Wednesday January 06 1993 20:35, Gord Wait wrote to All:
GW> From: gord%jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
GW> Newsgroups: comp.graphics
GW> Subject: Intel 486 Inside add - how?
GW> Does anyone know how the TV add "intel inside" was done? This is the
GW> one that features a fly-through of the inside of a PC past all the
GW> internal boards and ends up at the 486 processor.
GW> I say it's a model with a little bit of 3D thrown in (the funny light
GW> posts by the 486 for example). A freind of mine is convinced the whole
GW> thing is computer generated.
I have watched it after reading your message (on CNN) and i am almost sure that it has been constructed as follows. It is a model indeed and obviously a motion
control camera is used to do the fly-thru. The floor is computeranimated and
follows the camera movements. ILM has done a lot of this stuff.
We also have done a few commercials this way. There are ways to port camera/track (xyz) data to a animation program. I believe that i have seen the floor 'shuffeling' a bit while moving; but it can be our CNN dish! Watch the seams between floor and 'bookshelfs'! The rest is clever lighting, nice model and high-end computer animation.
Bye!
Martin.
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