Dolphins, and elephants, and polar bears — oh my!

In keeping with our shameless obsession with commercials produced and aired overseas, we’re crazy about this one from Ford of

In keeping with our shameless obsession with commercials produced and aired overseas, we’re crazy about this one from Ford of Europe. There’s not a car in sight throughout the minute-long ad. It begins with a CG rendition of the fertilization process, then we see various wombs — none human. Inside them are wee (supercute!) animals suspended in utero: an elephant, a dolphin, and twin polar bears. The images are accompanied by dreamy, fairy tale–like chimes.

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The For the Next Generation campaign — devised by the fertile minds at Ogilvy Stockholm — was launched to market Ford’s new ethanol-powered vehicles. It took a London-based digital-animation company five weeks to create the twin bears; state-of-the-art model-making techniques begat the elephant and the dolphin. Now, if only the U.S. could improve both its gas-mileage standards and its automobile commercials.

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Dolphins, and elephants, and polar bears — oh my!