is this domino pyramid REAL or FAKE?! 😲

This viral video of a 3D domino pyramid reveals MARIO when it falls over!!! But there's a big debate... is it real or fake? Let's break it down in detail and find out!
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[@H5dominocommunity]

do you think the pyramid is real or fake?! leave your guess below before watching the entire video! (spoilers are in the rest of the comments so don't scroll down yet!)

[@symmetricksambigrams]

No.

[@symmetricksambigrams]

I thi k they used green dominoes for a green screen

[@Domino_Star]

No

[@Eastern_Edits]

It's real I think

[@subhashsehgal1538]

Look at its ending

[@BeigeNectarine]

It’s also in a very small room. It would be almost impossible for anyone to build a pyramid that big in a room like that.

[@DangStank]

Oh yeah, that’s true. You would definitely have to access the pyramid from all sides to build it

[@ImaginmationsCamera]

My initial reaction: I think it's fake. Something about the level of detail, and how the image slightly slides during and after the falldown seems suspicious. Also some dominoes have 2 (or maybe more!) colors on them, and the statistical improbability that a domino with 2 or more colors would fall perfectly into place like that.

[@jeltemreal]

Same

[@DanielleGomesdaSilva]

Same

[@toiletgamer7742]

Same

[@juanpavanegas]

the dominos moving after the image is revealed is likely jitter from the physics simulation. Very common when simulating many small objects stacking.

[@willywonka21234]

Sub to this guy or I will kidnap you while you sleep

[@KubeSquared]

For those wondering: the way you do it with CG and 3D simulated dominoes, is you run the fall simulation once with all the pieces the same color, then with the sim in its final state. you chose an angle from which you want to view it, then superimpose the image of Mario and give the pieces the "correct" color, then wind back the simulation. It's similar to those videos of marbles sorting themselves by color through a sieve machine.

[@michaelmurray6197]

Exactly what I thought when I watched it. What gave it away was the fact that some of the pieces are half one color and half another color. There is no way you could predict exactly where those are falling. Then I looked a little closer and realized it's a 3D simulation, a really good one, but definitely digital and not real life. Which makes it easy. Run the dominos falling, then color them after they have fallen, and then reverse it and have them all fall again. Really easy since you know where the dominos are going to fall.

[@Nako3]

The reason why I thought its fake is because he included the mirror shot to make us believe its not fake.

[@NN-sp9tu]

Also why is the mirror image the wrong size..

[@Nako3]

@@NN-sp9tu ya

[@christophearbus3523]

Then if I do something incredible and want to film it, I must be sure there is no mirror around. 🤔🙃

[@Nako3]

@@christophearbus3523 ya

[@alexkoemans3173]

Reverse cytology

[@JRHainsworth]

As a 3D modeller, the slow movement of the dominoes once it falls definitely gives me the vibe of a rigidbody simulation.

[@michaelbuckers]

Of a POOR rigidbody simulation with extremely low friction, because they couldn't get the material to collapse with normal amount of friction.

[@games528]

Yeah, and it's incredibly easy to uv project the image of mario on the final result of the physic simulation, and have the dominoes have the correct colors at the start.

[@DrTheRich]

@@games528 Sad thing is, i know how to do it properly, and it wouldn't have been that much harder. Tempting about making a better one...

[@TJBDigital]

same@@DrTheRich

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

This kind of seemingly impossible forming of images from random stuff is actually pretty simple to do with physics simulations. You can imagine this creator setting up a simulated pyramid of dominos, letting it fall down, and then "baking" the procedure into a deterministic animation so they could then project an image of mario onto the resulting pile of dominos at the end & have them keep that color at the beginning of the sequence as well. Still impressive, but in comparison to the logistical nightmare this would be in real life I think it's 100% certain that this is a computer animated piece.

