Unreal Engine 5 or real life? Is it nature or Nanite!?

[asandax]

Everyone: debating whether it's real or not.
Mean while I'm stuck watching a 144p video because YouTube never thought of adding quality settings for shorts.

[virtua]

The biggest give away is the dirt applied to the base of the foliage and fuzz which is on it. You would have to convince me that a single creator could do better than full professionally trained companies. The level of detail would have had to be done by a professional, who created and gathered their own assets. This might come as a surprise to some of you, but unreal engine 5 isn’t photo realistic up close.

[larion]

This is definitely real footage. No one has done plants like that, the colors are perfect and the sound is also clearly real.

[laynaTheLobster]

It's both: the foliage in the beginning is highly detailed and also realistically moving in the wind, something which would be nearly impossible to pull off, especially when 5.2 is still so new. After we transition through that tree though, the camera movement becomes a lot smoother and the foliage goes a lot farther away, clearly indicating that we have transitioned to a render.

[furkangormus]

this is real footage . ( edit : I know more or less about this job and as soon as camera focused on the tree, I easily realized that it was taken with a phone. )

[MRDRAGONFRUIT]

It’s so real I even heard someone saying “banana” in the background💀

[Miatpi]

Real life. The details of the leaf, the small movements of the leafs and the waters interaction with the stones in the river and just the overall look of the lighting is just too perfect.

[Kigavern]

This is definitely both. Close up especially with water is real. But everything in the distance looks like a generated scene in UE5

[MINECRAFT_GAMER_]

My MF trying to play the game:
“Hey! What’s that soun-*boom*”

[rafox]

I can tell right away that it's real by looking at the plant up close, especially the details and the way the leaves move. Honestly there's not much else that I can judge it on anymore, unreal 5 is absolutely amazing.

[Arthr]

Once you see the hairs of the leaves, this is real

[freshlyfishedbread]

Real life then transitions to UE5 after passing the tree

[MsBrookeWilcox]

Man graphics now are so incredible. I never would have imagined seeing the texture of a leaf so clearly. It's very impressive.

[SamuraiInu]

This is definitely Unreal Engine 5. The water flow in the river is a dead giveaway. A real river would have a mix of calm and turbulent areas, but this one has the same water animation throughout. The Ambient Occlusion in the background also looks very similar to UE5.

[jebbroham]

it's pretty scary when we have an actual heated debate going on in the comments section below about whether this is real or not like we're to the point we just can't tell anymore. Have we reached that point already?

[nonsuspiciouscolour]

The foliage in the distance looks like something straight outta UE5. I'll say this is real footage on the closeups then slowly transforms to UE5 footage.

[boedilllard]

Definitely starts real life but then it seems they use filters or out of focus so it look bad like UR 5.

[celestinobianchi]

Bro that’s so realistic props to ever made this

[petergriffin]

When you have people arguing whether its real or now... that's a win.

[zoner]

The tree that is closest to the camera has a slightly warped UV map for its texture. Also, there is no foliage movement but you can hear the wind.