CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, September 09, 2014

d3 Technologies, Barco and Cast Software BlackTrax System Brings Marvel Universe to Life

Stage Directions: “Marvel Universe LIVE!” is an “arena spectacular” live-action show that uses every trick available to bring the over-the-top, explosive and heroic world of Marvel comic book characters to life. It features stunts, motorcycle chases, pyrotechnics, moving stages—and lots and lots of projection mapping, incluing a three-story wall Feld Entertainment touts as “the largest projection surface ever built.” And d3 Technologies media servers control the array of projectors (27 Barco HDF-W26 DLP projectors) and LED screens that accompany the show. Bob Bonniol was the video system and content designer for the production and his company Mode Studios supplied the projectors, d3 media servers and signal path equipment along with the expert content management, creation and design staff. Bonniol worked closely with his associate Pablo Molina to conceive new ways to use localized content and partnered with Ash Nehru of d3 Technologies to work with the Cast BlackTrax development team to use the tracking data “across enormous resolutions with extraordinary accuracy and limited latency,” in the show.

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