The result was nothing less than spectacular, judging from fan responses, critic reviews, and even the team’s own reactions. Woolfolk himself operated the visuals in real time during the concert, interacting with Unreal Engine via a MIDI controller to make the graphics’ timing gel perfectly with the music and other visual effects. “Using nDisplay to be able to distribute the real-time rendering, and keep the resolution and the frame rate where it needed to be for this project, was key,” says Jeremy Thompson, Art Director at 2n.Įven with such an ambitious creative goal, the team was able to achieve everything they set out to do for the 2018 Pharos concert experience, and more. The team calculated that they’d need a 5.4K by 5.4K image rendered by five frame-locked machines powered by NVIDIA Quadro P6000 graphics, then split into a fisheye and sent to 12 projectors. The team found a solution in nDisplay, the Unreal Engine utility for creating a seamless visual of a single scene from multiple projections in real time.

To display such large imagery across the dome’s surface, multiple projectors were required. “It has so many features related to image quality that we knew that we'd be embracing for this project.” “We knew we could make a high-quality result, particularly if we went with the Unreal Engine,” says Kevin Romond, Special Projects Supervisor at Weta Digital. The size of the dome meant that a lot of pixels would be needed on the screen. “We're all body-to-body in this 3,000-person dome and we're all in this world, every single piece ebbing and flowing, we're going on a journey together.” ”He really wanted to bring the audience into this world and create this experience that everyone has together,” says Austion Woolfolk, Video Designer at 2n. Though Glover is known for his commanding stage presence, he wanted to enhance the crowd’s experience and make a truly immersive and memorable show. To prepare the show, Glover asked 2n Design and Weta Digital to design the system architecture, and also to style a different visual world for each song he would perform at the concert.

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