Okay... Hamsters.... Good work though.

To quote Modo, 'You were expecting maybe turtles?"

"No, I expect you to Die Mr. Bond."

Nerds doing it right. >3

I've only seen the longer version of that commercial on TV once. Kinda raises questions, I mean, is that how all female Kia hamsters are made? (And is that a plug-in hybrid or all electric Kia Soul?)

But, what with this Kia ad, the Dish network ad with the "Hopper" kangaroo, the new cgi "Laughing Cow" cow, the Carfax fox, there's quite a few anthropomorphic animal mascots on TV at the moment.

I'm not surprised, since cgi is everywhere. As soon as they discover that furries groove on this, they'll stop...

I liked the Carfax fox better as a puppet (which is what he started out as), he's since become cgi, because everyone likes that better, right?

I would hope that furries are still insignificant enough as a group so as to not give advertisers a reason to stop using animal mascots. I've missed seeing them.

Or maybe, if enough people wear their fursuits to thier Kia dealerships and buy a car, other car manufacturers follow. Then maybe Chrysler will make ads with, I don't know, posh squirrel girls to sell the 300. Or Ford will make adorable mustang pony ads or something. That could happen, right?

I recommend browsing youtube for them french Orangina ads. :)

I remember those, but didn't find them too appealing.

the CGI ones, or the later animatronic mask ones? some of the earlier CGI clips are re-launched in better versions by orangina's own channel, if you want to look. :)

I couldn't tell you. I saw them at least two or three years ago and my memory isn't too fresh, even if the orange juice is.

I think that is all all the Kia hamsters were made how do you think the trio was created? Maybe the same way.

Could be. At least they don't appear to be harboring any existential angst about their creation.

"What are we? Do we even have souls?"

"Who cares when you can DRIVE a Kia Soul®!"

Plus we're hanging with some hot ladies. XD

Yeah, I guess that helps too.

If they look good enough, having a soul is merely an option.

Ah, maybe a soul is merely an option.

Or perhaps, like a Kia Soul (I'm gonna keep rolling with this car analogy) the base model may look just as nice as the higher trim levels on the surface. But one day, you will realize the 1.6 liter engine is lacking, and that maybe it would have been better to have the 2.0 liter. The same car in the looks department, but I'd rather have one with something more going on under the hood.

If you know what I'm saying. (And I'm not sure I know)

Go to the Kia website and the long version is there

It can be more easily found on YouTube, I think. I've seen the Kia website and it takes a bit of hunting. At Youtube you just type Kia in the search line.

I did eventually find a 10 meg download (without audio) that's just fine ... but not there.

I found it interesting that the engineers still had the chubby body structure of original hamsters while the babes are well, furries. XD

I think Lexus made an ad once for japan TV where a driver was partially turned into an anthro lion. then there is Orangina, of course.

I prefer the way the look of the original hamsters. These don't look very hamster-y to me.

let's call it "fan-service", then. :) they could have found a healthy middle way between chubby hamsters and cuvy humanoid women, I guess.

But going partway between 'chubby hamster' and 'hot girl' heads into the territory of 'fat chick' (or BBW), which advertisers only consider suitable for weight-loss commercials.

Advertisers are using furries more in their ads, but they still do not UNDERSTAND furries. Then again, advertisers don't understand humans either, so I guess it's par for the course.

advertisers, or more accurately, media/marketing experts, come off a school, where they boldly teach things noone has taught before them. so these marketing experts think they know what people want, and refuse to listen to people like graphics designers, or advertizing developers. then you get an ad that leaves you wondering what they were smoking, or what it was all about. there was a strange Mercedes ad where scientist hands held chicken up, moving them to and fro while some 60's music was playing. in the end you found out it was about a new electronic helper, and wondered what was with them chicken?

the really cool ads come out if the marketing experts have the guts to say, "here is the product/line of product/ services we offer. do your best." and the advertizers do exactly that. see Hornbacher Werbung...

The original hamsters also went through a weight-loss regimen for this spot.

(and back to chubby in the following one)

Now, i want a Kya

Woah I'm like totally tripping out

they look cute and all but what are you going to do?
Their idea of a date is running round the hamster wheel

I've seen the commercial several times, but the full version only once. But it is on You Tube. Further proof that furries are everywhere. ;7

Download from here. the 10 meg MP4 will play with VLC.

http://keepvid.com/?url=http%3A%2F%.....%3DZYWHsOeDf3M

Download from here -- the 10 meg MP4 will play with VLC.

http://keepvid.com/?url=http%3A%2F%.....%3DZYWHsOeDf3M

I don't recall clearly, but I think that's about when.

If Kia sales go up...expect more from these characters...

Yay!!! We're being invaded! All hail our hamster overlords!

Very nicely done. CG artists are certainly improving their skills. Realistic fur and hair hasn't been the easiest thing to render until recently. The rendering on the clothing is impressive, too.

I think the bodies are real -- the hands are gloves. The heads are all I think that are cgi animation. But I'm not really positive.

That makes sense. They would have only a limited budget and deadline, so would have to cheat a bit to get a believable look and there's few things more believable than the real thing. Even so, just the heads is still impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWHsOeDf3M

Oh my....

The original hamsters "got skinny" for the end of this spot.

I remember those, now. No babes, though, so I feel no need to fill up any of my hard drive with it.