BBC Election 2024 | Real-time 3D Graphics Reel
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- I had the absolute pleasure to work on BBC Election 2024, and more specifically on most of the real-time 3D graphics alongside some exceptionally talented colleagues (Steve Mantz, Tony Sinclair, Ammar Zuhair) , including both augmented reality set extensions and the exit poll reveal for Studio B in London's Broadcasting House, but also Jeremy V.'s famous swingometer and other XR graphics in Cardiff's Central Square building.
The Cardiff project was unique as it featured a blend of traditional chroma key, XR virtual production using an LED volume, and a frame-multiplexing LED capable of sending different images to different cameras, but also allowing for Jeremy Vine to have his own "presenter" view, which allowed him to see the various graphics he was presenting, but also let us hide some useful guides and hints which were not visible to the audience.
We also tried to create a seamless blend of the virtual elements and the real building, to show off the scale of Cardiff's Central Square office.
Another first was we blended HTML graphics with 3D Virtual Graphics (bet you didn't know that the "battleboard" was a giant web page fed over NDI...), with thanks to the HTML team Max Blaber, Héctor Manteca, Seán Óg Cafferkey and David Hughes.
Also huge thanks to Nick Davey and Sue Vágó for giving us the chance to do this, Oli Powell, Andrew Harris and Alex Kessling for their spot on design guidance, Billy Hooke, Alastair Campbell and Chris Cook for their stellar direction, Sam Woodhouse and Benedict Watt for their wealth of editorial knowledge, Harrison Castle and Aidan Flanagan who without them we would not have been able to do this (literally), and Charlie Kitcher for managing the whole thing. Lastly a big thank you to everyone who worked on this, from the BBC team, the nations designers who all contributed back to the national programme, and to all the external suppliers and contractors, it's been a pleasure! 
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Really nice graphics! Particularly liked the hexagon one's which showed the scale of majority
Thank you, in collaboration with the editorial team we tried to explore interesting ways of showing the data.
Incredibly smooth graphics for this election cycle - amazing :)
A great graphical product during the broadcast. The virtual #10 on the side of the studio normally behind the camera was a particularly nice touch -- especially that "sunrise" arc shot just before 6AM. When I first heard they were just going to repurpose Studio B vs building a custom set I was a bit disappointed, but the extended graphics made it feel like an almost new space.
My goodness, that’s breathtaking!
I always love these graphics in elections. Thanks for putting in the effort into making these!
fabulous work!
naughty journalists go in the election graphics hole
why cant we have the 2005 tony blair one?
Fantastic work, Tom.
What a 3D Graphics Thunderstorm.
Actually while watching the show its more confusing then helping.
Fantastic work, eveyrthing looked so slick and professional this year!
Incredible work! Loved seeing this all played out - super smooth! Fascinating reading what was mentioned about needing to balance quality vs what the engines could do, seemed like a lot of churning happening! Does this also explain the slight lag in animation with the constituencies changing colour (1:08)?
And given the size of the atrium in Central Square the graphics coverage of that area (incl the balcony) must have been pretty hefty!
Is it also the same tech set up (tracking and software) used in both NBH and CSq?
Also appreciating the 'unpretty-fied' names used for each location at 1:16; purely from an aesthetics standpoint it keeps it quite techy for the casual viewer, a further example of the scale of the operation.
Hello and thanks for your comment. Yes, the engines were trying to do quite a bit of processing when they received data (essentially the data contains information about the current state of constituencies, so the scene script has to decide a lot about animations and how to get from one state to another). The slight lag you mentioned is probably the engine receiving data, and the script running and deciding what it needs to do.
The tech set up is similar in some aspects (same rendering technology), but also had quite a few differences (tracking, use of LED vs chroma key etc).
Out of interest, did you test the graphics on people to see how clear they are?
The Downing Street CGI looks like its being rendered in a lower resolution than is being broadcast. You can almost see the pixels.
@@_Madfly We had to do a lot of quality Vs performance balancing to get the graphics to render at a steady 50i, as the graphics engines not only had to render the graphics, but also do data parsing, chroma keying (as it was done internally on the engine), lens distortion and tracking data, plus all the reverse projections required for the LED. However in the future we'd like to see what's possible to increase the fidelity of the graphics.
Journalism is being replaced by the 1:29 I T professional. Not a safe swap YMMV
Really impressive from a technical perspective however I find the coupling of entertainment and politics uncomfortable.
"frame-multiplexing LED capable of sending different images to different cameras, but also allowing for Jeremy Vine to have his own "presenter" view"
If you have a BTS of this, I'd love to see it
Hello, a lot of behind the scenes stuff was shot, just need to get the appropriate permissions cleared before doing anything with it... Would love to be able to show some of what went on!
Good stuff! Is there a version of the 3d hex map for the actual results?
The hex map in the scene could display those results, as the custom control software was just sending a list of constituencies with colour and height information... however I'm not sure if it got used on the night, possibly a "forecast" version was used that was very close to the final results as there were only a few left. But the graphic was definitely built to also do that.
Jeremy Vine is not a patch on Peter Snow :(.
I do feel a bit bad for you making such a wonderful swingometer and then it being completely useless as we have the most nonuniform swing election in livijg memory.
Impressive work, how long does this project take to arrange and complete
Usually something like this could take from many months to a few years due to the amount of moving parts
When did they do the historical analysis
We only did it once, towards the end of the night.
@@ThomasDoukinitsas so about 3-4 o’clock
This was a weird election. A party that barely got more than a third of the vote got two-thirds of the seats, and a party that received the third most votes wound up with fewer seats than a regional party that pointedly refuses to take them. You have to love FPTP.
It's the best system we have for a nation as diverse as Britain.
Theres no point having just those in built up cities making decisions for rural areas.
@@ItsSafehandsyou do realise first past the post doesn’t lower the effective vote of cities right?
Also why would you want a rural minority to have more political power than an urban majority?
@@deeznoots6241 the racists and uneducated leople in Clacton need our help. Let's hope them, not encourage them.
@@deeznoots6241 It's a weird political fetish that right wingers want to have, to give more power to rural areas instead of realizing that urban areas clearly have more people in them.
@@deeznoots6241This is the third time I’ve heard that argument and I cannot comprehend how someone can think that. My guess is that they’re blindly copying defences of the American Electoral College.
Are you the one who made that creepy sunak that blinked and always followed the camera?
I can't remember making that... might have been another broadcaster you're thinking of. We mainly used party leaders as photographs in boxes or on screens.
That was Sky