Flying Penguins

• Ally
  April 1st, 2008 at 7:34 am

  This has April Fools written all over it…

• bazik
  April 1st, 2008 at 7:36 am

  amazing CG, almost looks real, thumbs up!

• luke
  April 1st, 2008 at 7:40 am

  When pigs umm, i mean, penguins fly

• Miss Cellania
  April 1st, 2008 at 8:01 am

  What April Fool? It really IS an ad for the BBC iPlayer!

• luke
  April 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am

  Miss Cellania:

  Nice one!

• Elana
  April 1st, 2008 at 8:15 am

  I actually thought that was real up until the penguins flew to the beach.

  

• Ampa
  April 1st, 2008 at 8:53 am

  Very amusing if utterly ridiculous!

• the man
  April 1st, 2008 at 9:17 am

  Man i love all that delicious penguin milk!

• Thespian24601
  April 1st, 2008 at 9:27 am

  I knew they could do it! They have been told that they couldn’t fly since they day that they were born. But they dreamed it, and it happened! True, CGI was used to make it happen, but they flew! Yippee!

• Nastia
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:17 am

  I read on newsru.com (a russian news site) that BBC had broadcast this as an april fools joke.

• phoenix
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:22 am

  This is the best video in the history of the internet. ::snif::

• biltmore
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am

  Hahaha, awesome! Terry Jones FTW!

• OddNumber
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:42 am

  I feel bad for the Russian editor that thought the BBC was trying to trick people into thinking this was real for a April Fool’s joke. Its just a creative ad.

• onecrazymomma
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:48 am

  it’s too bad it isn’t actually real. how beautiful to see the penguins fly. super good ad.

• Miss Cellania
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am

  To be fair, it IS an ad for the iPlayer, but it IS also specifically for April Fools. On the iPlayer site, the top video featured is the flying penguins, and the next one to the side is the “making of” the April Fools ad. Sadly, you can’t watch it on site unless you live in the UK.

• Justin
  April 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am

  I dunno guys looks real to me! I can totally see those stubby little wings taking them thousands of miles.

  Great link.

• Percival
  April 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am

  I totally believe this is real. Just like Bush’s reelection!

• barbara
  April 1st, 2008 at 12:32 pm

  ugh, fooled AGAIN! =/

• Paul
  April 1st, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  I saw this on Discovery HD and it is similar to the ways bee’s fly. Their wings are to small to lift their bodies but for some reason it just works.

• CheeseDuck
  April 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm

  Man I love April Fools.

• Nicholas
  April 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm

  Digital effects artists always make the shadows too clean, it always gives it away, blur for god’s sake! Other than that, I thought the CGI was awesome. Great post.

• empty-minded
  April 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm

  mmmmm…Penguin meatwater.

• Thomas
  April 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  har.

• Zeon
  April 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 am

  Hey this is awesome.

• Linn
  April 2nd, 2008 at 4:36 am

  To lana - penguins do go to beaches. There are several colonies of them in Victoria, Australia, and I have even seen on on Bondi Beach in Sydney once.

• Miss Cellaneous
  April 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  I fell for the jackelope, after all I had the postcard to prove it, and now flying penguins!! Hook, line, and sinker; when will I ever learn?

• Miss Cellaneous
  April 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 am

  Who’s stealing my name? The “Miss Cellania” entries are as bogus as flying penguins! There is now, and there will always be, only one “Miss
  Cellaneous”!!!!!

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