Shanghaiist: Some call faked Olympic fireworks "bullshit," others call them "bullshots"

sonyactivision

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:23:55 +0800

If that display was so fake and so terrible, why can't I get those images out of my mind? I found it delightfully powerful and the sense of anticipation was masterfully pulled off. Doing it in real time with that perspective would be incredibly difficult, maybe not possible. I normally don't like CGI but I really enjoyed this.

nnikba

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:13:21 +0800

Well, i never said that nothing happened, i just said that what was on tv was not the real one. Too much pollution or perhaps to hard/dangerous to do will be the main reasons. But at one point, if we always rely on technologies, why bother use the real thing, just do an opening ceremony for real for real people on the stadium, and broadcast a fake one for the others... (it's what's happen for this time!). I'm just happy to have an real explanation of something surreal!

eastman

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:19:52 +0800

To nanheyangrouchuan girl, Throw down boy toys and go pick up your barbie!

nanheyangrouchuan

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:46:19 +0800

I heard that the CGI program came from a F-18 bombing simulation on zhongnanhai. I was imaginging squeezing the trigger on my dual 30mm cannons while unleashing napalm...

booggerg

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:26:39 +0800

anyone who couldn't tell a CG fly-thru of a city scene from the real thing is an idiot. simple as that.

eastman

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:02:29 +0800

Are you guy nuts? Computer generating images of 29 firework footprints for televising doesnt mean the firework did not do the job in real time that night. It is totally different things. The man who made the firework is Cai Guoqiang, a outstanding Chinese artist who is famous for making performance art with explosives. A Fujian man who returned from NYC to Beijing. When asked by AFP if he was forced to go back for Olympic preparation, he rebutted "I was greatly honoured to take the job." kotaku.com lied when saying nothing happened in Tiananmen. look here, you'll know the real firework started from Tiananmen was not fake but a sour grape which will shame kotaku and Spielberg to death: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzgzOTU3NDA=.html

nnikba

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:55:46 +0800

That was obvious, for the aerial traveling,... i was like: Waoo!, they sync the helicopter with the fireworks, and the timing, the camera... So close to the helicopter when all the outside shots of the stadium only were from far away (Security reason). THANK YOU!