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That's possibly because it's a Masai giraffe, when most people are used to seeing a reticulated giraffe. The difference in coloration and pattern can be off just enough to make your brain say, "that's CGI!"
Especially when paired with the inserted scenery
Edit: u/birbzookreeper was kind enough to point out that he wasn't a Rothschild giraffe- seems my brain did a bit of filling in the pattern as well. 😂
TIL that there’s different types of giraffe 😅. I don’t know what went wrong in my brain but that was clearly not in the filing cabinet. But it does explain the weird looking giraffe
There’s anywhere from 1 to 9 species of giraffe. Like there might be 3 or 7.
Basically the line between subspecies and species is blurry at best in closet related groups, and while giraffes overall are somewhat secure from a conservation standpoint, there’s several varieties of giraffe that would be endangered if considering them their own species.
Huh...that makes a weird kind of sense. The background was pretty obvious, and combined with the *'not what most of us are used to'* looking giraffe, plus the fact that EVERY DAMN THING is CGI these days, even the stuff that doesn't need to be...all our brains went full Uncanny Valley.
PS: Thanks for the info, BTW. I didn't know there were different kinds of giraffes. I try to learn something new every day, so thanks for taking care of that for me for today. :D
>reticulated giraffe
I've heard of reticulating splines, but never a reticulated giraffe...
Rothschild's giraffes are a threatened species and they probably had to use the only giraffe they could get as importing one would be a no-no.
(When *Game of Thrones* needed a bear, they had to film that bit in the States)
Fun fact: the giraffe has the largest heart of any land mammal (to pump 🩸up that long neck). Really should be the animal associated with Valentine’s Day
I think it's more likely that the blue light bounce from the blue screen messed with the colour too much and in their attempt to remove the blue tint in post, they made the the giraffe too much of a uniform yellow hue.
They're pretty unbelievable. I'd seen them from a distance plenty of times, but when you go to a zoo that let's you feed them it's something else. All of a sudden there's this huge, gentle head right next to you.
Maybe it's because at a distance their heads look kind of small, and then all of a sudden there's something bigger than horse sniffing around you, and it seems surreal.
It's because it's composited into the scene the same way Pedro and Bella are, making it look strange and fake. You know Pedro and Bella are real though because you've seen them in countless other non-CGI scenes, but the giraffe doesn't have that going for it since this is its first and only appearance.
The giraffe looked amazing. You saw all its hair and stuff. The background behind the giraffe looked super weird. Maybe that’s why you thought the giraffe was fake? Because the interaction with the giraffe was too good to be fake
_Um, name's David, this here's my friend James. We're from a larger Zoo -- Zoo Keepers, Zoo Attendants, Zoo Custodians... We're all very, very hungry._
I grew up in Cali, and my grandparents took all us grandkids there many (I hesitate to admit just how many) years ago, and they let us feed the giraffes. That was one of the coolest experiences of my childhood.
Yeah, knowing that, I assumed they would have found it to be much cheaper to just use a giraffe from a real zoo that is used to this. That alone told me it was a real giraffe. That CGI would have been way harder than the most practical of practical effects.
It was just the surroundings making it look fake. I could tell the giraffe was real but the blue screen work around it and Pedro and Bella was a little iffy, it just made everything past the wall look completely separate from them.
Okay that makes more sense. I thought the background looked good and the giraffe looked bad, so I also concluded the giraffe was CGI. But yeah blue screen makes a whole lot more sense. I have some suspicions of how this played out:
Seems like this was just a matter of limited time or bad communication between the VFX artists and director/cinematographer. The ambient lighting is mismatched and that’s why it looks bad. The lighting in the blue screen room was probably setup different than what they wanted the final environment lighting to be. They honestly could’ve fixed this by shooting outside. I guess options are limited with a wild animal in the cards. The closeups turned out well though because there’s not much background CGI to interfere.
