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Coachella 2022

For Coachella’s official 2022 aftermovie, we partnered with director Ari Fararooy to bring larger-than-life visual effects to the desert. The film built on our work with the festival since 2014, beginning with Desert Parallax and continuing through years of social content.A team of twelve worked on more than thirty shots involving CG animation and compositing. Four of us also spent a week and a half on location, turning around VFX shots in near real time during the event.

Client
Coachella
With
Ari Fararooy
Services
  1. Visual Effects
  2. Production
Year
2022

Explore

20 Assets

  1. A Ferris wheel stands against the mountains in the Coachella desert.
  3. Three phone mockups show Coachella social videos featuring the festival’s surreal visual effects.

Livestream show-open

Our work also opened Coachella’s YouTube livestream, bringing the festival’s surreal desert world to viewers at home.

Behind the work

A look at the CG animation and compositing behind Coachella’s larger-than-life desert. From gray renders to finished shots, the breakdown shows how we transformed the festival grounds.

  1. A colorful flower-covered sculpture on the Coachella grounds in the finished shot.
    A gray CG render of the flower-covered sculpture and festival grounds.

CREDITS

VFX Supervisor: John Bashyam Lead CG Artist: Carlos Aartsen Lead CG Artist: Elliot Fan Lead CG Artist: John Bashyam 2D Compositor: Ryan Johnston CG Artist: Andrew Jerez CG Artist: Jesse Nelson CG Artist: Mitch Fields 3D Compositor: Elliot Fan 3D Compositor: John Bashyam 3D Modeler: Manan Bachkaniwala 3D Modeler: Hung Ma 3D Modeler: Anna Chen VFX Breakdown Artist: Jesse Payne VFX Producer: Krissy Engelson VFX Head of Production: Chris Grey

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