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#792236 by tontybear
25 Sep 2011, 20:16
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#792241 by tontybear
25 Sep 2011, 20:29
So they used CGI to put BA livery on a VS plane that looks to have been taken at LHR T5 where there would have been 'real' BA planes lined up?

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#792243 by mitchja
25 Sep 2011, 20:35
CGI is often cheaper and easier to work with than the real thing.

The VS ads are also CGI too - you only have to look at the completely wrong aircraft middle landing gear towards the end of the 'Where's Linda?' latest VS ad to see it's CGI.
#792244 by HWVlover
25 Sep 2011, 20:35
Miss G wrote:I think that's only something the nerds would have noticed. ;)


I will bet there are a few hundred on here who would have noticed my dear Miss G, including, perchance, both you and me! y)

What with this and eclairgate, what an exciting week it has been on the periphery of aviation. Definitely time to open a bottle. y)
#792246 by stevebrass
25 Sep 2011, 20:40
But the BA spokesman says

“No version of the ad showed any aircraft in the livery of another airline"

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#792247 by Miss G
25 Sep 2011, 20:53
HWVlover wrote:
Miss G wrote:I think that's only something the nerds would have noticed. ;)


I will bet there are a few hundred on here who would have noticed my dear Miss G, including, perchance, both you and me! y)

What with this and eclairgate, what an exciting week it has been on the periphery of aviation. Definitely time to open a bottle. y)


hahaha!
#792250 by SHG
25 Sep 2011, 21:17
mitchja wrote:The VS ads are also CGI too - you only have to look at the completely wrong aircraft middle landing gear towards the end of the 'Where's Linda?' latest VS ad to see it's CGI.



I noticed this recently in a freebie calander... A340-300 wheel setup on a -600 aircraft type I think it was. Or vice versa.
#792253 by duggy83
25 Sep 2011, 22:06
tontybear wrote:So they used CGI to put BA livery on a VS plane that looks to have been taken at LHR T5 where there would have been 'real' BA planes lined up?

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Did wonder that.. all for a shot on the ad that lasted for what must have been no more than 2 seconds! ?|
#792489 by seany
28 Sep 2011, 12:09
Goes to show how great the BA 744's would look with P&W engines instead of those ugly Rolls-Royce ones they currently have !
#792490 by slinky09
28 Sep 2011, 12:29
tontybear wrote:So they used CGI to put BA livery on a VS plane that looks to have been taken at LHR T5 where there would have been 'real' BA planes lined up?

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I'm confused too - albeit that 747s rarely line up at the main T5 terminal (they tend to use T5B and c), and that shooting this for real may have been much more costly to line up the aircraft and get the cameras in place, disrupting groundops.

Also, it's not like there aren't thousands of pictures of BA 747s to CGI from ... and then the BA body paint is white, whereas VS has the light grey, so how could VGAL have actually ended up there. Methinks something more subversive in the design studio :w .
#792544 by jwhite9185
28 Sep 2011, 20:47
seany wrote:Goes to show how great the BA 744's would look with P&W engines instead of those ugly Rolls-Royce ones they currently have !


VS 744's have GE engines :P
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