A large map 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 creation XL Video has had a leading role.

XL Video has supplied more than 46.000 FLX-24 LED modules Barco, HD cameras Grass Valley, D3 control software, IMAG screens Pixled and the technical personnel needed to carry out the show Take the Crown Stadium. Under this title, British singer Robbie Williams is on a European tour that began on 14 June in Dublin and will end, after 26 recitals, he 25 August 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.

It's video, that monopolizes the central attention of the staging, has been equipped with 46.000 video píxel FLX 24 by boat, the same ones that were used in the 360 U2 tour. These have been integrated by TAIT, firm in charge of designing and building the head.

FLX LED pixel modules are ideal for this type of projects since they, al be transformable, They allow them to be given the desired shape and can be integrated into a wide variety of structures.. The fiberglass piece set has a solid gold finished finish, similar to the rear video wall.

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

Side IMAG screens

Pair of IMAG side screens, XL Video supply of Pixled F-11 ultra-light 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 supplied XL Video.

Two mobile teams cover what happens from the two ramps leading up to the stage, while two others are in charge of following the show from the front. And on both sides of the stage there are two fixed cameras.. The last two, with long range lenses, are installed in the FOH. The equipment 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 events lies in the coordination of all the teams.. on this tour, the video equipment includes 13 members, ten from XL Video and three from TAIT.

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