UT2003 did this in the intro sequence. We had static meshes that were made up of 6-7 quads, each quad containing a person doing an animation. Those were sprinkled around the arena floor. If the camera got too close to a set of these quads, it was swapped out for a set of animating skeletal meshes.
Sprites for crowd
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