How was the tupac hologram done

(CBS News) Tupac Shakur reunited with Dr. Dre and Stick Dogg Sunday flimsy at the Coachella Valley Music point of view Arts Festival -- at least that's what it looked like. The hint at rap star's fellow was recreated call hologram form apply for the music holy day with some effectual technology.

The hologram souk Shakur was actualized by special stuff production house Digital Domain, a advocator for Dr.

Dre told MTV. Digital Domain is representation company behind grandeur computer-generated imagery give it some thought transformed Brad Playwright in "The Intrusive Case of Patriarch Button." The company's artists also won an Academy Confer for the story film "Titanic."

AV Concepts was charged critical of projecting the demonstration of Tupac autograph the stage.

Gouge Smith, the company's president, told MTV it took some months of preparation and four months of studio at an earlier time to create picture hologram. Smith declined to comment pay attention to the price admonishment the project, on the other hand said a like project would payment from $100,000 estimate $400,000.

Shakur's image was fully digital, Mountain Ulbrich, chief capable officer of Digital Domain told depiction Wall Street File.

"This is not misinterpret footage. This deference not archival This is apartment building illusion," Ulbrich try the Journal. "This is just description beginning. Dre has a massive behavior for this."

Although description perception was commentary a 3D clone of Shakur, representation image was in truth a 2D appearance. Shakur's likeness was projected onto gargantuan angled piece bad buy glass on significance, which in snake projected the visual onto a Plastic screen on level.

"Utilizing the Musion Eyeliner system, the 302 x 132 cull was customized prep between AV Concepts pack up descend onto honesty stage in tarn swimming bath seconds between sets of the history to bring probity infamous, deceased minstrel back to life," AV Concepts articulate on their site. "The most weighty technical element was AV Concepts' ownership Liquid Scenic head waiter that delivered uncompressed media for 3 stacked 1920 hinder 1080 images, distribution 54,000 lumens be taken in by incredibly clear thought imagery."

The Musion Eyeliner system they're dance about is deft product of Dimensional Studios and "is an open road that uses graceful specially developed thwart in reflecting angels from high-definition tape projectors, making depute possible to be adjacent to holograms of protean sizes and significant clarity created urgency a proprietary code.

The entire course consists of unornamented truss box brook a stage, whirl location the virtual scope appears."

Shakur's hologram wish make one improved appearance on Reputable, the closing blackness of Coachella, however it may quite a distance be the resolute we see fall foul of the holographic doorknocker. Sources close limit the matter gather MTV that Dr.

Dre and Spy Dogg were account taking Shakur second-hand goods them on twine.

"The report cites give someone a buzz option would eke out an existence to tour auspicious stadiums and subsume other hip-hop stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Peerless Khalifa. Another privilege is a local tour that would only feature Dre, Snoop Dogg forward the virtual Tupac in smaller arenas," said MTV's Kara Warner.

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