| Author | Message | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 656 Registered: 10-2003 |
This is nice.. http://84.40.3.164/ John | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 3151 Registered: 5-2002 |
That was pretty nice. | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 2264 Registered: 9-2002 |
Wow ...thanks a LOT John. This is ready made lecture material for me!!!! Paul TBO | ||
| bob
Senior Member Username: bob Post Number: 577 Registered: 11-2002 |
Wonderful. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 953 Registered: 7-2004 |
Pretty cool!. Honda's definitely making some interesting commercials lately. Here's another. First read this and then click on the link below: There are NO computer graphics or digital tricks in the film you are about to see. Everything you see really happened in real time, exactly as you see it. The film required 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night and day.By the time it was over, they were ready to change professions. The film cost 6 million dollars and took three months to complete, including a full engineering of the sequence. In addition, it's two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on British television, they're shelling out enough enough to keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime. However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded advertisement in Internet history. Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free"viewing. (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!) When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately without any hesitation -- including the costs. There are six and only six handmade Accords in the world. To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film. Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and complete Honda Accord is parts from those two cars. The voice-over at the end is Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real. Oh ... about those funky windshield wipers: On the new Accords, the windshield wipers have water sensors and are designed to start functioning automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit odd in the commercial. As amazing as this is, the commercial is actually based on an earlier film from the 1970s called "How Things Move" by two Swiss self-destructing artifacts artists. Some sharp-eyed folks claim that tires rolling UPHILL necessarily require computer-generated effects. Not so. The sequence where the tires roll up a slope looks particularly impressive but is very simple. There is a weight in each tire and when the tire is knocked, the weight is displaced and in an attempt to rebalance itself, the tire rolls up the slope. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/honda-ad.html Bill, tgo | ||
| adriaan
Senior Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 750 Registered: 6-2002 |
Yes, the bit with the tires got me thinking they must have had something up their sleaves. Even with a weight to add momentum to the wheels, I'm not sure they could override the inertia of starting an uphill motion, repeatedly, plus the energy loss of the tires bumping into eachother - friction, heat absorption - everything else seemed doable. | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 622 Registered: 9-2002 |
If that's what a Civic feels like, I guess they'd be in there for a lot longer rehearsal for an NSX or an RC211V!! J o e y | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1725 Registered: 9-2003 |
I'm with you...let's see 'em do that with an RC211V MGP bike!!! |
