Boston Dynamics Robots Can't be Faked - VFX Artists Explain Why
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Published 2021-09-19
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Niko and Wren sit down to "bunk" the Boston Dynamics robot videos, explaining why they are impossible to fake!
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All Comments (21)
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"VFX Artists explain how ACTUALLY building a robot, and making it dance, is easier than doing it with CGI"
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"why do people think ours is more realistic than the actual robot" Suffering from success
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I think the biggest reason people have the immediate "this looks fake" reaction is because of how perfectly in-sync and symmetrical the choreography is and people subconsciously understand and are used to dancers being synchronized in timing, but not in exact movement. As a result it probably trips some "uncanny valley" feeling in our brains and for some reason in this case people are interpreting that feeling as their gut telling them it's VFX.
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As someone long familiar with Boston Dynamics work, I'm surprised you guys didn't bring up the dog thing's motion more. Nothing but that real nightmare dog moves like that. There is nothing we could motion capture to get that horrible, reverse-hinged dance. It's terrifying because it's real.
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The idea that Boston Dynamics, a company that has spent the last 30 years making state-of-the-art robotics, just gave up and did a CGI render... is ludicrous!
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In essence, people think the real robot footage is fake, because it looks artificial - because the robots are artificial - while your fake robot footage looks real, because it moves "realistically," i.e. like a human! Reminds me of how most of the arguments for the Moon landing footage being faked, basically boil down to "it doesn't look like I'm used to things looking on Earth." Well, what do you know, the surface of the Moon is different from Earth - and real robots don't move like humans!
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Saying something is fake does not make you smarter than the people saying it is real: I feel this is part of the modern "tech-sceptic" movement. That people just want a reason to look down on others, even if it's based on something untrue or not immediately provable. "Oh you don't believe THAT do you?". Insecurity about your own intellect projected on to others.
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Last year my social media teacher thought your guys’ video where you gave the robot the gun was real ☠️. And his job is to teach us what’s real or fake online!!
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To be fair, if I was a Boston Dynamics employee, I'd be wearing that "it has to be CGI" badge as an honor. When you create something that screws the mind of so many people you know you're on to something amazing.
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Video should be called: trying real hard to explain to dummies that robots actually exist
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Something else I found interesting when you guys where talking about the shadows was that when the robot is doing the "running man" thing, you can see the mat depress under the weight of the robot, Idk how easy or not that would be to replicate in cgi, but I figure nobody would take that time for such a small detail
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Boston Dynamics released a new Atlas video today, and that came with a new batch of people insisting it's CGI, which is frustrating as someone who has been following Boston Dynamics progress for years. But I've also followed you guys, so knew about this, to post at people. so thanks for making this
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I love how corridor uses their own content as examples of flaws. Really respectable.
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Not to mention the floor responds to the interactions of the robots. Watch the wheels of the rolling robot and the dog, the floor sinks in a bit since it is a soft floor. That's a detail that would be very difficult and time consuming to recreate.
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Simply put if Boston bots were fake, entire footage would be so prohibitively expensive and time consuming nobody would ever bother
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I like the idea that Boston dynamics is just a team of highly skilled visual effects artists instead of highly skilled engineers
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Bunktown Dynamics 😏
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It's actually a win for BD. Where their robots are so good that people are SO UNSHAKEABLY SURE that it can't be real.
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I dont see why people think this had to be fake. BD’s sole focus is making these things. Theyve been working years on nothing but robots. Its extremely easy to accept that this level has been achieved by now.
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Step 1: scream "fake" at every video Step 2: be wrong most the time Step 3: be right once; act like you're prophetic while ignoring the other 99 videos where you weren't Step 4: internet profit
