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| - Fact Check: Neither police chase nor perfect timing, this video of car bouncing on trucks is CGI
Several news outlets featured this video in their stories. While some claimed this was a scene from any Hollywood movie, others called it a real police chase.
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India Today Fact Check
This is a computer-generated video made by a UK-based artist.
How often have you witnessed the police chasing a fugitive in a car on a busy road? Mostly in movies or video games, right? However, if some media reports are to be believed, something like this was recently caught on camera. A viral video shows a car somehow managing to escape the cops through sheer luck.
This nine-second-long clip shows a blue car rushing and then suddenly swerving left after noticing a police vehicle in front. Fortunately, it ends up on the other side of the subway by bouncing twice on a truck and a bus passing under it.
A Twitter account called “No Context Brits” shared this video. It was then shared by Harsh Goenka, the chairman of the RPG group. He tweeted, “Perfect timing.” An archived version of it can be seen here.
Following Goenka's tweet, news outlets like News24 featured the same clip in their report and claimed it was a scene from a Hollywood movie. NDTV Hindi, Zee news and several other outlets also featured this clip in reports. Archived versions of these reports can be seen here and here.
India Today’s investigation found that the video is several years old and is nothing but CGI (Computer-generated imagery).
Our Probe
A reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a verified Instagram account called “2ncs”. There, we came across the same clip shared on April 6, 2021.
The post’s caption, however, did not contain any additional details about the video apart from licencing-related information, and hashtags like“3d” and “animation”. This hinted that the video could have been made using CGI.
Furthermore, the Instagram account also contained several similar videos of supercars performing jaw-dropping stunts. For instance, a video from November 2022 showed a yellow Ferrari tied to a flying aeroplane in the middle of the sky.
We searched online for “2ncs” and this led us to the artist portfolio website Behance. In it, we found an artist page named “2ncs”, mentioning it belonged to an automotive CGI artist. Some CGI works with supercars by the artist featured here as well.
We also found a video on the YouTube channel “2NCS” that explained how they created these videos using CGI. This video showed a Ferrari passing under a moving truck.
This made it apparent that the viral video was likely made using CGI. We searched further and found that this video had earlier been debunked as fake.
On April 28, 2021, Snopes also fact-checked the video here in question and mentioned that the person behind the 2Ncs account was a 23-year-old named Dionisis who lives in the United Kingdom. It stated that the artist used software programmes like Autodesk 3DS Max and Adobe After Effects to create the video.
Thus, it is clear that a CGI video was falsely shared as a real incident by many on social media.
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