Sunday, September 23, 2012
Limelight Projection Maps for the Skyway International Light Festival 2012 in Torun, Poland
projectionfreak.com: Limelight is a collective that creates monumental projection works. They’ve been fortunate enough to be able to present their work all over the world, and this most recent work is a great example of their inspiration.
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I have complete and utter respect for the people who have the ability to design and excecute project displays like this. Disney does an extremely similar thing to their Cinderella's Castle at the Walt Disney World Resort. The show is entitled "The Magic, the Memories, and You" (MMaY). Sadly this show is going to be replaced in the near future with an updated show. This show display used many of the same gimmicks as MMaY (protuding bricks, lifting/rotating the facade of the bulding.), but Disney adds own flare. Disney connects with its Photopass library and uses pictures from actual guests from the day. This is a cool experience vbecause sometimes you are able to see your self projected onto the castle. In today's world, projects are becoming more and more a thing. I think that what is being done with projections is actually quite spectacular and I cannot wait to see what happens in the coming years,
That video was amazing. To take an existing building in open air environment and create those scenes is amazing skill and technology. I was blown away by how visually stunning the video is and how much it looked real. I cannot imagine what will come of this technology in the years to come and amazing things people will create. Thinking of how it would be exciting to work along side these people and create physical scenery as well as projection scenery.
I have been fascinated by projection mapping since it became popular a few years ago. I would be really interested to know how long it takes to program the visual effects, digitally map the architecture, and tech the final product. I imagine it would be an incredibly delicate process. If the project moved by a fraction of an inch, it would translate into a difference of several feet by the time the image hit the architecture. There must be a large skill set involved in creating something like this. A person would need some kind of architecture background, projection skills, and computer programing skills. I would love to be able to see this process in person. I wonder what kind of things are involved in the tech process of such a display.
I love seeing these performances. The way that they match them to the building is fantastic. I love that they use such a large object as their canvas. The building can be a part of the show or can merely fade into the background depending on the whim of the designer. Projection mapping is definitely something that I would be interested in learning more about in the future.
WOW THAT IS AMAZING. I wish I could have seen that live. I have never seen such detailed, beautiful, and well executed projection mapping. It is absolutely incredible how real and three dimensional the images looked. I am anxious to see more of this as it becomes more popular. I'm also incredibly eager to see how the technology and implementation will progress in the next few years.
I have seen some of Limelight's work before, but I don't think this specific performance is towards the top end of their designs. The beginning of the performance was very well adapted to the building and used specific elements from this location. I disagree with the other people that commented about the majority of the projection. Although the remainder (and majority) of the performance was interesting, I didn't see much that integrated the elements within the building itself, only some cool 3D graphics that were masked to the shape of the building's outline.
Hi Everybody!
It's interesting to read your comments and see how different impressions you get while watching our artwork.
Just to give you all a bit of the background I have to say that we've done different kinds of large scale projections for nearly 10 years. The first 3d projection mapping projects we created were about 3-4 years ago and of course in the beginning we created mappings which were mainly about moving the architectural elements of the buildings in 3d. After couple of projects like that we arrived in a phase that this became a kind of boring and we started to focus on creating 3d mappings which have an additional artistic value. Therefore nowadays all our creations have a specific story connected to each building or location and this story usually is strongly connected to each location's culture and history or for example like in this festival to the theme of the event. That's why the story behind might not be obvious for you but it's always obvious for the audience watching it live because it's about their culture and history so they understand it and this is important for us because we do not create these shows for ourselves but for the people watching them live.
In this festival in Poland we had about 100.000 visitors in 5 nights in a city of 150.000 inhabitans.
At the end of the day we try to have a creation which is still precisely mapped on the facade and integrates the architectural elements but it's and not only about moving around geometrical figures in 3d.
In case you have any more questions just please feel free to ask and we hope to see you in one of our shows in the future!
Istvan
Limelightprojection.com
This is amazing, I wish that there were more of these type of things here in the USA. I tend to see a lot of articles about this type of projection in Europe and they happen all the time. I wonder how long it took them to make all of the contacts that they are showing and how they did it. I wonder how they did the 3d mapping of the building. I know that for Disney World they used a helicopter to scan the building and build the map that they use for the projections on to Cinderella’s Castle. I hope to see one of these type of events near t me so I can go and see it.
Okay so projection mapping is one of my most favorite things ever!! It's so impressive and creative and unique and wonderfully executes one of the things we try to do, make ordinary things extraordinary! It turned this wonderful old building into a live show, and brought it to life! I was truly in awe when the building started to turn around at about 4:40... so impressive! As was mentioned, Disney has done similar things and I have loved seeing all the different shows they've produced--at Disney World and at their other resorts around the world. Limelight's work here is just stunning. Having worked in multimedia for years I can only dream of having the opportunity of creating/ working on something like this... truly INCREDIBLE. (and it's pretty awesome that they commented on this thread too!)
When I first saw this video, I was very surprise and amazed. I loved how the company put up different episodes to show different, unique ideas throughout entire 6 minutes. It is fascinating how those days, the art is not only limited to a 2 dimensional place, but people use light projection to generate creative project. I love the color variation and creative visualization. I think the Limelight is very awesome collective that pursue futuristic view of art and travel different world. I wish one day the collective comes to my country to perform this amazing production.
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