Really nice graphics! Particularly liked the hexagon one's which showed the scale of majority

@ThomasDoukinitsas

25 күн бұрын

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.

I always love these graphics in elections. Thanks for putting in the effort into making these!

fabulous work!

My goodness, that’s breathtaking!

naughty journalists go in the election graphics hole

Fantastic work, eveyrthing looked so slick and professional this year!

Fantastic work, Tom.

What a 3D Graphics Thunderstorm. Actually while watching the show its more confusing then helping.

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.

@ThomasDoukinitsas

23 күн бұрын

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).

why cant we have the 2005 tony blair one?

Journalism is being replaced by the 1:29 I T professional. Not a safe swap YMMV

The Downing Street CGI looks like its being rendered in a lower resolution than is being broadcast. You can almost see the pixels.

@ThomasDoukinitsas

24 күн бұрын

@@_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.

"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

@ThomasDoukinitsas

24 күн бұрын

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!

Out of interest, did you test the graphics on people to see how clear they are?

Really impressive from a technical perspective however I find the coupling of entertainment and politics uncomfortable.

Good stuff! Is there a version of the 3d hex map for the actual results?

@ThomasDoukinitsas

24 күн бұрын

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 :(.

Impressive work, how long does this project take to arrange and complete

@ThomasDoukinitsas

23 күн бұрын

Usually something like this could take from many months to a few years due to the amount of moving parts

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.

When did they do the historical analysis

@ThomasDoukinitsas

25 күн бұрын

We only did it once, towards the end of the night.

@samuelcarver1343

25 күн бұрын

@@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.

@ItsSafehands

25 күн бұрын

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.

@deeznoots6241

25 күн бұрын

⁠@@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?

@ItsSafehands

25 күн бұрын

@@deeznoots6241 the racists and uneducated leople in Clacton need our help. Let's hope them, not encourage them.

@arwelcecil5659

25 күн бұрын

@@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.

@4vesta255

23 күн бұрын

@@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?

@ThomasDoukinitsas

24 күн бұрын

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.

@dwaynepilolo7880

24 күн бұрын

That was Sky