Cubezoid - Projection Mapped Stage Design at Goa

This particularly tasty morsel of stage design comes from the chefs at Darkroom, and throws projection mapping in to the mix with a rotating LED object. Fingerlicking good.

The accompanying technical description also shows a good workflow for 'traditional' VJ'ing in a world where HD mixers are few and far between:

We used three machines running Resolume Arena. Two machines were used to trigger clips to specific areas of the stage using a HD-resolution custom-made UV map. Clips for specific stage elements were dropped to respective layers that would automatically reposition them to fit the UV map using Resolume's layer properties. VJs were able to trigger selected stage elements or the full stage as one clip. Both machines were running an identical setup with two MIDI controllers for easy switching between VJs.

The third machine, master machine, was used for (a) crossfading between the VJ feeds incoming via 2 DVI inputs on a capture card and for (b) mapping onto the set. The machine had 5 active outputs: Resolume GUI, three projectors (left, right and centre) and the mirrored cube output resized accordingly and sent to a LED pixel mapper.

The side-boxes and side-strips were simply mirrored in Advanced Output. To map the stage side-boxes, which were rendered using an isometric camera, we used a system of rotated and repositioned null-opacity Layers, Layer Routers and Keystone Crop effects to cut the set into smaller easily-mappable slices without affecting the final UV map preview. Using a similar method we also achieved dynamic mapping of selected elements of the stage on other elements (i.e. mapping the content of the mirror cube onto the side-boxes) - essentially switching between different mapping presets via MIDI. This was particularly useful when we had to display logos and text on mirrored parts of the set.

Each of the VJ machines acted as a backup for the other. In the case of both machines crashing, we could trigger full stage UV maps on the master machine. In the case of the master machine crashing, two laptops and a switcher were used to provide a blackout feed to all the projectors (to prevent them from displaying system information) and a pre-recorded LED feed to the mirror cube.

Posted by Joris on Thursday January 24, 2013 at 14:48 Tags: Projection Mapping

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