ZACK DIXON

Chainsmokers NFC Halftime Show

In the weeks leading up to Superbowl LVI, The Chainsmokers performed as the featured halftime artist for the NFC Halftime show. They premiered their single "High", for which myself and a small creative team produced an animated visual accompaniment. I produced a realtime map in Unreal engine, which was then mapped to SoFi stadium's infinity screen and an LED tile stage using their proprietary network.

I modeled a world above the clouds, set at sunset, stacked in layers and evolving art styles to synchronize with the shifting moods of the music.

The clouds were created using VDB actors in Unreal engine, as well as my own VDB generations modeled in Houdini. A virtual camera array drops through layers of atmosphere over the course of the music, which captures a spherical image stream and a downward stream simultaneously. These streams are then mapped to SoFi stadiums pixel map and streamed to their LED arrays.

Aside from our cloud world, I animated a simple but effective animated shape sequence in a pixel mapped template.