Since illuminating its Exosphere for the first time on July 4, 2023, the world-famous Sphere in Las Vegas has displayed everything from an A’s baseball logo to an activation for the popular “One Piece” Japanese manga and anime franchise.
According to Sphere Entertainment, the venue’s Exosphere is the largest LED screen on Earth at 580,000 square feet.
The company says the Exosphere consists of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks, spaced eight inches apart.
Each puck, according to Sphere Entertainment, contains 48 individual LED diodes, with each diode capable of displaying more than 1 billion different colors.
Almost all of the clips shown on the iconic venue are made in-house by a 40- to 50-member team — including animators, camera operators, graphic designers and those who figure out how to put the various pixels in the right places — at Sphere Studios in Burbank, California, the Review-Journal previously reported.
The clips that show an Emoji will involve a team of 15 to 20 people and it will take one to two weeks to get the image up and running, according to Guy Barnett, who oversaw Sphere’s brand strategy and creative development before transitioning into a consulting role.
Clips that must be built from the ground up can take the same-sized team between four and six weeks, Barnett told the Review-Journal.
Take a look back at some of the designs that have ran on the Exosphere since the Sphere first debuted its exterior masterpiece in the photo gallery above.
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