Is it true that the video shows how the octopus walks along the beach?

For several years, social networks are surprised by the roller with an octopus, which very quickly crawls along the sandy beach. We checked whether this video recording is real.

Since 2020, in social networks you can meet posts with a video that allegedly shows how the octopus got out of the water and quickly moves along the sand along the coast. Usually such records are accompanied by signatures in the style of “Nothing unusual! Just an octopus walks along a sandy beach. ” So, in the public "Contact" in VKontakte video Placed in April 2022, it Collected 12,000 views and 340 likes. In 2020–2021, such a video was posted in other communities, among which "Traveler - Travel and Tourism" (83,000 views, 1000 likes), "Connoisseurs Club" (18,000, 270), "Our living planet" (192 000, 1900), "Predator" (4800, 120), “Dangerous planet Vol. 2 " (12 500, 210), Black Science (299,000, 3000) and #NECRO_TV (174,000, 1050). In addition, the video is placed on YouTube (examples here And here), on Twitter (here, here And here) and on other resources. For example, on the site Noodlemagazine This video with octopus has 84,000 views and 1000 likes.

In fact, the video is made using computer graphics. It was created by a Russian -language artist of visual effects under the nickname Ghost3dee (Alex Z), living in Qatar. The original video he is Laid As early as August 2, 2020, on his Instagram* with the next signature: "The octopus of Churro is walking along the beach in his updated body with a dynamic model." At the same time, there are many tags under the post that clearly indicate the availability of computer graphics and animation: #cgparticles, #animation, #CGCREATURA, #CREATUREANIMATION, #CTANERENDER, #CGI_IDEA and others.

In addition, if you carefully look at the animal from the video, then you can notice that he has not eight, but nine tentacles. Therefore, the author noted that technically this is not an octopus (octopus), but nine (Novempus).

A couple of months earlier, in June 2020, Alex Z Loaded "Short test rendering Churro and his first attempts to climb a steep wall." In the same post, the author indicated that he was working on the creation of a new body for this creature in the form of a real octopus, which he considers to be an incredible animal.

And at the end of August of the same year, the 3D artist also showed several videos from process creating a viral video and movement Churro from a different angle.

By the way, Alex Z knows that on the network his work is sometimes taken for a real video. For example, here is a playful description The video from his account on the website of Makersplace: “The viral aliens-nobravempus churro, who wriggled on the beach in August 2020. It is still a controversial theme among Internet users and a source of numerous theories. Its origin has yet to be found out in the future, but we know for sure that he was stuck on the ground after the crash of a spaceship in the deserts of the Middle East. ” Perhaps the reason for the confusion of users is fast The author on Twitter, where the video scored a million views. There is only such a signature in tweet: “The Octopus Churro walks along the beach of old ruins in Qatar. Original video ". In Tiktok, the artist is similar signaturebut there are tags about computer graphics.

On the pages of the author there are other videos with the adventures of Churro. For example, below ShownHow he takes a shower and drops the skin in a public park.

Although the viral video is not real, in nature there are actually octopuses that can move along land at short distances. Most of the representatives of this detachment are tribal animals, some live in the water column, but there is a unique look called abdopus aculeatus. In a series of documentary films BBC "The Hunt" (The Hunt) of these octopuses They called it The only ones that can walk on the surface. The video below shows how one of them hunts crabs on the northern coast of Australia. It is said that in the tide, many octopuses find themselves in water traps - small reservoirs formed in rocky recesses. However, A. Aculeatus can temporarily leave water to move from one such reservoir to another in search of prey. Although they do not move as fast as in a video with computer graphics.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: collage "Checked" / Stewart Cutler / Sony

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