{"id":81068,"date":"2020-11-26T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=81068"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:50:29","slug":"cgi-clip-and-old-video-shared-as-devastation-caused-by-cyclone-nivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/cgi-clip-and-old-video-shared-as-devastation-caused-by-cyclone-nivar\/","title":{"rendered":"CGI clip and old video shared as devastation caused by Cyclone Nivar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry witnessed heavy rainfall and storm due to Cyclone Nivar<\/a>. Three people have died in the torrential downpour. Since then, social media is ripe with videos of storms claimed to represent Cyclone Nivar. One Twitter user shared a video on November 25 and captioned it, \u201c<\/span>Human lifes gonna end soon\u201d with the hashtag <\/span>#CycloneNivar<\/span><\/a>. The video drew 48,000 views. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Human lifes gonna end soon
\nOne after another,bad things happening to humans
\nAdvance RIP humans#ChennaiRain<\/a> #ChennaiFloods<\/a> #CycloneNivar<\/a> #CycloneNivarUpdate<\/a> #Chennaiweather<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/R4bWORJ8Uf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kurma Vishnu Priya (@PriyaKurma) November 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Facebook user shared another video showing heavy rainfall. He too claimed it depicts Cyclone Nivar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nivar cyclone
\nCHENNAI<\/p>\n

Posted by Gadde Rajapudi<\/a> on Wednesday, November 25, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Alt News found that both videos are old and unrelated to the recent calamity.<\/p>\n

Video 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

This video shows clouds gathering overhead, then they suddenly turning into a water tornado. This was earlier fact-checked<\/a> by The Quint. A keyword search \u2018Tornado CGI’ leads one to a video from<\/span> December 2018. This video was posted by YouTuber <\/span>Alexandru Dineci<\/span> and titled, \u201c<\/span>Tornado CGI simulation (Cinema 4D TurbulenceFD)\u201d. The viral video begins from the 00:10 mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cLCg5QedEvY]<\/p>\n

Alexandru Dineci<\/span>\u00a0posted the same video on his Instagram profile @<\/a><\/span>orphicframer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A post shared by ORPHICFRAMER \ud83c\udf2a (@orphicframer)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He had also uploaded a breakdown of the CGI effects in his Instagram story highlights<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alt News broke down this video into multiple keyframes and reverse searched them on Yandex. We came across a YouTube video<\/a> uploaded on September 12, 2017. A Twitter user<\/a> had also posted the video a few days later on September 17, 2018. The title of the YouTube upload is in Turkish \u2014 \u201c<\/span>IRMA Kas\u0131rgas\u0131 ABD<\/span>\u201d \u2014 which translates to \u201c<\/span>Hurricane IRMA USA\u201d. The Twitter user posted the clip with a Spanish caption, \u201c<\/span>Poderoso tif\u00f3n #Manghkut en Hong Kong<\/span>\u201d, that translates to, \u201cPowerful typhoon #Manghkut in Hong Kong\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n