9 Responses:

1. Adam Jones says:

   10 years ago at 4:06 pm

   the only wonder is why its taken someone so long to dream up!

2. John Carter says:

   10 years ago at 10:26 pm

   I'm a bit surprised it's apparently easier to sculpt a model rather than take a 3D scan of a cow. Or maybe the sculpture is based on a scan?

   • Nick Lamb says:

     10 years ago at 12:11 am

     Cows don't look like cows when 3D scanned. You gotta use horses.

3. anyfoo says:

   10 years ago at 3:16 am

   Might cool. Than fancy stuff you see in the animate-step, is that actually something animators use, or is it just cool-looking eye candy a la hacker screens on TV?

   • m0tive says:

     10 years ago at 5:59 am

     Yes, but it's been rendered to make it look extra cool. For real animation rigging see: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=maya+rigging

     The sculpting stage is a joke, it was probably made in something like zbrush http://youtu.be/3ffwxDte4-4

     • anyfoo says:

       10 years ago at 2:19 pm

       Thanks! The (funny) sculpting stage joke is actually what made me wonder whether the animation stage was accurate.

4. Colby Russell says:

   10 years ago at 8:12 pm

   Is the perversity of the "Colour correct" transformation sweeping across an 8-bit GIF... wonderful? Oh. No, that's right. Just depressing.

   MNG/APNG. The bungling of HTML5 video. Hooray for the Web.

   • jwz says:

     10 years ago at 8:19 pm

     It just proves that 8 bits was totally good enough all along.
     • Nick Lamb says:

       10 years ago at 1:10 am

       Was the mangled URL a deliberate retort?

       I was kinda expecting one of those trick GIFs where they abuse animation and transparency to load thousands of colours into a single image (each frame can have a separate palette and the spec doesn't say that pixels left over from a previous frame should obey the new palette...).