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02/10/2023

Another show done! What Is the City but the People? has happened for a sixth time, this time featuring the people of Sydney and located directly outside the Opera House as part of its 50th birthday celebrations.

150 locals from all over the city walked the giant yellow catwalk. Hundreds more photos were taken. Pages of text written. And everyone cried, which is how we know it worked.

Originally made for Manchester International Festival in 2017, from an idea by Jeremy Deller, and directed by Richard Gregory of Quarantine.

21/03/2023

We are kicking off 2023 with creating eternal waves, sand, and lava effects for the latest play at Young Vic Theatre. What is described by The Guardian as "a breathtaking, watery beauty" is actually Notch VFX generated and disguise programmed projection that is controlled by the singer’s microphone. This way, the body of the island reacts, grows and moves in rhythm with the music as it spreads through the transitions and movement sequences!

We supplied the Notch and Disguise playback systems, as well as providing all design, development and programming services. Thanks for having us!

Photos by Marc Brennan

21/03/2023

While working on Guardians of the Galaxy live immersive show we worked with Framestore and Disney StudioLab to create a real-time motion capture version of Rocket using Unreal Engine. It was amazing seeing people dropping their drinks and screaming when Rocket started talking to them, and they realised it’s not just another pre-record 🙈 Have a look at the sample of the outcome! For more info about the whole journey watch our making of video in the previous post 😋

Super grateful for a chance to bring a bit of Hollywood VFX into Immersive 🙏

17/02/2023

Saying that creating a real-time mocap version of Rocket and recreating a bit of MCU in London is something we are extremely grateful for would be an understatement. Have a look behind the scenes of this galactic journey where we worked alongside Framestore and Walt Disney Studios to create immersive Secret Cinema show like never before.

Using Unreal Engine we created bridge between Holywood blockbusters and live immersive shows.

Using Unity we gave life to the physical set using various interactive video elements.

A huge applause to everyone involved in this, you are legends! 💫

Epic Games disguise

17/01/2023

Watch Ian, Steph, and Dabs explain the immersive wizardry behind our almost year-long project where opera meets electronic music, motion capture digital avatar, and bleeding edge gaming technologies - all combined into an interactive video installation. In collaboration with BitterSuite and Kansallisooppera - Finnish National Opera Violet Disruption as an activist, electronic musician and hyper-deity for survivors of sexual violence presents you DIVA - an ambisonic cleansing of the opera space.

Super grateful for a chance to work in a team full of crazy talented magicians creating the future of opera, thank you 😊

12/01/2023

One of the highlights of last year was creating DIVA - an ambisonic audio-visual installation and takeover of Kansallisooppera - Finnish National Opera. A big part of this was Overture - an 8 minute long motion capture Unreal Engine sequence where DIVA floods the auditorium with electronic music, that collides the hauntingly beautiful worlds of operatic divas of the past together with driven and psychedelic electronic dance music.

💜 Thank you to everyone who was part of this creative journey!

Steph Singer
Ian William Galloway
Salvador Bettencourt Avila
Jáchym Bouzek
Rafael Vartanian
Rena Iizawa
Sophie Bramley
Jakub Krumpolc
Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu...

13/12/2022

Take a look at the video content and screens we made for the OMEGA Watches x James Bond 007 event celebrating 👀 After this secret mission we obtained her majesty’s licence to video design.

#007

12/12/2022

In the summer we did some quite crazy things at our studio including these Unreal Engine mocaping and flying sessions with Georgia and Joshua for Violet Disruption Opera Beyond project. A.K.A digitalisation of humans using a rig/workflow that Salvador and Jáchym built. Sharing more of this creative journey soon!

02/12/2022

Elf The Musical that we originally designed back in 2014 is now playing again at West End's Dominion Theatre 🎄

02/12/2022

25/10/2022

03/10/2022

This is our 9th time working with Secret Cinema and as usual there’s not much we can show and tell as it’s all secret! All we can tell you is this - we were working with Framestore on a racoon, and the show is totally amazing!

Some numbers for context - 9 disguise media servers, 45 screens (some might even be transparent LG Global), NDI for days, 200 pixel tubes, 6 iPads, 9 iPhones, 4 custom mobile apps,…

To know more you have to come see it yourself, see you in Knowhere!

Huge thank you to everyone involved 🤗

Photos by Lee Arucci & Luke Dyson
Unreal Engine Disney

26/09/2022

Together with Pilot Theatre, Barbora Šenoltová has been working on bringing back award winning Noughts & Crosses Ian William Galloway originally designed in 2019!

