If you are reading this, you are probably on a computer and you’re probably surfing the interwebs, feverishly clicking back and forth between facebook and snowboarding videos. Under these assumptions, you have probably seen this video by now, of a seemingly perfect backflip to board transfer. If you dont snowboard, you probably said “cool”, and if you do, you probably said “fake…but still pretty cool”. Well, the dudes over at Actionhorse were kind enough to set the record straight. They released this video today, showing how exactly they achieved this effect, and holyshitbatman, i had no idea how complicated motion graphics can be. They gloss over the whole process in about ten seconds, but jeezus that must have taken forever. Watch and learn, folks…

(and check out the full length video PONYTALE here.)

Making of Actionhorse’s “Ponytale” (VFX Shot) from Arvid Niklasson on Vimeo.