Rob Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 I saw Etienne De Crecy play at Global Gathering a couple of weeks ago and his visual production is really worth a look - It's an extremely ingenious use of a couple of projectors, strobes and some very clever graphics. Check out the videos here and here. The set is basically a 3 x 3 x 2 matrix of cubes built from KwikForm scaff, with white gauzes on every face except for the front of the centre cube where he plays from. The video is projected from in front and gives a great illusion of depth as all the surfaces get hit by the projectors. Very clever stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6th Order Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 That really is clever. Just needs a hundred or so movers, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 It's an extremely ingenious use of a couple of projectors, strobes and some very clever graphics.Just needs a hundred or so movers, right? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ83 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Hhmmm...very impressive. Is there actually any live 3d projection going on there or is it a 3d effect built into a single graphics display?Some very clever modelling going on there, I might have to brush up my 3dsMax and give the schools render farm something to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6th Order Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 It's an extremely ingenious use of a couple of projectors, strobes and some very clever graphics.Just needs a hundred or so movers, right? :) Perhaps a [/joke] would have made it clearer..... (It was a reference to the perennial discussion in lighting about quailty over quantity when it comes to design.) I think the design is very clearly based on a creative imagination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiLL Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Possibly yorkie was confused as I was, because I couldn't see ANY movers in that video, just projection. Which I thought was pretty amazingly done actually :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Very impressive stuff. Lining up the projectors to get the lines to match the scaff bars must be an absolute nightmare! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 7, 2008 Author Share Posted August 7, 2008 I don't think there's any actual '3D' projection, I think it's just the effect you get as the image hits the various surfaces. The whole show featured next to no lighting - Just a single 2.5k profile to backlight the man himself and a couple of Atomic strobes rigged to the base of the structure at the back. All in all a very easy day for us lampies - not sure how complex the projector line-up was though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRisdale Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Amazing - thanks for posting the link. Any idea on how many projectors were used and where they were positioned? I've been trying to fully fathom quite how the depth effect was achieved and... can't. Any method that I can come up with would lead to "double exposures" in all the wrong places. Care to put me out of my misery? Gareth. Edited the lack of the letter "a" in Amazing - I told you my head was imploding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ83 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 On the myspace video it cuts to a shot of the projector beam, I may be wrong but I'd assumed from that, just the one projector was used. It would be one hell of a job lining up multiple projectors for that style of seamless video, it would make positioning the scaffolding the easy part! From the side shots it looks like the cubes are 3x3 and 2 deep all covered in gauze apart from the centre cube which is open at the front with blacks on the top and sides. Hopefully Rob can put me out of my pondery and confirm/correct this. Can you tell I've been studying this video quite a bit today?! :D EDIT: wow, my first blue dot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamtastic3 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Hmmmmm, definetely looks like one projector used that's been cropped for the square shape of the scaff structure. I'm guessing that they worked out the dimensions of the structure to the distance of the projection and built it or designed the images from there. It's all too.... square and symmetrical. Try putting in the odd point or oblong shape and see how they cope with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wol Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Very clever effect. If you have a look at the video , theres shots from several different angles, which kinda shows where the '3d' effect is just projected from 2D as you see the lines which your brain sees at the back of the structure, being projected onto the front of the cubes I'm fairly sure. But I'd agree with GRisdale, in that I'd expect that to give 'double exposures' of the 'set' All rather cleverly done. Would like to know how they did the effects to project though? edit[0]: errr.... vbulletin doesnt like urls? ... *tries again*edit[1]: ... ah no. Maybe this timeedit[2]: huzzah!edit[3]: Actually, on the video, you can see that the cubes above and below the center 'cube' are inset. I'd upload a snapshot, but I need to goto work! I'ts at 3:33 into the video. And it looks as though only the front face is used in the projection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 There were two projectors out front - Not really sure if both were used or one was a backup. The set structure was as Russ described but there were no black drapes involved. Festival tents are pretty dark anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cormac Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Hi,here's a link to the collective who put this and several other projects together.http://www.exyzt.net/tiki-index.php and another thread somewhere here around june which talked about it.Have a look for the itouch application in july.http://createdigitalmotion.com/ Best C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam M Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 amazing use of projection used there! so effective but so simple, but it must of taken ages to aline it all and come up with the sequence of projection. anyway thanks for sharing that vid with use all. its a great inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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