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Penguins April Fool - The Making Of - BBC

A behind the scenes look at how the BBC created the BBC iPlayer trail for April Fools' Day, featuring a colony of flying penguins. Watch the April Fool video: http://www.youtube.com/watc...  
 
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kilbournelangton (4 days ago) Show Hide
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GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS
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jayeshchoudhari (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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awesome!
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hurray for cg
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what software did they use?
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I'm thinking they're using some kind of Adobe software
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Passion Pictures, London, in Softimage.
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It is Softimage.
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As a guess most likely they used 3ds max or maya, for the modeling and animation. The penguin wireframe looks like a polygon model. Textures probably photoshop then compositing with live footage in after effects.

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