Alan Walker x Au/Ra x Torine
(Live Performance) | NIO Day
“From the moment we got the brief from NIO and contacted Alan Walkers team, to the day we wrapped shooting with 80six in the UK was under 3 weeks, we developed the creative, built the scenes and shot the concert at an incredible pace. This was made possible by a coordinated effort from Super Bonfire's global network of artists and a close partnership with disguise and 80six. This would not have been possible without these partners, and we look forward to doing more with them in the future.”
Jason Kirby CEO of Super Bonfire
A Viral XR performance by SBF
This international tour de force production with teams spanning across the UK, Malaysia and China, came to life in just eight days of production, prompted by a brief that asked to create a mixed reality ‘alternative universe’ in line with Alan Walker's disruptive cinematic vision.
The ambitious xR performance boasting more than 3 million views on Youtube, skillfully merged 80six's leading extended reality expertise and experience in the integration of real-time technologies with Super Bonfire's creative team in delivering high-value multimedia content.
Realized in collaboration with artists Au/ra and Torine for NIO day, the live performance features five songs in surrealist 3D virtual sets with interactive mixed reality elements such as emerald planets with AR drones, an icy rotating Moon embossed with the artist’s logo and other ethereal graphic elements synchronized to Alan’s beats.
Technical Aspect
Filmed at Virtual Production Studios by 80six in a single day, the artists performed on the largest xR stage built to date by the 80six team, with a 15m wide ROE Black Marble LED floor structure, and 5m height surrounding walls by ROE Black Onyx HDR. The LED screens run on Brompton Technology and ROE Evision EV4 for image processing.
The award-winning technology suite supporting the xR workflow was powered by disguise media servers: VX4s and RX2, Unreal Engine, Notch paired with the optical camera tracking system Mo-sys StarTracker and a Technocrane on which the SONY Venice camera was mounted. disguise's ground-breaking virtual zoom allowed to zoom in and out of each scene, shooting in a virtual space largely extended beyond the physical limits of the LED screens.
80six and Super Bonfire proved that xR technologies can be relied upon to deliver outstanding visual content even with a limited pre-production time whilst avoiding the perils intrinsic to such a new set of immersive technologies.
Full Credit List
Client: NIO
Lead Agency: CA
Creative Director: Victor Hu
Account Manager: Lucia
Team: Yi Teng, Lin
MER CONTENT
Director: Kristian Berg
Director: Mads Neset
Producer: Madeleine Kviljo
Executive Producer: Gunnar Greve
Director of Photography: Morten Forsberg
Musical Director: James Daniel Njie Eriksen
Backline & Playback Engineer: Nikolaj Gloppen
BTS Photo: Mo Sarmadawy
Edit: Mads Neset
Edit: Kristian Berg
Logger: Sondre Fagerborg
Colorist: Didrik Bråthen
VFX: Wirat Johannessen
SUPER BONFIRE
Executive Producer: Jason Kirby
Project Manager: David Ran, Shukri Yunos
Lead Producer: Charlotte Chong
Creative Director: Kaism Lim
Animation / VFX Director: Azhan Karim, Kaism Lim
Art Director: Zhao Xiang Li
Style Frame Design: Zhao Xiang Li, Azhan Karim, Miao Lang
Online Team: San Nai Video
Editor: Lumi, Yuan Yuan
Disguise Support & Consultation: Cesar Caceres
XR Technical Director: Carl Loo
UE Lead: Bart, Nini Tan
UE Artist: Azhan Karim, Madnas, Syazwan Nazzaruddin
Blueprint Engineer: Hao Chen Guang, Benny Chong
Notch Creative Animation: Anius
Notch Animator: Bauce
CG Leads: Kaism Lim, Azhan Karim
Lead Compositors: Azhan Karim, Madnas, Syazwan Nazzaruddin, Zhang Min Min, Guo Zhen Yu
3D Animation: Azhan Karim
Animation Support: Lv Dong Yang
BTS Edit: Lumi
VIRTUAL PRODUCTION STUDIOS BY 80SIX
Production Director: Dan Hamill
XR Producer: Petra von Schalien
Executive Producer: Jack James
Technical Director: Paul Nicholls
Project Manager: Mark Rooney
Systems Engineer: Laurence Dobie, Pete Hume
Brompton Engineer: Stuart Thatcher
LED Technicians: Jules Blagg, Adam Barthorpe
Disguise Support: Annalisa Terranova
Unreal Artist (on-set): Antonino Scodrani, He Sun
Notch Artist (on-set): Alex Wilson
Mo-sys Technician: Martin Parsley, Asi San
Gaffa: Gary Churchil
Rigger: Tim Williams
Audio: Sonny Evans, Andy Carrington
1st AD: George Nelson
1st AC: Mike Linforth
2nd AC. Liam Reardon
DIT: Moses Jeremiah
Video Playback: Philippe Clavier
Remote Head Operator: James Davis
Grip 1: Tony Shults
Grip 2: Michael Farrell
Grip 3: David Bradshaw
Crane Technician: Tim Plunket
Hair & Make-Up: Carla Ramsey
Runner: Melina Bryant
