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Case Study

HUA CHENYU’S MARS CONCERT TOUR

For Hua Chenyu’s tour across China, Miii and his team turned complex LED and lighting setups into a living, breathing world.

Over the course of three years, Creative Director and Notch Designer Miii brought Hua Chenyu’s massive tour to life across venues all over China. The biggest challenge: coordinating the LED screen, floor, and lighting into a unified story while maintaining ultra-high resolution and enabling on-the-spot content modifications.

As Miii describes, the artist requested a joyful world where nature, technology, Earth, and the universe come together in harmony. So the team set out to design a space that felt as if it were in a constant state of breathing, with the LED serving not only as a video display but as an integral part of the venue’s architecture.

After working with AI and Houdini to hone the concept in pre-production, the team used Notch as their primary tool throughout the project. Notch gave them access to real-time capabilities that enabled them to achieve their ambitions, especially as versions 1.0 and beyond came into play as the tour went on.

Miii and his team used real-time camera-based compositing for IMAG, mapped complex light arrays that enabled the content to respond in real time, and used Notch's rendering and material systems to hit cinematic-level texture quality. As Miii recalls, “The coordination between the screen, lighting array, and LED floor was extremely complex. But Notch expanded what was possible for the project, including support for the LED mapping demands of an outdoor performance, ultra-high resolution and real-time modifications on site.”

The new version of Notch enables me to accomplish tasks that were previously impossible within a single software. Now, I no longer need to coordinate multiple rendering workflows; instead, I can consistently work and create entirely within Notch's interface. This is ideal!
Miii, Creative Director and Notch Designer

According to Miii, the culminating show’s level of interactivity had never before been attempted in China and resulted in an unprecedented, three-dimensional, dynamically evolving world that played to stadium and outdoor audiences as large as 150,000, all while redefining future workflows for the creative team.

Full Credits

Client

Production Company

亚美娱乐(sponsor)

Production Design

有点东西视觉工作室(WowLab)

Creative Direction

Notch Designer

Miii

Video Directors

KaPing, Jian

Video Producers

Miii, XingRui, QilingW

Lighting Designers

WuXiangLin, XiaZhenJie

Animators

Miii, XingRui, QilingW, YuanMan, KK, Tara, 冷木植, BoCai, GaoLiang, ZhongKaiJun, irisss030, BieZi, ShanFeng, SiTing, YuKong, hibanana_miao, GaoYang, Giant Swan/CLAUDE (Soon Cho), Hugo Johnson

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