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

i was right :3

[@fyretnt]

@@Patricia_Taxxon it reminds me of captain disillusions video on a marble color sorter

[@toastbrot97]

That's exactly what i tink is happeining too.I would also assume that the dominos were stuck to each other to prevent them from falling over from the initial start of the simulation. And once the pyramid started falling a mask went from left to right over the pyramid, to take the sticking away progressively in roughly the same speed it takes the piramid to fall apart. An artiffact of that can be seen when the pyramid slightly starts bending and warping on the right as the pile of dominos on the floor is putting a force onto the rest of the tower, but since it can't fall apart, it starts to shift instead until the property to stick is being released. You can see what would happen if the dominos wouldn't stick to each other at 7:26. Another thing to consider is that there is no way anyone could have built this pyramid in the first place. You can't build the pyramid from one side to the other but you build it from the bottom to the top, but once the first layer is placed, there is no space to manouver around the pyramid to build the rest, since the room is too small.

[@Papoompala]

@@Patricia_Taxxon I did not expect to see you here!!! I love your music!! :D

[@I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes]

yes this is certainly the case you can find a couple bricks that have 2 colours for example at 1:06 at the under middle of the stash there is a brick that's both stash and skin coloured. i don't know to much about dominos but i do know things about physics sims and with lots of smal parts they tend to vibrate a bit which would result in the spreading out of the bricks after they fall. the reason that they don't vibrate the pyramid apart is bcs you can lock individual physics objects till they receive enough force.

[@user-hs9cl3sy1l]

The oozing effect is immediately odd to me, and the room looks too small to build that structure in.

[@Humblee115]

1:39 you know that your the domino queen when your on top of the domino social media landscape

[@darioodde8590]

You can clearly see dominoes that are not one solid color at the end, but are coloured according to the final image, like half pink half brown. That tells you the image is superimposed

[@KekusMagnus]

You don't even need to superimpose the image, just map it to the final dominoes resting position in a physics simulation of the pyramid collapsing, then re-run the simulation but with the color-mapped dominoes and that's it. This isn't even that hard to render

[@Ranstone]

@@KekusMagnus That is correct, it is not superimposed, but "reverse painted". Good eye.

[@marlon6598]

@@KekusMagnus the only person with a brain in this entire comments sectoon

[@fluffycritter]

Captain Disillusion did a really good explanation of this sort of effect in one of his videos. In that one it was a "ball sorter" which somehow caused all the balls to bounce into the right buckets; the implementation was really simple, where the physics sim was done on uncolored balls and then at the end of it the balls got painted based on the bucket they landed in. Simple but effective.

[@hansolo15e]

@Watermelon Monke same

[@darrennew8211]

Yeah. It's so easy to do in Blender I spent more time getting the blocks to bounce around than I did making them form the right picture. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZipk4Osg52Gb6M

[@subwoofer1890]

The shine atop Mario hat was such a give away at the end as well

[@etheriousjackal5577]

Hope he watches your video and takes in the feedback. The CGI is very impressive and it's cool that he put in all those details which made the motions so realistic, if he works on it a bit more, he could probably make it seem even more real than it already is.

[@heckensteiner4713]

My grandma always said: "If you gotta make an image with a domino pyramid, use CGI." I never knew what she was talking about until now. Wise words.

[@staser]

@@TFFProd fr

[@pleasecontactme4274]

@@TFFProd moved to tears

[@user-qv4zm2ps3u]

ОРП

[@chaosordeal294]

My grandma always said, "Flotsma . . . flotsma unbrechtunt tsip." I never knew what she was talking about

[@Ugh258]

My gandma told me “ 2036 the heat of the universe “ i still didn’t figure out what she meant...

[@FredMcIntyre]

I definitely knew it was fake when I saw the dominos spreading after the fall, and the image looked too clean, especially around curves, though I didn't notice the compression of the pyramid until you pointed it out.

