Big Ben: Saving the World’s Most Famous Clock

We were commissioned by ITN Productions to help the Director, Jenny Dames relate the complexity of the Big Ben (properly entitled The Elizabeth Tower) mechanics and the scale of the four-year refurbishment project which has just got underway. The graphics were directed by Paul Trainor and the CGI work was completed in Cinema 4D by the amazing Brett Lewis. Watch the montage from the programme below and you can view some of the complex modelling work on the screenshots below that.

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