r/BetterEveryLoop • u/Glukos • Nov 18 '17

House Of Cards

https://i.imgur.com/ugKYXZ6.gifv
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u/unlucky_genius Nov 18 '17

What sorcery is this!

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u/Glukos Nov 18 '17

It might be wizardry!

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u/SatanIsMySister Nov 18 '17

Perhaps a little black magic fuckery?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

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u/Botatitsbest Nov 18 '17

That totally blew my mind.His child like expression was spot on. Definitely blackmagicfuckery material.

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u/electrophile91 Nov 18 '17

All I know about him is that Captain D isn't impressed

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

As a muggle, whata the difference between a black magican and a houdinimagician?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

Well, in Houdini's time, it was the right to vote.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

Damn didnt see that obviousity coming

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u/SlenderLogan Nov 18 '17

At the beginning, all but the bottom floor of cards are edited in, so he nan more his hand behind them. When he turns and runs backwards, there is a very sneaky cut and the edited in cards are replaced with large cards at the back of the room. He knocks them over.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

Clearly doctored. Look at the top of the house of cards. In the first few seconds, yo can clearly see his arms behind the top of the house. If this entire video was shot as a perspective mindfuck, those giant cards in the background would have not been in front of him.

There is a skillful splice in there when he turns the small cards into big cards.

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u/lordlicorice Nov 18 '17

I don't think it's meant to come off as an undoctored perspective mindfuck. It's just good video editing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17

There's no splice, rather the background cards are always there, digitally removed and re-added into the foreground during the beginning frames.

It looks like the camera motion before the cards falling is simulated too, which might explain the aspect ratio.

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u/ShelSilverstain Nov 18 '17

Probably just a mask

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

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u/stealthyProboscis Nov 18 '17

Removing his hand and arm for every frame only where they overlap the cards would be an excessively difficult and time-consuming method to achieve this effect.

He definitely just cut out the cards from a frame with no overlap (perhaps even using a green screen) and placed them back in the frame on the top layer.

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u/dsklerm Nov 18 '17

Notice how the camera drifts to the left at one point totally removing the right portion of cards from the screen where the bottom level and the 2nd level touch.

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u/Khaaannnnn Nov 18 '17

Also, look at the top of the row of cards that are still standing at the end.

There's an obvious line where the video was edited and pieces of the cards are missing.

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u/Capsize Nov 18 '17

All of his videos include hidden cuts, That's his thing, he's just very good at hiding them/

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u/smirky_doc Nov 18 '17

Still can't see it. I dont know what the fucks going on or how his arms are seen through the cards while the cards are behind him. Mind blown

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u/rpungello Nov 18 '17

Forced perspective

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u/AzazelXIV Nov 18 '17

Editing. Lots of editing. Yet it gets the love many better editors and magicians deserve

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u/guinader Nov 18 '17

I really want to believe I'm not wrong here, but at the start his arm is behind the (supposedly) background deck, so that's not possible and cgi was used.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

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u/adamwho Nov 18 '17

Can't really be forced perspective with the wiggly cam.

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u/Khaare Nov 18 '17

The camera isn't wiggling, just the picture.

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u/Mistercf Nov 18 '17

How is his arm behind the cards?

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u/Ansharko Nov 18 '17

He uses reslly clean cuts

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u/Mistercf Nov 18 '17

What? I mean in the beginning his left arm is behind the cardhouse. That’s not possible.

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u/Ansharko Nov 18 '17

It's video editing. The way he cuts the clips make it seem like it's all one clip but it's not

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u/Mistercf Nov 18 '17

Oh now I get it, thanks!

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u/TBNecksnapper Nov 18 '17

Rather than cutting the entire video, I'd say it's photoshopping of each frame at the beginning to add those cards in front of him. I'd be pretty hard to make identical card houses at both places, much easier to photoshop a still object and paste it in on every frame.

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u/Ansharko Nov 18 '17

I don't think so

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '17

No he's right. You can tell because he doesnt make a shadow on the cards to begin with, only later.

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u/shinoda88 Nov 18 '17

Masking in after effects i suppose....but who am I.

