Outernet Christmas
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Project Overview
The launch of the Outernet space in Tottenham Court Square in London around Christmas of 2021 gave our team the chance to display our work in one of the largest and most impressive LED arrays in the world.
My Contributions
- Unreal Engine Programming & Rendering
- Technical Strategy Lead
- Testing and Optimization
COMING SOON
The goal was to deliver a visual experience that would match the tone, cadence and narrative of a beautiful Irish language Opera. What made this unique was having characters and environments move and change throughout. Working with planes and simple geometry we were able to use textures, shaders and particle systems to give the impression of depth and space in our environments without taxing the hardware.
This project was intensely experimental. We decided we wanted to push the envelope in terms of what people could expect from this kind of event. We added hand tracking and simple interactions to deepen the sense of immersion, even going as far as to use motion capture data from dancers to drive animations. Seeing people immersed in the experience was especially rewarding.
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Project Highlights
This project had our team create three separate Christmas themed 3-5 minute films using three different characters we developed internally.
This was especially challenging not only because it was to be displayed seamlessly on an array of 5 screens but also because of the absolutely massive resolutions involved (16k+). We had to develop brand new strategies for rendering each screen at it's maximum quality without introducing any unwanted artefacts or overloading our hardware VRAM.
To achieve this I oversaw the development of a custom rendering pipeline software as similar products which exist for popular modelling software like C4D did not exist out of the box for Unreal Engine.
The project was a huge success and after hundreds of hours of rendering and tweaking unreal's systems it was greatly satisfying to go to London to see children screaming in joy at what we had created!
This was especially challenging not only because it was to be displayed seamlessly on an array of 5 screens but also because of the absolutely massive resolutions involved (16k+). We had to develop brand new strategies for rendering each screen at it's maximum quality without introducing any unwanted artefacts or overloading our hardware VRAM.
To achieve this I oversaw the development of a custom rendering pipeline software as similar products which exist for popular modelling software like C4D did not exist out of the box for Unreal Engine.
The project was a huge success and after hundreds of hours of rendering and tweaking unreal's systems it was greatly satisfying to go to London to see children screaming in joy at what we had created!
