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Cool Gullwing Video
« on: December 31, 2020, 01:36:53 »
A friend just sent me this -- some very inspired CGI! 

https://www.stashmedia.tv/classic-gullwing-takes-flight-in-short-film-by-joao-elias/
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2020, 14:11:23 »
That is simply amazing . . .
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2020, 18:20:52 »
You certainly have that right! Wow, very cool!
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2020, 20:35:55 »
Exceedingly well done.

An old member of MBCA International Stars used to race his Gullwing at Bonneville. He hired a young man to removed the salt when the car returned home each year.
Oh, the salt. You wouldn't believe how thick it was caked on that car...
At least in CGI it's imaginary salt.
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2020, 22:25:36 »
I think this has been posted before - How They Shoot A Car Commercial Without The Actual Car
https://jalopnik.com/how-they-shoot-a-car-commercial-without-the-actual-car-1782499530
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2021, 16:01:58 »
And another wow. Pretty amazing, about changing the wheelbase and the track.
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2021, 18:30:25 »
I think this has been posted before - How They Shoot A Car Commercial Without The Actual Car
https://jalopnik.com/how-they-shoot-a-car-commercial-without-the-actual-car-1782499530

I think I saw the content there, once I waded through an ever in your face, changing array of nonsense pop ups and scrolling ads and all other BS from amateurs posing as journalists at that rag Jalop-
Nope, can't even say it. Such rubbish.

Even before the days of digital wizardry, the car ads from the 50s and 60s were shall we say, "highly stylized".
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2021, 22:53:28 »
Brilliant and quite mesmerising

Shame car adverts can’t show this level of creativity, may make me want to watch them rather than using the time to put the kettle on for a cuppa 😁
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Re: Cool Gullwing Video
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2021, 00:16:20 »
Way cool
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