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For this project I was responsible for the development of the main hologram effect used in the music video for Coldplay’s Higher Power.

I developed a custom hologram shader in Unreal that was highly configurable to get the exact look we were after. It used a world-space triplanar effect combined with gradient textures to create a 3d hologram pixel effect, along with other effects like scanlines, noise, emissive intensity, color changes, adjustable pixel size, and more.

As part of this process, I did R&D on different settings and configurations for the hologram itself when applied to the characters, as well as lookdev tests for lighting and environments.

One challenging problem was getting the reflections on the ground in the live action footage, this required additional custom shader work in Unreal.

The final hologram effects were applied to digital doubles of the original performers, which then was rendered in Unreal and finally composited in After Effects, where additional adjustments were made.