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The basic idea was to animate the DVD box to appear to be bouncing naturally throughout the spot, activating the space and acting as a wipe effect for the highlighted text. The biggest challenge was the tumbling [as opposed to the spinning]; it’s tougher than it looks to get that thing to look natural!
MGM Consumer Products approached us about doing a commercial promoting the launch of pinkpanther.com. Our experience with product development really helped us out here as the turnaround was about 14 days including script, boards, edit, fx, and final delivery! You can still catch this one on the Legally Blond II DVD.
Epcot Fantastic Plastics Challenge; Show Open
Walt Disney Imagineering created an innovative new attraction for Epcot in Florida and they came to us for an equally innovative and engaging show open to run on the twenty-foot screens above the queue line at the park. We had them render out 360 degree CGI models, animated them in play-pattern sequences, added some copy, and rocked the graphics!
Disney/Kodak Picturemaker Kiosk; Attract Loop
Working again with Walt Disney Imagineering, this challenge revolved around getting a high-quality attract loop, featuring outstanding photograph quality, to run smoothly and consistently on the limited resources of the Kodak kiosk hardware. In the end we succeeded in surpassing the expectations of both the suits and the engineers. A fun one!
Our not-so-small screens
Big Fig broadcast work includes television, dvd and theme park platforms, all of which are developing a kind of industry standard of their own. These emerging broadcast standards like Blu-ray and HDTV are changing the way viewers experience moving images, as are modern projection, LCD and plasma screens. These technologies are exciting opportunities for innovation not seen since the advent of color television. Honest...