[@Chillinbean]

YOU SPOILED IT

[@squidfresh3082]

@@Chillinbean should’ve not gone to the comments. It’s not their fault, it’s yours

[@FordFungus]

Exactly the same with me, as soon as I saw them spreading out I just thought ‘dominoes don’t do that’

[@YayaFeiLong]

The dominoes aren't actually compressing, it's an illusion. They're sliding outwards I'm not sure if a real domino pyramid would do that though, could be a quirk of the physics sim

[@CC9L]

@@squidfresh3082 almost everyone checks the comments bruh

[@anthonyw5261]

Agreed on the mad props. I bet dominoe artists will keep working to make it possible. You guys are very creative so maybe one day 😊

[@foxthroat3410]

Those dominos do be shifting space it self 😂

[@ericthomason8463]

I applaud the creator’s efforts for making this. I doubt it’s possible for a domino pyramid to reveal an image after it’s toppled. At least one that’s as photorealistic as the one in the video.

[@kodicraft]

The lights reflect accurately, the dominoes are rotoscoped on top of the ladder in the background, this was a high effort fake. Too bad the simulation kinda gave itself away

[@macaddict1337]

the movement at the end after falling is such a simulation thing, every one who ever did a iterative processes has seen this where a few nodes just keep twitching forever if you set a maximum change between steps and not go for a predetermined number of steps as an end condition

[@ReasonX3]

Initially I thought its real, but then I asked myself: "How the hell can someone build a huge domino pyramid in such tight space"? Plus slow movements of dominos when they fall, an effect that you can usually see in 3D editors and video games.

[@TokinoSora10thApostle]

I'm a concept artist and I feel like it's 3d animation where the Mario is UV projection of a baked animation where the dominos already fell then reverse it. There's no transitory texture, they didn't change much. It's actually pretty creative 3d animation if i must say, the concept and execution is pretty well done.

[@KatsyFNF]

When you immediately mentioned the domino "growing" like syrup, I looked on the outer edges of Mario's face and the colors were just cutting out, so it's clearly fake.

[@studlyhungwell]

The mirror in the foreground is a nice touch as a convincer.

[@midori_the_eldritch]

I feel like the only way to get a high detail image from a falling domino structure irl would be to just make it so massive you can take a drone up and get the same effect as pixels on a screen or from a printer making it look smooth and detailed, even if it's actually fuzzy edges and 6 inches at the thinnest line

[@Rickmakes]

It seems like it would have been difficult to build in such a tight space. Would you agree or is that plenty of space to make a pyramid of that size?

[@AsheeBep]

Too cramped and dominoes, as far as I know, don’t change mass

[@niconeedsanap8130]

I think our eyes are playing tricks on us for example use the ladderlike thing and think of a ladder use it as a scale to measure the room

[@AsheeBep]

@@niconeedsanap8130 Hmm but how did they find such “perfect” colours and in SUCH a small room?

[@niconeedsanap8130]

@@AsheeBep im not talking about the pyramid itself my main argument is about the size of the room

[@AsheeBep]

@@niconeedsanap8130 ok

[@The_Wise_Sage_]

I’ve watched enough simulation/3D animations like this to see the movement is computer generated. In fact, i also even saw a video where they can generate where it will fall, color it in its resting place, and make it so they were always colored like that. This is one of those.

[@TaranTatsuuchi]

I remember a Captain Disillusion video way back where marbles were sorted in a pegged board... It was computer generated. You run the simulation and then after it's over you set the colors for the pieces as you want them and then when it's played back they all fall perfectly.

[@brixlovesbricks]

yeah, I agree, some dominoes are multicolored in a weird way that doesn't look common or real. But it's a really creative concept and would be super cool to make!

[@TManDude291]

The give away for me that this was a render was the mirror. As the distortion going on within it didn't match the angle of the camera view at all. Which is understandable as reflective surfaces are the hardest thing to get right in a CG render.

[@Klein24]

When I first watched this, the moving dominoes (as stated at 4:40) was the first thing I saw... I immediately said "not real, definitely fake"... and then the dominoes getting smaller also is really weird. It's definitely fake!

[@AsheeBep]

Same!

[@A_nthony131]

But got to admit it’s till real cool

[@minhhoangluong9457]

4:41

[@gekfurian]

It's like the marble sorting machine. The color texture was put after the simulation was done.

