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geochick said 7:04PM on 12-13-2007
What a stitch! I love the little animated Mac & PC guys although PC looks like he had a bit too much pie at Thanksgiving.
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Jeff Brown said 7:20PM on 12-13-2007
Outside of the concept of animated Mac & PC, kind of another dud(no real joke). I really like these ads, but there hasn't been a really good one since "Choose a Vista". "Didn't you make this?" , "You are coming to a sad realization, allow or deny?" "the other half of me is in another box" - THAT was some great stuff. How about one where PC is fighting himself(dressed as and acting like Mac) over Office 2008(Mac stands in the middle listening, pulls out iWork...)?
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makesense said 7:23PM on 12-13-2007
but, the santa ad never says or suggests to buy a mac, yea I know that because the pc is fat, and apple thinks fat people are scum, that the fat pc is not to be trusted; but still, ad should say something good about a mac other than it is not fat
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YodaMac said 7:33PM on 12-13-2007
I'm pretty sure that Santa's singing voice is non-other than SJ Himself... really... I'm positive...
(p.s. I guess Santa is scum according to #3... obsess much?)
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π said 9:43PM on 12-13-2007
That would work if not for that Santa doesn't say anything... Other than blowing on a harmonica(?)...
π said 9:45PM on 12-13-2007
Scratch that... I don't think i sounds like him anyway though...
makesense said 7:41PM on 12-13-2007
looking for and finding SJ in santa's voice is not obsessing? you could be right, I am just not getting enough cues, but I can see it now, ad man says,,,excuse me sir, mr chairman, or steve or....., let's do another take
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Greg G said 8:28PM on 12-13-2007
Santa should have been more angry at PC =P
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hljboss said 8:30PM on 12-13-2007
I don't believe that's CGI. It's superb if it is, and doing CGI that good would probably be a lot more work than simply animating the dolls, given the limited motion.
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Marc said 8:53PM on 12-13-2007
Ugh why CG?
It's called stopmotion. You've seen Tim Burtons "Nightmare before
christmas" or "Corpse Bride", right? No CG, all stopmotion.
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John Meche said 12:08PM on 12-14-2007
Actually both of those films employ CG smoothing methods for in between frames.
Ian Creelman said 9:48PM on 12-13-2007
Folks, this is a play on the old Christmas special from the '80 (maybe even late '70) where Rudolf, Santa, some weird rock climbing guy and the abominable snowman were shot in cheesy, stop motion.
I am sure it was cutting edge at the time but it ran every year at christmas for years and got pretty stale after a decade or so.
I guess you have to be in your 30's to get it. Still a funny ad.
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Liquidmark said 10:19PM on 12-13-2007
"I guess you have to be in your 30's to get it."
Now I feel old...
My happiest childhood memories were watching those specials.
Rhywun said 12:27PM on 12-14-2007
The Rankin & Bass specials have never gotten "stale", and never will.
DistortedLoop said 1:51PM on 12-14-2007
Yes, clearly a "rip off" of that old holiday special. The copyrights must have just expired on them or something, because there's another ad campaign (Aflack Insurance?) using the reindeer from the show that just started airing recently.
Kind of annoying to see warm childhood memories bastardized and commercialized for someone else's profit. At least the Mac ad's not nearly as annoying as the Aflack one.
Scoo said 10:49PM on 12-13-2007
A bit older than that Ian, try 1964! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin_Bass#Rudolph
Great ad, love when Hodgman goes "Oooooooh, c'mon, Ohhh"
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Ian Creelman said 10:28AM on 12-14-2007
Wow, I didn't think it went back that far. Very cool that you were able to find the date and director/history on Rankin-Bass :) and I forgot about the little dentist kid. Weird but definitely sentimental.
It really is amazing what GE has had their hands in over the years.
I do love the line about "he sees you when you're in sleep mode". A nod to computer nerds everywhere. So funny.
Karim said 11:17PM on 12-13-2007
This was cute. All it needed was Santa riding a wireless Mighty Mouse through the snow a la the Norelco electric razor.
Those of you who find Rankin-Bass parodies nostalgic should also check out the AFLAC commercial featuring Rudolph:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJbX0oPWyxQ
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Steve said 9:47AM on 12-14-2007
The Office Max Rubberband Man Xmas ad was also spot on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N-Gm4SGUYE
Alan said 12:07AM on 12-14-2007
Definitely not 3D. The guys at Laika are really good at doing really smooth Stop-motion.
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