12-04-2021, 10:21 PM
Having had a shufty over the road at the TV Forum archive, primarily because I was looking for something and also because it's still largely force of habit two weeks later to go there by default 
I spotted this:
https://tvforum.uk/forums/post1118789#post-1118789
Unfortunately most of the videos embedded in the thread have vanished from YouTube but other examples are available. The discussion was valid: Very surprising to find out that idents were still primarily model based as late as the Carlton set from 1999 and the fancy effects are CGI around a physical heart.
Of course physical models weren't limited to the idents, as the later titles to Blockbusters showed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKhnVvHWJ3A
http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/09/blade-r...fternoons/ for how they did that, though it lost the significance of why it started on a shot of the earth when front caps were dropped, and a lot of the finer detail is crushed in the YouTube machine.
What other wonders of idents we thought were all CGI and turned out to be real?
I spotted this:https://tvforum.uk/forums/post1118789#post-1118789
Unfortunately most of the videos embedded in the thread have vanished from YouTube but other examples are available. The discussion was valid: Very surprising to find out that idents were still primarily model based as late as the Carlton set from 1999 and the fancy effects are CGI around a physical heart.
Of course physical models weren't limited to the idents, as the later titles to Blockbusters showed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKhnVvHWJ3A
http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/09/blade-r...fternoons/ for how they did that, though it lost the significance of why it started on a shot of the earth when front caps were dropped, and a lot of the finer detail is crushed in the YouTube machine.
BillyH @ https://tvforum.uk/forums/post1120251#post-1120251 Wrote:Astonished to learn that all these apparent marvels of CGI were physical models all along. Next we'll be finding out that the first Channel 4 ident was just Martin Lambie-Nairn throwing a load of coloured blocks onto the floor.
What other wonders of idents we thought were all CGI and turned out to be real?