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Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Christie Laser Projectors Elevate Real-Life Scenery Performance to New Heights with Mesmerizing Visuals
Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Christie 1DLP and 3DLP laser projectors are delivering mesmerizing visuals that accentuate the storytelling process for a large-scale, real-life scenery performance in Jiangxi province that celebrates traditional Huizhou culture.
Articles like these always urk me because they describe these beautiful shows and don't show ANY pictures. What's the point of reporting that the show had "mesmerizing visuals" if you don't show us. I do think it's super cool that these laser projectors are so powerful. I like the idea of using projections to create the color and texture of props and scenery. I would love to have a projector connected to a live camera filming another actor backstage so they are projected onto the set. I think it could be really cool if there is only one physical actor is on stage, the rest are projections and then at the end they start appearing. It would have to be the right play. Like something where the main character feels disconnected from the people around them
The advent of projectors in standard scenery will most definitely change the game even more than it is now. I heard conversations last year with TDs and Designers about how it’s a challenge to constantly design projection surfaces into the set. I saw little shop of horrors at the Pittsburgh public last year and they did a really good job of subtly boosting the scenery and changing it around with the help of projection. Scenic design will be forever changed soon because of that, especially because the projectors in this are so hyper-realistic. I will be interested to see the clever ways that creative teams are able to make 3D scenery that is interesting enough on its own, but blank enough that it can be projected on in multiple different ways to achieve different effects. I think the most impressive projection I have seen is at disney world onto the disney castle where they are able to map so precisely that crazy stuff can happen to it like melting.
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Articles like these always urk me because they describe these beautiful shows and don't show ANY pictures. What's the point of reporting that the show had "mesmerizing visuals" if you don't show us. I do think it's super cool that these laser projectors are so powerful. I like the idea of using projections to create the color and texture of props and scenery. I would love to have a projector connected to a live camera filming another actor backstage so they are projected onto the set. I think it could be really cool if there is only one physical actor is on stage, the rest are projections and then at the end they start appearing. It would have to be the right play. Like something where the main character feels disconnected from the people around them
The advent of projectors in standard scenery will most definitely change the game even more than it is now. I heard conversations last year with TDs and Designers about how it’s a challenge to constantly design projection surfaces into the set. I saw little shop of horrors at the Pittsburgh public last year and they did a really good job of subtly boosting the scenery and changing it around with the help of projection. Scenic design will be forever changed soon because of that, especially because the projectors in this are so hyper-realistic. I will be interested to see the clever ways that creative teams are able to make 3D scenery that is interesting enough on its own, but blank enough that it can be projected on in multiple different ways to achieve different effects. I think the most impressive projection I have seen is at disney world onto the disney castle where they are able to map so precisely that crazy stuff can happen to it like melting.
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