“Last night, we convert one of the most legendary scenes in the history of cinema in a living moment on the Manhattan horizon. Thank you Empire State Building for doing this possible, ”he said Keenan Hockartist and founder of Studiohock. In his Instagram account, the visual expert shows a video in which a series of green illuminated drones make up the contour of King Kong.

The drone show recreated one of the most popular sequences of the film led by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack For the RKO and released in 1933. In that fragment, carried out under the Stopmotion animation technique, the gigantic ape climbed to the Pico del Empire State to face the Air Force.

The artist explained that this show was not simply a visual trick, but a high -level technical operation carried out in one of the most complex and challenging urban environments on the planet. To make this challenge possible, Studiohock He developed a completely new drone platform called Helios.

But Studiohock’s work does not end here. In another of his publications, Hock also recreated the figure of Godzilla, this time emerging in the center of Hong Kong. Also in the Óscar delivery time, Hock assembled in the air the figure of the award that is delivered in the awards.

A native of Denver, the artist is specialized in aerial videography, photography, design and manufacturing, especially with wood and metal. In general, his work based on representations of popular culture has taken him throughout the world and his aesthetics in the most outstanding works reflects the beauty of the natural environment.

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