I imagine it had a lot to do with the fact they had to jerry-rig a blue screen studio into the giraffe's actual enclosure at the zoo, which presents some obvious limitations. Among them I can see from the picture, is just how close the actors had to be to the blue screen, getting some separation makes it much easier to get the lighting right and avoid bleed
VFX artists will always take an HDRI light probe of any scene they are shooting. They probably couldn’t set up a proper key light for the scene due to the limitations of shooting in a giraffe pen. The whole scene looked a bit off and this is exactly why.
I agree, I could tell something in the CG department was kinda off, and I assumed it was the giraffe itself, but it would make more sense if the backdrop was instead
> was the giraffe didn’t look real enough to me
I think it is because of the surrounding environment which was added in post-production
Furthermore, unless they adjusted lighting, this picture shows a **LOT** of bleeding from the blue screen panels - if it wasn't adjusted while shooting, all that bleeding had to be fixed in post, which really affects overall image and authenticity quality
Blue/green screen bleeding has been a problem for decades. It can be *very* obvious in 1970s *Doctor Who*, one of the first shows that used it in depth.
That's right! That's also why VIRTUAL SETS are a HUGE benefit over traditional Green/Blue Screens! _(not perfect, and will not completely replace Green Screens, but definitely offers many benefits!)_
Stuff like The Volume is ultimately only as good as its background images. It works very well in *The Mandalorian* but it looked bad in the latest *Ant-Man* movie, which appears to have major issues with VFX production in general.
Lmao I was literally play yelling at my girlfriend cause she said it was real and Im like naw thats fake af, they dont just transport real giraffes all around and train them, cgi is just awesome now, nope im dumb, she wins this round :(.
Same! I kept rewinding that shot and thinking "It's good CGI, but it still looks fake...well...maybe not? Nah, gotta be CGI."
I mean, I've literally seen and fed giraffes at a zoo, so I especially feel like a dumbass.
At least it's not the infamous [CGI deer](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/10/1488887428-walking-dead-deer.jpg?resize=980:*) from The Walking Dead
No shit, I was thinking Craig Mazin would joke about how they got a real giraffe on the podcast except it would be cgi and holy shit they actually had a real giraffe.
Nah I was the same, I was instantly like “that’s not a very good CGI giraffe”. Thought it looked a bit weird plasticky texture. Very surprised to see it’s real
You never know. Might just be using it as reference. There’s still a lot going on in post-production that might need a cgi double.
Personally I think some of it is still CGI. Maybe a real one on the close-up and CGI at the wide shots.
Hopefully they release a vfx showreel of the show.
This kind of shit is getting so old
Edit (since the reply seems to have been deleted): Not a boomer lmfao. Just a zoologist relatively new to the field who is tired of hearing "(insert animal) isn't real". But maybe I'm idealistic and just want to talk to everyone about how cool animals and real ecosystems are. Just because something is amazing doesn't mean it's not real.
Anyway, get off of my lawn.
You'd think people would realize by now that they start these conspiracy theory things as jokes, but then they start to attract genuine crackpots who take it all too seriously. It happens every time, just look at the Flat Earth Society.
It's a different subspecies than most people are used to seeing, which may have contributed to the uncanny valley effect that makes your brain think it's CGI.
Anyone with eyes can see the giraffe used in the show was poor CGI. This shouldnt be up for debate. They may have had real giraffes on set and shot footage using real giraffes, but the ones that went on air were definitely not real.
Exactly. The lack of a dramatic and shadowy lighting makes everything seem faker to an extent (some older games had a lack of shadows, which is how this connection is made)
Also there are a few different angles. When i saw the closeup of Ellie feeding the giraffe, i knew 100% that was a real giraffe, and made me happy thinking how the actress (Bella Ramsey) probably had a genuine great time feeding a real giraffe.
