Comments | tinbender: Commercials on YouTube

tinbender

Commercials on YouTube

May 26, 2007 23:02

Today I saw a really neat commercial where a guy is stuck in traffic and grows wings. It's the CGI that makes the commercial and it's really done well. Here it is on YouTubeI wound up looking for the old Discovery Channel commercial where they guy went back in time and apparently changed something so that when he came back, everyone had antlers, ( Read more... )

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alaskawolf May 27 2007, 13:39:55 UTC

i never knew about the chocolate dipped altoids, im going to have to get some now

tinbender May 27 2007, 15:52:31 UTC

I dunno, they don't sound too good to me. Besides, going by the whole commercial series, they do strange things to people. ; )

weremoose May 27 2007, 15:04:23 UTC

Nice commercial. I haven't seen that one before. :)

As for the werewolves in movies, I'm not sure if it's the technology holding it back or if it's the creative team. If the director or concept artist or whoever wants an ugly werewolf, then it will be an ugly werewolf. And most seem to forget that practical make-up effects can still be used.

I saw a werewolf on the new series of Dr. Who once. It's been a while so I don't remember exactly what it looked like, but I remember being impressed by it. The only problem with it was that it was obviously CG. The model was great, but it was not rendered well nor inserted into the live action well. A bigger budget would help with that.

Speaking of budgets, that may be why the directors would want to go with ugly werewolves. They come cheap. :)

tinbender May 27 2007, 15:55:57 UTC

I don't care if they're ugly or not, but they do need to be more realistic. I suppose it is a budget thing, but still, it'd be nice if they'd cut budget in other areas instead of the main focus of the movie.

jonbuck May 27 2007, 17:07:45 UTC

That is a great Altoids commercial. I have a Firefox extension that allows me to save YouTube videos, so I went ahead and got it for posterity. :)

tinbender May 27 2007, 17:18:53 UTC

What extension is that? I've tried saving those in the past and haven't found a way.

jonbuck May 27 2007, 17:33:03 UTC

The extension is .flv. Flash video.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390

tinbender May 27 2007, 19:48:44 UTC

Heh, I meant extension in the way that Firefox uses it. Thanks for the link!

That works pretty well although the interface isn't that intuitive, but it works and that's all I care about. Thanks.