Roach Motel

This low-end animation was made for a contest to promote the Ford Mondeo. As things turned out, I'm glad it didn't win because I'd hate to think I did anything to help a company that is now putting the legal screws on car enthusiasts who want to use pictures of their OWN CARS http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/13/ford-car-owners-are.html

UPDATE: Apparently the legals screws were only applied because of a 'misunderstanding' http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/25/black-mustang-club-c.html

Nice to know there was a happy ending -- perhaps all the publicity might even help to stop this sort of thing from happening again.

Anyway, they wanted something 'kinetic', and hey, what's more kinetic than.... well, see for yourself.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• comedy
• insect
• cheezburger
• ford
• mondeo
• contest
• kinetic
• run
• viral
• marketing
• lo-fi
• fast
• car
• trade
• dress
• trademark

[szabo23]

You guys are right -- they sure don't look much like roaches. But personally I think they look more like ants than spiders ^_^

[grapehimself]

hey nice vid haha, its cool, by the way what kind of software did you use to make this video?? where can i get it??

[szabo23]

I was using Vegas 6, which is pretty good editing software, but it's not really designed to be used like this and I wouldn't use it again for this kind of project. It doesn't give you enough control over the animation keyframes and imo the 3d interface is a nightmare. If you're working with 2D layers and trying to fake out depth, I'd suggest you try something like After Effects...

[grapehimself]

yea i was looking for more of a 2d sorta thing, so ill check out after effects, and thanks for the help, means alot

[szabo23]

No Problem -- good luck!

[izzy2396]

what does this have to do with ford

[SweetBoyz94]

nothing special

[Cheesteak]

they look like spiders

[IceCruzader]

OMG SPIDERS

good but they do look like spiders

[ElectricTutor]

Pretty good, but they look more like spiders than roaches. but still pretty good

[grapehimself]

thanks again:)