College - Projection Mapping

For this unit we were making a projection mapping installation based on adidas, for what we were projecting onto the tutors constructed a model of the three stripes logo out of card which would act as our surface to animate on, the installation would be held in a black tv studio so that the light leak from outside sources would be minimal.

The theme for our animations was 1988 japan, for this I did some research on what i wanted to have as my own personal sub-theme and ended up just going for a more generic neon lights appearance since I did not want to make it too obscure to being obvious was the most safe way.

We had a series of workshops before starting out own independent projects in order to teach use some techniques that we could use if we wanted, the first that we did was using after effects 3D layer style to composite compositions onto the planes of our projection and mask out what we didn't need.

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The next workshop was for Cinema 4D in which we were shown how to create a virtual 3D model of what we would be projecting onto and how to angle the camera in such a way that it would line up with what our final animations had to look like. Additionally we were also shown how to use the boele effect to mask our shapes in a 3D space to fit our needs, the tutorial was useful and was what made me decide to use 3D software to make my final animation.

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Now that I knew what my theme was going to be and had a better idea on what software I could use to make the animation I started using photoshop to create some simple concepts for what my projection was going to look like, within my design I had to include adidas in some way as well as relating my design to the 1988 era. You can also see in the image that my colour pallet was already decided for me by the tutors in order to give a more realistic live brief experience.

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Before continuing I decided to experiment in maya with how I would make my neon lights and how they would look after rendering in order to make sure I had a firm grasp on my technique before starting with my final piece, the logo I made is from a show called Kiznaiver and was just done as practice test for my process. The shows opening sequence partly inspired what I wanted to make because it includes a lot of bright lights and animations using their light trails. After making it I was happy with how it turned out and had gotten the hang of the technique used to make it so prepared to start on my final piece.

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This is how my final animation and design looked after I had masked out any light leaking that was happening in my 3D scene by taking the footage into after effects and applying my ask to the video, I was very happy with how it turned out but if I were to redo it I would make the scene a bit more crowded by lights and advertisements to more accurately reflect the city of Tokyo.

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On the day of the installation we went down to the TV dark room and set up our table, model and projector  as well as the other equipment we needed like the computer and speakers for music.

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Final installation day result

(Forgive the camera work, this was the only footage I could find)