Comments on: Josh Baker and Fuel: Nissan Powered Suit

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:21:07 +0000

Seems like the depth of field of the cgi doesn’t match the real shots at all.

By: sc

sc — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:06:30 +0000

a good car should effortlessly express it’s personality without having to morph into a robot suit and do unrealistic fun stuff…i mean, for example, i’m sure the ’09 M3 won’t have to…
and for cars that suck and need help like the one in this JapAd, there are better solutions than giving up and resorting to a very popABCgum concept…

By: TrenZ

TrenZ — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:58:03 +0000

Its a good spot just alittle dated but visually I think the car looks clean and the robot looks clean but it doesnt blend very well with the robot. I’ve seen mad scion ads in the past with cars transforming into different machines its just now with the “movie” out everything from here on out with tranforming objects will be called mimics. Take the spot for what it is nice job to those who worked on it.

By: jaan

jaan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:26:07 +0000

it could have been so much better:
http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF077AD-Disassemble.jpg

By: Tread

Tread — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:30:57 +0000

What’s all this talk about a ‘once awesome concept’. A car transforming into a robot? How does that sell a car? The concept is trash in my opinion. I don’t really care about the vfx.

By: Ramin

Ramin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:30:36 +0000

I agree with sc. Citroen got the scoop on this idea a while back.
The VFX are a bit dull in my openion. Maby they are trying to carry the concept with the transformers “hype” so that people think: cool, but to me it looks more like a 5th wheel.

By: sc

sc — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:57:45 +0000

Terrible timing with the biggest movie of the summer…
and the VFX here, while fun, look like dog shat compared to ILM’s work…

Citroen already milked this once awesome concept over 2 years ago, before any talk of live action Transformers…it’s nothing new, and therefore it = garbage.

sorry for those paid to work on this, but any definition of creativity should involve novelty…
also, brands need to distinguish themselves, not blend in…
every car brand can’t be:
“more than meets the eye”

By: pauloblob

pauloblob — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:33:21 +0000

Well… The animations are good. In my opinion too smooth. But this doesnt bother me.

The problem is on this simple idea
” A car transforming in a robot ”
Why create this kind of animation when you have in the same time the Transformers Movie, a tooooons of animations using the same car/robot concept?

Look like im going to buy an autobot than a car.
Come on…

By: TheTofuFactory

TheTofuFactory — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:49:23 +0000

The 3D seems slightly odd to me. Smooth transitions and nice form back into car model. Just slightly odd appearance, not totally sure why, I’m not heavy into 3D at all so I wouldn’t know.

Cool pieces either way.