What do you lot think of the BBC 6 Music Ad?
Is it just a blatant rip off of this or is there more to it?
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MrGomez and David Bellamy's big pubey beard, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:05,
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they most likely got blu to do it
either that or it is very much a rip off :)
EDIT: nope.. ad agency rip off
smelevation.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/blus-animated-graffiti-inspires-new-ad-for-bbc-6-music/
pests.
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arrangedletters, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:07,
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Aye, it really bugs me too.
I think it is lacking all the charm of Blus work....
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:10,
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It's all computer trickery
Nothing as good as Blu's original work.
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:23,
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Aye...
I watched it twice before I decided they didnt bother to go to the effort of Blu and just faked it.
Not that it isn't nice...
But the original artist who inspired it was very clever for what he did.
(, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:40, Reply)
I'm on the fence with this one
Can you really copyright a style of animation?
Granted this is very similar to blu's work, but it's just the style thats similar. It's a cross between graffiti and stop motion animation. The actually drawing isn't the same, blu has a darker style of drawing imo.
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bobzarkoff, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:29,
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The style is the same as Muto by Blu
Remember kids, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:41,
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Blu wasn't the first
Virus by Baptiste Buonomo predates Muto by at least a year.
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bobzarkoff, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:25,
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you can't copyright street art but they definitely ripped off his idea
thats what ad-bastards are all about
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tickle I was away, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:47,
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Whenever
I see 'creative in a URL I know it's an ad, and a crap derivative annoying one, not detectably creative at all. Isn't there an early Charlie Brooker piece about ad executives spending most of the day online looking for things to steal?
(, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:19, Reply)
Advertising people were annoying enough before the internet
trying to grab your attention and create a false sense of amiability in order to grab your cash. Then along came youtube and all the fuckers seem to do it sit back and steal ideas.
I work in a creative industry myself and it fucks me right off when people do this. Yes - there is little here that could be taken to court. It's not a copyrighted style. But the sheer laziness of some people astounds and infuriates me.
There's nothing wrong with taking things that exist and using them to fuel your own ideas - it's about where your ideas go from there rather than where they're from. But surely there was once an ambition in these people to create. Instead they just take the easy route, copy someone else and push the idea absolutely nowhere. They have contributed nothing with this advert except bringing someone else's idea to many more people, shitting on him as they do.
I always used to think that people like this would get their comeuppance - that plagirising work will bite them in the ass because they learn nothing. What really gets me is that people continue through school, uni, and in work to do this and seemingly get away with it, the lazy, derivative, ambitiously-compromised hack-twats that they are.
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thiswasmyclone, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:51,
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