I’m sure many readers are aware of the BBC’s 2007 advertisement (released, of course, on April Fools Day!) showing flying penguins. It was developed to advertise the corporation’s (then-new) BBC Player software, allowing viewers to stream TV programs to their computers. In case you missed it, here it is.
I was intrigued to find this ‘how they did it’ background look at the advertisement. Here’s how they made it.
Looks like a lot of work went into it – but the result was pretty convincing.
Peter
Neat videos 🙂 Bout like the flying pigs video from a few years ago… I didn't realize BBC had been doing the April Fools things that far back!
The earliest BBC April Fool's day trick I know of is the Spaghetti tree story in 1957. There's a video of it on YouTube There must be more.