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Post by smb on Mar 3, 2006 0:31:58 GMT -4
For many months I believed firmly that this beautiful commercial was only made possible thanks to extensive CGI.  That was until yesterday, when I discovered that they actually propelled a quarter of a million multi-coloured bouncy balls down the streets of San Francisco. I previously would have put serious money on it not being real. |
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Post by BertL on Mar 3, 2006 1:44:32 GMT -4
Yes, I read that they were real too, some weeks ago. They still look fake to me though.
It's a conspiracy!
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Post by gezalenko on Mar 3, 2006 8:21:38 GMT -4
I too was convinced it must be fake, but a bit of research and I'm now (fairly) sure it was real. Check this out for example www.flickr.com/photos/62838934@N00/(found on here www.flickr.com/photos/49503155830@N01/28841983/)which shows a bit more about how it was done. Interesting example of something that looks so amazing that you'd be forgiven for thinking it must have been faked, but when you do a little bit of research, it turns out that, well, yes, it was actually possible to do it for real. And apparently the balls didn't all end up in the sea. Which was nice. |
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Post by gezalenko on Mar 3, 2006 8:25:10 GMT -4
Apologies for replying to my own post, but if you click on the links in my last post, you need to include the @n00/ bits too.
I have no posting skills - sorry !
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Post by BertL on Mar 3, 2006 10:45:35 GMT -4
Interesting example of something that looks so amazing that you'd be forgiven for thinking it must have been faked, but when you do a little bit of research, it turns out that, well, yes, it was actually possible to do it for real.
Actually, it looked fake to me because of most balls having no shadow of itself on it.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 3, 2006 21:57:47 GMT -4
I'm another who has to admit that I assumed it was CGI, and was surprised when I learned a few months back that it wasn't. I'm more amazed because I'm surprised that they would have been allowed to do it, lol.
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Post by truthseeker on Mar 22, 2006 7:24:24 GMT -4
Where can i buy some of those bouncy balls LOL, i used to have some as a kid, and now i want some again! hehehe
;D
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Post by frenat on Mar 22, 2006 9:08:17 GMT -4
Interesting example of something that looks so amazing that you'd be forgiven for thinking it must have been faked, but when you do a little bit of research, it turns out that, well, yes, it was actually possible to do it for real.Actually, it looked fake to me because of most balls having no shadow of itself on it. Each ball would not show a shadow from itself because the balls are translucent. At least that's the impression I got. |
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Post by gezalenko on Mar 22, 2006 13:12:44 GMT -4
I think they do actually form shadows, but perhaps not as dark as you might expect. If you look at the photo in the first post, I can make out lots of light grey spots on the road, which I think are shadows. From my memory of seeing the ad, I think shadows are visible if you look carefully.
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Post by frenat on Mar 22, 2006 13:39:20 GMT -4
I thought he meant the underside of the ball itself being dark.
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Post by gezalenko on Mar 23, 2006 9:51:57 GMT -4
Oh I see. But again, if you look carefully, some of the balls do look darker on the underside - such as the big purple one in the bottom left of the photo in the first post.
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Post by BertL on Mar 25, 2006 14:52:12 GMT -4
Yes, frenat was right. However, gezalenko was right too.
Maybe the lack of shadows is because of reflected light.
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