{"id":296,"date":"2013-07-06T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2018-02-28T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:33:43","slug":"watch-dogs-cracked-for-cash-atm-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/watch-dogs-cracked-for-cash-atm-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH DOGS &#8220;CRACKED FOR CASH&#8221; ATM STUNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xk85wxlUqSw?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago Danger Boy was brought on board for the upcoming <a title=\"Ubisoft Watch Dogs\" href=\"http:\/\/watchdogs.ubi.com\/watchdogs\/en-ca\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubisoft Watch Dogs<\/a> video game promotion.\u00a0 Our mission was to create a real live ATM prop that was perfect in every way \u2013 except one..\u00a0 Our ATM would spew huge amounts of cash on command!<\/p>\n<p>This special modified ATM would be placed in a public location and when it was \u201chacked\u201d by an online gamer from afar it would immediately dispense thousands of dollars in cash and coupons for the new Watch Dogs video game.\u00a0 And the world would be watching via a live video stream.\u00a0 Fun!<\/p>\n<p>We have to admit that it sounded like a super interesting project and we all wondered what the public would do when confronted by this cash crazy ATM. <a title=\"Danger Boy SPFX Team\" href=\"http:\/\/danger-boy.com\/machines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Danger Boy special effects team<\/a> set to work first finding and then modifying an ATM.\u00a0 It took a lot of trial and error to get that amount of money to fly out in just the perfect way on command.\u00a0 The other challenge was that we had to modify the video display to play the client\u2019s \u201chacked\u201d video content on the screen.\u00a0 And the finished product had to look perfect in every so that no one got suspicious when they saw this ATM in the mall.<\/p>\n<p>When the day came we were all a little nervous but our careful planning paid off.\u00a0 The stunt went perfectly and people loved it.\u00a0 Some folks made off with a lot of cash too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out our behind the scenes video to learn all about how we created this exciting stunt!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JxQjHa5Op3Q?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago Danger Boy was brought on board for the upcoming Ubisoft Watch Dogs video game promotion.\u00a0 Our mission was to create a real live ATM prop that was perfect in every way \u2013 except one..\u00a0 Our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/watch-dogs-cracked-for-cash-atm-stunt\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[202,209,206,205,192,208,207,14,17,203,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}