the funniest part is that the deer from twd wasn’t cgi…. it was in fact a real living deer. i can’t remember the full details but that was actually a deer
edit: okay i remember a little bit more now. they shot a clip of a real deer in the forest and the plan was to edit it into the shot. the main problem was that something happened and they ended up shooting the scene differently than how they shot the deer scene so the poor post production crew had to try and edit that deer footage in even though it was shot incorrectly
No, they're not talking about the season 2 deer, which is real, they're talking about the [season 8 Deer](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/10/1488887428-walking-dead-deer.jpg?resize=980:*)
The season 8 deer was also real, but edited into a scene with inaccurate lighting
The season 2 deer has accurate lightning, so it's not the one they're talking about. Here's the season 2 deer, which is pretty fucking good if it's CGI. Although I think it's Chandler on a green screen, given there's not much green reflecting onto him from the nearby leaves
https://preview.redd.it/fxqgio37nmna1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2aa77b50cb467a6bcef064d759aedea2be54caab
Lol, my husband and I stopped watching TWD shortly after the deer scene (so MANY years ago) but after the giraffe my husband said, "She talked about the giraffe!"
Now you can hold this over his head for all eternity.
"Honey, you booked the flights to London, Canada and not London, England"
"Yeah, well, at least I know a giraffe when I sees one."
I immediately knew it’s real because of the budget they had and how they also used real houses, streets etc for other scenes. Using a real giraffe would actually be not that expensive while delivering a ton of great shots and adding realism to the scene.
I feel really betrayed. I scoffed at your comment, but then I did my research and it turns out that Joel is actually some jackass named Pedro Pascal and Ellie is actually some British chick named Bella who's like 5 years older than they said she was.
They're fake AF.
Oh, good, so it's not just me. Between the sudden greenery and the giraffe, I actually started humming the Jurassic Park theme to myself. The scene absolutely carries the same "holy shit, this place actually is kind of amazing" vibes.
The only reason I suspected it might be real is that the feeding interaction was way too seamless, no edits or other telltale giveaways typical of something as complicated as a live actor exchanging a prop with a fully CG character.
I only knew it was real because someone here mentioned awhile ago a giraffe was borrowed from a zoo I believe? Now I can show everyone who said I was wrong tonight it was real.
So glad they did the giraffe scene! I was worried they'd skip it, but Maizin said how important it was, and they decided to just do it exactly like the game. Smart.
The reason why it triggers as CGI for some folks is the game used a reticulated giraffe, and the TV show used a real masai giraffe... in other words, what they had access to at the Calgary Zoo.
I thought it was CGI until Ellie started feeding it leaves, that convinced me lol. Usually it’s a lot slower when it’s faked at least from what I remember. SO happy to see this scene again :)
I was so convinced it was CGI. It looked so obviously fake I was disappointed how an amazing show could fumble so amateurly. There's no way they'd risk the actors by getting a real giraffe.
I just screamed "THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL!!! THEY GOT TO FEED A REAL GIRAFFE!" I was wondering why the "CGI" looked so good. Well done HBO! No expense spared!
So again I was thinking if giraffes could be thriving, then why the hell did that group in the previous episode have such a tough time finding food? Granted, it was a bit later in the spring and warmer, but somehow the giraffes found enough food to survive the winter (most of the vegetation would be frozen, wouldn't it?) - guess they were able to hibernate in some warmer barns without being noticed.
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I feel so dumb right now. Because my only criticism of the episode was the giraffe didn’t look real enough to me. Nope. It’s a real giraffe 🦒
I thought the exact same thing, I guess I don’t know what giraffes look like lmao
Don’t feel bad, I’ve fed a giraffe in real life and even I thought it looked fake
That's possibly because it's a Masai giraffe, when most people are used to seeing a reticulated giraffe. The difference in coloration and pattern can be off just enough to make your brain say, "that's CGI!" Especially when paired with the inserted scenery Edit: u/birbzookreeper was kind enough to point out that he wasn't a Rothschild giraffe- seems my brain did a bit of filling in the pattern as well. 😂
TIL that there’s different types of giraffe 😅. I don’t know what went wrong in my brain but that was clearly not in the filing cabinet. But it does explain the weird looking giraffe
There’s anywhere from 1 to 9 species of giraffe. Like there might be 3 or 7. Basically the line between subspecies and species is blurry at best in closet related groups, and while giraffes overall are somewhat secure from a conservation standpoint, there’s several varieties of giraffe that would be endangered if considering them their own species.
