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BURNA BOY
Live visuals for Burna Boy’s Space Drift Tour
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In 2022 I created live visuals for Burna Boy’s Space Drift Tour, working with creative director Ronami Ogulu and her team. The brief called for content that matched his Afro-fusion sound with a space-themed world, built to run across arenas and festivals globally rather than one fixed stage setup.
Built around vast cosmic backdrops and rhythm-driven visual bursts pulsed in sync with the music, balancing Burna Boy’s Afrobeats identity against the space narrative from the brief given. Screen formats varied wildly across the tour; festival stages were clean 16:9, but arenas came with their own, trickier mapping, so a lot of the content had to be reformatted and re-rendered in multiple versions to fit each venue’s non-standard dimensions.
The real pressure was the turnaround. The job landed last-minute, and for a stretch it wasn’t clear whether everything on the brief could even be rendered in time, let alone finished properly. It was also my first big client, done on a cheap MacBook that had no business handling a job that size — most of the heavy rendering went out to render farms just to hit the deadline. Just as much of the challenge was managing the gap between what the team wanted and what was physically possible to deliver in the time we had.
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CREDITS
| CLIENT | ONASPACESHIP |
| ARTIST | BURNA BOY |
| YEAR | 2022 |
| ROLE | LIVE VISUALS |
| CREATIVE DIRECTOR | RONAMI OGULU |
| TOOLS | AFTER EFFECTS, BLENDER |
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