Cheering crowd for gladiatorial combat, boxing and wrestling matches, mma fights, etc

Hylas

Good day PA's!

I'd love to render fighting scenes. Gladiatorial combat in an ancient roman arena, for one. Also, more contemporary scenes such as boxing, wrestling, mma, or pro-wrestling.

I would be happy to spend money on a product that fills the background with cheering crowds. Using actual figures would take forever to set up and melt my computer. So I'm thinking, perhaps a now-crowd billboard solution? Or perhaps a HDRI? I don't know if that would be possible, with the perspectives involved and all...

There could be DOF already built in if that makes it easier, sort of like this background, but a proper HDRI.

Let me know if such a thing already exists!

nubianbdsmart

I was looking for the same thing.  Can't find anything like this.

Silent Winter

For the Roman crowd - the Colosseum comes with the crowd billboard: https://www.daz3d.com/the-colosseum

A Now-Crowd solution would be best but it'd need several sets to include both ancient and modern crowds (and why not sci-fi future as well?). I think RiversoftArt likes the idea but thinks the scale might be a bit much. (How many different figures would be needed for a full crowd?). I'd settle for 15 that I'd use with DOF and mixed patterns to avoid too much repetition.

Depending on your needs, a modern crowd using elements of: https://www.daz3d.com/now-crowd-billboards--modern-sitting-crowd with https://www.daz3d.com/now-crowd-billboards-party-time and perhaps some others could work (especially with DOF)

nonesuch00

Yeah, that would need about a dozen cutouts and then the a script written using instancing non-random placement about to where the audience building seats and aisles were translated to.