CompuServe Messages

Man, you are really _out there_ on the beer ad. First of all, that's the ***Chrysler building*** in NYC!!!! It is NOT the "3DS" building by PCA. Sheeesh, you should get out a little more… The animation, done by Sidley Wright Motionworks for Miller Beer, is, IMHO, an amazing feat of compositing high end animation with film, and I find the concept (besides the fact that I don't drink alcohol) and execution pretty excellent, too. If you look very closely at the building character, you'll see the level of detail is FAR greater than that of the building in PCA CITY, and the seemless integration to the filmed scene is very solid. That you think "someone threw this together fast" is either a complement to their skill in executing the trick, or a testament to your ignorance of animation and film composite effects. As far as copyright and patent violations, I don't even want to enter into that argument, but… I think it is the artist's responsibility to take steps to protect his or her work, and if he/she hasn't done this then it's pretty clear what's going to happen. When it comes to money, this isn't a hippy-happy-freelove-share-the-wealth-eat-granola-smell-the-incense kinda world, it's a make-as-much-as-you-can-and-****-your-neighbour kinda world, and protecting one's self is mandatory. I sympathize with Gayle, but other than bad vibes and karma, her plagarist doesn't have much to fear, apparently. John Tissavary (LUNA cie)