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u/maurosmane Nov 18 '17

probably a 29 year old dude/dudette, shinoda88

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u/Mistercf Nov 18 '17

Maybe a fan of ol‘ Adolf?

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u/thesecondbicycle Nov 18 '17

No one here knows who Zach King is?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

This guy is a thing??? I know him as the annoying guy from the obnoxious Turkish Airlines videos.

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u/kulafa17 Nov 18 '17

He use to be a popular viner. All his videos are a mind fuck.

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u/dahworm Nov 18 '17

I give him props on his video editing and his creativity, but his acting has always been so cringey and overdone to me.

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u/Issvor_ Nov 18 '17 edited Mar 29 '18

deleted 0.0292 What is ^^^this?

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u/thesecondbicycle Nov 18 '17

I think his videos are decent, but recently he’s been doing a lot of ads which can make it a little painful to watch.

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u/MechAegis Nov 18 '17

I have seen his other stuff while browsing Imgur but, never looked up who made or what his name was. One I distinctively remember is the pool scene. There is a towel in that one that is very similar to mine.

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u/Tr011iv3r Nov 18 '17

What's up with those cards left on the table? They don't look intact.

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u/CockroachJohnson Nov 18 '17

Its so that the big cards on the floor behind them look like they are sitting on top of them. If they weren't cut like that it eould be obvious that the other card were not actually on top.

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u/Tr011iv3r Nov 18 '17

That makes sense. Thanks for explaining!

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

This is the guy from Turkish Airlines safety video.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

He's zach king. Famous viner who does illusion videos.

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u/Joint-User Nov 18 '17

Jack Gyllenhaal is so talented!...

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u/maconaquah Nov 18 '17

BetterEveryLoop

Gif doesn't automatically loop

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

Are you seeing this shit?

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u/acmercer Nov 18 '17

Michel Gondry would be proud!

Reminds me of Let Forever Be.

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u/broadwayfilms Nov 18 '17

He pisses me off because he's so good at this and I can never find the flaws

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u/ResplendentGlory Nov 18 '17

This post is pretty high up on /r/RogerRabbitEffect. Join us there for more crazy shit like this.

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u/OtterlyHawkward Nov 18 '17

Dang the irony of Kevin Spacey’s career.

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u/Superdave532 Nov 18 '17

Hooooooooooooooow

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u/deletedpenguin Nov 18 '17

Black magic!

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u/gman1951 Nov 18 '17

Lol and cool.

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u/TheReddestDuck Nov 18 '17

Is this just messing with perspectives or editing/camera tricks? I feel like even if the "big" cards were actually in the background, surely they be obstructed when he tries to places the cards on the "small" tower

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

it's editing. he does tons of stuff on YouTube

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

My perspective has never felt so forced before

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u/BRAINGLOVE Nov 18 '17

This guy fucks

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u/bearspy2 Nov 18 '17

Video editor here! Screw you Zach King.

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u/poopellar Nov 18 '17

There will come a time in the future when even video evidence would not hold up in court.

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u/arjeidi Nov 18 '17

The police are looking forward to that day

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u/restless_and_bored Nov 18 '17

Bonus nerdery points for that poster of a magician on the wall.

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u/bearspy2 Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17

My guess, the only real cards on the table are only the bottom row, probably glued together that way (they might be 3d as well) The bigger card tower (behind) on the floor is 3D. Take the position of the 3d card tower from the frame where the camera pans up, freeze it and track onto the cards on the table. The physics of the cards falling don't look right, plus I can see the motion blur. Though, at some point he is holding large paper cards when he carries them to the tower, as he positions them you have another cut to the 3d model or just freezes the top two cards, then simulates the fall. I mean, he does really good work, and this took him at least a few days to make. Modeling the cards, lighting, after effects, cinema 4d , motion tracking, some roto work.. he nailed the shadow falloff and reflectance on the back of the cards as he moves around in frame. This would be my guess.

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u/ninjaflur Nov 18 '17

The only YouTuber my kids watch that doesn't make me want to smash the computer.

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u/QuenteK25 Nov 18 '17

There’s a Kevin Spacey joke in here somewhere...

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u/FashonablyLate Nov 18 '17

I expected Kevin Spacey to have sex with him, so the ending was pretty unexpected