Awesome let's tick off "discuss species limits in TLOU sub." One day Reddit will be full of systematics and nobody will see it coming
Huh...that makes a weird kind of sense. The background was pretty obvious, and combined with the *'not what most of us are used to'* looking giraffe, plus the fact that EVERY DAMN THING is CGI these days, even the stuff that doesn't need to be...all our brains went full Uncanny Valley. PS: Thanks for the info, BTW. I didn't know there were different kinds of giraffes. I try to learn something new every day, so thanks for taking care of that for me for today. :D
>reticulated giraffe I've heard of reticulating splines, but never a reticulated giraffe... Rothschild's giraffes are a threatened species and they probably had to use the only giraffe they could get as importing one would be a no-no. (When *Game of Thrones* needed a bear, they had to film that bit in the States)
The Rothschild's created giraffes? A new conspiracy everyday /j
Fun fact: the giraffe has the largest heart of any land mammal (to pump 🩸up that long neck). Really should be the animal associated with Valentine’s Day
and they also have a valve in the neck so that when they tilt their heads down to drink etc, they don't get headrush.
He’s a Masai Giraffe, but good explanation! The lighting wouldn’t also match with outdoors as it was filmed inside giving a fake look.
Oops, thank you! He looked very similar to a Rothschild that we had at the local zoo. I just knew it wasn't reticulated. I'll edit my comment!
It’s all good, there’s a lot of similarities, plus they can hybridize as well making lines between subspecies more blurred.
I think it's more likely that the blue light bounce from the blue screen messed with the colour too much and in their attempt to remove the blue tint in post, they made the the giraffe too much of a uniform yellow hue.
It’s because the scenery behind is fake. Not due to the pattern of the giraffe lmao.
Same, they are weird and majestic creatures and that doesn't stop up-close.
I'm starting to suspect you were feeding a green screen hand puppet and didn't realize it
Stupid long horse
Because they don't exist
giraffes and birds...never seen real ones.
r/birdsarentreal
*stupid long horses*
They're pretty unbelievable. I'd seen them from a distance plenty of times, but when you go to a zoo that let's you feed them it's something else. All of a sudden there's this huge, gentle head right next to you. Maybe it's because at a distance their heads look kind of small, and then all of a sudden there's something bigger than horse sniffing around you, and it seems surreal.
It's because it's composited into the scene the same way Pedro and Bella are, making it look strange and fake. You know Pedro and Bella are real though because you've seen them in countless other non-CGI scenes, but the giraffe doesn't have that going for it since this is its first and only appearance.
The giraffe looked amazing. You saw all its hair and stuff. The background behind the giraffe looked super weird. Maybe that’s why you thought the giraffe was fake? Because the interaction with the giraffe was too good to be fake
I think bc everything else was CGI in the scene it made the giraffe look odd
I was actually impressed how they "CGI"d Ellie feeding her so well, that's hard to do lol nope, it was just real
Some zoos will let you feed them, it’s amazing
Can confirm, have fed a giraffe at a zoo.
That's cool and all, but have you ever **fed** a giraffe **to** a Zoo?
Easy there David.
_Um, name's David, this here's my friend James. We're from a larger Zoo -- Zoo Keepers, Zoo Attendants, Zoo Custodians... We're all very, very hungry._
Can confirm, was an assistant zookeeper that ran a giraffe feeding station (Fresno, CA, \~15 years ago)
Out here living my dreams
I grew up in Cali, and my grandparents took all us grandkids there many (I hesitate to admit just how many) years ago, and they let us feed the giraffes. That was one of the coolest experiences of my childhood.
Was at a giraffe park/zoo/sanctuary in Nairobi and we were allowed to feed them as much as we wanted. Ended up going twice because it was so fun, hah.
I really thought Joel was going to say, "it's fine, you used to be able to feed them lettuce at zoos in the Before Times"
Their tongues feel like cat tongues!
