preying on fears, it s preying on hopes. how can i get these wings? i want to be able to fly myself. people started to e-mail us, wanting to buy the wings and to see if they could get the designs. yarno started to get on the news and abc news, bbc, and everyone started blogging about it. our goal was not to create a hoax, but to tell a story that people would like and follow even though it s not true. there were some people really, really hoping this to be true and they were very disappointed afterward. floris sings like a canary to the press admitting the video is a fake. we thought it was not fair to give interviews as if it was true. but some just won t accept the truth and they let the conspiracy theories fly. i got a couple e-mails from people saying please admit that they paid you to say it s a hoax. because the u.s. government
arms. it s all animation. the team tries out the wings. now we are ready to go to our first test flight. we thought it would be very strange starring yarno, but from the first test it already works. so we thought we ll make a first test flight, which would not succeed. for the final video, floris and his team make sure that yarno succeeds in his goal of flying like a bird. to establish this, they combine authentic footage with computer animation. we went to the park and i was actually wearing the wings but i was not able to run with it or walk with it. it was just completely a film prop. the actual scene where he s running and going through the air, that s filmed in an empty field and completely done on the computer. floris creates a 3-d animation of yarno and his wings. if you look closely, you see it isn t very realistic.
floris invents a name that is brought to life with the help of social media. we created facebook page and twitter and created the whole back story, basically. floris group also takes his viewers through every step of his adventure. hey, i m yarno, and i m on my blog and going to share my personal project. we started writing a script and trying to roll out all the different videos. this dream i have is about being able to fly in the same way as birds do with flapping wings. we basically used the same techniques you would use for film or any form of drama to establish a real character that has, you know, problems and struggles. where do you find a place in the big city nowadays with enough space for building 12 meters of wings? we didn t have money to buy attention, so we really needed to be patient and to have a kind of confidence that the story was
interesting enough. the team adds credibility to the story by interviewing an actual professor of neuromechanic who is not in on the ruse. if you have assistive wings that have force transduction from the wings onto the engines, then it s no problem at all. even though the wings wouldn t actually work, floris hires david minting to make them look as plausible as possible. we pretended to make real wings as if we were actually wanting to fly. here s where he puts them all the time, these are kites with i m not using anymore, but they are very useful for the wind surface. this is all the wind surf gear. to manipulate the fake wings, the team creates fake mechanics using a nintendo wii controller and a smartphone. you would think the mechanics are reacting off of yarno s
because it is from a long distance, you won t see that it s actually not that high quality. the drawing takes flight with the help of a motion capture suit. it has sensors on it and can transform real movement into digital movement. i started connecting those movements to the digital copy of yarno. and what about that second camera angle from yarno s helmet? we hired a team, which had some kind of a helicopter, a helicopter with a camera under it. and after i started manipulating the images in my computer. on march 19th, 2012, with the piece complete, floris, aka yarno, uploads his high-flying adventure. within 24 hours it really started to get viral. who doesn t want to be able to fly? like that s the dream. this is the closest thing to being a bird that you can imagine. unlike some of the viral videos you see, it is not