While watching the Beijing olympic opening ceremony last week, I got a bit of a surprise. A couple of months ago at work, we had a quick project come in to model, texture and render turnarounds of a few Chinese artifacts from a reference photo each. Mine wasn’t a big job and was pretty fast to do, using some texture projections with the UV Project modifier and cloning and cleanup in Photoshop.
We’d had a hunch it may be for something related to graphics in the olympics, but I was taken aback to see it blown up on the enormous LED screen during the opening ceremony. I wonder how many million people saw it – too bad this tiny part wasn’t something a bit more impressive! 🙂 Still, not bad for the novelty at least! Below is the original render, and a grab of how it appeared on screen.
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Whoa, that’s great! And a pretty vase it’s too!
/Nathan
Wow, that must have been a cool surprise! I hope you got a recording of it.
Matt – that’s awesome. Hey you mentioned Promotion Studios once – I am aware they were responsible for some pretty amazing CG for the Asia games. Were you involved in that at all?
Paul: Yeah the guys here did some great animation work for the Asian Games in Doha. That was before I started working here though.
Great work. Your a lucky guy Matt
Congratulations! 😀
huh? you work on the olympics opening and dont know it?
How weird is that?
Simply unbelievable Now blender can be credited both for Spiderman 2 and the olympic games 🙂 Joking of course, From the images we can see around, I’m sure we’ll only mention Kajimba, soon…
by the way the object you modeled is call ???. Google it and you’ll also get a nice song by the same name. 😀
ah well i guess your blog doesn’t support unicode. Well congrats anyways! This should be Blender-nation worthy, however a minor role you played in the multi-billion dollar opening ceremony.