Job Role: Workflow Specialist / D3 Programmer

Client: Universal Epic Universe Resort (Florida) & British Airways

Production Company: CLP

Technical Company: QED Productions

Venue: Battersea Power Station, London - 2025

Toby McManus (QED Productions) collaborated with CLP to transform Battersea Power Station into a monumental projection canvas for a public spectacular, celebrating Universal Studios’ new Epic Universe Resort in Florida, in partnership with British Airways.

The event brought the resort’s signature IPs — including Harry Potter, Nintendo, and How to Train Your Dragon — to life across the Power Station’s iconic brick facade and towering chimneys. Thousands of visitors gathered along the Thames for the one-night-only activation, which blended projection mapping with light.

Toby served as Workflow Specialist and D3 Programmer, responsible for designing and operating the projection workflow across the 100m-wide Power Station. A detailed UV-mapped 3D model was created so content could be aligned precisely to the building’s architectural features, ensuring every window, curve, and chimney stack was projection-mapped with accuracy.

The show was composited and finalised onsite, giving maximum creative freedom to position assets directly onto the environment. Toby managed this process carefully to balance creative ambition against the servers’ GPU capabilities, ensuring seamless playback at scale.

With multiple projector locations spread across the site, Toby designed and supervised the fibre distribution system, guaranteeing stable video signal delivery across long distances. Synchronisation was key: the projection show needed to open in perfect sync with the British Airways activations, demanding flawless timecoded integration.

Software Used: After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, Photoshop, Disguise (d3).