@BritNostalgia Ha yes, Like you remember your wife, I remember what was on TV at the time of the advert on the tape lol it's stuck in my head. Chocky was on Childrens ITV, then the advert comes in the break. This is about 1986.
@TwelveBridges It was quite a landmark for CGI. I suppose the kids who have grown up with CGI movies such as Shrek and Alvin & The Chipmunks, etc, would look on this as being rather primitive, but the genre had to start somewhere!
@ojideagu Toy Story is a fully animated film. It was a big deal back in 1995. It does still hold well today, but looks slightly dated. Starship Troopers and The Hulk are live action with animated characters. It's a while since I saw but Starship Troopers, but I fully agree with what you say about The Hulk. I don't know why, but that CGI Hulk always reminded me of Meat Loaf!
@MrOldiesunlimited2 I just remembered the old smarties advert from the 1980's "Only smarties have the Answer" That uses CGI, 5 years before this advert. Look it up on here.
@BritNostalgia No No! It was made in the mid 1980's, Wikipedia confirms it too. I remember it as I have it on Betamax! I recorded programmes from Childrens ITV in the 1980's during the Ad breaks.
Wikipedia " Mid-1980s television commercials were notable for their advanced use of computer-generated imagery, produced by Martin Lambie-Nairn"
@ojideagu TV Ark has it as 1990, but they could well be wrong. I remember it running circa 1990/91 as it was running when I met my wife, which was 1990 (strange how you remember silly things like tv ads from that time!). However, I would be willing to accept that it was made long before 1990 and ran for a good length of time.
Betamax? Wow-wee! I had a couple of those machines. They were far superior to VHS, but were marketed very badly.
@BritNostalgia Yes it's wrong! Wiki is right. I used to love this smarties Advert as a kid and still have the Betamax tape of it. I was 10 in 1990 and we had a VHS by then.
Yes Betamax machines are amazing quality! Built like a tank, I still have the top model from 1985
and it works perfectly and videos still clear. Many broken VHS machines later. It's still worth a few hundred. VHS was cheap plastic junk that wears out fast, which is why it won, price.
@TwelveBridges :. Adverts generally demonstrate the forefront of special effects. This advert was a notable landmark I remember very well. It was about this time when films such as Terminator 2 (1991) featured CGI visual effects that blew people away. Back then computer processing still consumed much time when generating each frame of CGI, making films such as T2 exhausting and expensive to create. Consider this is 18 y/o and holds its own shows the dedication of the artists and to detail.
@ojideagu : Another favourite of mine has to be Terminator 2 [1992]. I actually took the time to watch this film again just recently. It still holds its own. Having seen the making spoils some of the sfx magic. One small CGI goof I picked up on was the "twin" police officer that morphs out of the floor behind his other self at the coffee machine. Note the chequered floor *should* be stretching up at he rises, not as a mapped composited overlayer of the actual floor on top of the floor itself.
@ojideagu In my youtube favourites I've bookmarked the making of a CGI sequence from Stars Wars 1977 where the camera swoops down into the Death Star, visualised as 3d line vectors. Painstakingly tedious process.
@MeMooSYTUK Check out the old smarties advert from the 1980's "Only smarties have the Answer" That uses CGI, 5 years before this advert. It has CGi smarties tubes, a CGI snooker table and CGI Wembley stadium!
I actually remember watching a behind the scenes documentary that detailed how they created this advert back in 1992, was really quite impressive CGI for the time.
@BADALASS : Unfortunately I don't have any. Though I would like to watch it again myself. It was a TV feature that aired about the time as the advert because it generated so much curiosity into how the effect was achieved. I'm on the hunt for the "Cool for Cats" UK Milk ad featuring the catchy tune by Squeeze UK. I've tried contacting the British Milk Co to release it plus numerous forum posts to no avail. :-/
So cute! I saw this when I visited the UK in 1993! Love this ad and have been searching for it for a long time! Thank you so much!
bodger1223 1 week ago
Apparently, I would go running into the front room and sit right in front of the tv to watch this when I was 2 years old
Breyvan1st 1 month ago
this is relay funny don't thinks een it before it made me want to do stimming I'm autistic
autisticNintendofan 1 month ago
this is one lazy milkman
AlexMcLovins 2 months ago
I am the milkman. My milk is delicious.
acleansweep 2 months ago
@acleansweep mmmm, I bet. I love milk ;) Let me taste some of your milk!
Disbelieverful 2 months ago
no deer !!
rainmaker27able 4 months ago
Do milkmen still wear those uniforms and hats?
Xxfancythat79xX 7 months ago
@mrclassickids Sorry mate, don't have it. The Muppets are American.
MrOldiesunlimited2 10 months ago
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MrOldiesunlimited2 10 months ago
@BritNostalgia Ha yes, Like you remember your wife, I remember what was on TV at the time of the advert on the tape lol it's stuck in my head. Chocky was on Childrens ITV, then the advert comes in the break. This is about 1986.
ojideagu 10 months ago
I read somewhere that this advert was a landmark for the day with the CGI milk bottles. I still remember seeing this when I was 3 or 4 lol
TwelveBridges 1 year ago 2
@TwelveBridges It was quite a landmark for CGI. I suppose the kids who have grown up with CGI movies such as Shrek and Alvin & The Chipmunks, etc, would look on this as being rather primitive, but the genre had to start somewhere!
