How do you make that computer thing? Pros reveal secrets here!

1. This has been going around lately --
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8627/1977ipod.jpg

I'm pretty sure it was rendered on a computer somehow -- I'm guessing some combination of 3D modeling and photoshop -- but I don't think I'd in a million years figure out how.
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2. This is pretty old, but I never figured out how they did it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqakws0CeU

but it's explained here (plus software to do it):
http://github.com/grampajoe/Autodatamosh

Pocket Hi-Fi looks like a straightforward 3D model.

1st one is probably just photoshop.

xpost lol

well we can agree - there's no need for both.

Unless there are headphones that look like that?

Going by the rest of the shots here they are definitely 3D models.

Ha, I wish I knew how to apply 70s retro filter to my 3d models.

3. There are no tricks in this guide, but it sure demystifies making
pixelly portraits:

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/g/howtofb5.gif

http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2006/06/how-to-do-a-pixel-head/

Oh wow, those images in the link just above are brilliant. I love that70s magazine commercial look, with the wordy adverts! Love love love that shit.

WOOD PANELING ON A PHONE!!!

A PHOOOOOOONE!

It reminds me of those old "Merlin" electronic game thingies.

http://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/images/merlin.jpg

in the old days i think they must have had an artist airbrush over a photo. i have no idea how they make it look all 70s-y though (other than being in the 70s)

well - there's no full-on black anywhere for starters.

the darkest areas being a warm-dark-brown for the most part.

Huh good point. Also, all that orange. and the fonts.

i have no idea how they make it look all 70s-y though

Important: yellowing around edges.

i dunno dudes, it's just not working out for me:

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7926/70sad.gif

No, no it's not.

"Who's your ad agency?" "Hunter, Age 6."

I'm certainly no pro, but the overwhelming love from adding meows to the theme from mad men
makes me ashamed, because it is just a collection of cheap tricks that I would like to share with you
so that you, too, can add cats to things:

1. download the source video
2. download the soundtrack to the source video
(i use dirpy for both these steps)

3. load soundtrack into garage band
4. download a bunch of cat samples
5. in garageband, open a musical keyboard on the sound effects instrument.
drag and drop the cat samples to each key. now you have a primitive cat piano
6. hit record, using the same musical keyboard, hit the key when you want the cat to meow
7. export to mp3

8. in quicktime open the source movie
9. there's a window to inspect the movie -- there will be a video and audio track -- delete the audio track
10. in quicktime open the cat-enabled mp3
11. select and copy (cmd-A) -- this will copy the audio
12. select the source movie -- there will be in option in the menu to add the new cat audio to the movie -- do it.
13. save and now there be cats.

By the way, I'm still searching for a good cat synthesizer, but the industry seems determined to devote its energies to modeling vintage rolands instead.

http://www.synthfind.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/octave-cat.jpg