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How Dead & Company Got Their Sphere Splendor: Treatment Studio Head on Creating Spectacular Visuals for the Band’s Vegas Residency
Sam Pattinson of Treatment Studio, who is co-creative director along with John Mayer for Dead & Company at Sphere, explores the making of the visuals.
If you like what you see when you check into Las Vegas’ Sphere for the residency by Dead & Company — and most attendees have come away raving, Deadheads and newbies alike — you can credit much of that to the efforts of Treatment Studio, the creative agency charged with executing the visuals for the venue’s 160,000- square-foot wrap-around screen for the three-month run. Pattinson, who co-founded Treatment with Willie Williams, U2’s longtime creative director, says that putting the visuals together was a smooth process, even though they had just six months from start to finish to make it work. Now, in terms of ILM, my partner Willie (Williams) and producer Lizzie Pocock had a really good experience working with them on “Atomic City,” which is a fantastic piece of content [in U2’s Sphere show].
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