cinematography Blue screen Polar Bear?

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In this commercial, did they shoot the polar bear somehow with the blue sky behind him so he could be keyed into New York and other places?

How did they do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9coyBLkZps

I guess they used a real one at the end from like a local Zoo or something?
 
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I would bet that it's all real. Honestly, it's amazing what people pull off in principle effects.

At most I would accept that 2-3 of those shots were green screened.

A well trained polar bear and a big budget would explain everything. (Not that I necessarily condone training/using animals in this way)
 
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Well for sure the night time city one was fake but the forest I think is a sound-stage and the rest of the residential looks real...

Hard to tell.

That's why I asked!!!
 
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Very hard to tell… some were quite obviously green-screened, but it's amazing how convincing stuff can look with a green screen in the back and a floor that matches the plate.

Found a bit of behind the scenes stuff…

How is it that Aggie the polar bear was captured in a warm embrace with Nissan’s leading man? A veteran of many commercials, the female bear (clocking in at several hundred pounds) actually hugged her trainer who she was very familiar with as someone off camera fed her treats impaled on the tip of a very long pole. As for the actor, he ended up giving bear hugs to a dude in a polar bear costume and even practiced ‘air hugging’ rather than actually engaging with the somewhat-tame yet still potentially threatening polar bear actress.

Thanks to the marvels of computer generated tweakery, production specialists were even able to splice nature documentary footage of polar bears swimming and drifting on ice along with separately filmed scenes of Aggie trodding upon a road solo to ensure her safety (a truck then drove over the same path and the footage was combined in the final spectacularly convincing ad).
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