[@SweetHyunho]

simulating friction among blocks is apparently difficult. they often slide against one another. thats what causes the expansion.

[@KnocktheBlocks]

It's entertaining to watch stuff like this even though it's obviously fake. It still is impressive that they put the effort into making it. After all most of us regularly watch big movies that's all fake and we know it. 🙂

[@rauldeleon908]

I want you to build a shark

[@Wunba]

That’s insane how real it looked! Imagine if they fixed the stretching and moving issues it might be completely undetectable! I wonder if this could be the future of domino videos!?🤔 although where would the fun of the building be?

[@melody3741]

You still have to build it digitally.

[@evey55]

Wunba, you should do this in your Minecraft Hardcore World :D

[@jabelsjabels]

I think colormatching the plastic for that many different shades would be either a very expensive (pantone chips) or time-consuming (manual dye mixing) effort. It'd be believable if it used a lot less colors, or colors that you could buy dominos in off the shelf

[@homelessrobot]

its still just a low resolution simulation. things like the friction of the surface materials, the precise mass of the dominoes, and the precise scale of the whole simulation don't really match reality. If you know what to look for a lot of these blender simulations start looking like old movie effects where they lit a match stick, slowed it down, and scaled it up in order to simulate a bulding fire. Its enough to let you suspend disbelief for a while, but the longer you look at it the more unreal it seems.

[@illus1ve]

Even if the movement was PERFECT - the image has shading in areas that's just not possible with single color dominos.

[@doomus_]

i think its a realistic animation. the sliding of the dominos reminded me of those falling tetris blocks animations that i watch before bed.

[@espeon_196]

itd be cool if H5 community had a Discors

[@ralphmueller3725]

I think it's a 3D render with an image transposed down over the dominoes. It looks like at one point some of the dominoes change color to maintain the integrity of the image.

[@therandompwdguy6849]

Me too.. even blender can do this .. lol

[@DaellusKnights]

That was the exact thing I noticed. It's especially noticeable on the mustache

[@vikasmehra8105]

🎉

[@pirobot668beta]

In the 3d software Blender, one can simulate the collapse of stacked blocks very easily. Not only that, but the path each block takes as it falls is precisely recorded. You can play the collapse forward or backwards, pausing at any point. Once the blocks are all fallen, apply a texture to the blocks projected from the camera viewpoint; this will color the fallen blocks for the 'reveal' pattern. Once the blocks are colored, play the animation from the beginning and watch in wonder as a shape appears out of chaos. I've made several videos using this process; a Galton-board model was my first.

[@godiloveyttd]

the lighting and mirror instantly told me it was fake tbh

[@XAVIERCUERVO]

the fact that it was built so close to the walls where you dont have room to move arount the piramid to build it gave it away

[@Ackbars]

Also after the dominoes settle, you can see some jitter in some dominoes especially on the left hand side, common bug in physic sims

[@ireadalota]

It looks good at first. When you look closer the faults are obvious. And who builds something like that in such an enclosed space?

[@TordBot69]

the thing with it is that there are domino that are 2 different colours, some of them have corners of them that are different colours, when the rest are single colours, but the thing is they arent that colour when they first fell

[@marshwiggle8364]

It's impossible until someone with a domino setting robot decides "challenge accepted"

[@LyssFr]

As a 3d blender ultra realistic animation artist, I can easily see that this is a render, it has to do with both the fluid movement after the fall, the way the domino’s falls, and as well the sound not matching the width and length of the domino’s. This is definitely fake.

[@AnimilesYT]

My initial thoughts: I'm 99.9% sure it's fake. While it's falling you can see the screen distorting along the falling edge. The dominoes also keep sliding like there's no friction and they slide like everything is flat. It looks to me like they built a domino pyramid and made it fall, and also made a 3D video where it would end up showing the image like that. The dominoes on the edges also have 2 colors which coincidentally line up with how the image is supposed to end up. I doubt anyone has such a deep understanding of chaos theory that they can predict exactly how they're going to fall down so they can paint them accordingly. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's fake. Nevertheless I do think it's very well made and I can easily see how it could fool those who don't know what is going to happen in the video.

