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Heres a really well done animated commercial for the holloween events coming this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSKqol2_g8

Brilliant commercial! Though the shading used on the characters make them look like CG characters.

Wow, great animation with some fantastic Roger Rabbit quality lighting/shading. Looks better than the 3D versions of the characters they were previously using in commercials. Way to go Disney!!!!

BTW, this might belong in the Theme Park Discussions.

I loved Captain Hook's face when he saw the monster thing. XD

pap64 wrote:Brilliant commercial! Though the shading used on the characters make them look like CG characters.

Yeah, they laid that effect on a little too thick...makes it look like a frosted flakes commercial or soemthing. still kinda cool though.

Fun. Wish there were more commercials like this.

That was brilliant! I loved the ending!

I must say I like this one.

the evil queen sounded like the witch hazel?helga? in the donald duck short trick or treat.

Very wicked cool, makes me think back to Mickey's Halloween Party at WDW.

Is that Hades? I'm surprised Disney even remembers who he is. Since Hercules has pretty much disappeared alltogether.

Found a short making of the commercial video, I think the animator Eric Goldberg is in part of it

http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyl ... lEventPage#

PatrickvD wrote:Is that Hades? I'm surprised Disney even remembers who he is. Since Hercules has pretty much disappeared alltogether.

What do you mean? He was used in Fantasmic, House of mouse, Kingdom Hearts, and now this. what else do you want? more representation in the parks?

Short of making another Hercules sequel I'm not sure what else they can do.

Kyle wrote:

PatrickvD wrote:Is that Hades? I'm surprised Disney even remembers who he is. Since Hercules has pretty much disappeared alltogether.

What do you mean? He was used in Fantasmic, House of mouse, Kingdom Hearts, and now this. what else do you want? more representation in the parks?

Short of making another Hercules sequel I'm not sure what else they can do.

Re-release and give Hercules the DVD/BluRay it Deserves!!!

The above statement comes to mind..

Well theres that, yeah. but as far as the character, Ive seen him about as much as Jafar in random promos and such.



By the way, I cant find that video...the site doesn't work very well for me.
Edit: nevermind, got it to work.

Yes, this was really, really great of Disney to do!

Wonderful except for only two things:
The shading and lighting really is just a little too much, making them look not just CGI but also like their made up pieces of paper that cast shadows.

And they need special effects when they transform, as they did in the films. You can't magically transform without magic, in the form of something like the green smoke Maleficent and the Queen both had in their films.

Disney Duster wrote: And they need special effects when they transform, as they did in the films. You can't magically transform without magic, in the form of something like the green smoke Maleficent and the Queen both had in their films.

Actually that bugged me too. I guess the "insta-morph" thing worked better for such a short commercial though. Special effects may not have worked well in such a short space of time and could have ended up looking cheesy. Had it been longer I would have loved to see it though.

Well, Animation isn't cheap -- they could have just done a Disneyland commercial with the park performers in costume and done nothing special at all! Wish I could afford to fly out for a visit to DLR soon!

candydog wrote:

Disney Duster wrote: And they need special effects when they transform, as they did in the films. You can't magically transform without magic, in the form of something like the green smoke Maleficent and the Queen both had in their films.

Actually that bugged me too. I guess the "insta-morph" thing worked better for such a short commercial though. Special effects may not have worked well in such a short space of time and could have ended up looking cheesy. Had it been longer I would have loved to see it though.

It didn't really bug me, though it doesn't make sense for the Queen to insta-morph, as she didn't even drink anything before she transformed. Would've been cooler to see her take a shot of the green potion, make a face, pound her fist on a bar a couple times and go "Aauggh!" then feel refreshed and magical, imagining a Green Fairy that looks like Kylie Minogue is singing "The Sound of Music" to her.

But then some parent will say, "Hey, she's drinking absinthe! Disney's promoting alcohol!" and then the commercial gets pulled or changed for being controversial.

albert

Brilliant! So cool. Disney should do more stuff like this! I wish it could've gone on for much longer!