I directed several sections of Shawn Mendes' Illuminate live tour visuals for Treatment Studios . The production used a number of techniques from sound responsive animation, LIDAR, live action, real time effects, projection mapping and a lot of particles!
The production used a number of techniques from sound responsive animation, LIDAR, live action, real time effects,

projection mapping and a lot of particles! The project was huge fun and it was great to be involved from conception through to the final production. Full credits are below but particular thanks to Paul Caslin, Marcus Chaloner and Lizzie Pocock.

Credits and details below

We used Cinema 4D as our main 3D tool. LazPoint was used to import the point cloud data we shot in Epping forest and then rendered mainly using X-Particles. I used Houdini to create the sound responsive elements in the show opener and exported it to Cinema 4D to render with X-Particles and animate the cameras and so on. 

We shot the live action figure on green screen and composited it with the 3D elements in After Effects.

We also worked with Matt Swoboda at Notch to create a real time version of the LIDAR forest. A Kinect was used to capture Shawn's performance and add him in realtime.