[@harmsc12]

I don't think there's any distortion happening. I think it's just the dominoes in the simulation moving before they should. If I had to guess, the friction value was set too low.

[@danigarcia2294]

1. There is no understanding of the chaos theory. You can't predict it. 2. It's a CGI pyramid applied over a video of the empty room, sounds were added later

[@TheIckyKoala]

My first thought was that it was fake and my guess was that it was 3D rendered with green dominos and then edited like a green screen.

[@wilcowilbrink8364]

I don´t have much experience with dominoes, but I made a 3d animation once for a tutorial site with blender (a 3d application), and one of the problems I had to deal with is that the domino pieces where moving a lot after they where fallen. Much like they are in this video.

[@benh715]

I would now love to see a real life attempt at this kind of picture. Fascinated to see what level of detail could be possible.

[@mkygod]

Im guessing they start with a colorless CG model and then the toppling is simulated in a physics engine. Once its on the floor, the dominos get skinned with Mario's face and then the model gets reset and it will fall exactly the same way each time. The way the dominos shifts strangely could be due to the friction values being set to low in the physics engine.

[@Just_another_lonely_channel]

Remember that one time where it was you vs the dominater?

[@itraknmsandminecraft8094]

If you look on the

[@AJDominoes]

Oh my goodness Thank you for making me the community member i am forever greatfull

[@Fidodo]

You picked up on most of the tells as well as some I didn't notice! The way the colors are added is by overlaying the image over the finished simulation, then applying the section of the image to the individual dominoes, but, they let the colors be granular enough to make these unrealistic multi-colored dominoes. They could have made it more convincing by calculating the most common color on each domino, then reducing it down to a color from a limited color pallet to avoid having multi colored dominoes, and it would let them pick out more realistic domino colors. The dominoes keep shifting after they hit the ground because the physics simulation keeps going and the dominoes are pushing on each other to prevent from clipping into each other causing them to slowly spread out. They could have made that more realistic by setting a resting movement threshold at which they could pause the dominoes so they don't keep moving. You noticed that the whole structure squished before falling. Very good eye! I didn't notice that at all. I'm guessing that the reason that happened was that they did some extra tricks to keep the tower from falling too quickly like in the earlier video of theirs you showed where it implodes. My guess is that to keep the tower from falling on its own due to the sensitivity of the physics simulation, and to keep it from falling all at once, they added some stickiness to where the dominoes touch each other, like a digital glue, so the structure would hold its shape better until the connections break. The caveat there being that squishiness you noticed since the structure was "glued" together. They could probably improve on that by pausing the pieces until a certain movement threshold at which point they could release. One tell you missed though was in the compositing, and it's one of the biggest tells. The creator was careful to add some physical geometry to the walls so the pieces wouldn't simulate past them, but they forgot to add geometry to one very telling spot, which is the step ladder leg. If you look closely, the dominoes simply go right through the leg as if it wasn't there at all, and you can even see where the real life image of the leg is blurred into the dominoes. They were very clever with the details, like the mirror to the left, but that one they missed really gives it away. They probably should have just removed the step ladder entirely.

[@storkbreath]

Using a modeling program like this could be a good way to plan to make a crazy domino sequence in reality!

[@unknownday8446]

At 5:37 when it’s really zoomed in, you can see some dominoes (mostly on the mustache) literally have two different colors on them. So like a domino could be laying with half on the mustache and half on the skin and you can see it is half brown and half tan. And this happens for many dominos. The lines are just too perfect for the domino (even if it was multi colored) to fall with every single line lining up perfectly. The animation was beautiful though so the creator still deserves a lot of credit.

