Ford: Rebuilding An American Icon

[Medeksza]

Check out 45 seconds into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2Chj5zHVo

Also check out "Ford: Rebuilding An American Icon" tonight at 8:00 on CNBC and possibly reruns later

[snowman]

That looked way too much like a haptek character.

[freddy888]

Well spotted 

[NIGE]

I think it is Hal?
If it isn't then someone has used him,
If you look at the top L/H corner you will see the 2 arrows which change the background scenes.
The same as in our Hal.

[Medeksza]

Yeah, Zabaware did a lot of work for Ford from mid 2006 to the end of 2008. This was based on one of the demos we did for them. The other demo we made was of a talking Ford Escape and Ford Edge character using the Ogre-based Zabaware character engine, which are still the only 2 fully complete characters using the Zabaware engine.

[lightspeed]

so i guess ford had permission to use that in a documentary? and what of the ford deal with you it fell through?? or their hopefully is still hope of a deal?? that would be nice . 

[raybe]

Great pick up. Personally I have no doubt that it was Ultra Hal's 5 seconds of fame by Ford. Curious have far Ultra Hal may have impacted or is still a part of their on board functioning programs?

I would archive that footage.

raybe

[Medeksza]

They have permission to demo it all they want (as a prototype), just not sell it in their cars as we have not discussed or granted them any redistribution rights. If they ever decide to incorporate it in the future, they know where to find me.

[lightspeed]

Robert if you want a better looking female (their is nothing wrong with the one you used ) maybe i should say different looking one maybe a deal could be made with a face from a user that hasn't been posted . just a thought.

[Medeksza]

Robert if you want a better looking female (their is nothing wrong with the one you used ) maybe i should say different looking one maybe a deal could be made with a face from a user that hasn't been posted . just a thought.

That face was made to Ford's exact specifications. Over the course of a year they literally had small committees discuss every blemish, color, and facial feature and thats the result. An artist I hired kept making modifications until they were happy. It is a much different then the initial one we sent them.