Okay, I will try to lay this all out very clear.
Since the airing of the performance, many fans knew something wasn't right, especially since the Estate and the people making this claim the thing isn't an Impersonator and that its a CGI Michael. Okau everyone who seems to be okay with the Estate and Pule's explantion have sat back and done nothing to research this, meanwhile on the crazy side of MJ fandom........................
Evidence to Suggest, it was a live shot of a body double with a "half" CGI/Photo composite face. Who was the Impersonator, people went and did some research
The Moves
Alot of fans especially those "2000 Watts" types and people who study Michael very closely knew from the second VMJ walked down those stairs it wasn't his dance moves, a little over a day later, someone found him.
Another video highlighting the movements.
Michael moved a specific way and no one on this planet could recreate that, but people who emulate Michael also have certain ways of performing moves and get into a habit of performing them their own way, the 2 videos above show Earnest Valentino was the Impersonator, we were lied too.
The Body
After people were claiming the body was full CGI, first thing I did was take a trip to some CGI forums online. Some people are saying who are we to be experts in this and that...........well lets see what actual CGI Experts think.
CGISociety Forum
"A "holographic" Michael Jackson appeared at the Billboard Music Awards a few days ago. It looks like a 3D animated head with a human dancer that's been projected onto a flat screen." - AJ -> CGI portfolio
http://aj1.cgsociety.org/
"I just happened to switch over during a Cosmos commercial and saw this. Looked like what it was: a filmed dancer with a cgi face very poorly matched to the body."
"It didn't look so much CGI as it looked cobbled together from stills and re-animated, perhaps in 2D. And when I said the head was a poor match, it wasn't really the motion that was wrong, but the angle of the face to rest of the head/body that made it seem "off" - and the lighting was way off." - Richard Green -> CGI portfolio
http://artbot.cgsociety.org/
"The quivering projection screen didn't bode well and when I saw the 3D MJ I had to try hard to suppress my laughter. It was pitiful, borderline offensive. I guess the fans who adored him were just so grateful to see "him" again that it didn't bother them." - Telemachus -> CGI portfolio
http://www.nightfall-design.com/
There is no one who works on CGI that I have read that has even mentioned the possibility of the body being CGI. So no I am not an expert in CGI but I went out to find people who were. I didn't need to do this myself as a keen eye will take notice of the way fabrics move, shadows form.......and possibly at the start of the performance the female next to VMJ touches against his jacket sleeve, again showing this was filmed on set with the other dancers. The Body was real we were lied too.
The Face
Okay, following on from the above opinions that this was a poorly matched CGI/2d composite, its pretty clear after watching the video in HD, that this was a composite of 2d MJ pictures, with elements of Earnest Valentino's face left behind. The reason MJ looked a little off to some fans wasn't just because the likeness was off in places, but also because the likeness of MJ changes, they have used photos from Bad -> HIStory, meaning as Michaels head moves they change era's in his look. If you pause the video at some points you can even recognize the photos the 2D composite was taken from. Also as I posted above, they didn't even bother changing the impersonators face in some shots as I showed in these screencaps......
Anyone who has ever seen Earnest Valentino will tell you this is him. We were lied to.
A Few last Things
The clothing, Stylist: Michael Bush (Michael Jackson) why are they saying he designed the clothes for Michael Jackson, when its clearly not MJ? Anyhow we can see from the latest behind the scenes video this........
There is your impersonator, in EXACTLY the same design clothing as VMJ, except a different colour scheme. Obviously as VMJ performs a majority of the performance with a black background, it was not an option to wear a full black outfit, hence the colourful clothes. Earnest Valentino, on set, where are the motion tracking markers? no he is wearing real clothes, as the video we see from VMJ is simply him.
"The likeness of Michael was shot on a stage, then the face was digitally modified to match Michael as closely as possible. The extra lighting effects for the dancers flanking Michael to the left and right were all part of the ancillary lighting effects that made the projection pop."
http://www.arena3d.com/
One more important thing, in Damien Shields article he wrote this "Sources involved in the creation of this performance, all of whom signed strict non-disclosure agreements and therefor must remain unnamed, have confirmed this for me." I asked Damien about this, I trust him 100% and he has never ever lied to me in all the years I have known him.
The Future
Could they recreate a Michael Jackson performance? I will sidestep the argument about "Ghosts" and the motion capture as they may not have this and it might not be viable or cost effective to convert the 18 year old tracking into modern software. But they could create an almost realistic CGI model that moves like Michael, almost certainly. This could be done as simply as hand animation, similar to 2d Animation, placing tracking points on MJ, like his hands feet and knee joints, we have footage of Michael performing the same moves over and over again from almost every angle you could imagine, let alone what The Estate has at their fingertips. The face could have been easily recreated by laser scanning any of the hundreds of face casts Michael had lying around throughout the years, and even readily available on ebay, you could make your own.
Would this be easy? No, would it be worth it, is Michael Jackson worth it? Yes. I can tell you what we got was possibly the easiest, most cost effective and quickest way for them to create this illusion.
We don't have an Agenda, simply to know the truth behind all of this, which as we dig deeper is slowly being revealed. If you don't want to hear the truth, sidestep the posts, but in order to side with the BS we have been told you first need to rationalise all the above. Thank you