American Football Field
dennisgray41
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This need a morph or something that fills the stands with people. Otjerwise it is just for practice.
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A morph wouldn't do it, a set of billboards (renders of figues on transpaency) would be needed - though fitting them around seats is tricky. I can't recall if the Now Crowd series has a suitable set.
Some of these might work?
Now-Crowd Billboards - Modern Sitting Crowd | Daz 3D
Now-Crowd Billboards - Party Time | Daz 3D
The Colosseum includes billboards in crowd formation that may work as well. Powerage has LowRez People Sitting for Daz Studio in groups of ten at Renderosity.
If you don't mind using Blender, there's an add-on called procedural crowds that has a cheering crowd option. I'm 99% sure you can paint where you want the crowd too so they'll fill the stadium. I have the add-on and have used it several times but I haven't tried to paint where I want people. But it's worth checking out if you use Blender for stuff.
There are also 4 rows of low-rez seated figures (10 per row) included as part of Shredder's UFC MMA Stadium for DAZ over at Rendo and I actually like the way that they're posed MUCH better than Powerages, as the extreme poses in the latter make it much more obvious that figures are repeating, while the ones Shredder's set look more intense and lack the hands in the air, etc., so that they can be used for things other than a sporting event. As it is, I have both of those sets, as well as a couple of others, and mix them all at random as needed.
that could work if the crowd is far enough that you don't notice the clothes.
They just woke up after a Toga Party at the Frat House.
TO-GA! TO-GA!
Dial up dof until the crowd is just blobs of colour.
I should point out that for relatively long shots, there's no need to bother with individual billboards. For situations like that I have an account with Envato Elements that gives me access to use over 10 millions royalty free photographic assets, and it's usually more practically to simply find a photos of crowds from similar angles and either set them over the needed areas in "mega-billboard" at slightly reduced cutout opacity or simply paste them in in Photoshop/Gimp/etc. after for a completely believable result and a lot less effort. The fact is that, after a certain size, the human eye simply stops seeing those figures as anything except a pattern of bright/dark and color, which is why matte painters were often called in to bulk out crowds in the pre-digital effects era with no one ever being the wiser, while huge "crowds" in minitaure models for many old-school Hollywood epics were often nothing more than hundreds of bits of painted cork floating in shallow trays of water.
Where is Ray Harryhausen when we need him.
I wonder if some people have different perception... levels, especially across cultures. I think there might be a certain "sweet spot" of having say copies of Lorenzo Lopez in the stands with different hair colors say, and different clothes. Adjust the pose, render against a transparent b.g., repeat. Might there be a certain percentage or degree of occurrences if you will, that might influence perception.
As yet I have zero experience with coaxing A.I. to fill the stands with "x" amount of crowd "noise" say.
Here are some results I got with DreamUp on Deviantart which I believe is powered by Stablediffusion. The second one has way too much red in the distant crowd so right away it would need some variation. For the 5th one I included the string "moving around" in my text prompt... the result is an awful lot of repetition in the distant people rising up from ground level, and the uppermost level is almost empty!