It’s always nice to be reminded of an older project that you enjoyed working on, and it’s funny the sense of attachment you feel towards a real building that you’ve worked on the CGIs for. Everytime I go into London I can’t help staring at the Stratford Halo building as it goes past.

So we thought we’d share a few images from the project, including some of the background plate photography which we took for use in the final animation.

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The evening photo shoot was a great experience, being this high up looking out over London and the Olympic site, as the sun went down. While standing on the unfinished concrete slab of the building open to the elements.

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Below are a few cropped close ups taken from the above image…

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The 02

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Canary Wharf

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The Strata tower in Elephant and Castle, and a partially complete Shard

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The City of London, and you can just see the dome of St Paul’s

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…and lastly a snap shot from the unfinished concrete stairwell as we left the evening photo shoot.

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Here is the completed animation…

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