1995 Fort Smith Christmas Parade
Our live annual coverage of the 1995 Fort Smith Christmas Parade was a big deal, but virtually no time was allocated to creating an open for the program. It was assumed that we’d use video from the 1994 parade…until that video turned up missing. In a big hurry - literally the evening before the parade - I devised a Lightwave animation which, owing to the enormous number of on-screen objects (namely snowflakes), took seventeen hours to render. The thing was put together on tape about thirty minutes before air. It looked much more polished and professional than anyone expected it to, given the time frame involved.
