Source: CCTV
Tonight, the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou will set off electronic fireworks through digital technology, what kind of innovative integration of technology and aesthetics is this, we invited the opening ceremony AR director to interpret for us.
The opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games did not set off physical fireworks, but the audience in front of the scene and in front of the TV can still see the brilliant fireworks display. The director team introduced that this is achieved through the superposition of many high-tech means.
Li Yan, AR director of the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games: There is also the sky above the big lotus, including the Qiantang River, this is only the picture in front of the TV, the audience can see, the audience can see this digital fireworks through the ground screen and the network screen.
The visual team will combine each link of the opening ceremony to design and draw corresponding pictures on the floor screen and the screen screen. For example, in the case of digital fireworks, the team needed a lot of on-site filming to achieve the best visual effects.
Li Yan, AR director of the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games: We did a real-time scan of the entire Qiantang River building, modeled it in real time, and then let its digital fireworks have an impact on these things, and we simulated it in the entire special effects engine.
Sha Xiaolan, chief director and chief producer of the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games: Fireworks made by virtual technology may be more brilliant and beautiful than real fireworks. When you usually watch fireworks, you must be looking at them with your head up. But the fireworks you see in front of the TV are the fireworks that you can see from above.