The Cog

[brandon9271]

Just because it didn't use CGI doesn't mean some stuff wasn't "faked" In other words, They could have cheated by triggering stuff remotely or nudging certain things to make it look like it was all happening in a chain of events. To my eye certain things just do look right to me.

[DaMooseProductions]

There must've been such a loud cheer when this finally all worked...

[Watarara]

The only thing they tampered with was that they put counterweights in the tires to make them run uphill.  thats the only thing and took who know how long to create and who knows how many shoots to get it right.

[MACpro58]

Real stuff, real time, real good. I'm sure the audio fx were post.

[myotismon3]

that's kinda cool

[Aztecabrn]

lame..

[oxxSceneQueenxxo]

The wheels go uphill because they are transferring energy to each other.

[WakeMeUpAt1010]

Answers to the two most common arguments:

1. No, the wheels are NOT CG. They are weighted with bolts so that they will roll uphill when they are hit.

2. Yes, there is ONE frame of CG. Since the room they filmed in was not long enough, this is actually two Rube Goldberg devices which are CG'd together (although it would not have been hard to do if they had a big enough room).

Wikipedia has a great article if you want to know more.

[MoonEyes2k]

@WakeMeUpAt1010 Well, while I know that this is all real...I still have to disagree with you on one thing....this would have been immesurably more difficult to do in one take, even if they DID have a big enough room...as the things that could go wrong and throw it all off would climb exponentially. With two short takes instead of one long one, they 'only' had to control...say 50 things? Instead of a hundred, any of which could go wrong and make you have to reset it all.

[BTIsaac]

@MoonEyes2k

There's a reason they had to re-shoot it almost 200 times till everything went right. It's all one shot.

[MoonEyes2k]

@BTIsaac *sigh* No, as is stated, it isn't. It's two shots. Which was the point of the post. Beyond the length of the room, it would also lower the amount of things affected by all the environmental factors. Thus, controlling half as many problems. And, there was 606 re-shoots, all told.

[pwnageclone]

thats pretty neat, except when the wheels go up the ramp

[JacobsBrickflims]

one thing to say

@vvEs0^^E

[tomtommommom5858]

Studios have to be made, and they made a long one. Duh.

[liljesse28]

Holy Caca, When Can Wheels Actually Go Up Hill..?

Weird..

[loblit05]

u gotta put some weight in specific places

[CoolestChannelEver]

Yeah the tires are real so is everthing else

[bostonbrawla]

I dont know about the wheels going up the ramp.

[yoda10ike]

that's the first thing everybody says when they see it. wheels are weighted, so the slightest displacement and gravity does the rest of the work. genius really.

[tooeasy92894]

dayum i hear thris is all real too XD

[davver12]

amazing

all made from car parts

[REBECHINRT]

LA MIGLIORE PUYBBLICITà!!!!!!!!!!

[Fableandrunescape]

uhhhhhhhh lol?

[nationals2245]

YYYYAAAAYYYYY

[rikashon1]

Awesome non-CGI job on this one!

[treeguy99]

I don't get which parts are real and which are fake. The speakers are fake when they vibrate the spring off the glass?

[wkdloz247]

None of it is fake, its all real, no CGI. Search for making the cog advert and watch the video

[FamGuyGuy123]

All of it is real, except for the lighting on thevcar doors on the finished Accord.

[kiya46107]

@treeguy99 Sound can actually do that. Get a glass of water some speakers and a peice of music with a really strong beat. Then blast said music REALLY load through the speaker aimed from a few feet away and watch the water dance!

[MatekLobez]

It's awesome!

[atkpure90w]

superswimmir (1 month ago) Show Hide +1 Marked as spam Reply | Spam did you know that the video took over 700 tries to make it WORK!!!

are u freaking stupid, it sais 606 tries in the info...

[superswimmir]

did you know that the video took over 700 tries to make it WORK!!!

[anewkindofangel]

Actually it wasn't real, because 1 tired don't roll up hills. -_- You can tell when the tires start rolling up the ramp with not enough force from the object behind it to force it up the hill. Also they have a delayed reaction. So no, this is not real, you can tell by a lot of other things as well.

[anewkindofangel]

tires*

[RFID666]

The tyres are weighted, it's real.

[junney123]

its real, if u look it up on snopes the tires have a weight placed in them so that when the tires are bumped the weight is displaced. When the tire tries to get back into place, it ends up rolling up the ramp. Everything in the commercial is made from 2 of the only 6 handmade Honda Accords too.

[dougerber]

that was real?

[zwanorama]

Beautifully done but... Speakers don't move like that. At least not the whole speaker... So that gives the idea of a little computer/graphic help. But!!!! So what!!! It's a beauty.

[r3rum]

actually this whole commercial is real no computer animation. if you go to snopes dot com and look it up it tells you its all real!!

[titus61215]

subwoofers move exactly like that.

