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From the “Not Everything Needs to be Animated” Dep’t.
by amid
May 7, 2009 12:06 pm


Real Estate

A memo to real estate agents: The market is bad enough. Creepy, poorly animated CG spokespeople aren’t going to increase your sales and rentals.

(via Lili’s Twitter)

05/7/09  12:18pm

I love it! Total creepsville.

This would make a terrific horror film. Nobody does the living dead better than bad CGI.

05/7/09  12:24pm
Thad says:

So when are the suits going to decide to use this to make an entire new film starring dead people? What could be better than IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD remade with CGI’ed Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, etc. ? Be sure to redo the jokes so they’re vulgar too, something original like a CGI’ed Drew Barrymore flashing her tits at Silvers causing him to drive off the side of the road.

Come on, take this kind of idea and run with it! It’s a goldmine and I’m giving it for free! It’s shitty enough to be real that’s for sure.

05/7/09  12:25pm

I think she’s…staring at me.

I’m gonna go hide in the corner over there.

05/7/09  12:32pm
Dave says:

The best part of it is that they’ve focused her eyes to look like she’s reading cue cards from off-camera. WTH kind of animated character can’t even remember their lines?

05/7/09  12:32pm

Oh dear lord. She looks like she’s going to eat my brains. I have the urge to beat her with a shovel and run far, far away.

Did nobody responsible notice that, once she starts moving, she looks pure evil?

05/7/09  12:42pm
Manning says:

Prediction:
What was once a disaster for online real-estate becomes a huge hit in online dating.

05/7/09  12:50pm

Looks like it’s using that flash program I kept seeing advertised in banner ads that wouldn’t shut up while I was trying to browse action script guides once. The robot voice that makes what it is saying barely audible just emphasizes how automated and freaky it is, shifting it’s head back and forth like that for no reason. Ugh, stop looking at me!

05/7/09  12:55pm
Kara says:

Hahahaha thanks for a bit of humour today. This is so bad, it’s funny. I wonder how there can be people that exist in this world with such lack of taste?

05/7/09  1:14pm
J Lee says:

I already blame the current economic downturn on those creepy, digitally rotascoped people in the Charles Schwab ads…

05/7/09  1:18pm

AAAH!

Realdolls moonlighting as realtors now?

05/7/09  1:27pm
Paul N says:

This technology is advancing - now we have stilted, broken speech with a British accent.

05/7/09  1:29pm
Eric says:

At least they got tons of hits out of this.

05/7/09  1:30pm

I’ve heard of this software. It’s called “SitePal” and it lets you stick computer animated heads on your website to make it look interactive.

I see that picture and it looks like she’s saying GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.

05/7/09  1:49pm
Victor says:

This reminds me of a company I used to work for: http://www.oddcast.com They are doing similar work in New York, but add a level of interactivity were by the viewer uploads his or her photo and then it gets placed in various flash based applications. I worked on one of these applications, that allowed you to “be” in a movie. It is an interesting concept but the faces would come out weird looking, as the software advances who knows, it might just work out down the line. In a case like this, why not just show the actual real estate agent, i think it would personalize the whole experience. Vic out!!!

05/7/09  2:15pm
fishmorgjp says:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

05/7/09  2:21pm
Jay Sabicer says:

I was about to agree with everyone, however, have you actually dealt with REAL people in real estate? Many would consider this a far better alternative to some of the pond scum I’ve encountered.

05/7/09  2:26pm
Emily says:

Oy vey. That’s all I got.

05/7/09  2:43pm
bobkurtz says:

hey! don’t laugh.it will be coming to adult swim soon.
ohhh so creepy. definitely was my weird moment of the day.

05/7/09  3:05pm
Angry Anim says:

I dunno. She’s pretty hot.

05/7/09  3:35pm
pudleiner says:

I don’t know what the hell just happened …. but I just bought a house in Los Feliz…?

05/7/09  3:35pm
Adam says:

Good god, look at the way the mouth moves. It’s like a 2d animation, very staccato and choppy, while everything else.. moves… very..slowly.. from side to side. Ugh!

Who knew they sold real estate in the uncanny valley!?

05/7/09  5:21pm
Joseph says:

Now they can do Assy McGee with real buttocks. The economy is saved.

05/7/09  5:35pm

Can’t unsee.

05/7/09  7:28pm
Billy Batz says:

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!!

05/7/09  7:32pm
Mike Milo says:

Hahah! She looks like a blow up doll… especially in the screen cap you posted.

05/7/09  7:33pm

I need a computer voice saying “Situated on an Indian burial ground. we moved the headstones…”

05/7/09  7:34pm
Tom says:

The pits. The absolute pits.

That girl is so deadeyed and terrifying that I swear we used to date.

05/7/09  9:43pm

After she finishes her pitch, you can actually hypnotize her with your cursor at

http://glb-properties.com/lepetitchateauolimpique.html

05/7/09  11:57pm

Haunted house for sale….cheap…

05/8/09  5:09am

05/8/09  6:18am
Craig D. says:

I think it’s time to take the ol’ syncrovox process out of mothballs. Waddya say? Clutch, Spinner are you with me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncro-Vox

05/8/09  6:58am
Krissy says:

…Two bedroom apartment currently available in lovely downtown SILENT HILL!!!

05/8/09  8:09am
andre says:

My estate agent manager speaks like her. Curious…

05/8/09  8:11am
Jon Reeves says:

Oh dear god. I was going to say it looked the 2009 version of a bad 1997-era GeoCities page — and then Benjamin posted an example where it was used on a bad 1997-era GeoCities page.

05/9/09  2:50pm
Anthony says:

I worked for the company that created that for over two years. Her name is 3D Angela. If you ever visit their office you will see that they have a flat panel monitor turned vertical in the lobby, and a motion camera above it, and either a 2D character or 3D character that greets you. When a person passes or there is movement they speak.

05/9/09  6:11pm
Shaw says:

That re-animated corpse of Orville Redenbacker they used in ads a few years back looks more alive than that lady.

05/9/09  9:41pm
Grant says:

It’s as good as polar express or beowulf.

05/10/09  1:53pm
Vince says:

can’t sleep…real-estate lady will get me…

05/10/09  5:39pm
OM says:

…Jeez! Duke 2000 was more realistic!

05/10/09  10:01pm
FP says:

Re:
–That re-animated corpse of Orville Redenbacker they used in ads a few years back looks more alive than that lady.–

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They bred. The resulting child is Jimmy Neutron.

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