Technology for Sydney New Years Eve Celebrations
New Years Eve Sydney Celebrations
Background
Technology for Sydney NYE Celebrations is a highlight of the cities celebrations. The city of Sydney is renowned for its mesmerising New Years Eve Celebrations. While fireworks, lighting and video projection effects are the main attractions for the night. The Council for the City of Sydney are responsible for planning this huge event, attracting millions of people on the cities harbour foreshore. TDC works with a team that comes together to bring the technology for the celebrations together. TDC provided projection on the Harbour Bridge Pylons. These pylons display the countdown to the New Year while a massive pyrotechnics kicks off at the stroke of midnight. TDC designed everything from the content templates for the animations through the 3D models to the control system.
Industry
TDC has worked on the Sydney New Year’s Eve spectacular for a number of years.
One area of focus was to deliver even more vibrant colours at even higher levels of brightness video projections each year.
It’s fair to say that the city of Sydney authorities were delighted with what we achieved.
“As always, it was all about meticulous pre-show preparation and planning,” notes Isaac Mackenzie. “For such a high profile event, we had to ensure absolutely nothing could go wrong, so the entire system had extensive fail-safe built into it – even allowing for the highly unlikely failure of the fibre network.”
“It’s fair to say that the city of Sydney authorities were delighted with what we achieved,” he concludes.
And: it wasn’t just the authorities. TDC’s efforts – along with the fireworks, of course – were greatly appreciated by the million Sydneysiders who turned out to see the city’s most spectacular New Year’s Eve event ever – with a billion and more watching around the world.
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