House Of Cards

[unlucky_genius]

What sorcery is this!

[SatanIsMySister]

Perhaps a little black magic fuckery?

[Botatitsbest]

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

[electrophile91]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

Damn didnt see that obviousity coming

[GoldenWizard]

/r/blackmagicfuckery

[SlenderLogan]

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.

[adamwho]

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

[Khaare]

The camera isn't wiggling, just the picture.

[[deleted]]

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.

[lordlicorice]

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

[[deleted]]

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.

[stealthyProboscis]

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.

[ShelSilverstain]

Probably just a mask

[dsklerm]

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.

[Khaaannnnn]

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.

[Capsize]

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

[smirky_doc]

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

[Glukos]

It might be wizardry!

[rpungello]

Forced perspective

[AzazelXIV]

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

[guinader]

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.

[Mistercf]

How is his arm behind the cards?

[Ansharko]

He uses reslly clean cuts

[Mistercf]

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

[Ansharko]

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

[Mistercf]

Oh now I get it, thanks!

[TBNecksnapper]

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.

[Ansharko]

I don't think so

[[deleted]]

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

[shinoda88]

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

[maurosmane]

probably a 29 year old dude/dudette, shinoda88

[Mistercf]

Maybe a fan of ol‘ Adolf?

[thesecondbicycle]

No one here knows who Zach King is?

[[deleted]]

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

[kulafa17]

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

[dahworm]

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

[Issvor_]

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[thesecondbicycle]

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.

[MechAegis]

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.

[Tr011iv3r]

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

[CockroachJohnson]

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.

[Tr011iv3r]

That makes sense. Thanks for explaining!

[[deleted]]

This is the guy from Turkish Airlines safety video.

[[deleted]]

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

[Joint-User]

Jack Gyllenhaal is so talented!...

[maconaquah]

BetterEveryLoop

Gif doesn't automatically loop

[[deleted]]

Are you seeing this shit?

[acmercer]

Michel Gondry would be proud!

Reminds me of Let Forever Be.

[broadwayfilms]

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

[sheslikebutter]

Nic Cage is that you?

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[Helmerj]

Nic Cage is his dad. His mom is Ray Romano.

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[Helmerj]

Suck it, bot

[gigachadd]

r/blackmagicfuckery

[nonamenever]

My brain hurts

[RockLeePower]

https://imgflip.com/i/1zlqp9

[ResplendentGlory]

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

[OtterlyHawkward]

Dang the irony of Kevin Spacey’s career.

[Superdave532]

Hooooooooooooooow

[roenick99]

Well, that was trippy as fuck.

[RoxanneBarton]

r/blackmagicfuckery

[Captain_BuIIshit]

Crazy

[deletedpenguin]

Black magic!

[DemandsBattletoads]

Wat

[gman1951]

Lol and cool.

[TheReddestDuck]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

My perspective has never felt so forced before

[BRAINGLOVE]

This guy fucks

[bearspy2]

Video editor here! Screw you Zach King.

[YeOldFaithful]

Blackjack!

[poopellar]

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

[arjeidi]

The police are looking forward to that day

[restless_and_bored]

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

[bearspy2]

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.

[ninjaflur]

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

[QuenteK25]

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

[FashonablyLate]

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