Keith Loh sent this to me. As an original Transformers fan, it made my day. Even if you didn't watch the show as a kid, the CG is great. Just a 30 second TV commercial.


http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs185030.mpg

The Transformers were after my time, but this is a delightful spot.

What really makes it great is the camera work ("spontaneous" zoom shifts, as if they were shooting an irrepressible dancer on a rooftop) & the editing, like a hastily assembled music video. I love how sunlight kicked off the chrome in ways a more careful "shoot" might have avoided.

Who knew a Citroen could have such 'tude?

JS

That rocked!

I love Transformers...hope the upcoming feature film, being assembled by Don Murphy, turns out well. Hopefully we can expect some CGI even better than this.

As a transformer fan That ROCKKKKEEEDDD

That is an awesome spot, I like that car too.....

Have you guys seen the transforming copier machine video? Check it out if you haven't...

Be nice to the copier or else! (http://www.thetf.net/uploads/Starscream/fototopiame.wmv)

(right click and save as...it's only 1MB)

Info on how they made the car commercial can be found here.

http://www.carpages.co.uk/citroen/citroen_c4_13_11_04.asp?switched=on&echo=631972840

I keep watching it over and over. It's impressive. They should get an award for this one.

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If anyone wants more information about the effects studio that worked on this spot, their web page is:

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/

They've got some other real nice composites on their site.

Dylan, you and Keith are TF fans?

Alright, *high five*

Then you gotta see this:
http://www.wilenkin.com/transformers/Video_player_06_content.html

They've been showing that spot on UK TV recently. Its quite amazing.

I too used to watch and play with transformers...

Cheers,

<<<-- Originally posted by Ronald Ng : Dylan, you and Keith are TF fans?

Alright, *high five*

Then you gotta see this:
http://www.wilenkin.com/transformers/Video_player_06_content.html -->>>

I have a TF collection of about 200-300 pieces, mostly 1st gen. I don't collect anymore though. I should probably put most of it on Ebay and buy a new car with the money.

Seen the dancing Soundwave before, but it's still a great clip.

You do? Dude, you missed the money boat, they're all being re-released now. I have a bunch too....so of the newest stuff as well. I liked Beast Wars.

<<<-- Originally posted by Ronald Ng : You do? Dude, you missed the money boat, they're all being re-released now. I have a bunch too....so of the newest stuff as well. I liked Beast Wars. -->>>

Just got a Nemesis Prime from Target for $14 (it's a "dark" repaint of Big Prime from BW Neo).

Man, have you guys seen the Alternators line. They got me back into the fandom big time.

Swing by Tfans (www.tfans.com) for a great TF message board, or Tformers (www.tformers.com) for TF news.

Here's the most pertinent link for this message board. A direct link to Tformers 2006 live action Movie news (http://tformers.com/categories.php?op=newindex&catid=20)

<<<-- Originally posted by Ronald Ng : You do? Dude, you missed the money boat, they're all being re-released now. I have a bunch too....so of the newest stuff as well. I liked Beast Wars. -->>>

Meh, I wasn't in it for the money. I don't collect re-releases, just isn't the same. Anything after I think year 4 didn't interest me much, mostly just the stuff from the time period I had them for as a kid.
I worked briefly for Mainframe in the late '90's while they were producing Beast Wars. Still, the Beast Wars series didn't interest me either. While robotic animals, like in the original series were cool, the natural organic ones did nothing for me. I did watch a bit of the show though.

I'll probably display my favorite 40, and put the rest in long term storage so my kids can one day sell them to a pawn shop for booze money.

The Alternators line is one of G1 "updates" so to speak, and they are fantastic and addictive...check out this page, and tell me you aren't going to order Hound...This line alone got me back into it after years away.

http://www.binalternators.de/binaltech_english.html

No, but I might order the Z06 version of Tracks (was always one of my favorites, since I love Corvettes).

Why the F--k is Grimlock a Mustang? That;s one of the things I hate about later generations... An epic character, destroyed to market a few more sales.

Technically, there is a story line that puts the events of these characters somewhere between "Scramble City" and "TF:TM", at a time when some of them had to jump bodies. Grim is supposedly very unhappy with the results (like most of the fans at first). I was a G1 purist, but now I'm happy to see as many of these characters get retooled as possible. 2005 is supposed to bring the Alternators/Binaltech line accurate Seeker jets, Helicoptors, etc...

...BTW - Waaaaay later in TF history, Grim is constantly changing bodies to keep up with the newer generation of bots (post-beast wars bots), and sticks with some kind of flying dragon triple-changer for awhile.

If you like comics, you should check out TF prehistory with the "War Within" series...Grim and the Dynobots (as they're known before being remade on earth) are a badass special forces team.

...that is the last little bit of my complete TF geekdom, I'm going to reveal on this board.