HONDA/ REAL OR 3D?

[cmejia]

i FOUND THIS ON THE INTERNET I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS...iT IS A COMMERICAL FOR HONDA. i STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT IF IT IS REAL OR VIRTUAL.

YOU DECIDE...

http://www.daboyz.org/honda/

[3ddesign]

Its real. It took them over 600 takes to get it to work.

[Syclone1]

yup that one was actually real, cost honda a crap load of cash for it also

-dave

[cmejia]

THIS IS THE INFO I RECIEVED ON IT BUT IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE..

Take a couple of minutes to watch a clever commercial ...BUT DO READ
> THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU CLICK ON THE LINK.
>
> There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film.
> Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see
> it.
>
> The film took 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 film cost six million dollars and took three months to
> complete, including a full engineering sequence.
>
> In addition, it's two minutes long so every time Honda
> airs the film on British television, they're shelling out enough
> dough
> to keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime. However, it is fast
> becoming the most down loaded advertisement in Internet history.
> Honda
> executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free"
> viewings 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) are parts from those
> two
> cars.
>
> 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.

[Syclone1]

ROFLMAO I just love that part: "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."

would have loved to see there faces :P

-dave

[schorsch5]

the parents of this film

you should know that two swiss artists Mr. Fishli & Mr. Weiss, are the first in the middle of the eightys who creat this kind of installation.
i saw their film 20 years ago on television and could not belief it! the film is called "der lauf der dinge" (sorry my bad english, but something like "as things are going") and it´s an amazing film, you would not belive even when you see it. the had an old faktory, a space of 200 meters or more where the arrange a lot of industrial and civilisation garbage wich interakts in this way. the film is 20 or 30 minutes long and as i heard, the have only 2 or 3 cuts where the aktion stops. the archetype of this film is much more funny then hondas remake and nearly everything is borrowed by them. it is a realy low bugdet poduktion whith much more different and surprising aktion, not only phisikal aktion like in the comercial. a board whitch is fallling- pushs a ladder-the ladder makes two steps forward to cut a rope and brings a hanging nail to fall - on a toy car with an blown balon gaffered on his top- the air disapers and bring the toycar on speed - crashing in a glas with liquid -the liquid runs out -droping in an other box with a second liquid - react - flames - burning some -styrofoam - wich hold something in balance and so on and on and on - unbeliveable! sometimes you think it´s on the end like dead, an in the next moment chain reaktion starts again in this absurd enviroment - realy fantastic - you must see it if you ever have the posibility.
but i am realy laughing when i read that hond spends so much money.
i think fishly&weiss had maby 6.000 dollars, but i don´t know.
i would know, if honda ask the artists to get the rights, but i´m sure, the both are realy famous!
so, if you have ever the chance to see this film - watch it - it´s amazing
and gives the next reaction

[Syclone1]

Thanks for the heads up on the other film schorsch5 I found a link with some photos and a trailer for the film your refering to here http://www.tcfilm.ch/lauf_txt_e.htm

lol its easy to see that they had a limited budget

-dave

[RErender]

They are crazy not to use CG, well actually reactor can be a real pain in the butt :P

Here is the official page http://multimedia.honda-eu.com/accord/

[Trapezium]

I always liked the Rube Goldberg books when I was a kid I could spen hours looking at them over and over.

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/

[richard_rosenman]

I've seen this commercial before and it is very good.

However, has anyone ever wondered how the three tires can roll UPHILL at that slow speed and NOT lose inertia??? (Take a closer look.)

-Richard

[cocolas]

yeah,
I actiually did wonder that...it seems a bit "unatural" since the kkep going up at constant speed w/ out slowing downs.....hehehe


paul.

PS: the probably could've saved a lot of money by doing it in cg......

[Matt_3D]

I've seen this commercial before and it is very good.

However, has anyone ever wondered how the three tires can roll UPHILL at that slow speed and NOT lose inertia??? (Take a closer look.)

-Richard

If you look really really carefully they appear to be weighted to allow them to travel uphill. When the tire rests you catch a glimpse of it rocking back and forward slightly. :P

-Matt

[reza]

im no guru...but wheels just dont roll uphill especially with just a little push...i say its cg and a little help of Einstein.

[Matt_3D]

im no guru...but wheels just dont roll uphill especially with just a little push...i say its cg and a little help of Einstein.

No CG, just weights.

[RErender]

I think it would be harder to set up as a simulation than to do it in real life - I'm a believer