Client: Apollo’s Children / Brian Cox

Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey

Real time effects for a live stage show with Professor Brian Cox.

Horizons tells the story of how we came to be and what we can become, transporting audiences form the dawn of time to the present day and on into a future vision. 

We delivered VFX sequences of far-away galaxies, alien worlds, and exploding supernovas as well as real-time rendering content in Unreal Engine, presented on 40-metre state-of-the-art LED screens.

The Unreal scenes feature dynamic elements such as changing weather and time of day, blowing foliage, and 3D CGI flying robotic drones using a flocking algorithm. These ‘drones’ utilised motion sensors that tracked Brian around the stage. The Unreal segments were controlled by RenderStream, while Disguise was used as the principal real-time 3D simulator and media server to integrate the practical lighting with the LED Screens. 

Lux Aeterna

Creative Director: Rob Hifle
VFX Supervisor: Mike Sadd

Artists
James Pollock
Paul Greer

Apollo’s Children

Sequence Director: Nic Stacy
Composer: Jean Sibelius
Music: Sibelius - Symphony No.5

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