Beijing Olympics Faked Fireworks Footprints
I really did like the spectacle of the 29 giant footprints walking through the sky at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics 2008 games at the weekend. Now, it seems, the footprints had less to do with superbly orchestrated fireworks and more to do with sweaty teams of digital engineers and CGI. Sure the fireworks went off but the film feed that went around the world contained some meticulous CGI, with 28 out of the 29 footprints seen on telly the result of a year’s laborious special effects work. And the reason?It seems the organisers of the games decided that filming each footprint live by helicopter would have proved too difficult and the weather too unpredictable. Gao Xiaolong, head of the visual effects team for the ceremony, said it took a year to create the 55 second sequence, which included the creation of hazy Beijing night smog and a slight camera shake to make it look like it really was being filmed from a chopper. “Seeing how it worked out, it was still a bit too bright compared to the actual fireworks.But most of the audience thought it was filmed live - so that was mission accomplished.” Digital fakery eh? Next they’ll be telling me that Lord Of The Rings wasn’t real and there’s no such things as Cave Trolls and Tree Ents. As if.-Martin Lynch olympics sport news
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Original post by nafiz