[@dominobrothers9293]

You Always impress me lily I like that you can demonstrate anything and even if it is fake you still like it like always keep on building

[@tdubmorris5757]

Initial thought: definitely fake - you can see the dominoes magically lining up after the pyramid falls and even tiny details that are impossible to predict line up

[@joemieszczur9735]

Cap'n Disillusion did a great video on how this type of effect is achieved. you basically model a pyramid, block by block, then do a physics sim to make it collapse. now you have the whole process for collapsing the pyramid, you only need the colors last. which is done by mapping colors to the finished/final state of the dominos with the proper color. then you rewind the sim and bake the colors in.

[@Autumn5layzallday]

The gravitational field strength on some of the dominoes towards the end is immense and practically impossible for thing of this mass.

[@philvee727]

It's not real, this was made in CGI 😂

[@robertyang4365]

Prior to watching the rest of the video, I don’t believe this is real. As the pyramid is collapsing, you can see the right side pieces sliding/bending slowly. And there also appears so be some pieces that accelerate faster than gravity would let them at 1x footage speed. Finally, just statistically, getting those eyes in that perfect shape just seems unlikely, even with multiple attempts.

[@RalseiGaming]

plus look closely at the blue domino at the bottom clips into it for a second and i seems the sliding blending in is a render bug plus look at it when it’s fully stacked the texture of the dominos aren’t just flat some dominos have more texture my guess is in they used something with geometry nodes and they actually started with it fallen down in the render so they can set were they want every thing to set in place i suspect they are using techniques the same as that marble sorter hoax from a few years ago plus some of the dominos just straight up appear at the bottom instantly

[@RalseiGaming]

plus it also seems they forgot in the simulation to set the gravity to the correct density to be realistic in the simulation

[@smogsession2368]

maybe blender, it has an effect that has an "invisible force" like a demo ball swinging on a rope, as it comes through the unseen force starts to topple the animation creating the distortion effect on the right side as it is crumbling. it reminded me of that

[@marleebrooking5927]

Corridor crew needs to see this lol

[@h7opolo]

decent fake. their perfectionism gave them away, cuz the dominos had multiple colors on them at the end when they should remain solid. hopefully, the creator watches your breakdown vid here and improves their animations.

[@Domino_Star]

It is fake but it's cool to watch a pyramid that falls and creates an image

[@Hasanex]

Also, I'm surprised she didn't notice but you can see the dominos on the edge of a color have multiple colours. Like at the edge of the mustache, there are dominos that are part black and part brown PERFECTLY placed to make that border.

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

a rigidbody physics simulation with to low friction setting, which is why the dominoes is sliding and moving like that at the end, also possible they also increased the effect of gravity in the simulation to make it collapse better.

[@DakSenTheFox]

It was still really nice to see that. It really could be possible. Buuuuut it is like really not likely a structure like a pyramid can make an image.

[@asyoz]

It was really well done, but, what did it for me is that some of the dominos were dual-coloured. Have a look at the bottom of the picture, at the edge of Mario's face. While I could believe that someone's coloured dominos to have two colours, I couldn't believe that they could build that huge domino pyramid and manage to get the half-half coloured doms to fall in exactly the right place. Yup, it's fake. :)

[@thekingofeverything9829]

I am a 3D artist that uses blender and this is a pretty easy thing to do the way the dominoes fall is amazing and would take skill but the illusion of a image is quite easy to do for any interested you would do the simulation then make an image texture for all the dominoes and project from view meaning that for any other angle the image affect wouldn't work.

[@DutchBlackMantha]

First thing I noticed was fallen domino's that are not a single colour, lining up prefectly to form the image.

[@mariab.1997]

I thought it fake at once. I took one look at the "M" on the hat and knew immediately due to the sharpness. While I think some computer may be able to extrapolate a build that would result in something like it, the fall cannot be predicted with such exactness as to have such a flawless image.

