Tuesday 24 December 2013

Cucumber Studios and Electric Dreams


In 1984 Rocky Morton and Anabel Jankel of Cucumber Studios - at the time known for their music videos, and later as the creators of Max Headroom - contributed to a spectacularly eighties romcom entitled Electric Dreams. The sequence in question sees a sentient computer dreaming of preventing an earthquake - trust me, it makes sense in context...

Themed around contemporary computer graphics, but made primarily through analogue animation, the sequence is an example of the pseudo-CGI phenomenon that I wrote about here.

Thanks to Chris Sobieniak for bringing this one to my attention.





























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  1. "Thanks to Chris Sobieniak for bringing this one to my attention."

    It's glad to be thanked one in a while, Merry Christmas by the way!

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  2. Does anyone know if there's a full video of the animation sequence (note - not the clip from the movie which is interspersed with 'live' video - just this animation sequence for the whole song?

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    1. I suppose I do sorta wonder if that exists on it's own too. Perhaps maybe it's on a demo reel someplace for the studio if they cared to show it off later on.

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