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Examples.

ritchie4 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:34:23 +0000

Disney’s Haunted Mansion.

ritchie4 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:46:15 +0000

Disney’s theme park attraction ‘The Haunted Mansion’, features a really nice 3D projection of animated singing faces onto busts.

Inspirado!!

ritchie4 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:23:02 +0000

feedtank – Dance Floor Moves..

ritchie4 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:57:53 +0000

This is an interactive installation by a group of artists called feedtank, it uses the same premise as the tennis ball floor I saw in Changhi Airport. Its a dance floor thats projected onto the floor and reacts to the user walking over it, that disrupts he visuals which then return to their previous state.

Camille Utterback…

ritchie4 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:41:48 +0000

I set of on another journey into the world of research today and I have to say its a pleasant ride that I’m surprisingly enjoying! Today I came upon Camille Utterback, whom I believe Ant introduced us to during the first session we had on this project. She has an extensive catalog of work which is really quite diverse considering her work is based in interactive installations. I also like how she also dabbles in the commercial possibilities for interactive installations. I especially like her piece called “Untitled 5“, the fact that its based on the users movement and position in a given space really appeals to me.

More “Progress”…

ritchie4 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:55:57 +0000

Looked at the code Ant gave me in some more detail today, I’ve managed to get the height & width of the sprite changing now but now I need to work out the maths to get it to keep the sprites ratio when it changes size so that the sprite gets bigger and smaller instead of randomly changing the height & width with no relation to each other.

360° Projections

ritchie4 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:21:30 +0000

city on fire…

ritchie4 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:18:44 +0000

This installation is called City on Fire. Artists Thyra Hilden & Pio Diaz project fire onto famous european monuments, they have some crazy manifesto on their website about “destabilizing european cultural history” but their website also has some pretty good details of how they achieved the actual projections and the preparation they went through filming the actual fire they project. I really like this project because its quite grounded in fine art and built into a really modern piece of installation art.

tagtool…

ritchie4 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:59:31 +0000

Just saw this, its an interesting installation/tool called tagtool. To quote from the websites blurb. “The Tagtool is an open source instrument for live performance drawing & animation”. Its an instruments that they’ve developed from a tablet and projector, that the user can draw and animate on and project onto objects and buildings. On their website they have a really good reel of it being used in an urban environment, the bit with the crane is especially impressive.

War of The Worlds – Richard Burton’s Head…

ritchie4 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:28:08 +0000

Strangely on of the main inspirations for my project was watching one of the extras from “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of The Worlds, Live on Stage” DVD. It was a short featurette on how they created the giant talking head of Richard Burton for the stage. I found it a really interesting concept. Below is a short breakdown of their process…

*Incidently the company that handled the actual projections during the live show also supplies Stevie Marr with his equipment for the Maximo Park shows.

First the production team tested the idea of projection onto a face shape…

They then tested an animated speaking projection onto the face shape…

The final facial animations were completed in motion graphics software (After Effects? Combustion? Shake? Fusion?)

The head was tested on stage with stage lighting…

The final head during the live show…

Althought the final piece isn’t perfect, its an interesting approach to the problem of how to visualise a dead narrator.