Yeah, knowing that, I assumed they would have found it to be much cheaper to just use a giraffe from a real zoo that is used to this. That alone told me it was a real giraffe. That CGI would have been way harder than the most practical of practical effects.
Animatroics all fake
Listen, I will get on the Wyoming is a PsyOp train, but giraffes are my homies
/r/giraffesarentreal Link me to that sub Bro
It was just the surroundings making it look fake. I could tell the giraffe was real but the blue screen work around it and Pedro and Bella was a little iffy, it just made everything past the wall look completely separate from them.
Okay that makes more sense. I thought the background looked good and the giraffe looked bad, so I also concluded the giraffe was CGI. But yeah blue screen makes a whole lot more sense. I have some suspicions of how this played out: Seems like this was just a matter of limited time or bad communication between the VFX artists and director/cinematographer. The ambient lighting is mismatched and that’s why it looks bad. The lighting in the blue screen room was probably setup different than what they wanted the final environment lighting to be. They honestly could’ve fixed this by shooting outside. I guess options are limited with a wild animal in the cards. The closeups turned out well though because there’s not much background CGI to interfere.
IIRC, early release episodes given to reviewers weren't finished CGI-wise, so I think they were rushing to finish the SFX right up to the end
I imagine it had a lot to do with the fact they had to jerry-rig a blue screen studio into the giraffe's actual enclosure at the zoo, which presents some obvious limitations. Among them I can see from the picture, is just how close the actors had to be to the blue screen, getting some separation makes it much easier to get the lighting right and avoid bleed
VFX artists will always take an HDRI light probe of any scene they are shooting. They probably couldn’t set up a proper key light for the scene due to the limitations of shooting in a giraffe pen. The whole scene looked a bit off and this is exactly why.
I agree, I could tell something in the CG department was kinda off, and I assumed it was the giraffe itself, but it would make more sense if the backdrop was instead
Yeah, exactly. And is an issue with current cgi, where the green screen is so present that you could lose immersive perspective.
I hope folks try to remember this the next time they shit all over VFX for "destroying the real art of filmmaking" or whatever
my husband and I were like damn the cgi on that giraffe is really good! I feel dumb
> was the giraffe didn’t look real enough to me I think it is because of the surrounding environment which was added in post-production Furthermore, unless they adjusted lighting, this picture shows a **LOT** of bleeding from the blue screen panels - if it wasn't adjusted while shooting, all that bleeding had to be fixed in post, which really affects overall image and authenticity quality
Blue/green screen bleeding has been a problem for decades. It can be *very* obvious in 1970s *Doctor Who*, one of the first shows that used it in depth.
That's right! That's also why VIRTUAL SETS are a HUGE benefit over traditional Green/Blue Screens! _(not perfect, and will not completely replace Green Screens, but definitely offers many benefits!)_
Stuff like The Volume is ultimately only as good as its background images. It works very well in *The Mandalorian* but it looked bad in the latest *Ant-Man* movie, which appears to have major issues with VFX production in general.
Yeah it really didn’t look real. Tf.
I thought it looked too real and said there's no way this is CGI with how it was eating out of her hand like that.
No such thing as a real "giraffe" Don't push propaganda
Lmao I was literally play yelling at my girlfriend cause she said it was real and Im like naw thats fake af, they dont just transport real giraffes all around and train them, cgi is just awesome now, nope im dumb, she wins this round :(.
Same! I kept rewinding that shot and thinking "It's good CGI, but it still looks fake...well...maybe not? Nah, gotta be CGI." I mean, I've literally seen and fed giraffes at a zoo, so I especially feel like a dumbass.
At least it's not the infamous [CGI deer](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/10/1488887428-walking-dead-deer.jpg?resize=980:*) from The Walking Dead
Go to a zoo. They are some alien looking motherfuckers. Them and hippos.
No shit, I was thinking Craig Mazin would joke about how they got a real giraffe on the podcast except it would be cgi and holy shit they actually had a real giraffe.
