The digital torchbearer at the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games ignited China and the world. The shooting prototype of the digital torchbearer behind the scenes is Gao Yu, a first-year student at Yuyan Middle School in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Many people are curious about why the Hangzhou Asian Games traveled thousands of miles to choose a teenager from Guangzhou.

The reporter learned the reason behind it: the actions of the digital torchbearer in the ignition ceremony were captured by the Guangzhou Dongtian Motion Capture Research Center. For efficiency, convenience and other considerations, an athlete was selected as a shooting prototype in Guangzhou. Guangzhou chose Huangpu, Huangpu chose Yuyan Middle School, and Yuyan Middle School chose the youngest student of the track and field team, Gaoyu.

Yuyan Middle School is a national sports traditional project (athletics) school, with a batch of outstanding athletics students. Last year, Chen Xiaoyi from Yuyan Middle School entered Tsinghua University for athletics talent. Yuyan's athletics project is one of the key sports supported by Huangpu District, so Huangpu selected the digital torchbearer in Yuyan Middle School.

The person in charge of the school introduced that the school athletics team has a lot of talents, and who to be the prototype of the digital torchbearer has become a difficult choice. In the end, the school and coaching staff decided to let the youngest student. Gao Yu is currently the youngest male sprinter in Yuyan Middle School, and the school hopes to highlight team spirit and inspire young athletes to inherit sportsmanship and improve their competitive level.

According to reports, in order to obtain perfect motion data, the Dongyi Motion Capture Research Center conducted a series of rigorous equipment-wearing training for Gao Yu during the preparation period to capture the athlete's motion data in intense recording. The data is after many times of repeated attempts and comparisons.

In the end, the digital torchbearer, which combined strength, culture and technological elements, stepped from the Qiantang River to the sky above the Big Lotus and lit the main cauldron with the on-site torchbearer as the best presentation of the hard work of all the behind-the-scenes personnel.

独家揭秘丨杭州亚运开幕式“数字火炬手”原型，为何要来广州选？

杭州亚运会开幕式上的“数字火炬手”，点“燃”中国，点“燃”世界。“数字火炬手”的幕后拍摄原型，是广东省广州市玉岩中学高一年级的高愉同学。不少人好奇杭州亚运为何千里迢迢来选择广州少年？

记者独家获悉背后原因：数字人点火仪式由广州动天创意动作捕捉研究中心担任捕捉任务，出于效率、便捷等多方面的考虑，在广州选择一位运动员作为拍摄原型，广州选择了黄埔，黄埔选择了玉岩中学，玉岩中学选择了田径队年龄最小的同学。

玉岩中学是国家级体育传统项目（田径）学校，有一批又一批的优秀田径特长生。去年，玉岩中学的陈晓宜同学跑入清华大学。玉岩的田径项目作为黄埔区重点打造的体育项目之一，因此在玉岩中学田径小将中推选数字火炬手。

学校负责人介绍，校田径队人才辈出，拍摄任务给谁成为选择难题。最终学校和教练组决定，让年龄最小的同学上。高愉同学是目前玉岩中学年龄最小的男子短跑运动员，学校希望由此彰显团队精神，也激励小运动员们传承体育精神，提高竞技水平。

据介绍，为了得到完美的运动数据，动天创意动作捕捉研究中心在准备期间对高愉进行了一系列严谨的培训以及设备穿戴。紧张录制，极致还原抓取运动员的动画数据。对数据进行比对，并进行反复录制尝试。

最终，结合了力量、文化、科技元素的“数字火炬手”，从钱塘江踏着浪花一步步来到“大莲花”上空，和现场火炬手共同点燃主火炬，这一刻，成为所有幕后人员辛勤付出的最好呈现。

文丨记者 蒋隽
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