[@AlexDings]

1:15 first thought: there's no way this is real. The way the dominoes fall exactly into place to make the pattern is WAY too orderly and smooth, especially the eyes and the logo on the cap. The idea is cool, but I've tried similar stuff and it simply doesn't work this well

[@AsheeBep]

Also the shape/mass of the dominoes at the end topple

[@Amadeus_A]

As someone who isn't a domino expert, the thing that gave it away was the multicolor domino pieces. Like at Mario's cheek, there is a domino piece that's colored red and pale to form the shape of his cheeks. There's no way you can make a piece that detailed and plan it to land at the correct spot.

[@kerrybarneyiii1202]

The compression of the one side tipped me off first lol

[@nanos9]

I knew this was fake for the exacts reasons you thought also! I have seen many fake domino videos but i think they are for entertainment and I view them that way instead of being snarky and pointing out things to hate on it. Fake Domino videos are still cool!

[@Eastern_Edits]

Lol it's really reasonable how people got her to watch it, also the person why posted it knows A LOT of physics should I say

[@CheezitBoi]

It didn't take me that long to realise that it was CGI

[@whitetiana3022]

to me the multicolored domino pieces that just happened to fall in the exact right way gave it away.

[@andrewcook8093]

I initially thought it was a real pyramid filmed and then the domino colours added afterward because the picture is too good to be formed out of such chaotic motion. But I didn’t see the changing size and didn’t know that real dominoes wouldn’t spread like that. I think the dominoes spreading after falling probably would happen if the dominoes surface had less friction than a normal domino but that might make it super difficult to set up in the first place because they would slip over each other and it would be difficult to make a stable structures out of them.

[@Rthr0]

My personal domino experience - dominoes in such quantity have enough weight to do some odd things. Yes it looks fake, but even if its an animation you have to give them credit

[@nova_supreme8390]

One could make physics simulation with any colored dominos amd then when they are on a pile, choose new colors for the dominos and just replay the simulation with the altered colors. That way you do not need to know which domino falls where at the start as you just pick them from the end result so you get the picture you wanted. That wa one could make the CGI version even more realistic. That however would require tons of power from the computer rendering the simulation.

[@rattyeely]

I saw this video once, didn't think much about it, saw it again and realized how fake it looks. I like how they have a mirror in the room reflecting the dominos, a clever trick to make the animation feel more realistic.

[@gidnoot3140]

Would be nice if the warp, the slow movement at the end and the mixed colours on one domino would be removed

[@animationenusw]

The first thing made me think it was fake, that the dominos still flow like water after they fell down

[@PTMG]

also: Dominos changing color midair dominos that are 2 different colors when on the ground (like by his moustache, there are dominos that are half skin half moustache)

[@takumi2023]

Kind of off topic but could you make a pyrmid topple from the center? Would that looks asethetically pleasing or just logistically impossible?

[@RaskylC]

i think the give away for me before you said that was the dominoes with more than one color managing to fall into place and it spreading out like liquid. but i didnt notice the compression of the dominoes until you said it. that was the REAL giveaway tbh.

[@dellycoderry]

Looks a bit like my university project in Houdini with vellum grains but nowadays everyone using Blender for some reason

[@scrumbles]

Is it even possible to build a pyramid that size in such a confined space? I'm imagining Tom cruise hanging in a harness building it.

[@quincycostello6726]

the expanding at the end seems like a rigidbody thing

[@Utube2Itube]

You didn’t mention that several dominoes have two different colours at the various colour borders in the mario image. Some dominos even swap colour during the fall and the final spread out phase

[@maxheadblast3883]

they attach like magnets maybe there just in magnets that make it into that specific shape.

[@Minakie]

Even though it's just CGI, I'm still very impressed, especially with the sound effect, it really adds to the realism.

[@happily_blue]

you need to reach out to this guy to help him make his animations even MORE realistic!!!

[@madeleinemagarian3180]

I love your videos and you are fast for putting dominoes

[@bingesquad1]

I think we should involve Captain D here

[@morganisapro6]

The mirror is reflecting like the dominos are right next to it, but they're behind it a bit...

[@mrCheeeseGuy]

they got the real life RNG manipulation