French car manufacturer Citroen is making furore across Europe with their TV ads for the C4 model. The idea isn’t new (Transformers were a craze in the eighties), but the execution is great. Here’s a parody that does the same trick with the venerable “zero technology” Citroen 2CV. It’s created by a British group of CG artists, united under the name X-BAM.
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Parodies aren’t imited to cars. Here’s one that performs the same act with a breakfast meal, created by the Danish Bacon and Meat Council in the UK.
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And here are links to some of the original Citroen TV commercials: