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SCMP Reporter

Spectators at the annual Lunar New Year fireworks display will be treated to more elaborate graphics this year, including the face of a tiger - the zodiac animal of the new year. 
The fireworks will start  at 8pm on the second day of the Lunar New Year,  on February 15, and are expected to attract 400,000 people.
The 23-minute display will consist of nine sets with different themes, with each set accompanied by oriental or western music. 
'We spent three months testing the tiger graphics,' Pyromagic Productions chief executive Wilson Mao said. 'It actually looks like a cat.' 
He said the whiskers were the most difficult part to create.
He said the company had accumulated experience over the years in creating detailed fireworks graphics. 
The two-dimensional and symmetrical tigers are part of the second set, and will look the same from both sides  of Victoria Harbour. Graphics of golden ingots and the Chinese character for 'luck' are also part of the set.
The organiser is also celebrating the World Expo in Shanghai. The seventh set of fireworks will bear the message 'EXPO 2010'.
The finale will be in three colours - red, yellow and green - and will last for 45 seconds. 
Red represents China, yellow for the skin colour of the Chinese people and green the world. It display also symbolises a spectacular year for Hong Kong - good health, happiness and world peace. 
Weather conditions may affect the display, but Mao said it was a challenge they had to overcome every year. The Observatory has forecast fine weather for the night. 
'If we set it [tiger graphics] off 10 times, you can at least see it three or four times,' Mao said. 
The fireworks display will cost the sponsors HK$3 million, about  the same amount as last year. 
The music will be played through loudspeakers set up near the Cultural Centre and Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui East, and outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.




Special tiger treat in store for spectators at new year fireworks