Pretty cool even if parts are faked - I know sheepdogs are very good at organizing their flocks but the patterns (e.g. the pong, the giant walking sheep) just seem nearly impossible to organize coherently.
The fireworks at the end were a really good idea. I can see that working without being faked.
Yay sheep dogs!!
Holy [del]cow[/del] sheep!
I saw a report about this on Countdown a little earlier today. Thought it was really cool.
That’s hilarious. It must be faked, but so what?
Hal, I just couldn’t resist posting this for you!
My local news channel showed the pong part of the video with the headline “Sheep gone wild!”. It really is an amazing display of sheep herding.
I’m not sure that it’s 100% real but also I don’t think it’s 100% fake. For some reason the Mona Lisa part is the hardest part for me to believe.
I figured it was done with just a lot of takes. As far as the Mona Lisa, its been done with just about anything that varies in shade, from spray paint to pennies.
Yeah, I know the basic principle behind it but it seems way too difficult to orchestrate. Of course, I’m basing this on the idea that they did it in one night, but I suppose there’s no reason they didn’t do it over the course of a few weeks.
The Mona Lisa was definitely the least interesting of them. Loved the fireworks!
Or maybe video editing. Which do you think more likely?
Wasn’t this already mentioned in the thread Sheep Art?
Yup. Threads merged.
Having worked with sheep before, the Mona Lisa pic seems much easier to do than the Pong pic where 6 sheep are standing out alone from everyone else as the dividing line in the middle. Sheep like to be with other sheep, especially when there are wolfy predators around. But, they could have easily spent 20 or 30 minutes positioning the sheep for just a couple of frames of film. Clay-mation with sheep.
For the Mona Lisa pic, all you would need to do is get the lights the right color, and then put the sheep in roughly the right position, which they did by physically picking them up and moving them when need be.
I vote this video completely plausible.
It seems real, though some sections are speeded up. The walking sheep moved much slower IRL, for instance.