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Sochi 2014 Olympic Games Opening id

EN: The main idea was to showcase Russia, its history, its people, their inventions and what Russia has already left and continues to leave as its own mark on the entire world via the unique Russian alphabet, and what people in other countries, even Russians themselves sometimes do not even recognize as their very own. 
 
We used lots of different visual techniques to complete this patchwork blanket into a complete whole as much as it was realistically possible, as the palette of events, people, things and concepts were dispersed as massively and diversely and sometimes as much contradictory as Russia itself. 
 
We chose the technology of fully synthetic image, full CG, except for the lead-girl and a few other details to even brighter and more convexly showcase this unusual journey. 
 
Spasibo!
 
RU: Основная идея: показать Россию, ее историю, людей, изобретения, то, чем она оставила и оставляет свой  след в мире, через уникальный русский алфавит "Азбуку", и о чем жители других стран, да и россияне подчас даже не догадываются.
 
Мы использовали множество различных визуальных техник, чтобы собрать это лоскутное одеяло в единое целое, насколько это вообще возможно, так как разброс палитры событий, людей, вещей и понятий столь же велик и многообразен, а порою противоречив, как и наша страна.
 
Мы выбрали технологией полностью синтетическое изображение, full CG, за исключением героини и нескольких других деталей, чтобы еще ярче и выпуклей показать это необычное путешествие.
 
Спасибо!

Team:
Creative Directors: Konstantin Ernst, Anton Nenashev
Producers: Konstantin Ernst, Anton Nenashev
Director: Anton Nenashev
Art-direction: Anton Nenashev, Alex Mikhaylov

Production “Amber” 
DOP: Pavel Kapinos
Producers: Irina Silina, Elena Orlova, Anna Borsheva
Costume Designer: Ekaterina Kotova, Vasilisa Gusarova
MUA&Hair: Anna Khomenko
1AD: Boris Osipenko
Producer assistant: Yana Sosnovskaya

Music: Alexander Knyazev

Postproduction/VFX company: "Nenashev" (tm)
CG Supervisor/VFX producer: Anton Nenashev, Andrew Zelenin
Sketches/3D artist/composer: Vitaly Yakin 
Lead 3D artist: Sergey Movchan 
3D artist/composer: Pavel Skalkin 
3D artist/composer: Alexei Cheprakov 
3D artist/composer: Max Chelyadnikov 
R&D/3D artist/composer Arseny Gutov 
Scripting/3D artist/composer: Michael Ivanov 
3D artist/composer: Roman Senko 
3D artist: Alexander Sokolov
2D artist/composer: Larisa Misyukova 
Matte paint/2D artist/composer: Olga Antonenko 
2D artist/composer Alexander Fedukovich 
Technical support: Alexey Pronin

"Cat shooting unit"
Cat Dop: Nikita Popkovs
Cat Assistance: Deniss Kotegovs


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