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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: marvin on September 13, 2004, 10:26:38 AM
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This is so cool! Not sure about the text below tho, but try checking the link.
The new Honda Accord commercial:
Take a couple of minutes to watch this clever commercial - but read this page 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 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 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 wa tch 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.
http://home.comcast.net/~phule/honda-ad.html
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i've seen this before - but thanks for the links. i love this sort od rube goldburg stuff - although it does seem to go on a bit long. anyway, thanks!
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Hum,
a nice bit of mechanical choreography there...
Though i have seen impressive domino sequences that rival it as well...
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I've seen it before, but it's one of those things I don't mind coming across again. Incredible.
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One really odd thing is that the tyres on the see saw bit seem to accelerate upwards when they are bumped. I find that very strange behaviour. I wonder if they had deliberate weights and stuff put in them (above the centre of rotation) to force them to roll the short distance uphil once they were nudged? I can't think of anything else that would cause an uphill acceleration for a rolling object :-?
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Greetings,
tyres on the see saw bit seem to accelerate upwards when they are bumped.
Yes I agree, Tires going up on a ledge is strange. :-? Any one fine peice of work there though. I seen it before. Nice one Marvin. :-D
Regards,
Gizz
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Yeah, they weighted the tires, it's explained in one of the pages linked on that site.