The Mac Ad

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984/

Note the ... modification ...

I may not really like Apple, but this is definitely one of the best ads ever.

[OB1]

Haha, that was pretty funny. Sure beats those Jeff Goldblum ads.

[Darunia]

I hate Jeff Goldblum so much.

[A Black Falcon]

... who?

[The Former DMiller]

Jeff Goldblum was Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, amoung other roles. He did the voiceovers for a lot of Apple ads, and has always been a huge Mac activist.

[A Black Falcon]

Huh. Haven't seen any of the Jurrassic Park movies...

[OB1]

The first movie was pretty neat.

[Fittisize]

Yeah...along with the book. He was also in Independence Day, I believe.

[A Black Falcon]

Haven't seen that either. :)

[Fittisize]

Daaamn. You outta watch some more movies.

[The Former DMiller]

Well what the hell? I figured you'd know him if I mentioned Jurassic Park so I didn't even mention Independence Day, but you didn't even see that?

<a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000156><img src=http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~obaoba/jeff%20goldblum2231421.gif></a>

[OB1]

I actually kind of like him... not in the mac ads, but in some movies.

[The Former DMiller]

He's okay. He has a strange way of acting, but he gets the job done. While I thought he was average in Jurassic Park and Independence Day he was really good in the Great White Hype.

[A Black Falcon]

I watch some movies... sure there are a lot I haven't seen, but that doesn't really bother me. :)

[Weltall]

His signature role was in "Cats and Dogs".

[A Black Falcon]

Haven't seen it. :)

[geoboy]

Wow. They did an excellent job of seamlessly putting the iPod on her. That has to be some of the best live action and CG integration I've ever seen. I've grabbed a few stills of the movie so you can see. It looks even better in motion with the "headphone cord physics." :)

[Great Rumbler]

That's pretty cool.

BTW, that commercial [the original] is one of the coolest commercials ever.

[A Black Falcon]

Yes. As I said. :)

[The Former DMiller]

And yet, the actress in the commercial disappeared from the face of the Earth. A Mac magazine did a feature on that commercial recently and said they tried really hard to find the actress, but she hasn't been heard from in years.

[Weltall]

Actually, if you look closely at this in the first image, you'll notice that the I-Pod appears to be angled differently above the hammer handle as the part seen below. It's not caused by shading either, as the handle is too far away.

It's a small CGI flub, but visible enough that I caught it immediately.

[A Black Falcon]

Huh?

[Weltall]

I dunno.

[A Black Falcon]

I mean, how is that wrong?

[Weltall]

Because it's not seamless. They look like two different things rendered seperately, and not one object, as it should appear to be.

[geoboy]

I think it's just an optical illusion. You have two geometrically symmetrical objects crossing each other. And the bottom of the iPod is darker because the sledge hammer's handle is casting a shadow on it, contributing to the illusion. Plus, just look at the entire image. The woman looks like she was photoshoped onto a different background. But that all doesn't matter, because it still looks believable in motion, which is the original intent of the commercial.

I've noticed that about a lot of pictures. Sometimes a still image of video will look fake, while in complete motion looks entirely believable. And I'm not just talking about CG images. It can happen with any ordinary video if conditions are right.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, it looks like one object to me...

[Dark Lord Neo]

In Bio we watched an old A&E movie on DNA(one of the comercials during the break was a Reagan-Bush comerical), I can't remember if Jeff Goldblum was playing Watson or Crik though, he was playing the ecentric American one, but he was perfect for the part.