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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:Cars in the UK
Notice:Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:COMICS::SHELLEYELD
Created:Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2584
Total number of notes:63384

1077.0. "Honda Concerto ad." by JUMBLY::DUNN () Fri May 18 1990 12:32

    so who's got any bright ideas about how they got all the butterflies to
    settle on and take off from the car on cue ?

    If they used pheromones to attract them, my guess is that they wouldn't
    be easily frightened off, as they were all trying to figure out how to
    make mad passionate love with a tin box under the glare of spotlights
    and people.

    Maybe they all just gave it up as a bad job.
    
    Peter
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1077.1I bet: Computer graphics.SUBURB::MCDONALDAOld Elysian with a big D.I.C.Fri May 18 1990 12:461
    
1077.2SDRAWKCABCURRNT::WRIGHTLDIR can make the earth moveFri May 18 1990 12:509
    How about putting them to sleep (bottle of whisky should do). Placing
    them by hand on the car. Then start car up which wakens them and
    the all fly away; thi sis of course filmed and then played in reverse
    to make it look as though they are landing. There again they could
    have trained them all :-)
    
    
    Tony
    
1077.3butterfly valves?MARVIN::RUSLINGMicroServer Phase V Session ControlFri May 18 1990 12:554
Back in my butterfly hunting days, the easiest way to attract them is to
smear some sugar solution somewhere and wait for them to settle.  The love the
stuff.  However, it makes them a little dopey (easy to pick off), so maybe
they didn't use that.
1077.4Fake butterfliesIOSG::MARSHALLI have a cunning plan...Fri May 18 1990 13:297
Looking closely at the ad, the butterflies stationary on the car are cut-out
paper, and those moving are animated.  The mass Exodus from the Honda (obviously
they suddenly realise what it is  ;-) is animated too, I think.

But then maybe I'm wrong.

Scott
1077.5VOGON::BALLVote Early - Vote Often!Fri May 18 1990 13:568
Tony has it right in .2.  They are a troupe of highly-trained stunt butterflys 
who are incidentally now available to deliver butterflygrams in the Reading 
area.  I've got their phone number written down on a post-it pad -  whoops, I 
mistakenly wrote it on a large yellow butterfly which has just flown away.  
Sorry.

Jon
 
1077.6All doen by heatVANILA::LINCOLNThe sun has got his hat onFri May 18 1990 14:055
	My guess is that they are real butterflies, a sight cheaper than
	imitations, and that the way it's worked is to release them into
	a cold room with a warm car in it.

	-John
1077.7All wrong !CURRNT::ROWELLWI'd trade places with Dan Ackroyd !Fri May 18 1990 16:274
    Nope, they are
    
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Butterflies, doing advertisements in their
    spare time .    ;-)
1077.8It's good.....But not that good.RDGE44::JONESKLet me try....Muuuuuum !Fri May 18 1990 16:5010
    Thay are, in fact, computer graphics.  Very clever indeed but only
    just noticable.  Probably drawn or scanned into Harry (as it is
    known in the TV/Commercial Art business.  Its a
    paintbox/animator/very_powerful_tool_indeed ) and set into motion
    using the said tool.  Using real butterflies would have been next 
    to impossible.
    
    It's amazing what these metal boxes with chips can do nowadays.
    
    Kris  who_would_be_a_commercial_artist_if_I_were_not_here! 
1077.9They use a very sharp pencil...CURRNT::PREECEThey call them the diamond dogs...Mon May 21 1990 09:4714
    
    Yup, .-1 has it !
    
    They're a figleaf of the graphic designer's imagination existing
    only as bits in an animation workstation, apart from
    one or two close-ups.        
    Somebody must have had a great time doing all that lot, and probably
    used a lot of CPU time, too.  
    
    Confirmed with a lot of patience, a friend's expensive freeze frame
    and a magnifying glass.  (and a headache !)
    
    Ian