Wow. Sky News has brought something rather “impressive” to light: The Olympics fireworks display was faked… Read the full article here, but here’s the bottom line:
“The global television audience of more than three billion people watched in amazement as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird’s Nest stadium – except they were watching a computer animation.
Even the giant television screens within the stadium itself broadcast the fake images.
Stunned viewers thought they were watching the string of fireworks filmed from above by a helicopter, but in reality they were watching a 3D graphics sequence that took almost a year to produce. It even included a ‘camera shake’ to mimic the effect of filming from a helicopter…
…Organiser said that the footprint fireworks were there for real, but thought it unsafe to try to film them – so they recreated them instead.”
More photos of the ceremony can be found on Flickr.
