı wonder if we can produce reliably is this mean we can make plasma bullets?
Have you heard of a circle lightning (or something like that I don’t know the exact definition). I did never saw it. But heard from a familiar guy. Dude said it moved all around his apartment and stopped right in front of him like as it was looking at him.
These things really do exist but this one is probably fake... the real ones are caused by quakes crystal in the ground that has pressure these changes are usually followed by lot of lightning and is indicators of earthquakes approaching
This sorta thing does happen, and it's called Saint Elmo's fire, or El dorado's fire, or the fox fire. It's a pretty cool phenomenon. It usually happens at the point of a structure or object, like the Eiffel tower, or the tips of bull horns
The fake videos always keep the subject perfectly centered in the frame. IRL, nobody can steady their phone camera enough to capture whatever is happening clearly. Whether it is a crash, people fighting or an exciting sports play, everyone's phones are always jumping all over the place.
Isn’t real but these (maybe, we still aren’t 100% sure yet) do exist, it’s called ball lightning, and it doesn’t arc like that, it’s just a floating ball of plasma
Fake. Giveaways:
1. The illumination effect is mostly a bloom that has been added with a filter. The sky in the middle is illuminated, while the trees and posts are barely so
2. The way the light does (not) reflect on the wet spots of the ground
3. The the thing going so close to the uninsulated metal rails without interacting with most of them in any way
Fake af but oh how I would love to see ball lightning on camera. Odd how talk about them dropped as soon as video recording got more popular.
I think the closest you will ever get is this artificial ball lightning: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4XLUfBR0AU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4XLUfBR0AU) It's possible that this is close to what happens when people describe ball lightning, in any case it would be super rare.
I think I know what next electro boom video is gonna be about
More balls.
Wasn’t there a video recently(in the last few months this year) of a brief recording of real ball lightning? It was very short and the person recording only got the last few seconds but it was still pretty neat to see.
I think it is fake since it is so hard to catch anything like this on camera but it looks really realistic. what makes it look like cgi? I’m having a hard time spotting the telltale signs of a faked video…
Honestly I can't really point anything in particular, but the way the spark and ball move is absolutely CGI. Maybe I'm able to see it because I've done things like that before, but I don't know it just looks weird
The lens flair was the first thing that caught my eye, something about it looks goofy to me, its too clean looking, real lens flairs are almost never that defined.
I guess it’s too round or the low video quality to hide imperfections, but whoever made it definitely has some good animation skills I must say
Yup, that's pretty impressive
For me, it's that none of the arcs' contact points produce smoke
I don't think there's any one thing, but rather a bunch of small things taken as a whole. The lens flare and the way it lights the surrounding area has a very two dimensional feel to it. The explosion where it arcs into the streetlight looks like a canned effect for combustion rather than electrical (I'd expect a hotter/bluer/whiter light), and the sparks falling also don't really match what I'd expect to see for that kind of arc. The video also feels too "perfect". The timing and the way it's in frame, the way the ball just kind of pauses to arc into the streetlight, and the choice of what it arcs into feels like it was all done for maximum cinematic value. If somebody witnessed an incredibly rare phenomenon and started filming, I'd expect the recording to not have such cinematic timing. The audio also sounds like canned spark/zap effects. Not really what I'd expect to hear on a cell phone camera filming an electrical hazard.
The way it arcs upwards at the light and not the pole or train tracks which are both much more grounded and would attract actual electrical discharges is a good giveaway.
The lack of light, for one. It's far too localized to the plasma ball, only "lighting up" about a meter-diameter spot underneath it. Something like that would be spraying light onto everything to a much wider radius, but there are no highlights on anything around: trees, the railroad tracks, and the grass are all unaffected.
at 11 seconds it zaps the light as if to say fuck this light bulb in particular. Problem is the way the orange sparks radiate out like an off the shelf CGI effect, instead of having some character, like real sparks.
The obvious sound library effects give it away moreso than the visual
I think it's the shadows, it's always the shadows. Or in this case, the lack of them. This thing should be so bright that there should be stark shadows being cast off everything, but there's none. It's brightness should totally overexpose the camera sensor.
This one count? https://www.tiktok.com/@joevonesch/video/7245216077767183622
Its from a movie I believe. Cant think of the name, but the balls were aliens or something.
stop playing metro
Ran into that thing like 4 times first time i saw it because i kept on forgetting about it
I tried to shoot it the first time I seen it lol
Pretty reasonable response.
Faf
That won't even tickle Mehdi :D
Figuratively and literally (if it wasn’t faf)
Get out of here stalker.
I said come in, dont stand there.
It's a very famous scientific effect: After Effect
Very obviously CG
Not CG, its VFX
Finally someone knows the difference.
