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… */ <gg> Thanks for the footnote, John. (yes, I know its the Chrysler building… but seriously, how many buildings do we really see out there in the freeware meshworld?–big grin… we refer to it around here as the 3DS building because… well, it;s one of the few buildings 3DS comes with <big grin>) /* 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 */ Well, I guess different people are impressed by different things. I bump into people who are still impressed with pen plotters. No, I was not that impressed with the commercial. /* 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. */ I admit, like everyone else here, I have my ignorance pockets. But the technical whizbang of this particular commercial doesn't touch some of the stuff I've seen out there… polar bears on bobsleds, listerine bottles swinging from vines and all. No, this was a typical mix of live video with static-vertice morphing. /* 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 */ No argument intended here, John. Just my observations on Gayle's frustration. It's not the first time I've seen bare-naked plagerism though. /* 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 */ You're not a pessimist at heart, are you? 🙂 Don't want you to get the wrong idea here, John (your response seemed live-lier than usual)… it's a good topic to discuss, and the legal ramifications of "using pre-exiting work without onsent" ARE worth examining as this IS an increasing problem. p.s. i like incense, used to like granola before I found out how fattening most of it is, enjoy sharing the wealth, and freelove brought my wife and I together for 10 years (so far). I take it the *** stands for "love". <I have this feeling our next meeting will be a bit more exciting than a XAOS booth sit-back>… have a nice evening dude. -dave