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I'd be interested to see the TV program if it happens to be uploaded anywhere

• Theodores 8y ago
  Me too! I can't even remember what channel it was for, my Google Fu has not helped me to find it. Memories can deceive, however, thanks to my colleagues in the world of lighting and camerawork (plus the edit suite) it was pretty good. We had CAD files and all of the images, my challenge was to get the polygon count down to something that could render in real time. The thing about it and why I think my efforts were 'good' is that you still have to actually do all of the work, it doesn't matter if you are using the fanciest computer or not - that ceiling has to be 'painted' and that entrance hall has still got to be built. We also needed some scenes of entering the tomb. So, as you can imagine, that entailed building the view outside. We didn't quite have to build 'the whole of Egypt' and model the entire Solar System (and universe) but it was getting that way. There is a lot that can be done with choosing your camera shots carefully and also using 'magic tricks', i.e. sleight of hand magician stuff, so nobody notices that you haven't modelled absolutely everything. The funniest thing I found was having my name in credits for various programmes that people close to me watched. I enjoyed not owning up to my work and being in the same room as a friend or a relative with my name going past them on the screen for them to never notice. Happy times, so much was possible in the 1990's.