A large mapping of Robbie Williams' head presides over the concerts on the singer's European tour

The show Take the Crown Stadium offers great staging with a rear video wall, the projection of the 3D mapping of Robbie Williams' head and two side IMAG screens. For its realization XL Video has played a leading role.

XL Video has supplied more than 46.000 FLX-24 LED Modules Ship, HD cameras Grass Valley, D3 control software, IMAG screens Pixled and the technical staff needed to perform the show Take the Crown Stadium. Under this title, British singer Robbie Williams is on a tour of Europe that began on 14 in Dublin and will end, after 26 Recitals, the 25 in Stavanger (Norway).

The staging has a rear video wall on which a large map representing Williams' head is projected and two large IMAG screens located on both sides of it. The rear video wall has dimensions of 12,6 meters high by 7,5 meters wide.

The bust of the British singer presides over each of the concerts of his European tour and for its creation his face was scanned and modeled in 3D, performing a complete mapping of each of the pixels.

This video, that monopolizes the central attention of the staging, It has been equipped with 46.000 FLX pixel video 24 Boat, the same ones that were used in the 360 Tour de U2. These have been integrated by TAIT, Firm in charge of designing and building the head.

FLX's LED pixel modules are ideal for this type of project as they, as they are transformable, they allow them to be shaped the way they are desired and can be integrated into a wide variety of structures. The fiberglass parts assembly has a solid gold-finished finish, similar to that of the rear video wall.

The pixels of the head were drawn manually using the Maya software for the mapping process which was completed by United Visual Artists (GRAPE), a process that consisted of about two months of intense work.

Side IMAG screens

For IMAG side screens, XL Video supply two ultralight Pixled F-11 LED displays, each with dimensions of 8,1 meters high by 5,4 meters wide.

The content displayed on these huge screens is provided by the images collected by the eight Grass Valley LDK cameras 8000 which has also been supplied by XL Video.

Two mobile teams cover what happens from the two ramps up to the stage, while two others are in charge of following the show from the front. And on both sides of the stage are located two fixed cameras. The last two, with long-range lenses, are installed in the FOH. The team is completed with an additional remote Bradley and a CamBall2 on the battery.

All images are fed into the GV Kayak mixer. After this, production is carried out and sent to the side screens.

Challenge: Coordination

The main challenge in this type of event lies in the coordination of all the teams. On this tour, The video team is made up of 13 limbs, ten from XL Video and three from TAIT.

Regarding infrastructure, seven trucks are needed to transport all the video systems and an eighth moves the cameras and side screens.