Date:         Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:09:05 -0500
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Roadside Assistance Commercial
Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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Hi Jim,

Good catch. What I noticed is that at twenty seconds in there is a tan
colored box on the trailer that makes no sense at all. This is
definitely CG, done well enough but certainly not perfectly.

I used to make a living doing PhotoShop in the print industry a good 20
years ago. Back then it took about half a million dollars worth of
hardware to do video editing, and only about $20K to edit material for
print. Nowadays you can do either with systems from $500 to $5K, and
since every other highschool kid got into the game it's become REALLY
hard to get the kind of $$ for it that I was getting back in 1990.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario Canada
197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop (ND Graphics graphics wrap)
1988 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop (Colleen's ride)
www.pottsfamily.ca

BUSES OF THE CORN - AUGUST 12-14th, 2011
www.busesofthecorn.ca



On 12/23/2010 8:35 PM, Jim Arnott wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:33 PM, David Beierl wrote:
>
>> At 07:25 PM 12/23/2010, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>>> But can you tow a tow truck with 2.1?
>>
>> Maybe you missed the part about "it's all totally imaginary, not to
>> mention utterly impractical and would lead to total gridlock,
>> accidents everywhere, and people scratching their heads since they
>> couldn't get the tow trucks off the trailers, let alone house, feed
>> and pay the drivers?"
>
> Display full screen. Stop the vid. Advance frame by frame. The trailer
> is (for lack of a better term) 'shopped. Look at the bus/trailer
> interface. Look at the bus reflections in the puddles. Look at the
> lack of reflections for the trailer. Note that the puddle suddenly
> gets longer and continues in the same shape with the same reflection
> at the front of the trailer. The bus is real. The trailer is real. The
> bus and the trailer were probably not on the same road at the same
> time. Later scenes? The trailer is pulled by Ford Super Duty pickups.
> Many of them. Ain't CG wonderful?
>
> Jim
>