OLYMPIC APPEARANCE

2008.08.17 @ 19:34

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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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Reader Comments

Nathan Letwory / 2008.08.17 @ 20:05

Whoa, that’s great! And a pretty vase it’s too!

/Nathan
kernond / 2008.08.18 @ 02:40

Wow, that must have been a cool surprise! I hope you got a recording of it.
Paul Caggegi / 2008.08.18 @ 09:12

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?
Matt / 2008.08.18 @ 12:57

Paul: Yeah the guys here did some great animation work for the Asian Games in Doha. That was before I started working here though.
bull500 / 2008.08.26 @ 16:54

Great work. Your a lucky guy Matt
Bmud / 2008.08.27 @ 08:43

Congratulations! :D
joeri / 2008.09.16 @ 20:48

huh? you work on the olympics opening and dont know it?
How weird is that?
Maurice / 2008.10.23 @ 04:29

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…