For the 2025 Esports World Cup, the opening ceremony was given a full overhaul, featuring performances by Dino & Post Malone alongside a cast of performers to kick off the event in style. In the run up, I was asked by Visual Noise to take on the projection mapping side of the show.
The set design was by Florian Wieder — a vast geometric mountain landscape, with three of its obelisks to be projected onto. I worked with the team through pre-production and went out early for the build to work with CTME, making sure the projectors and infrastructure went in correctly in what was an incredibly crowded rigging roof space.
Alongside overseeing the projection side of the build, I took out my laser scanner to do a full survey and model of the hand-carved set, generating an accurate contour map for the content team and a 3D mesh for projection line-up.