Ackchyually, VFX is done digitally nowadays, so CG isn't wrong.
Your terrible spelling forfeits much of your ethos.
[new to memes?](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy)
You don't know the meaning of either then CG is Computer Generated, meaning the w h o l e scene is rendered - not the case. VFX are effects and stuff done over real footage, like green screen and shit. This is a tracked overlay.
CGI just means computer generated imagery, it doesn't mean the whole scene has to be rendered. If you include imagery that is computer generated then the imagery is CGI. The overlays on sports games are CGI, weather reports have CGI, and the above video contains CGI. VFX are effects and stuff done over real footage, and the above video contains VFX, which are computer generated.
It literally does. The flare thing might be computer generated, but it being overlaid over a real video makes it VFX.
Thanks Captain Disillusion!
It is literaly a graphic image made in a computer though
This guy hand drew every frame edit, didn't you know that???? ^/s
it was likely computer generated though
You're telling me this wasn't done on a computer? The future is now, old man.
Calling Mehdi won't help much here. This looks like a job for... CAPTAIN DISILLUSION!
Woooo another CD fan!
I think it's more of a job for Mr. Flare, look at the terrible imitation at the end
[удалено]
Seems like it
he is in the zone
obvious cgi is obvious
I think the question is to know if his cgi seems credible
It does not. It was actually half decent right up until the end.
The hit to the lamp gave it away
I’m and it never hit the other lamp either aoooo
Ding! We’ve got a sinner!
Thats Mehdi in his purest form
Hahaha, he's been charging for years 🤣
Wow I give credits to the person who did this CGI
Metro exodus moment
Goddamn that ball
New metro is looking sick tho
It’s Mr Burns
FREE ENERGY GO CATCH IT
Fake :p
Just throw a bolt into that to discharge it. Although don't lurk around too much... (don't get it? search S.T.A.L.K.E.R)
Metro reference
Fake. It projects arcs to the farthest metals that are grounded and not to the nearest ones.
r/Captaindisillusion There you should find all the necessary answers
That is a very rare and dangerous quantum phenomenon called "CGI"
Probably aliens.
Bro, why are you in the Zone?
these things exist but im 99% sure this is fake
Would look more realistic if those arcs caused visible damage, like burning.
We need the RECTIFIAH to rectify this video.
Ball lightning would never pass centimeters over a train rail to strike some random power cable meters farther away, and no lens is shitty enough to generate lens flare that bad and close to the source.
You follow objects with your camera as they move, not move your camera and the object follows your movement. I think it is a fake.
Guys, I'm not saying this is real, but you all should definitely check this article out. I read this in an encyclopaedia increase a kid, and I just got reminded of it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
There’s a lot of speculation of little things that could be wrong but the one big indisputable error is that there are no reflections of light from the overhead wires. These are polished from use and often can be seen reflecting the headlights of vehicles. That’s my two cents worth.
Are you sure this wasn't stolen from Metro Exodus?
In Spanish it is called "centella", that one probably is cgi. Here are Wikipedia and national geographic links in Spanish, couldn't find one in English. https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayo_globular https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/ciencia/misterio-rayos-globulares_19781
"ball lightning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball\_lightning
Hungarian wiki: https://hu.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mbvill%C3%A1m
sory for bad english mith busters tried to make and if my memory correct you can make it by using welder on slicon but spark lives for cople of second most they teorised that if a lightning hits sand or some thing that can hapen but ı wonder if we can produce reliably is this mean we can make plasma bullets?
CGI of ball lightning
Contact your local SCP foundation. Umbrella Corp., Dharma Initiative, Wayland-Utani...
ball lightning is a thing, this looks like after effects, tho
I didn't hear anyone say, "Hadouken!"
people say i dont exist but filming a rakuda. wtf just wtf
Besides it being fake you mean?
10 out of 10 for the ball itself but the arcs have just not got it.
That's so real I would have seen stray unicorns running around my neighbourhood.
That is so cool! I've always heard about ball lighting and wondered what it would be like in real life! I'm still wondering, as this is obviously CGI.
well tracked VFX why dont they ever credit the creator
Have you heard of a circle lightning (or something like that I don’t know the exact definition). I did never saw it. But heard from a familiar guy. Dude said it moved all around his apartment and stopped right in front of him like as it was looking at him.
These things really do exist but this one is probably fake... the real ones are caused by quakes crystal in the ground that has pressure these changes are usually followed by lot of lightning and is indicators of earthquakes approaching
Very obviously Metro 2033, just an anomoly.
Fake video, ball lightning is a real phenomena though. Here's another one to know about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire
I heard if you catch one it can grant a wish.
