Digital Music News has a brief mention about ABBA's new digital costumes, made by Industrial Light and Magic, which will be used at the concert tour accompanying their album release. It sounds like a similar method as was used to make Andy Serkis look like Gollum, but this time making people look younger and fresher. It's unclear whether the avatars will be mapped on the fly to real movement happening along with the concert or just running through pre-precorded routines.
Creative Director Ben Morris says his company has recreated ABBA in its prime, from 1979. "We are creating them as digital characters, then use performance capture techniques to animate them and make them look perfectly real," Morris says.
Klaxons' James Righton and Little Boots will both appear as part of the live band. The reunion will be the first in four decades with "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down" celebrating the announcement.
The new ABBA album Voyage will contain ten new tracks, with at least one Christmas song. Will the group dethrone Mariah Carey's Christmas tradition of taking the top of the Christmas charts? I guess we'll see later this year.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 09 2021, @09:16AM
And to make up for the lack of other content in this post, I shall pay in youtube links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mudeZ089sA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3pfnldlD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zqYNIvUh0 (RIP Alexi Laiho, 1979-2020 :( )
I can't be 100% sure, but I think those are the only Abba songs in my CD collection.
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