The 3rd Asian Indoor Games held in Hanoi in Vietnam was the most recent event for Tim Bennett of Argon Animation.
3rd Asian indoor Games and Argon Animation
The 3rd Asian Indoor Games was put together by a huge team of technicians from Singapore, Vietnam and of course Tim from The Philippines and together we successfully performed the opening ceremony on 30th October 2009.
The laser installation consisted of one 8 watt full color laser, two 10 watt green lasers and 2 five watt green lasers all controlled by a wifi link using 5 pangolin controllers and 2 remote computer stations.
This was a massive show with over 5000 performers, dancers and entertainers and performed in front of some of Vietnam’s greatest dignitaries including the President of Vietnam.
The show lasted a massive 55 minutes and contained three distinctive themes namely: The Festival of youth; cultural identity and integration and development. 5000 dancers in colorful costumes, with a huge background of lasers and lights, this show took us 10 days to program working mostly at night. We saw the sun come up virtually every day!
3rd Asian Indoor Games Opening Ceremony
This was a very important show for Hanoi as it is really a prelude to the 1000 year Hanoi anniversary celebrations taking place next year. Hanoi officials wanted to be sure that they really can pull off a huge event like this and the can pat themselves on their back as this event for the 3rd Asian Indoor Games went off like clockwork.
The audience yelled and cheered continually throughout the event which marks the beginning of a 10 day sporting event from athletes from all over Asia including a large delegation from the Philippines.
The event started spectacularly with the lighting of the olympic touch using pyrotechnics and fire much to the delight of the audience.
The lasers added to the excitement throughout the show blasting into the air and covering the stadium with beams and effects all choreographed to the 59 minute audio track using a SMPTE time code.
There we 14 different pieces of music throughout the show and each one had to programmed by the split second both with lasers and with lighting.
Argon animation Project Asian Indoor Games Logo
This was a huge collaboration of talents and skills from around Asia and Tim was very proud to represent Argon Animation at this amazing event, which is the 1st of 2 events, the next one being the opening and closing ceremonies of the South East Asian Games being held in Laos in December of this year and we can’t wait.
“I was really happy to be part of this team and to lend my skills to another incredible show. I was so happy when all the bosses of the organizing committee personally thank us face to face which is something that rarely happens these days and they gave us a wonderful thank you party afterwards.” Tim says as he sat waiting in the airport to go home.
This was a wonderful event and congratulations and thank you from Argon Animation to everyone who was part of the 3rd Asian Indoor Games.
