Dude Perfect - How did they do it?

Don't think there's any special effects here, Matt, just really good basketball players.

Video tape everything. Attempt each shot 50 times. Fail 49 times. ONLY post to YouTube the successful shots, thus making it look like you are really good at making baskets from unusual locations and situations.

They are yelling YEAH!!! because they FINALLY made the shot.

Shane

I don't think you're hearing Shane-- they weren't all perfect. There were probably a hundred failures for every success on those super-long shots. If this is indeed special effects work, it's done very well to look as amateur as it does.

I highly doubt that any visual effects were used in this video. But rather a lot of video tape.

Shane

The beauty of MiniDV.

Maybe they used Two Point matchmoving.

OK, that was my attempt at humor.

Smoking mirrors, probably more smoking than mirrors and a few Pabsts.

Having played in HS and college, some of those shots do not look the way the basketballs move through space.

I think there is some CG in some of the shots. Especially when the BB goes out of view.

Well, having played basketball how many times have you thrown a ball from a water tower? Over a roof? From a speeding truck?

No VFX was done on this. All really thrown, most likely attempted 100 times, and succeeded once. And editing to make them all look like they can outdo the Harlem Globetrotters in one-on-one. If they had a truck and a shotgun.

Shane

*All really thrown, most likely attempted 100 times, and succeeded once.*

And the biggest evidence for this is that they never repeated the same throw in a single shot. If they had, there would be reason to suspect fx because if they could really do it consistently, these guys would be collecting money making shots from the opposite end of the court at half time on national television instead of youtube.

All in all, boring no matter how they did it.

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At least I think those guys will have a good laugh if they would read this thread...

Rienk

It doesn't matter Shane.

I've made three quarter shots in a game. Not often but a couple of times. I've also played a fair amount of outside basketball. It's hard to believe that one person can throw a basketball backwards, for example, at the distances show.

A basketball doesn't tract like some of those shots.

I disagree. There is a likelihood that CG was occasionally used in these shots.

Have you played competitively at the college level?

have you played competitively at the college level?

No, but I was a cameraman at nearly every game. I know how balls track.

(that didn't sound right)

Shane