See all around the UK in the upcoming months:
https://www.pilot-theatre.com/present-work/noughts-crosses/about-the-show

Photos by Robert Day

23/09/2022

We teamed up with DuranDuran to freshen up their video content for their BST Hyde Park 2022 headliner performance. Using everything from Adobe tools, Unreal Engine environments, and Notch VFX live magic - in only two weeks we made a few completely new visuals and adjusted some of their original content, in the end delivering 20 visuals that fit the massive Great Oak Stage 🌳

disguise

19/09/2022

A quick look behind the scenes of our LED panel work at Tour de Moon Southampton. 100 panels ready to show radical imagination!

16/06/2022

Take a behind the scenes look at TRAPLORD at 180 The Strand

Playing with themes of quests, escapism and immersive worlds, we produced an entire videogame quest for the world of Traplord in Unreal Engine, navigating our central character around dream-like worlds and envionments. This was combined with filmed XR footage, traditionally animated retro-arcade elements and hand-drawn animation to create a rich framing device for the show, with the content being displayed on a semitransparent video wall.

14/06/2022

We supplied LED screens and created projections for Jacquemus x Selfridges “Le Bleu”👜

It's an immersive installation related to water and bathroom imagery inspired by art and French cinema. Make sure to stop by to see a giant toothpaste, a loads of blue things, and of course our awesome tech!

13/06/2022

Not a real island. Not a real water. Not a real sunset.
All digitally made in-house by Mesmer wizards 🧙

Now we can create digital actors, access environments we only dreamed of before, create the perfect polished version of the reality, and much more. Where does this end? What’s the limit of the digital and what is unique about the physical?

09/06/2022

During the production of Traplord we filmed at DAZED Studio. The combination of XR and Unreal Engine is crazy powerful. Thanks for having us!

06/06/2022

Take a look at the video game journey we created for Traplord - the unique show at 180 Studios. Playing with themes of quests, escapism and immersive worlds, we navigated our central character around dream-like worlds and environments.

31/05/2022

XR - Extended Reality. Using multiple LED walls, camera tracking, and Notch or Unreal Engine we can merge digital environments with physical actors.

Thank you for letting us film at 180 Studios, looking forward to using the space for future projects!

30/05/2022

25/05/2022

Jáchym creating a virtual real-time 3D island environment in Unreal Engine for Opera North Alcina. Interesting to see a combination of bleeding-edge tech and the 18th century Handel’s opera.

Watch Alcina for free via OperaVision until 17 August!

23/05/2022

As we are always hyper-focused on the most current and upcoming work, it's quite easy to forget about what we've already achieved. Here's a small reminder of a few of our past projects.

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While working on Guardians of the Galaxy live immersive show we worked with Framestore and Disney StudioLab to create a real-time motion capture version of Rocket using Unreal Engine. It was amazing seeing people dropping their drinks and screaming when Rocket started talking to them, and they realised it’s not just another pre-record 🙈 Have a look at the sample of the outcome! For more info about the whole journey watch our making of video in the previous post 😋 Super grateful for a chance to bring a bit of Hollywood VFX into Immersive 🙏 #mcu #marvelstudios #immersive #secretcinema #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #realtime3d #vfx #guardiansofthegalaxy #videodesign #immersiveart

Saying that creating a real-time mocap version of Rocket and recreating a bit of MCU in London is something we are extremely grateful for would be an understatement. Have a look behind the scenes of this galactic journey where we worked alongside Framestore and Walt Disney Studios to create immersive Secret Cinema show like never before. Using Unreal Engine we created bridge between Holywood blockbusters and live immersive shows. Using Unity we gave life to the physical set using various interactive video elements. A huge applause to everyone involved in this, you are legends! 💫 #immersive #mcu #disney #liveevents #secretcinema #unrealengine5 #video #media #tech Epic Games disguise #London #realtimevfx #london

Watch Ian, Steph, and Dabs explain the immersive wizardry behind our almost year-long project where opera meets electronic music, motion capture digital avatar, and bleeding edge gaming technologies - all combined into an interactive video installation. In collaboration with BitterSuite and Kansallisooppera - Finnish National Opera Violet Disruption as an activist, electronic musician and hyper-deity for survivors of sexual violence presents you DIVA - an ambisonic cleansing of the opera space. Super grateful for a chance to work in a team full of crazy talented magicians creating the future of opera, thank you 😊 #immersive #opera #cgiart #unrealengine #digitalart #digitalculture #technologysolutions #liveevents #animationart #videodesign #theatredesign

