Identity FX Controls Chaos with 17 Red Epic Array

[Peter Salvia]

Quick Controls Chaos is an interactive online experience harnessing the power of 17 Red Epic cameras shooting 5K at 48fps in a 180 degree field of view. From pre-viz through post, Identity FX is excited to share some details about our involvement in this cutting edge project.

The experience is now public and can be seen here:

http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/cp3v/chaos/

From a data and post production management perspective, this project was a massive undertaking. More info to come, quick breakdown is we shot 9 Red Epic's at 5K 48fps with 14mm primes in a 9 camera array. Rotated the array 90 degrees for a second take of action to complete the 180 degree field of view with a total of 17 unique camera angles. A MASSIVE amount of data, 999 frames per interactive perspective and each frame a VFX composite of a minimum of 5 - and as many as two dozen - layers per camera angle. Front end Red media optimization done in Mistika, offline editorial in Mistika & FCP 7, VFX compositing done in MochaPro, Nuke and Maya. Conform and final grade done in Mistika.

Here's a pre-viz diagram of the concept:

And here's a couple of shots of the array from set:

 

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[luigivaltulini]

wowow nice project Peter
fantastic...

 

[Petri Teittinen]

Damn. That's something else, alright.

 

[PatrickFaith]

Very impressive stuff, the link of the game worked perfectly for me. Looking forward to more information on this exciting area (to me, this type of thing is the future of reality tv - and shows a compelling reason for shooting in 4k).