“The Bicycle Company” by Maisel

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Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    05

Title:


    The Bicycle Company

Director(s):


Company / Institution / Agency:


  • Landor Associates

Description:


    This animated sequence is the centerpiece of the Hewlett-Packard exhibit, “The Bicycle Company”, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles. This show runs continuously on a pair of video projectors; the left and right halves of the mural were created separately and are projected side-by-side.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: Bosch 4000, Aurora


Additional Contributors:


    Produced by: Landor Associates, San Francisco, California
    Designer: Rebecca Archey
    Animation realization: Archey/Cavala & Associates, San Francisco, California
    Produced at: The Post Group, Los Angeles, California 1984


Additional Information:


    Format: 1:00; 3/4″; sound

    Technical notes: Each robot was created as a 3-D object and animated as a separate element. The robots were composited over the background using video editing techniques; sometimes as many as 8 layers of video were used.

Animation / Video Overview:


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