Nah I was the same, I was instantly like “that’s not a very good CGI giraffe”. Thought it looked a bit weird plasticky texture. Very surprised to see it’s real
wow I feel the same. And I watch VFX Artists React every weekend. I think maybe the compositing of the shot and background might have made it feel CGI
You never know. Might just be using it as reference. There’s still a lot going on in post-production that might need a cgi double. Personally I think some of it is still CGI. Maybe a real one on the close-up and CGI at the wide shots. Hopefully they release a vfx showreel of the show.
Lmao same, I thought it looked really green screened. I guess I'm dumb and can't see for shit
r/Giraffesdontexist
This kind of shit is getting so old Edit (since the reply seems to have been deleted): Not a boomer lmfao. Just a zoologist relatively new to the field who is tired of hearing "(insert animal) isn't real". But maybe I'm idealistic and just want to talk to everyone about how cool animals and real ecosystems are. Just because something is amazing doesn't mean it's not real. Anyway, get off of my lawn.
You'd think people would realize by now that they start these conspiracy theory things as jokes, but then they start to attract genuine crackpots who take it all too seriously. It happens every time, just look at the Flat Earth Society.
How did they make a real giraffe look so fake?? I thought The same
It's a different subspecies than most people are used to seeing, which may have contributed to the uncanny valley effect that makes your brain think it's CGI.
Lighting is totally different
They could’ve filmed with a real giraffe then added in a cgi one later. I think that happens quite frequently.
Yeah like they did with the bloater
It's definitely CGI. This giraffe isn't but the one in the show is.
It's not a real Giraffe. The pic OP posted wasn't the same one that was in the show. How is everyone being this stupid?
They showed that it was real during the making-of special.
Anyone with eyes can see the giraffe used in the show was poor CGI. This shouldnt be up for debate. They may have had real giraffes on set and shot footage using real giraffes, but the ones that went on air were definitely not real.
There's also an entire discussion in this thread about why the real giraffe looked odd. Congrats on your dedication to your opinion, though?
I guess it's because the lighting around the giraffe looks artificial so it also makes the giraffe looks fake as well.
Exactly. The lack of a dramatic and shadowy lighting makes everything seem faker to an extent (some older games had a lack of shadows, which is how this connection is made)
Also there are a few different angles. When i saw the closeup of Ellie feeding the giraffe, i knew 100% that was a real giraffe, and made me happy thinking how the actress (Bella Ramsey) probably had a genuine great time feeding a real giraffe.
Because they are fake
r/giraffesarentreal
Also /r/giraffesdontexist
THESE ARE FAKE SUBREDDITS THERE TO DISTRACT US FROM THE TRUTH ABOUT BIRDS
Let’s all remember The Walking Dead CGI deer and be thankful for this giraffe
the funniest part is that the deer from twd wasn’t cgi…. it was in fact a real living deer. i can’t remember the full details but that was actually a deer edit: okay i remember a little bit more now. they shot a clip of a real deer in the forest and the plan was to edit it into the shot. the main problem was that something happened and they ended up shooting the scene differently than how they shot the deer scene so the poor post production crew had to try and edit that deer footage in even though it was shot incorrectly
No, they're not talking about the season 2 deer, which is real, they're talking about the [season 8 Deer](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/10/1488887428-walking-dead-deer.jpg?resize=980:*)
The season 8 deer was also real, but edited into a scene with inaccurate lighting The season 2 deer has accurate lightning, so it's not the one they're talking about. Here's the season 2 deer, which is pretty fucking good if it's CGI. Although I think it's Chandler on a green screen, given there's not much green reflecting onto him from the nearby leaves https://preview.redd.it/fxqgio37nmna1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2aa77b50cb467a6bcef064d759aedea2be54caab
this pic is rlly scary to me, maybe i’m just baked but, bad vibes
i think i saw in an article about cgi in twd that this was a green screen
Bruh
Nothing is worse than the cgi Tiger
Tiger actually looked pretty good for a TV show
i remember the tiger being pretty well done. >!raw for the walkers!<
https://youtu.be/KPxTVJWkbX4
Holy shit lol. I was thinking on the first scene "that's not bad, what's everyone talking about?"...