[benmcdaniel]

According to the people who made the video, it took two takes, one for the first minute, and one for the second minute. Nothing went wrong in either half. (They split it in two because they didn't have enough space for the whole thing, and just in case something went wrong.)

[pierreberlan]

Actually, it took them over 600 tries to get it right.

[usuariobeta]

WOW

[ndftbk]

I saw this the first time when it was called the way things go by Fischl and Weiss.

[collabi]

The walking windshield wipers is the best part.

[wowplayer526]

believe it or not it is it took em three hundred and sumthin tries to get it to work

[crazy4lincolnpark]

that can't be real.

[yo2tube]

on no, but it is. I heard about it last night on tv. The guys that made this thing spent 6 years working on it.

[crazy4lincolnpark]

wow. that's a long time. i can't believe somebody would dedicate 6 years to something that only lasts 2 minutes. but that's really cool!

[brankin1]

it was 3 months.

[thegrimreaper4088]

can anyone explain the tires

[sstair]

They had weights inside the tires, to make them unbalanced, then balanced them with the weight a t the top, so when they got nudged, they rolled forward.

[tennispie333]

Guys, I have confirmed that it's real. I just saw an episode of "Ad Persuasion," where it showed behind-the-scenes footage of how they made it. The makers said it was ridiculously hard to make, but it's all real, with no effects. Even the upwards rolling wheels.

[yo2tube]

Me Too! I heard it took them 6 years to make.

[theartfulbadger1]

in case anyone is wondering, the song at the end is called 'rappers delight' by sugarhill gang.

[nishantkankaria]

what an awesome ,unique,beuaty this wideo is

go ahead and watch it ,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,99,9,9,9..

[joscpe]

"It required 606 film takes to get right. It's so perfectly filmed, you can't imagine it" It's animated...

[liljackass]

its not...

[Robster881]

It's not, it's real, Rube Goldburg has made alot of these things.

[EA11RDrift]

So what you're all saying is that there is a weight in the top of each wheel, and when the wheel is nudged, the weight moves downwards, rolling the wheel coincidentally uphill?

[nesmaddan]

its real. the tyres are weighted to move. takes alot of weight but its do-able. the realy clever bit is right at the end when the car is ballenced on the trailer and the tailgate is open for ballence. the only part i cant work out is how the car stops, there is something on the floor to stop it!

[camillian143]

this is soooo cool!!

[Velvetyice]

This commercial is amazing. It took 606 takes and $10.9 million dollars for this commercial. Amazing!

[olivemike81]

If this was real I think that's cool (even cool if there was cgi used). But if they could have done this for less than 10 mil (using cgi) they should have done it, for the sake of their bottom line.

[darkfire506]

In answer to the most frequently asked question about the commercial:

"...The sequence where the tyres roll up a slope looks particularly impressive but is very simple. Steiner says that there is a weight [in each] tyre and when the tyre is knocked, the weight is displaced and in an attempt to rebalance itself, the tyre rolls up the slope..."

taken from snopes*com

3w*snopes*com/photos/advertise­ments/hondacog*asp

[daveb3650]

Gawd....get a life......don't analyse it ....enjoy it...tyres dont roll up hill no matter what pressure.....but it's trick photography so anything happens........

[flipskatedmd]

how do the tires role up hill with ease i mean come on i know they tried their hardest to make it real but in the end some parts must have been fake i mean when does a big tire role up hil with a little wash board , plus the energy would diapate unless it's a perpetual motion machine

[wkdloz247]

It depends on the pressure in the tires. It does work. There is a vid on You Tube explaining it, search for the cog making of or sumin like that

[hoah]

ITS REAL GET WITH IT

[D0nkeypie2]

Incorrect. there are many inputs of energy along the way (the car battery, etc). In addition, almost all of the car parts have some potential energy, as they are above the ground. A small tap overcomes the inertia and tranforms the potential energy in to kinetic energy. The tires have been explained by other people.

[joenutz]

sorry.. hate to be on the other side but i still don't believe that this was all real.. even though it says its true on snopes[dot]com .. i don't know.. everything looks toooo CGI for me..

[hoah]

its real you lose

[hoah]

FISCHLIIII AND WEIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSS

[hoah]

thanks for ripping off fischli and weiss.

[Denzine]

It's called a Rube Goldberg machine. Look it up.

[roeas29]

I don't get the tire bit - the tires seem to accelerate, and after they hit the next tire, they should role back down, but they continue to go up the plank...

