I don't know about HBO marketing, but putting your comments together, you should be pretty close :) The movie indeed provides an incentive to get different toy -sets, that are featured. >From my own observation, it makes a huge difference for kids to see their figure "alive".Thats why we create a little kick-off-myth, with a world to immerse themselves in. It's actually not a very new idea. If you take a closer look, animation and toys are sort of siblings and have been marketed together for a long time. (Though for some reason i find especially us europeans not being so aware of it.) For the web version: One reason is,that people nowadays consume more media on mobile devices. On the visual side of the project we had 6 people, on the auditive side 3.
2013/11/4 Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> > Maybe it is designed to entice them to complete the set by buying other > products, at any rate i wouldn't fault them for shipping it with the > product but for the fact that, they can already see it online ? At any > rate, it looks gorgeous, almost too gorgeous for a toy commercial ? > > May i ask how big the team was ? > > > On 4 November 2013 17:06, Stephen Davidson <magic...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> I never understood the concept of advertising a product you have already >> sold. >> It's kind of like the HBO commercials, that you get while watching HBO. >> Hello? You are already subscribed to HBO, if you are watching the >> commercial. >> >> This observation is NOT to detract from your wonderful Softimage / Arnold >> animation. >> I would say the "commercial" is more useful to give the child an >> imaginary story >> to go with the toy(s). >> Great work! >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:36 AM, philipp seis <dpi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> it's actually a commercial. It appears on a DVD that ships with those >>> Knights. >>> The good thing is, that we have the freedom to let the story be in >>> the foreground, so it feels more like making a shortfilm rather >>> than creating a commercial. >>> >>> >>> 2013/11/4 olivier jeannel <olivier.jean...@noos.fr> >>> >>>> Wow, very nice, and I love the renders ! >>>> But is it a short movie or an advert ? >>>> >>>> ...one year playing playmobils ^^ :D >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 04/11/2013 10:36, philipp seis a écrit : >>>> >>>> Hello list, >>>>> >>>>> i would like to share our last inhouse production from Playmobil >>>>> called the "Guardians of the Dragonhearts." >>>>> >From the first written idea on paper to the final product we worked >>>>> pretty much exactly a year on it, finishing in august 2013. >>>>> We usually release our movies in 6 languages. >>>>> So far i can offer 3 according to the countries to which the theme is >>>>> shipped >>>>> by now. I hope you don't mind, or speak either: >>>>> >>>>> german >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfgXO-jQ0aY&noredirect=1 >>>>> french >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7z3powmHg&feature=c4- >>>>> overview-vl&list=PL4237B9B68DE28548&noredirect=1 >>>>> or dutch :) >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNy4BdMD0I&list= >>>>> PL4237B9B68DE28548&noredirect=1 >>>>> >>>>> It was of course done in Softimage, rendered in Arnold and with our >>>>> first excessive >>>>> use of fire and smoke, using the em Plugins. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers ! philipp >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Best Regards, >> * Stephen P. Davidson* >> >> *(954) 552-7956 <%28954%29%20552-7956> * >> sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com >> >> *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* >> >> >> - Arthur C. Clarke >> >> <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> >> > >
