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FROM SUPER TROUPERS TO TIMELESS ‘ABBATARS’

By Izzy Ferris

TO bring the Abba tour to life, experts used motion capture technology employed in big budget Hollywood movies like Star Wars.

All four band members were fitted with form-fitting body suits covered in sensors that helped record their every move. They were also given helmets equipped with cameras and microphones, special shoes and sensors placed all over their faces in order to create digital ‘avatars’.

Bjorn and Benny were even forced to shave off their beards to allow the sensors to properly analyse their facial movements. The stars then spent five weeks in front of 160 cameras. Each of the 20 songs from the concert were performed ‘to perfection’ – enabling every mannerism, facial expression and motion of the band to be tracked and recorded.

The D recordings were then given to almost 1,000 digital artists – based around the world – who used archive footage to roll back the years and give the illusion the band in their 1970s prime had been transported to the 2020s.

In total it took around one billion computing hours to create the impressive ‘Abbatars’.

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