Live Design: "Hang a painting on a wall without a frame, and the work of art easily loses its impact. Put the right frame around that work, however, and it comes to life, capturing your imagination. So it was with two recent Richard Wagner productions by the LA Opera: four-part Ring des Nibelungen and Lohengrin. In keeping with today’s opera-house trend of embracing technology to attract audiences, LA Opera technical director Jeff Kleeman and his technical crew used MAXON’s Cinema 4D to create meticulously designed video projections. While magnifying the spectacle of the Ring cycle in its entirety, the projections added grit and atmosphere to Lohengrin.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Case Study: LA Opera Uses Cinema 4D For Wagner Productions
Live Design: "Hang a painting on a wall without a frame, and the work of art easily loses its impact. Put the right frame around that work, however, and it comes to life, capturing your imagination. So it was with two recent Richard Wagner productions by the LA Opera: four-part Ring des Nibelungen and Lohengrin. In keeping with today’s opera-house trend of embracing technology to attract audiences, LA Opera technical director Jeff Kleeman and his technical crew used MAXON’s Cinema 4D to create meticulously designed video projections. While magnifying the spectacle of the Ring cycle in its entirety, the projections added grit and atmosphere to Lohengrin.
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This seems like it is awful interesting what they are doing here. I would have loved if they went into more detail about how they did all of these things and what the 4D is. It sounds like it is just a projection thing that is digital that the run on some computers. I wonder if it is a system that you buy the entire package and them just plug and play and then go and start to design the show. Or is it a program that makes projections easy to do. The fact that there main designer works in every part of the design and helps with the designs in all areas. It would be interesting to see something like that hear at CMU.
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