Ok, here is a short animation of a nailboard:
Tutorial series:
I made it with blender 2.49b and some parts are rendered at the http://www.vswarm.com/ project.
I wrote a python script to set one image or whole video sequences to it.
Although it’s finished i’m interested in your opinions 
Brilliant! Loved it Sebastian. Great effect.
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Awesome. I can see it being used for a music video or tv advert.
Thanks guys! 
Gnarly… I like it. The guy smashing up his guitar was a nice touch…
Hey guys,
i made the first part of the how to create a nailboard tutorial:
http://www.sebastianbauer.name/archive/117
Let me know, if something isn’t clear!
Just a thought, couldn’t you use dupliverts and a plane with a displacement map (comprised of a movie file converted to Black and white with high contrast) on it? Just seems unneccesary to me to make a script for something at is achievable very easily without one…
Hey Wefyb,
i remember trying this as i read it - but it doesn’t work. Trying it today i don’t get it to work! There are two possibilities: a) i miss something important (maybe one little button to press away from success - the displacement texture didn’t affect the nails…) or b) the dupliverts is done before the displacement and the displacemant doesn’t affect the nails. Could you give me a hint - i suppose it’s variant a and i’m blind ;)!
Beside this problem i love to script things and it was a good way to learn more about the python scripts in blender 
it took not too long to say it’s a needless effort!
Yeah. I was thinking displacement too. Very cool anyway.
FYI, You should post a screenie in the first post so that an image shows up next to the thread in the finished section.
Thanks for the hint and the compliment!
I will make a short overview post about the displacement method and the differences: the displacement is really fast, but my method gives you the chance to slide through an image set with setting only ipo curves - which leads to softer transitions without using any video editing.
Excellent video Sebastian, nice music too.
Really good job.
Thank you guys! Great to hear that you like it!
Very very nice !
I liked the pong reference.
Excellent work , Sebastian. It does look like it’s made from real nails. And I think that it can be utilized as an advertisement material. Thanks for sharing!
Amazing animation and concept, very impressive!
Very creative and funny. Good job!
Great that you like it! Thousand thanks!
Nice i would have made the camera move more though 
Incredible!!
you could do more close-ups, i think it would look nice
congrats, that’s an awesome animation!