Dancing Humans in Amusing Shapes

June 16, 2006 9:19 AM

In the spirit of Carlson's Big Ad (the previously linked greatest spot ever filmed) comes this amazing Buzby Berkely inspired piece for Turkish financial institution Akbank.
posted by jonson (20 comments total)

Buzby Berkely?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:23 AM on June 16, 2006

Busby Berkely.
posted by NationalKato at 9:25 AM on June 16, 2006

Buzby Berkely
Busby Berkely
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:30 AM on June 16, 2006

Damn, I even fucked it up. Damn you, Busby, and all your Es!!
posted by NationalKato at 9:34 AM on June 16, 2006

That's cg, no?

Not amazing at all.
posted by empath at 10:06 AM on June 16, 2006

Carlton
posted by Flashman at 10:28 AM on June 16, 2006

So is it cg, or not? Pretty neat either way, but a lot less iimpressive if not real people. >:(
posted by cj_ at 10:36 AM on June 16, 2006

Mecca-cola blue.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:37 AM on June 16, 2006

From where I sit, it looked like they filmed it, then sped the thing up.
posted by rocketman at 11:59 AM on June 16, 2006

Still, a neat little commercial. Thanks!
posted by rocketman at 11:59 AM on June 16, 2006

What makes you think it's cg? It looks like choreography to me.
posted by dejah420 at 12:12 PM on June 16, 2006

Nothing the June Taylor Dancers (if there had been 10 times as many of them) or my high school band during a halftime show couldn't have done. But what if somebody from CalTech hacked the show?
posted by wendell at 12:29 PM on June 16, 2006

The Big Ad is great, but my personal favorite was posted here by some clown a couple years back.

And why would the ad agency do this CGI? What would be the point, unless it was choreographed?
posted by maryh at 12:30 PM on June 16, 2006

Huh?

"Akbank gives me a boner"
posted by wendell at 12:36 PM on June 16, 2006

*starts Official wendell Fan Club*
posted by spock at 12:45 PM on June 16, 2006

I'm voting real, but sped up. I'm also voting for the strong possibility of strategic pauses between set-ups.
posted by dhartung at 3:12 PM on June 16, 2006

seems like live (slowed) action to me. and its awesome! The music is pretty catchy, too.
posted by pkingdesign at 6:35 PM on June 16, 2006

Let's take the Wayback Machine to 1970: Cue Miss Ann Miller, her wig, and her tapshoes for the Great American Soup! (snippet here)
posted by rob511 at 9:54 PM on June 16, 2006

As if this isn't impressive or amazing, greyface. Bravo to all involved, including you, jonson!
posted by Drexen at 7:17 AM on June 17, 2006

I'm just glad the Polyphonic Spree can still find work.
posted by kyleg at 3:38 PM on June 17, 2006