Planet Blue Gets Invaded For TiVo
CLIENT
TiVo Inc.
PRODUCTION CO.
Morton Jankel Zander, Los Angeles. Tom DeCerchio, director; Derek Wolski, DP; David Zander, executive producer; Lisa Hollingshead, producer. Shot at The Culver Studios, Culver City, Calif.
AGENCY
Campbell-Ewald/West, Los Angeles. Lance Mald, executive creative director; Pam Cunningham, creative director; Chip Kettering, associate creative director/art director; Bob Ancona, associate creative director/copywriter; Betty Meadows, senior producer; Susan Kristol, associate producer.
EDITORIAL
The Lookinglass Company, Santa Monica. Livio Sanchez, editor; Sue Dawson, executive producer.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Planet Blue, Santa Monica. Milt Alvarez, executive producer; George Sanchez, producer; Maury Rosenfeld, visual effects supervisor/artist and Inferno artist; Nicholas Hoppe, Konstantin Promokhov and Joel Ashman, digital artists/animators. Riot, Santa Monica. Mark Wilkins, colorist.
AUDIO POST
Eleven, Santa Monica. Jeff Payne, mixer.
MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN
Asche & Spencer/Venice, Venice, Calif. Danny Stein and Greg Herzenach, composers; Al Wolovitch, composer/sound designer; Richard Werbowenko, sound designer; Hugh Barton, executive producer; Thad Spencer, creative director.
THE SPOT
In "Abducted" (:30), a man is snatched from his living room while he’s watching his favorite television program. In outer space, he’s examined alongside a cow on rotating platforms. When he’s returned 92 days later, he is relieved to discover that his TiVo service has recorded all his must-see shows.
Spot broke Oct. 25.
Tim Burton Discusses His Dread Of AI As An Exhibition of His Work Opens In London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits — all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters "really disturbed me."
"It wasn't an intellectual thought — it was just an internal, visceral feeling," Burton told reporters during a preview of "The World of Tim Burton" exhibition at London's Design Museum. "I looked at those things and I thought, 'Some of these are pretty good.' … (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside."
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because "once you can do it, people will do it." But he scoffed when asked if he'd use the technology in this work.
"To take over the world?" he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
"I wasn't, early on, a very verbal person," Burton said. "Drawing was a way of expressing myself."
Decades later, after films including "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice," his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton's personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition's final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in... Read More