[confidential247]

There was a weight put in the tires and when it fell the momentum sped them up. (i did my research)

[FrostSisters]

Did u guys know that they actually did that? it took like, 200 or something try's to get it right. they used like, all of the parts of the car! XD

[fastmatt30]

I was shown this for a rude goldberg project it's pretty cool at least they had a sick song (rapper's delight)

[lordofkarnage]

i still dont get it how does the window pass right thru the plank of wood as if its not there. the only thing i can thikn of is if theres a line cut thru the plank that the window passes thru but i dont see it

[FrostSisters]

it didnt pass through the wood. there is actually a line a cut in the wood, it kinda hard to see though. :P

[JHAllen123]

if u look carefully u can see da gap

[lordofkarnage]

ok i dont get the part at 1:12 when the thing hits the window. how does the window go down if the round thing is resting on the plank of wood if its thru the window?

[blaqbent]

if you notice, there are wires that are hooked up to a mechanism. when the piston rolls over the two pieces... the circuit is complete and wallah! magic :P

[lordofkarnage]

no i mean wat is the piston rolling on it the window passes right thru the plank of wood its rolling on

[blaqbent]

the plank is supported on both ends by clamps. this enables it to be as steady as possible even when the piston rolls over it... guess around 200 takes went here :)

[mahendravarman]

awesome and cool

[manfunglee123]

wicked

[DarkTree1]

oh crap this was real?!!

[colacool22]

This is 1 of the amazing car ads ive ever seen the team made the impossible possible

[codydoood12]

so how long did it take

[IlGreven]

:26: Weights in the tires.

:57: Putting a muffler on end is very unstable, the slightest push should do what it did...

[diegoarthur]

Some parts of the video are actually impossible...

[aee4aces]

what parts?

[diegoarthur]

00:26 and 00:57

[ilikevideos7]

brilliant

[inkheart180]

this commerical took 680 takes and 8 months to do. if i was on that team i would've just asked for CGI on the fifth take.

[ranivus]

wow 8 months to make this 2 minute clip... if i was on that team... i'd go insane

[cmmrecife]

FANTASTIC !!!

[Jaffarado]

Too all commenters stating it's not real or it's CGI, you're wrong, read up on the advert... And yes the tyres did have weights in them. Anyone seen the radio 5 version with footballs n that lol?

[StarWolf25]

its all real noobs

[b4k4n1nj4]

the tires rolled uphill bcuz they had weights on the top of them, so when they rolled over, the weights carried over to the bottome, which moves the tire. i studied this commercial in class

[markgong]

There are counter weights inside on the top of the tires to make them move upward. It's actually pretty simply.

[fishamaphone]

"I can't explain it, so it *must* be CGI!" Genius!

This ad's been documented enough that if you do a simple 30-second Google search, you'll find enough info to substantiate the video.

Or you could just make knee-jerk decisions based on massaging your own ego. Whichever you preffer.

[dlpriest]

Take a physics class people..those tires couldn't simply have transfered enough energy from one to another like that to push each other up that ramp. A little bump on the first one would not have given it enough momentum to transfer enough energy to do the same to the other ones.

Besides..it's CGI.

[plumage12]

Yep, CGI on at least the tires

[aricusmax]

Not CGI - check snopes.com. Over 600 shots to get it right. The tires have weights at the top - when they are tipped, the weights pull downward and drag the rest of the tire upwards and forwards on the ramp.

[Animonovo]

You're a moron, but nice try.

[bugmeoff]

dlpriest = 100% pwnt.

haha, cockface!

[adelhelmy]

They roll uphill because the tyres are progressively smaller. Try it yourself if you don't believe in momentum. This isn't CGI, the ad did take around 1000 takes though.

[tomshaq]

Its definitely not CGI. many people worked hard on this and it id amazing. You take a physics class first please and realize that the tires are weighted and it is simply transferring potential to kinetic energy, a simple concept. I find it sad that so many people are skeptical of the amazing.

[Stradmaster]

It looks fake at points...like the charaters in Star Wars, but I beleive it can be done.

[RhythmRiff]

amazing, a work of art in itself

[moviemogul83]

There were no weights in the tires...

When you bump a tire, the pressure inside causes it to move. No weights, just air pressure. Confirmed in the making of video

[soderang]

The original by Peter Weiss & David Fichili is better!

[Caige]

still really really cool though :-p

[Caige]

How did the tyres roll uphill then? :-/

[SixInchAverage]

they had been weighted down by some spare cogs and bolts at the top. when the tyrw tilted, the weight was enough to roll it up

[Chumkil]

They were weighted unevenly.

[JameseyBoy1991]

thats a cool video i remember seeing that on TV and just being amazed by it.

[schitzophrenicJesus]

the scary thing is it would probably work

[wkdloz247]

Its not that it probably works, its real m8, heres some info on it.

This is one of the most amazing ads I've ever seen, truly a thing of beauty. Fully two minutes long, it's a Honda commercial called "Cog," the most elaborate Rube Goldberg device you've ever seen set to film, all made entirely of car parts. It required 606 film takes to get right. It's so perfectly filmed, you can't imagine it, you've just got to see it.

[hoah]

check out fischli and weiss, way more impressive.

[Mattery]

haha well done.