Watch this. The things you can do with light and not CGI.

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Watch this. The things you can do with light and not CGI.

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

Amazing light show on the face of a building. I have no idea how this was done.

TH Nita Noor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf6WYxLl2DU

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Scott Smith said…
Projectors with very precise keystone alignment and a LOT of lumens.
December 17, 2011 at 8:29 PM
Don Johnson said…
Reminds me of the Rendezvous Houston light show by some comic book artist back in the 80's. Mobius I think. That was impressive. Not the music mind you. Really bad electronica crap but the light show and fireworks were awesome. Those little keytar thingies were funny too. I think it's a French thing. I looked for video on youtube but only found grainy docu-type stuff not worth posting.
December 17, 2011 at 8:53 PM
Andrew Maxwell said…
I've watched this before, way cool.
December 17, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Steve Powers (VAGolfDad) said…
I love the animal walking across the top
December 17, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Joe Lancaster said…
Jason ON To be fair this thing was almost entirely CGI.
December 18, 2011 at 2:58 AM
Jason ON said…
And you know this how, Joe Lancaster ?
December 18, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Joe Lancaster said…
Lol well they didn't film the building warping folding and collapsing and transforming itself around and things crawling through it etc
December 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Jason ON said…
That's the projector show. That was sone with a project, regular good old fashioned lights, and the building as the backdrop/screen.
December 18, 2011 at 9:08 AM
Joe Lancaster said…
And what was the video being projected?

I'll save a step... It's a technique called 3d Projection Mapping. A company called NuFormer does a lot of them and they are the ones that made them popular in advertising. They map the building in 3d, then create a 3D replica of it digitally. Then they do all kinds of cool CGI effects to it to create a video, then they 'virtually' project the video back onto their 3D model of the building facade (to get the shadows and angles etc of the video correct as it would appear to the audience) then they output a final video which is fed to several projectors which are lined up to precisely match the building in the video.
December 18, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Joe Lancaster said…
This is a really basic run down I just found if anyone cares... ;) 5 Gum - Behind the mapping - Audio Visual Architects
December 18, 2011 at 9:49 AM
Jason ON said…
But in the end we really don't know what was being projected: was is CGI, hand drawing, 3D modeling, etc? What we do know is this show was put on before a live crowd on the side of a building using a projector, or three, and not done on a computer with graphics overlaid on a building image.
December 18, 2011 at 10:24 AM
Scott Smith said…
The projection was CGI. The video you see is not editied. It's what the audience saw. Amazing stuff.
December 18, 2011 at 8:45 PM
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