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Pleased to announce that the projections in the Senate House Yard went down a storm for Cambridges 800th closing celebrations.
As always there’s a new flickr set with some of the best looks, go on take a look!
Alternatively you could have a look at some of the great press we’ve had here, here, here, or here.
Flat art and photoshop work was done by Paul Chatfield (website still in construction) I jumped in to program the show in our Onlyview system and do the required animation using After Effects and Cinema 4D software, all on behalf of E/T/C UK Ltd. The show took us roughly a week’s worth of long days in the studio plus another 4 days of consruction and tweaking on site. Having done these buildings this time last year we had a good idea about what worked and what didn’t. We experimented with a few techniques we’d not used before on this project including 3D modeling and green screen keying which worked to lesser and greater effect. It was great to take testing away from the studio all the way to building size in an environment where he could afford to make changes. There was also a lot of flat art manipulation which is more inline with our usual model.
We have found that with Son Illumiere projects like this the key aspect very much has to be the story told. That said, we wouldn’t be commissioned to produce these show’s if we didn’t make them aesthetically pleasing. It is always our intention to balance fun effects and a bit of “wow” factor with the content that takes from the history of the buildings.
First of my photos from the Rhein Partie project have made their way to flickr
Take a look at this link for coverage of the Rhein Partie Project on German Television
Video from the banks of the Rhine or our current video creation. Design and Photoshop by Ross Ashon I contributed the After Effects, Cinema 4D and Onlyview work.
A bit out of Sync in terms of the chronology of my blog posts, but here’s some footage that was shot by our client, LG, of the New Years Eve Project.
My recent project in Cambridge has recieved some unexpected press coverage, BBC National, Local and ITV all turned up for the launch last night.
Have a look at the link for the writeup
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7834827.stm
Also, click through the photos to see the rest of the flickr set.
I’d hoped i’d get to blog about this project a lot more, in the same what i brought you a behind the secenes to our Bollywood Oscars show earlier in 2008. Nevertheless, time ran away with us and there were concerns about leaking information.
Checkout the photos on my flickr account
E/T/C already hold the world record for the largest video projection ever created (here) but never to be outdone by our French brothers and sisters the UK office is now embarking on a projection wall of mamoth proportions. I can confirm that it won’t be a record breaker, but lets be honest 0.6 of a km is a pretty tall order. However it will use nearly the same number of projectors to create a smaller but considerably brighter wall.
I can’t unfortunately reveal what the project is quite yet, although those how know me well will have heard little else in the last few weeks as the chaos as begun ensue.
However: Photos!
Servers for days
Projector mapping is going well!
Having vowed not to blog about my lack of blogging (thats not fun to read) I’ll honour my words and get straight on with the content. That said – Steve’s got it about right in this post. (keep searching for those links, no time for content means i still havent found a way to update the CSS for links)
Back in the real world, I’m currently In Liverpool projecting on the side of one of the ventilation shafts for the mersy tunnel. It’s hardly a rock and roll gig (although that will come on Saturday when the bands turn up) but the visuals as provided by a couple of New York VJ’s are stunning and really bring the building alive.
Flickr set is here
