Greg Stevens, Director of Artistic Projection explained about the projection mapping that he and his company created for Miami Week 2017
“We had the great honor of projection mapping the SLS Hotel on South Beach, Miami for their amazing pool party during Miami Music Week this year. The city was alive, Ultra Music Festival was in full effect just a few miles away and pool parties were happening all along the beach. Our challenge was to create the largest video screen in the entire city, to do this we knew our best option was with an Ai and Blender 3D workflow. Ai to map and serve the content and Blender to create the 2K, custom mapped content.
Having Ai in our toolkit gives us the freedom to create with confidence. There were many windows to contend with and we needed to find a way to make them work for us instead of against us. This is where the 3D workflow makes Ai a clear choice for our projects. The visualizer allows us to test our content prior to the event. In fact, we are able to create the entire show offsite - saving us valuable set up time and keeping us ahead of schedule.
The hotel was at capacity so light shining through the windows needed to be kept to a minimum. Because of Ai's UV-Based mapping, we simply deleted the window faces from the model ahead of time. This effectively masked the windows so we could fire up the projectors without disturbing the guests.
My absolute favorite feature of Ai is having the ability to change the geometry of the 3D model from within Ai's output page, in real-time. Otherwise, we would have to switch between softwares. Not only is this faster but more accurate, nothing can replace real-time feedback.
Another key feature is the intuitive edge-blending, it was a piece of cake for us to manually blend the two 20K Barco Flex's into one seamless, pixel perfect image.
During the show we used a large touchscreen monitor to trigger clips and a basic MIDI controller to control layer intensities. I love how easy it is to run a live show from the performance page, especially with the ability to create editable scene triggers!"
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Video of the show available at https://vimeo.com/213018721
Photos Credit – Dylan Rives – Instagram @drive