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I love this speculation so I will jump in as well.
Overall, and as others have mentioned, I think this is about using CGI to wrap a different livery on the video they shot that day. I think the small dot are registration marks. The "color palette" is not a proposed palette for the livery, but a rather a color correction palette (similar to what you would see bolted to the exterior on a Mars lander). I don't know the technical details, but while I think you can do that type of color correction from a known grey sample, I think having specific known colors makes it easier. Or easier when the lighting parameters are not controlled like they might be in a studio. I can see two likely scenarios... First, for sponsors who would like to see what a proposed livery would look like, they can see the car in motion, with color correctness, etc. but without having to physically paint the car. They can use this and they can also illustrate an infinite number of potential variations of livery under the same exact lighting scenarios. It would be great for A/B comparisons. Note how they shot video that did slow pans over the entire car so you can see the entire thing. I expect they also have a mixture of close up and distant shots. They could even use this to shop around for additional sponsors (here is what the car would look like with your logo, your color palette used in the livery...) Second (and maybe in addition to the first), they can use this for future PR movies much like the one we just saw. Imagine one with a voice over of "we are moving from the garage to the track" and having the car change from the testing "dazzle camouflage" to a photo realistic livery, on the fly right before you eyes, but with such quality, that you can't even tell it was CGI. That same PR could be used by both Porsche as well as by whoever is the primary sponsor. Richard |
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Thanks Richard!
Hope this doesn't mean the Porsche's main colour will be Yellow Green (square nr. 11 on your image/in the wiki link) as it also features two big dots of that colour. |
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Purely speculation on my part, but I was thinking, now that Paul Di resta is out of a drive in F1 for 2014 what are the chances of him being recruited by Porsche to take up 1 of the remaining seats? Ok he hasnt got sportscar racing experince but he is a DTM Champion and to my mind has all the qualities for endurance racing. Your thoughts please..
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I would imagine that Porsche wants to sign drivers for more than one season, whereas Paul could aim for a cockpit in F1 as soon as there is an opportunity (last month he said in an interview that he would do everything to stay in F1). Just speculation, but I'm not sure if this is what Porsche wants. Furthermore, you mentioned the lack of experience concerning endurance racing. Last edited by FxL; 13 Dec 2013 at 21:13. |
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Nice job. I've never used those in any of my shoots. And it's too early in the prototype development to be using any of this for promotional material. There has to be another reason why they're using it. |
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The idea that they'd then photoshop the car to show possible liveries sounds best imho. Not in a moving video, but just in still photos.
Applying CGI to that promo video and changing the livery sounds weird, because once the livery is finalized, they can immediately just shoot new real footage with it, so what exactly would be the point. But still why did the RS Spyder "zero car" (borrowing rally term) had these same things? Btw, the Porsche prize giving gala is today? Maybe some news coming. |
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^ Or is it? I have no idea where did I get the date but I had written it down.
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It is.(sorry - no link or not quoted directly from any original source)
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According to https://twitter.com/RacecarEngineer the official designation is 919 Hybrid.
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I see Brendon Hartley and Marc Lieb in that photo... so we have all 6 full-season drivers confirmed.
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Chuffed for Brendon, shame it didn't work out for him in single seaters but he is definateley a Sportscar legend in the making.
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Mark will be an offical porsche works driver as of January 1, 2014. He still has a valid contract with Red Bull.
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Four days ago:
"Webber, who announced his move to the WEC this past summer and closed out his F1 career with a runner-up in Brazil last month, was given permission to do the test by Red Bull, which still has him under contract until Jan. 1, 2014. “My first day in this fascinating project was an intense experience for me,” said Webber after his run at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal. “I would like to thank Red Bull Racing for giving me the chance to join the project so early." The article: http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...portugal-test/ |
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