Line #30 SpecialEffectFailure/Advertising


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8	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-e4nlfdRI The Eagleman!]] We have no clue how the Eagle''man'' can lay an egg.
9	* The Bush's Homestyle Chili advertisement featuring the Chili Changer had a pan across bowls of chili near the end, with some cans of the product tossed in for good measure. Sounds pedestrian in itself, but once you actually see this moment in the commercial, you'll notice that the cans are actually photos added to the shot in an unconvincing matter. It seemed like they wasted most of their budget making Duke the dog's mouth move (which they always do in these commercials). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4n8i5pegsg Just watch the failure in action.]] This was done to make the ads modular, so they could change the label and instantly come up with an alternate version of the ad ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38FOlksd8Dk example]]). This is quite common (look how many late-night infomercials use the same payment info screen, with just different text, art and video slotted into the same space), but this ad did it really, really cheaply.
10	* A commercial for [=TurboTax=] online software got the point across about its free service with one example at a gas station. The scrolling numbers for the pump rolled up for the gallons, and "rolled" up to zero for the price. Problem was, the numbers were a ''digital'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display seven-segment display]].
11	* Sleep Centers of the Southwest advertised its services using [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuhV0Axg44 this abomination]] of a van flipping onto its roof with ridiculous smoke effects.
12	* Pops up frequently with supermodel Carolyn Murphy. Murphy has a large tattoo of a Koi fish on her right hip. If she's facing the camera or turned with that hip facing it, they airbrush the tattoo away, in most cases. However, if she's turned in the other direction however slightly, they don't bother, even if the tattoo is still visible. This makes her very large tattoo disappear and reappear several times in the same photoshoot.
13	* Website/{{Cracked}} has a [[https://www.cracked.com/article_18729_8-hilariously-failed-attempts-to-use-cgi-in-political-ads.html list of 8 political ads]] filled with these.
14	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Q0_DgXHG0 This]] UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercial from Pakistan advertising Sega's ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' Happy Meal toys from 2004. What have they done to Rouge the Bat? Granted, Pakistani censorship laws necessitated the removal of her, ahem, [[MsFanservice assets]], but that doesn't explain why they made her a ''mouse''.
15	** The other commercials aren't much better, featuring the likes of a [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Cortex]] that doesn't even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3WmB28Gi14 resemble his usual self]], and a very creepy looking Franchise/HelloKitty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-8Z9NKJbro with a mouth]]. To say nothing about the ads featuring the [=McDonaldland=] gang themselves, with appearances that [[OffModel change]] between ads for no reason.
16	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0GPmEgwWU Max from BlueTax]], who falls straight into the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]]. The other people in the ad don't fare much better, coming off as models from the Platform/PlayStation One era.
17	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db52uepxANg The General]]'s commercials aren't much better than the above[[note]]the titular character looking like the offspring of Max and a character from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' at best[[/note]]. And while the animation ''has'' gone through some hefty ArtEvolution as of late, it's debatable how much better that makes the effects.
18	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3eQaX9cThA this Budweiser commercial]], while there's nothing wrong with the tortoises, the beer bottles being thrown are obviously (quite poorly) composited.
19	* Done intentionally in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zza3GqEL5B0 this Dr. Pepper TEN commercial]] with an ''obviously'' robotic snake.
20	* In the infamous ad for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJP1DphOWPs Ojai Valley Taxidermy]] (of [[MemeticMutation Chuck Testa]] fame), there is absolutely no way anyone could mistake any of those animals for being alive, no matter what Chuck Testa would have you believe. The first time the pheasant appeared, you can very clearly see the hand holding the rod supporting it as it "flies," the deer is clearly just a mounted head, and the coyote is just being pushed around.
21	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWp84_Wdxg The live-action commercial]] for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' had the kid merge into walls in an unconvincing matter, namely that the framerate of the kid as a painting clashes with the rest of the footage.
22	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5x_2L0bRfg This Wallet Pix commercial]] makes no attempt at hiding that the photos on the device are obviously superimposed over the live-action footage.
23	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqx-Ar_QO4 Beast Wars Transquito and Baboom commercial]] makes no attempt to hide the hand that knocks Transquito back when he's hit by a missle from B'Boom.
24	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXySknGzjBI ad]] for Inferno and Cybershark feature greatly contrasting animation quality for the two, with Inferno (as depicted from the [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars show]]) poorly edited into a more primitive looking background and Cybershark looking more like he'd be at home in the G2 commercials.
25	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4qDoXCPl0c This Mountain Dew "Get That Barefoot Feeling" commercial]] includes a policeman with an obviously latex or rubber "bare" foot; even with the primitive video quality, the ankle overlapping his pants leg weakens the realism.
26	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgb5uYx6QL0 This really cheap real estate ad]] manages to have the voice of the CGI character not match the mouth movements at all. Oddly, the upload of the ad on Website/YouTube does not seem to have this issue so much, but when aired on TV it is jarringly bad.
27	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zodL2AYDzic This Chuck E. Cheese's ad]] attempts to show tokens magically appearing in a child's hands, but there's an obvious jump cut from the time she closes her empty hands to the time she opens them again to reveal the tokens.
28	* [[https://youtu.be/OX9PNoWjl0g?t=22 In this scene in the gameplay trailer]] of ''VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames Tokyo 2020'', you can see a computer cursor at the left of the screen.
29	* In the Meow Mix line of "cat singing" commercials, it's often obvious that the cats are being physically manipulated into "dancing" by hand offscreen. In "Cats at a Rave", if you watch closely, slow the video down, or pause at the right time, you can see someone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAJFbRq0-OU&t=0m33s black gloved fingers holding a cat's arms up.]] (Cat on left. Around 32-33 seconds.)
30	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEJPShlA_o This]] Canadian PSA for the War Amps, featuring their then-mascot Astar the Robot, is rendered in some of the absolute worst CGI in the history of the medium, even by the standards of the early 2000s. Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWmUxWluDgQ the ad it was a remake of]] was praised for its [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome excellent practical effects]].
31	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxis7Y1ikIQ Plane Stupid "Polar Bear" ad]] attempts to demonstrate how much greenhouse gases are produced by a single flight by having polar bears raining from the sky... some of the ''worst'' CGI polar bears you will ''ever'' see, particularly when they flop around objects like someone was just learning how to use Gary's Mod.

Context SpecialEffectFailure / Advertising