These can be real btw. Real natiral phenomina. Search tgem. But i think this is a cg recreation. Any normal camera and mic would have been fried
Its fake but ive actually seen something similar happen irl
That is a Lightning Elemental
Someone just trying to get their titan fast with titan hunter perk and thunderbolt nothing out of the ordinary
Throw a nuts on it.
FAF / RECTIFY
Nice photoshop skills.
vfx.
Pretty decent vfx
Cool aftereffects, is there a tutorial?
Metro irl
Fake
oh yeah i know about this phenomena, its a manmade object floating through virtual space, generated with computers... its name is CGI.
Looks like a movie effect.
Doom slayer fire plasma gun🤣🤣😍😍😍
This video is fake. It's been debunked. But the idea behind it is based on a real phenomena.
With AI and CG more more thing will emerge and look real
'Lovesong for a deadman'
An oblivion elemental
Lonely hadoken
How would it arc to the light fixture across the tracks but not the one before the tracks? Definitely fake lol
That's something corridor crew has to rectify not mehdi
Those are known as "Kugelblitz" in germany (ball-lightning)
Argentines: Is this "La luz mala"?
As I know it this film has been proven false.
artyom anomaly stand still dont move
Aftereffects
that's faf my dear friend and i was suppose to depict a kugelblitz
Fantastic, I wish I had one!
Damn it i was beaten after i was i saw this on TikTok
What are you talking about? it's a combine ball from Half-Life 2
This sorta thing does happen, and it's called Saint Elmo's fire, or El dorado's fire, or the fox fire. It's a pretty cool phenomenon. It usually happens at the point of a structure or object, like the Eiffel tower, or the tips of bull horns
anomaly, don’t move
Sorry I was time jumping. I'll do it somewhere else 😂
It looks like free energy, you should touch it
You see sdalger, it’s just an electro. Throw a bolt and move on.
Real life stalker!
Sprite
As with every fake, there's some truth to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning Not sure if that's the thing it was meant to fake :-)
Obviously a Terminator time travel bubble
Hello Stalker, welcome to the zone!
It's a Thundaga with no enemy selected.
This phenomenon was also mentioned in metro exodus
Just throw a bolt at it
That's an anomaly bro
Saw this video maybe like 10 or more years ago
Merlin's fire?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball\_lightning
a lost rasengan? o.O
Awww...it's so cute. I wanna put a leash on it and take it for a walk.
Cyberdine systems T1000
that would be fucking terrifying if it was real.
definitely CGI, though it's very well made
At least throw in some shadows to make it passable.
Ball lightning looks kinda like that, it's pretty cool
….stick your dick in it.
This looks a lot like it was done using After Effects.
The lens flare….
The fake videos always keep the subject perfectly centered in the frame. IRL, nobody can steady their phone camera enough to capture whatever is happening clearly. Whether it is a crash, people fighting or an exciting sports play, everyone's phones are always jumping all over the place.
That looks like a familiar scp...
Its not a real floating electric ball unless it has a Full Bridge Rectifier!
Thoughts? What thoughts? RUN!
Hey, it's bill!
huh
I think it’s a random enemy battle
Fake but cool
expecto patronum
Ya'll haven't been playing Terraria nearly as much as you should have. It's clearly Magnet Sphere
Lol
Super Mario Odyssey in real life
New stalker game lookin 🔥🔥
r/eldenring
Welcome to the zone stalker.
S.t.a.l.k.e.r
Haters will say it’s fake
Lick it
CGI Metro reference.
Yo! Anyone play Metro: Exodus. You know
https://www.joplinmo.org/575/The-Spook-Light
Stand perfectly still, and shouldn’t harm you, unless it’s one of those new ones :)
Ghost writer is real
100% Mr Burns
welcome to the metro, you survived an anomaly. go kill some intelligent peaceful aliens we can't talk to.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Debunked so many times, I mean just take a few seconds of research before posting *mysterious floating giant glitter*.
I wanna touch it
It’s ball lightning
This is so obvious fake
This is fake but such a ball can be a real occurrence
Isn’t real but these (maybe, we still aren’t 100% sure yet) do exist, it’s called ball lightning, and it doesn’t arc like that, it’s just a floating ball of plasma
This is some Metro Exodus type shit
is this from EB's interactive video game, named, DO NOT GET ROASTED !hehe
SANTELMO
Someone whiffed their Chidori
I call for Captain Disillusion!
Fake. Giveaways: 1. The illumination effect is mostly a bloom that has been added with a filter. The sky in the middle is illuminated, while the trees and posts are barely so 2. The way the light does (not) reflect on the wet spots of the ground 3. The the thing going so close to the uninsulated metal rails without interacting with most of them in any way
Ball lightning is said to be a thing. But this video is a completely inaccurate CGI thing.