ALGS PLAYOFFS LOS ANGELES
RETURNING, BIGGER AND BETTER
After I completed an entire year of Apex Legends Global Series in 2023, I was invited back by Esports Engine and EA to assist on the fourth year of heated competition. As well as producing graphics for the show and building on the ever growing Xpression package, I was asked to help produce the LED volumes for the Playoffs in Los Angeles. The 10 weeks season of competition would culminate in a LAN at the Galen Center in downtown LA.
LED VOLUME PRODUCTION
Working closely with the Versus design team we created a vision for the arena that would combine spectacle with the diverse amount of states that the tournament production had in mind. Data-driven LED gameplay states would deliver real time information on team stats and placement whilst striking visuals would carry the audience through moments between games. I coordinated between the design teams, producers, clients and Disguise team. I also had the Galen Center ribbons playing a part in the light show!
POWERFUL DATA GRAPHICS
As with previous years, I was also working on the real-time broadcast graphics package (Xpression) which carries hundreds of thousands of data points from the Apex Legends game server. Both current and legacy data is interwoven into graphics that help to tell a story for the audience who need to understand where the 60 players (20 teams) stand in the competition. Sometimes I would create very custom 'one-use' graphics to help the casters illustrate a point or to help the producers push a storyline. For these graphics I drew on my Adobe skills in Illustrator and Photoshop.
