hackaday.com: Take three industrial robots, two 4’ x 8’ canvases, and several powerful video projectors. Depending on who is doing the robot programming you may end up with a lot of broken glass and splinters, or you may end up with The Box. The latest video released by the creators project, The Box features industrial robots and projection mapping. We recently featured Disarm from the same channel.
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This video is incredible. It's truly amazing how all of these very complicated elements came together to make such a beautiful and mesmerizing display. The projections themselves are breathtaking and the 3D effects they create are awesome. The projection mapping and movement of the robots is just absolutely flawless. This is an awesome example of technology creating art. It really doesn't look real, mostly I think because of the camera movement. It really adds to the piece but just doesn't feel real. Overall I still think this an amazing work of art and would love to see some more versions with different projections and movements.
I saw this video a few weeks ago and as someone who is very interested in animation and projection mapping on dynamic surfaces I was awe-struck by this project. I really appreciated reading the article and watching the behind-the-scenes video to gain a deeper understanding of their process and how creative ideas like this develop. I really like the way they connected to magic. I believe using thematic elements to drive storytelling work is very powerful in art such as this or theatre in general.
After finding this video on another blog a few weeks ago my interest had been peeked and then I started watching a bunch of the other Bot & Dolly promo videos. But I hadn't yet watched the Behind the Scenes video for The Box project yet, which is just that much better. They've already brought these robots into the theatre with their work on Blue Man Group (http://www.botndolly.com/blue-man-group, and I hope to see more of it in the future. This technology is pretty amazing and allows the artist to do some pretty incredible things. Also, The Art Car is pretty cool (http://www.botndolly.com/chevy-art-car)
This is another example of technology coming together with art to create great masterpieces. There have been so many examples as of lately that constantly blow my mind. It also excites me that these kinds of pieces are not restricted to just large corporations with large funds and only for corporate events as promotions. I can't wait to see what is going to come of these collaborations in the future.
While I think that this is a brilliant use of the technologies that we have and combining them to make something great, I have heard a lot of talk from people who have seen this video over the last few weeks. Many people are talking about how this is going to revolutionize the entertainment world, how we use projection and automation and blah blah blah. What 90% of these people don't realize is that these "effects" are solely possible due to the EXACT angle of the camera. In front of a live audience this would lose all credibility. I am not trying to bash the creative ingeniousness of the creators of this project, I am merely trying to point out that this project is only effective through this video.
There is so much to talk about with this piece. The level of creativity, design and technology involved in this piece is absolutely astounding. By watching the making of box behind the scenes video ( found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2138372249&feature=iv&list=PL6uqON-thyrZcRFF8qVugHPFTytlJe1wV&src_vid=lX6JcybgDFo&v=y4ajXJ3nj1Q ) I was immersed ever deeper into the concepts. I love that the 5 elements of magic were used as an inspiration for this piece and that is what each projection entails. My particular favorites were the last two because of their sense of movement and depth through space. IV, Escape was jaw dropping because we see this man supposedly get swallowed my technology. I thought that was rather symbolic as man explores technology more and more. What I found really interesting was that nothing was left to just happen. Even the titles were projected. I also appreciate the use of color and scale in the project. The solid black and white keeps everything crisp, but entrancing. The size is perfect since we can see the flats up next to a grown man to get a sense of the scale of these flats. Noted in the video, the arms which move the flat through space make a lot of noise as they are large machines. I appreciate that instead of cutting the noise, the sound designers worked around it, using it to their advantage by adding compliments.
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