Renting a soccer stadium, filling it with thousands of screaming fans and organizing an overnight shoot is an all-too-common request for commercial productions. It’s also not cost-effective, unless you turn to virtual production using Pixomondo's new crowd system developed in Unreal.
Over a two-day shoot, alter ego, Pixomondo, William F. White Int't and Virtual Production Academy collaborated on an LED volume, creating a CG Stadium and 18,000 CG simulated crowd agents all running in real time out of UNREAL.
The end result was a commercial for Caledon Football Club featuring a simple story of a boy’s dream of taking the final kick to win the World Cup in a stadium of cheering fans.
Production and Post - alter ego
Directors - David Whiteson, Matthew Manhire
Director of Photography - Eric Whipp
Producers - Spencer Butt, Natalia Winardi
Creative Directors - Eric Whipp and David Whiteson
Senior Colourist - Eric Whipp
Assistant Colourist - Jonah V
Senior CG Artist - Jerry Corda-Stanley
Senior VFX Artist - David Whiteson
VFX Assistants - Saba Zahir, Nupur Desai, Jake Hussey, Jacob Landmark
Producer - Spencer Butt
Virtual Production Partners
William F. White Int'l
Edward Hanrahan - Director, Virtual Production
Anna Vagabova - Coordinator, Virtual Production
Yi Man - Field Technician, Virtual Production
Adam Quinn - National Director, Technical Client Services, Camera
Pixomondo
Virtual Production Producer - Chris Cox
Virtual Production Manager - Jack Chadwick
Virtual Production On-set Manager - Pauls Dombrovskis
Lead Virtual Production Technician - Tristan Fields
Virtual Production Technician - Amir Alam
Virtual Production Mocap Technician - Jim Bachalo
Virtual Production Operator - Milan Dey
Virtual Production Unreal Lighting Artist - Mohamed Abdelaziz
Editorial - Rooster
Editor - Marc Langley
Assistant Editors - Austin Blackmore, Sonny Atkins
Executive Producer - Melissa Kahn
Audio - Boombox Sound
Executive Producer - Umber Hamid
Creative Director - Roger Leavens
Sound Design - Joe Frustaglio, Quinn Hoodless
Casting - MiLo Casting
Casting Director - Stephen Milo
Casting Associate - Taijah Hinds-Rowe
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