Meet “Blackbird”…Via CGI, It Is Any Car You Want It To Be (2 Videos)

Had this technology been available in the ’60s, George Barris would never have had to build the Batmobile, the Munster’s car or the Beverly Hillbillies truck, because this car can become any car!

Here’s a short video that shows how adding a “skin” or real car look works.

In essence, the Blackbird is a mobile camera rig designed to morph into any car in the world. At the push of a button the fully adjustable chassis can modify its length by 4 feet and width by 10 inches. It can fit any wheel set and be altered for any type of suspension and chassis design. You can see all this and more demonstrated in the second video below.

Two years in development, the Blackbird was hand built by the world’s top technicians from JemFX in the same hangar that the Blackbird SR-71 supersonic jet was once manufactured. The car rig’s name is a nod to this legacy of stealth design.

Although this is very cool, so is seeing the original Batmobile in person. These days, its hard to believe your own eyes. -Bobby Ellerbee

Special effects company The Mill has come up with a technology so intriguing, we just had to give it a go. Meet the ‘Blackbird’, which is all about taking mo…

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