BritNostalgia 1 year ago
@BritNostalgia But then Jurassic park was only made in 1993 and that still stands up today.
ojideagu 1 year ago
@ojideagu No denying that. It still scares me!
MrOldiesunlimited2 1 year ago
@BritNostalgia Toy Story in 1995 also still holds up Ok today. I remember it being a huge deal
when it came out.
Star Ship troopers still doesn't look any faker then modern CGi, 1997 I think.
You look at Hulk made years later and it looks like crap!
ojideagu 1 year ago
@ojideagu Toy Story is a fully animated film. It was a big deal back in 1995. It does still hold well today, but looks slightly dated. Starship Troopers and The Hulk are live action with animated characters. It's a while since I saw but Starship Troopers, but I fully agree with what you say about The Hulk. I don't know why, but that CGI Hulk always reminded me of Meat Loaf!
MrOldiesunlimited2 1 year ago
@MrOldiesunlimited2 Star Ship troopers is still one of my favourite films lol it looks amazing I think.
True, Toy Story 1 can probably be played by a Playstation 3 with similar quality in real time, amazing how technology moves on, but was still great.
I will look out for the T2 Gaff! I remember at the time how amazed people were at the CGI and it's still
one of the best action films of all time.
Star Wars yes not many knew that was CGI. Reminds me of the computer games that came out later.
ojideagu 1 year ago
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ojideagu 10 months ago
@MrOldiesunlimited2 I just remembered the old smarties advert from the 1980's "Only smarties have the Answer" That uses CGI, 5 years before this advert. Look it up on here.
ojideagu 10 months ago
@ojideagu Thanks for reminding me about this advert. I've just uploaded it. It's actually from 1990.
BritNostalgia 10 months ago
@BritNostalgia No No! It was made in the mid 1980's, Wikipedia confirms it too. I remember it as I have it on Betamax! I recorded programmes from Childrens ITV in the 1980's during the Ad breaks.
Wikipedia " Mid-1980s television commercials were notable for their advanced use of computer-generated imagery, produced by Martin Lambie-Nairn"
ojideagu 10 months ago
@ojideagu TV Ark has it as 1990, but they could well be wrong. I remember it running circa 1990/91 as it was running when I met my wife, which was 1990 (strange how you remember silly things like tv ads from that time!). However, I would be willing to accept that it was made long before 1990 and ran for a good length of time.
Betamax? Wow-wee! I had a couple of those machines. They were far superior to VHS, but were marketed very badly.
BritNostalgia 10 months ago
@BritNostalgia Yes it's wrong! Wiki is right. I used to love this smarties Advert as a kid and still have the Betamax tape of it. I was 10 in 1990 and we had a VHS by then.
Yes Betamax machines are amazing quality! Built like a tank, I still have the top model from 1985
and it works perfectly and videos still clear. Many broken VHS machines later. It's still worth a few hundred. VHS was cheap plastic junk that wears out fast, which is why it won, price.
ojideagu 10 months ago
@BritNostalgia I just remembered and watched a smarties advert from the 1980's. That uses CGI, quite a few years before this. It's very clever.
ojideagu 10 months ago
@TwelveBridges :. Adverts generally demonstrate the forefront of special effects. This advert was a notable landmark I remember very well. It was about this time when films such as Terminator 2 (1991) featured CGI visual effects that blew people away. Back then computer processing still consumed much time when generating each frame of CGI, making films such as T2 exhausting and expensive to create. Consider this is 18 y/o and holds its own shows the dedication of the artists and to detail.
MeMooSYTUK 1 year ago
@MeMooSYTUK Jurassic park is even more impressive as it was only 2 years later.
ojideagu 1 year ago
@ojideagu : Another favourite of mine has to be Terminator 2 [1992]. I actually took the time to watch this film again just recently. It still holds its own. Having seen the making spoils some of the sfx magic. One small CGI goof I picked up on was the "twin" police officer that morphs out of the floor behind his other self at the coffee machine. Note the chequered floor *should* be stretching up at he rises, not as a mapped composited overlayer of the actual floor on top of the floor itself.
MeMooSYTUK 1 year ago
@ojideagu In my youtube favourites I've bookmarked the making of a CGI sequence from Stars Wars 1977 where the camera swoops down into the Death Star, visualised as 3d line vectors. Painstakingly tedious process.
MeMooSYTUK 1 year ago
@MeMooSYTUK Check out the old smarties advert from the 1980's "Only smarties have the Answer" That uses CGI, 5 years before this advert. It has CGi smarties tubes, a CGI snooker table and CGI Wembley stadium!
ojideagu 10 months ago
I actually remember watching a behind the scenes documentary that detailed how they created this advert back in 1992, was really quite impressive CGI for the time.
MeMooSYTUK 1 year ago
@MeMooSYTUK Any chance of details?
BADALASS 11 months ago
@BADALASS : Unfortunately I don't have any. Though I would like to watch it again myself. It was a TV feature that aired about the time as the advert because it generated so much curiosity into how the effect was achieved. I'm on the hunt for the "Cool for Cats" UK Milk ad featuring the catchy tune by Squeeze UK. I've tried contacting the British Milk Co to release it plus numerous forum posts to no avail. :-/
MeMooSYTUK 11 months ago
Class advert!!!
shinyhunk 1 year ago
Wow, I remember this advert from when I was a wee boy! I also remember PE lessons in primary one doing creative dance to this tune!
colt45isbest 1 year ago