One of the highlights of last year was creating DIVA - an ambisonic audio-visual installation and takeover of Kansallisooppera - Finnish National Opera. A big part of this was Overture - an 8 minute long motion capture Unreal Engine sequence where DIVA floods the auditorium with electronic music, that collides the hauntingly beautiful worlds of operatic divas of the past together with driven and psychedelic electronic dance music. 💜 Thank you to everyone who was part of this creative journey! Steph Singer Ian William Galloway Salvador Bettencourt Avila Jáchym Bouzek Rafael Vartanian Rena Iizawa Sophie Bramley Jakub Krumpolc Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu .... #theatre #opera #videodesign #cgiart #unrealengine #immersiveart

Elf The Musical that we originally designed back in 2014 is now playing again at West End's Dominion Theatre 🎄 #ElfTheMusical #westend #thetre #videodesign #animation #london

It’s been 60 years since James Bond 007 was born, so OMEGA Watches prepared a little surprise, and we might’ve been part of that secret mission too! Sadly we we’re not allowed to make any explosive pens, but maybe the screens, video content, and projections that we did are cool enough? #immersiveexperience #immersive #liveevents #video #media #tech #London #realtimevfx #content #videodesign #immersivetechnology

Helping create all sorts of video and tech elements for the world of this stellar Secret Cinema and Marvel collaboration has been an incredible creative journey for us. Super thankful for a chance to be part of it 🦝 Video by Deadbeat #immersive #mcu #disney #liveevents #secretcinema #unrealengine5 #videoproduction #technology Disney disguise #london #realtimeVFX

A quick look behind the scenes of our LED panel work at Tour de Moon Southampton. 100 panels ready to show radical imagination! #mesmerians #tourdemoon #immersive #led #liveshow #mesmer #setdesign #videodesign #immersiveshow #festival

Take a behind the scenes look at TRAPLORD at 180 The Strand Playing with themes of quests, escapism and immersive worlds, we produced an entire videogame quest for the world of Traplord in Unreal Engine, navigating our central character around dream-like worlds and envionments. This was combined with filmed XR footage, traditionally animated retro-arcade elements and hand-drawn animation to create a rich framing device for the show, with the content being displayed on a semitransparent video wall. #videodesign #theatre #dance #projection #westend #stage #dance #immersiveart

Not a real island. Not a real water. Not a real sunset. All digitally made in-house by Mesmer wizards 🧙 Now we can create digital actors, access environments we only dreamed of before, create the perfect polished version of the reality, and much more. Where does this end? What’s the limit of the digital and what is unique about the physical? #realtime3d #unrealengine #videodesign #theatreprojection #vfx #3d #digital #art #futuretechnology #mesmer #ue5 #art #digitalart

During the production of Traplord we filmed at DAZED Studio. The combination of XR and Unreal Engine is crazy powerful. Thanks for having us! #extendedreality #xr #videodesigner #unrealengine #videodesign #180thestrand #180studios #traplord #theatredesign #theatredesigner #visualartist #3dtechnology #creativestudio #mesmer

Alcina Jungle 🏝 Made in Unreal Engine for Opera North We created a full-scale photorealistic island in UnrealEngine. Then we were able to film all necessary clips in the virtual environment, custom-tailored for the needs of the opera. No need to travel to a jungle! 🙌 #visualeffects #unrealengine5 #theatredesign #environmentdesign #realtime #3d #innovation #virtualproduction #vfx #cgi #opera #stagedesign #videodesign #creativity #technology #future #film

Jáchym creating a virtual real-time 3D island environment in Unreal Engine for Opera North Alcina. Interesting to see a combination of bleeding-edge tech and the 18th century Handel’s opera. Watch Alcina for free via OperaVision until 17 August! #digitalart #videodesign #theatre #unrealengine #behindthescenes #liveevents #VFX #3D

Mesmer are a creative studio and technical consultancy working with video, projection and digital integration for live events. We design and create films, animations and motion graphics for integration into theatre, opera and dance productions, fashion shows, concerts and immersive events. Our work blends virtual and real-world environments, traditional and cutting-edge methods, and places storytelling and audience communication at the fore. Building on over three decades of experience, Mesmer associates have designed Olivier and Tony award-winning shows, worked with a wide range of clients such as Burberry, Secret Cinema, Charlotte Tilsbury and Toyota and been consultants for The Royal Opera House, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Theatre and Disneyland https://bit.ly/3JUtbj0 #video #design #immersive #online #stage #projection #events #theatre