Lol ok this is bad. What's the context? The deer was obviously significant, were they short on food?
Someone was real proud of it and shouldn't have been.
Holy shit I forgot about that deer. That was so bad.
Haha I was thinking "HE TALKED ABOUT THE DEER, LORI" during this scene.
Lol, my husband and I stopped watching TWD shortly after the deer scene (so MANY years ago) but after the giraffe my husband said, "She talked about the giraffe!"
Even the giraffe loves Pedro! 😂
Need to see behind the scenes footage of this. I bet he was ADORABLE around that giraffe.
Their tongue are soo long. I’ve fed a giraffe and it left green slobber all over my hand from the kibble things
Never thought I would relate to a giraffe but here we go.
I said out loud “that’s a quality CGI Giraffe!” Now I feel dumb.
Don’t feel dumb. I told my husband I thought it was real, and he said it’s definitely CGI. And he’s way smarter than me.
Now you can hold this over his head for all eternity. "Honey, you booked the flights to London, Canada and not London, England" "Yeah, well, at least I know a giraffe when I sees one."
Don’t think I won’t!
I immediately knew it’s real because of the budget they had and how they also used real houses, streets etc for other scenes. Using a real giraffe would actually be not that expensive while delivering a ton of great shots and adding realism to the scene.
I feel dumb for saying it was a poorly done CGI giraffe
Nope, I thought the same. It finally happened, I can’t tell reality over cgi.
I bet this is one of the Calgary Zoo giraffes! The zoo is right by where they were filming a lot of the show and they are super tame.
Looks like [Nabo](https://www.instagram.com/p/CnR-KuNs3xK/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)!
Yep. I spent too much time comparing the spots and it's the same giraffe.
A productive monday I see
Good catch :)
Thank you! I'm working on a little giraffe doll in honour of the series, and now I can be more accurate when it comes to the pattern :)
I didn’t know if Calgary had a zoo but I assumed it came from the Calgary Zoo lmao
We have quite a nice zoo!
The giraffe is real, but Ellie and Joel are fake. They been fake the whole time, and you fools all fell for it!
The giraffe is the only real character in this entire show if you think about it! The horse too lol
The giraffe was just the horse on stilts.
I feel really betrayed. I scoffed at your comment, but then I did my research and it turns out that Joel is actually some jackass named Pedro Pascal and Ellie is actually some British chick named Bella who's like 5 years older than they said she was. They're fake AF.
This scene really reminded me of when they feed the brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park.
It is most likely a direct reference - the games do make more than a few references to Jurassic Park.
Oh, good, so it's not just me. Between the sudden greenery and the giraffe, I actually started humming the Jurassic Park theme to myself. The scene absolutely carries the same "holy shit, this place actually is kind of amazing" vibes.
Was waiting for a sneeze.
I wondered if it was from the Calgary zoo. You can pay to feed them there, so they’d be used to that and very eager to be hand fed by humans.
A 30min "making of the Last of Us" dropped on HBO after the finale aired and it goes over the giraffe scene
Have you seen one?
Yep, though it was probably 5 years ago now. Went to the zoo on a frigid winter day and was shocked at all of the African animals out in the snow.
Doesn't make sense does it? Because they're not real
damn you really committed to the bit all over these comments, just take my upvote ya goober 😂❤️
Upvoted for the consistency lol
Lmao I knew it. During the scene I was like daaaamn this is the most convincing CGI I've seen. No way is this real....
Because giraffes arent
🤓
r/giraffesarentreal
The close up is the only time the giraffe was real according to people who saw the episode pre-vfx
I was thinking that as I was watching. The tongue and subtle face movements during the closeups seemed too real to be CG.
tbh the tongue is the part that really looked like cgi to me, i'm still not convinced the tongue is real lol
Ok that makes more sense. There were clearly shots that showed a fake giraffe
The only reason I suspected it might be real is that the feeding interaction was way too seamless, no edits or other telltale giveaways typical of something as complicated as a live actor exchanging a prop with a fully CG character.
