Coachella

Post Production + VFX

2022 Recap Film

Larger Than Life

The greatest festival video ever made? Probably.

We've been doing visual effects work for Coachella since 2014 starting with their famed Desert Parallax recap film and making various high performing social content since. The culmination of almost a decade of partnership led to the creation of this highly ambitious piece.

The team at W&F had the pleasure of collaborating with director Ari Fararooy to bring larger than life surreal VFX work to the official 2022 Coachella aftermovie. We had a team of 12 people working on over 30 shots that involved CG animation and compositing + a team of 4 people on location for a week and a half turning around VFX shots in near real-time during the event! It was the most involved setup we’ve done on-site.

Take a look at our case study for the details.

Behind the work

BREAKDOWN

A look at how we created the larger-than-life Coachella of everyone's dreams.

DRAG

But there's more...

Livestream Show-Open

Our work was also purposed as the intro to the YouTube livestream broadcast.

An epic way to kick off the festival for viewers at home

The people behind it all

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