THE BRIT AWARDS: DAVE

UK grime artist Dave gives an emotionally and visually impactful live performance at the BRIT Awards 2020. TAWBOX commissioned Bluman Associates & Stout Studio to bring Dave’s lyrics to life. The team faced the challenge of integrating a complicated technical workflow into a large long-running live show and live TV broadcast.

Headed up by Lewis Kyle White, Stout Studio combined Notch and C4D to create carefully crafted 3D animations and live-action compositions. The visuals, inspired by black history, were rendered in Notch as a dynamic 3D projection appearing in real-time on the performers piano. The team produced a compelling perspective based projection effect using a hybrid virtual production workflow. The Mo-Sys StarTracker camera tracking system generated positional data from the broadcast camera directly into disguise media servers which relayed the information into Notch. This direct feed enabled Notch’s virtual camera to adapt to real-life camera moves in an instance.

The live audience at home and in the studio were able to experience Dave’s lyrics in three-dimensions on screen. The combination of Dave’s powerful performance and the flawless delivery of contextual visuals produced a goosebump-inducing live performance.

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Billboard, TPI, Bilibili, The Guardian, Mo-Sys.