RobiNZ CAD Blog: Television

Play-Doh, coming soon... is here!

2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set.
40 animators.
3 weeks.
189 2ft bunnies
150 1ft cubes
10ft x 20ft purple wave
30ft giant rabbit.
6 cameras.
40 animators working through 4 hours generated 4 seconds of footage.
40 animators working on the same scene had never been attempted before.
The 60 second spot will be constructed of approximately 100,000 stills

In the tradition of Balls and Paint, it’s Play-Doh

See the preview and wallpapers - Sony BRAVIA - New York - Downloads
(I’ve seen this on YouTube but the “official version” is much better quality)

The result is at http://www.bravia-advert.com/

Disclaimer: I have a Sony ES component Audio system and Trinitron TV, but not a BRAVIA. I just like these adverts!

Tags: Sony+BRAVIA, Play-Doh

03 October 2007 at 22:49 in Design and Art, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The new Sony BRAVIA "Paint" Advert is...

As good as the first one! BRAVIA – commercials.like.no.other

Sony BRAVIA - View The New Advert
The new BRAVIA TV commercial was directed by award-winning director Jonathan Glazer, who is responsible for a dazzling array of original work in the fields of commercial, music video and film production.

It required: 70,000 litres of paint, 358 single bottle bombs, 33 sextuple air cluster bombs, 22 Triple hung cluster bombs, 268 mortars, 33 Triple Mortars, 22 Double mortars, 358 meters of weld,
330 meters of steel pipe, 57 km of copper wire, 1 High-rise Apartment Block and (I’m guessing) a huge clean up afterwards!

UPDATE 29–10–2006: Video added, found it thanks to iplot

19 October 2006 at 01:18 in Design and Art, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Time to save Top Gear

This is off-topic but if you are a fan of the BBC Show Top Gear it’s time to act:

See; Time to save Top Gear - Sign the "Save Top Gear!" Petition - RobiNZ Personal Blog

Tags: Time+to+save+Top+Gear, Top+Gear

26 September 2006 at 08:07 in Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A look back at the early days of the net, maybe even BIM?

This 1972 documentary on the early days of computer networking is fascinating. The ARPAnet pioneered many of the concepts and technology that became the Internet and it may even have the first mention of BIM?

J.C.R. Licklider of M.I.T.

“When they are developing plans the blueprints, as it were, don’t have to be copied and sent all around the country, the blueprints come out of the database and appear on every-bodies scope and the correlation, the coordination of the activity, is essentially right there in the computer network itself”. (about 11:00 min)

“It’s just fundamental that if one wants to deal with information you ought to deal with the information not the paper it’s written on” (about 22:00 min)

They dream of banking networks, information sharing, instant communication across wide-band networks. Could that change the world? Oh, it already has!