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.
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!
There’s little more to add to this saga, but i couldn’t just end these posts two days before the show! Basically, the Video crew did us proud and with two days to go all the projector were up in the air and well lined up. There was plenty of tweeking done to attain the level quality we finally got on the night but with two days to go there was more than enough time for that.
I on the other hand, programmed my elbows off and by 30 minutes to curtain up all was smooth and shiney. For show photos have a look at this flickrset. Just time for one comedy one however.
Fergus has no problems making friends with the backstage entertainment.
So all in all the show went really well. Take a wander over here to see the L&SI review.
Finally, i should review myself. It’s a real shame its taken me so long to get the stories and photos out, but ultimately i’m really glad that i have and didn’t just give up on the project like i have on other blog series in the past (retropect anyone ?) Hat’s off to the guys involved with Eurovision and the Spectra blog which inspired me to give this a go. My collection of posts have been pale in comparison to their offering and i have no doubt i’ll be a regular reader there when it comes round again. Pulling a 24 projector/16 server show out of the air in less than 2 weeks is a phenomenally tall order and thank goodness we had the crew that we did! I think maybe if we’d had a bigger lead time there would have been a lot less late nights and i’d have had more chances to knock some posts out, but still life goes on – you had to listen to enough moaning from me in my excuses posts so we’ll leave it at that.
Finally a big thanks to Phil for taking over the photography while i was behind the desk. We wouldn’t have had nearly as many decent photos if it was just left up to me. Secondly thanks to Steve at adequately-average.com for the mirror. I’ve had a fair few more readers coming in from there so to anybody new hope you enjoyed the posts!