Blu: Muto; ripoffs
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Original: http://www.blublu.org/sito/video…
I'm curious as to exactly how many ads are running on TV globally that are entirely derivative of this animation, and how these creatively barren art directors/agencies get away with it?
I just saw one for some childrens charity and then there's this one for the BBC:
maybe blu has been paid I dont know, but if not, and I doubt he has, it's pretty lame.
- robotron3k0
you would have thought CPB would have jumped on that awhile ago...
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Y&R's RKCR were responsible for that BBC one.
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version, one day you will grow up and have more to offer than your usual predictable, puerile controversialist arguments.
If you think that some young thing at the agency didn't see this and win a pitch by showing it to the client, you must be stupid. Which is very plausible.
- my point remains and your personal opinion in the scope of this discussion is mootversion3
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the charity Action for Children were the other culprits, notorious for their previous ad depicting autistic children as monsters. Clearly not the best advised.
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- emz0
Just saw that charity advert and immediately thought of Blu and came across this post. Seems an easy target to steal creativity from.
- Horp0
Funny you say that Max I had the exact same thought when I saw it at the weekend. I don't know much about the original artist but I do know he was very original, so if they haven't actually commissioned him to do it, its shameful.
- Meeklo0
I haven't clicked the links, but that is how advertising works and it has been that way since probably before you were born, anyone remember the animated light drawings from pika pika, then appropiated by sprint?
or how about the new Old Navy commercials?
sound familiar? no? remember The Fuccons?
this same thing happens with music in commercials, people that produce music might be able to tell easier than someone that doesn't but many times there is a very clear resemblance with a popular tune on the radio, the cheap bastards will change just 2 or 3 notes, so its similar to the original but different just enough so they don't get sued.
- Meeklo0
Pika Pika (this looks like a new video, but they been around for a while)