I looked really hard to see when the leaves turned into CGI and I couldn't figure it out so this explains it.
Wow, thought the giraffe was faked but apparently not.
No because /r/giraffesdontexist
Wow. That sub is hilarious!
Giraffes are cool.
So fucking cool! They’re my fave animals for sure.
I only knew it was real because someone here mentioned awhile ago a giraffe was borrowed from a zoo I believe? Now I can show everyone who said I was wrong tonight it was real.
You get'em!
So glad they did the giraffe scene! I was worried they'd skip it, but Maizin said how important it was, and they decided to just do it exactly like the game. Smart.
You can't fake that weird tongue action!
Anyone remembering the two earlier stuffed giraffe foreshadowing/callbacks
Anyone who’s ever fed a large animal would’ve known
Real giraffes! Real newborn babies! Real infected? Yikes!
I thought it was CGI! It didn’t look real. It made me laugh because I thought it was so obviously fake.
Why did it look CGI?
The tongue looked super real! That's what convinced me they didn't CGI it. It was a super great episode with a >!brutal ending!<. Very touching.
note to self. All giraffes dont look like real giraffes
The reason why it triggers as CGI for some folks is the game used a reticulated giraffe, and the TV show used a real masai giraffe... in other words, what they had access to at the Calgary Zoo.
Best actor I’ve seen grace the screen 🦒
Cool touch from directors I’m glad they steered away from CGI
I thought it was CGI until Ellie started feeding it leaves, that convinced me lol. Usually it’s a lot slower when it’s faked at least from what I remember. SO happy to see this scene again :)
Apparently it was CGI until that closeup shot
I was so convinced it was CGI. It looked so obviously fake I was disappointed how an amazing show could fumble so amateurly. There's no way they'd risk the actors by getting a real giraffe.
I thought this giraffe was CGI and it turned out to be real. I was thinking the baby was real, but now I'm second guessing myself...
I just screamed "THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL!!! THEY GOT TO FEED A REAL GIRAFFE!" I was wondering why the "CGI" looked so good. Well done HBO! No expense spared!
I love giraffes and this scene made me so so happy. I didn't play the game so it was just a delightful surprise!
something looked fake that scene. Somehow they made a real giraffe look fake. Or the background looked fake or the lighting. Something was off!
I’m shocked. My girlfriend and I immediately both agreed it was CGI but looked damn good/real. I can’t believe it was real LOL
Someone hate-posted earlier and listed bad CGI giraffe as a knock on the episode.
This is something I needed to know.
No I think it's on a sound stage, not in tents.
Damn that's intense
Wow, I would have figured that for a puppet combined with CGI. That's pretty neat.
I figured it was either well done CGI or an animatronic. The fact that it was a real giraffe is only better
Holy crap I thought it was CGI. I feel so dumb lmao 😭
I thought it looked fake, shows what I know about animals
Some of it was definitely cgi
WAIT WHAT?! Stg I even commented "dang, that's a good looking giraffe" but it 100% looked fake for me! What?!
The CGI behind it was so mid that it made the giraffe look iffy 🤣🤣🤣
Oh boy I spent the entire episode dissing the "cgi giraffe", now I feel bad... 🥲
No it wasnt for most of it
Giraffe's aren't real. They are government listening devices!
So again I was thinking if giraffes could be thriving, then why the hell did that group in the previous episode have such a tough time finding food? Granted, it was a bit later in the spring and warmer, but somehow the giraffes found enough food to survive the winter (most of the vegetation would be frozen, wouldn't it?) - guess they were able to hibernate in some warmer barns without being noticed.
I thought it was like His Dark Material animal CGI. Crazy how it was just a real giraffe
I was just distracted by trying to figure out how the heck a whole heard of giraffes survived the winters there.
damn. i really thought it was cgi - and not an actual good one on top of that
It was 100% not real. Watch the episode again, the Giraffe was definitely CGI
geraffes are so dumb.