65th Annual Tony Awards : Scenic Animations & Motion Graphics
For the 2011 Tonys, we were tasked with digitally recreating and animating theater sets for each of the performing nominees.
We started the process by shooting thousands of photos (and several gigs of video) inside the theaters, in order to capture lighting changes and set elements. The photos were then carefully mined for textures and scenic pieces that were needed. Finally, the finished video-based "sets" were painstaking constructed from this large bank of imagery and then animated in After Effects and Cinema 4D to the specifications of the set & lighting designers.
Lots of hard work and long hours were put into separating & layering the video content so that we could do things like dynamically shift color during the performances.
