The film Angels & Demons required crowds of tens of thousands of realistic humans performing a variety of actions, including a sequence involving crowds of people in an explosion. In order to achieve the best results, we created two different crowds pipelines - one using simple 2½-D methods, and one using a more complex fully 3-D system.

With these two approaches, we were able to fill St. Peter's Square with believable crowds

In 2008 Ziah Fogel joined Double Negative as the Crowd Supervisor for Angels & Demons. Previously, Ziah worked for 8 years at Pixar Animation Studios. While at Pixar, Ziah worked as a character and lighting artist on Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and the short film Boundin’. Ziah then switched her focus to serve as the Crowd Supervisor on Cars, Ratatouille, and Wall-E. Originally from California, Ziah now lives in London and works as a lead TD at Double Negative.