"The Games"
After being inundated with broadcast graphics promoting the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta I decided to throw together a quick mock-promo with that as the theme. It seemed like a good subject to hone my metallic materials skills, as well as get a chance to become familiar with the Yost Group's Flame IPAS. The camera rides a path along the blue ring surface then pulls away, flying backwards directly through the torch flame as all the elements fall into place.

All of the objects in the scene were simple lofts, either text extrusions or surf rev's for the torch and rings. The only real challenges this project presented were getting nice metallic materials and tweaking the torch flames to look just right. It was also a nice learning experience in how to get fluid camera movements and create an interesting path for the viewer to follow.

Check out the Premiere AVI section, containing the "The Games" video.

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