Beverly Estrada: Projection 1 Background mapping

 

Concept:

              For this project I decided to keep it simple by focusing on 3 colors based on the building in the photo.

Technique:

              For this composition I used 4 different quads for each scene. I grouped every 4 quads to make it easier to know which belonged to what scene. Some quads have the same pattern, but I did have to change the speed, color and the direction it went. I did use about 4 to 5 masks in each scene and used the same mask tool for everything. I should have messed with the other mask tools because the poles were a bit hard to get the right shape. So, each scene is 30 seconds with a fade duration of 2 seconds. The first fade is an ease in, the second is linear, and the last one is an ease out.

Interpretation:

              The first scene just focuses on the white lines moving through out the building. The top lines move to the right while the bottom right is moving left. So, the bottom left quad is supposed to be where the lines are ending causing the strob effect. Which will eventually become the shape effects. The idea is that the strob will become squares, so in the next scene it becomes clearer. At the top, the line starts to become thicker and turn in to the color red. That leads the next two quads to be scatter red squares. In the last scene, the bottom left quad is the only one with red squares because it transitions from white squares. Then a new shape is introduced which is the sphere and there is a red and white.

Conner Hill Project 1: Background Mapping

Concept: I have always thought that my leasing office looked like a cool spot to try and projection map some visuals, so I created three scenes that have three different color schemes, to show how the building can become many different things with the help of projection mapping.

Techniques: For this project, I started by laying out some checkerboard quads onto my image. I started with the larger, more rectangle areas, and then began to add more quads to the smaller areas. I then used warping points on the areas that needed a little more shaping. I used masks and quads with the background image to remap the windows and plant so that the projection stays on the wall. I then began to add lines around all my quads, so that I could add some animated colors later. After all my quads and lines were set up and properly hugging the leasing office, I began to apply videos to each section and save the scenes so that I had three different color-themed scenes that could all be faded in and out of each other.

Interpretation: For the first composition, I wanted to create a green scene, so I used a video of a forest that I glitched out. I cut segments of the video and applied them to all the faces, and made the tracing lines green and slow.

The second composition had a red color scheme. I used a mixture of free VJ loops, and some of my own animations to fill the faces of my quads. If the animation wasn't already red, I could easily use the color effects inside Mad Mapper to adjust and get things to match up.

The third composition had a bright colorful theme. I made the lines white since all of the videos were bright colors and I Made the lines Move a little faster since the scene seemed to have more energy.

Bayang Flores: Projection 1 Background Mapping

// Concept
    For my project I decided to center my designs around three basic holidays-- New Year, Valentine's Day, and Halloween. Though I live in an apartment, I imagined what it would be like to use projection mapping to decorate accordingly during said holidays. I considered taking a photo of some of the houses around my neighborhood, but decided it might come off as creepy and opted to settle for my apartment exterior instead. 

// Technique
    To create the different compositions, I played around with the quad layers and added masks with the line tool to remove parts and pieces I didn't want the projections on. For each holiday, I looked for free video loops on YouTube I could download and map onto my scene. I primarily used the quad mask and the line tool. 

// Interpretation
    The Valentine's composition is my most simple composition, with just three basic areas and three separate video loops. With the New Year's composition, I decided to up the complexity and added more masks and more surfaces to project on. I also layered the text to scroll continuously through the three main surfaces of the image. Finally, the Halloween projection was the most complex of my compositions. I layered a zombie walk cycle along where their shadows would most likely fall along the walls and added separate quads for each face of the hedge along the walkway so that the shadow would wrap around it as they walked. I also used two separate quads in the center for the ghouls flying upward to have it be continuous and to scale. Lastly, I added some zombie hands in the window while the shadows walked past to give it a little bit of depth. 

//  Bonus?
    Just since it's my first time working with MadMapper, I took a little bit of time to play with the software. I ended up editing these images I had taken before with it, and it turned out pretty neat! I used the "caustics" preset to act as water reflections, and I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm excited to see how much this software can do! 

Ysatis Muniz: Projection 1 Background Mapping

 Concept: I decided to base my project off of Harry Styles and displayed visual representations of a few of his songs from his latest album.

Techniques: I started out with a checkerboard quad to map onto my surfaces. I did one quad for the whole house, then did 4 separate quads for the 4 windows on the house. I did another quad for the right side of the house and a text quad for the black rectangle above the right side of the house. Since my architecture consisted of rectangles it was pretty easy to map onto the surfaces. However, in some parts an object was interfering with the structure/quad, so for those parts I created a mask within that same quad so that the quad wouldn't overlap with the object. I had a hard time trying to figure out how to control the timing of my scenes/cues, but I think I eventually got it. I feel like I did it wrong but I set the fade duration for my scenes at 1 second and my cues at 30 seconds and set it for the auto play settings. To be honest I toyed around with this portion for like an hour so I don't know what I did haha.

Interpretation: For the first composition, I displayed Harry's song Watermelon Sugar. I used a gif of cartoon watermelons as the background and put 4 gifs from Harry's Watermelon Sugar music video on the 4 windows from the house. On the right side of the house I put a picture of Harry's Fine Line album cover, which is where the song is from (all three of his songs that I displayed are from Fine Line, but I used the album cover for Watermelon Sugar). Above the Fine Line album cover, I decided to have "WATERMELON SUGAR" scrolling across in a pinkish/reddish shade that resembles the color of the watermelons. I also decided to play a snippet of this song as you see the display. This all comes together to embody the song Watermelon Sugar.

For the second composition, I displayed Harry's song Golden. For the background I used a gif of sunflowers blowing in the wind; since they are golden and calm I thought that it would be great to have as the background for this song. On the 4 windows I displayed 4 different gifs from Harry's Golden music video. On the right side of the house I displayed a photo that resembles Harry's Fine Line album cover. This picture is from Harry's photoshoot for Fine Line. Since it's yellow I thought that it would tie in great with Golden. For the text banner, I have "GOLDEN" scrolling across in a yellow shade that matches the color of the background in Harry's photo underneath the text banner. I also decided to play a snippet of this song as you see the display. This all comes together to embody the song Golden.

For the third composition, I displayed Harry's song Adore You. For the background I used a gif of an animated koi fish swimming in a circle. On the 4 windows I displayed 4 different gifs from Harry's Adore You music video. On the right side of the house I displayed a photo of a drawing that Harry had represent him in his music video. For the text banner, I have "ADORE YOU" scrolling across in a reddish/orangeish shade that resembles the color of the koi fishes in the drawing of Harry. I also decided to play a snippet of this song as you see the display. This all comes together to embody the song Adore You.

Kenyon Landt: Projection 1 Backdrop Mapping

 

Concept: Shapes and motion with color i was going for simple shapes that had colors that worked with each other in order to create something that looked appealing to watch.

 

Techniques: I used multiple quads to create separate sections and i used masks with in those quads to cut out the things that i didn't want affected by the stuff happening in each of the quads.

Interpretations: I had 3 different color schemes one was cyan and pink, one was red and white, and the last one was green and red. Each of which had slight variations on how the color flowed around. the green and red was blocky. The pink and blue was more about flow. while the red and white was a mix of both.

Vanessa Le: Projection 1 Background Mapping

Concept:

For this project, I decided to revisit photos that I’ve taken in the past. I used pictures that I took last year when I went to Austin, Texas. All these images are interior based. I like the idea of having projections within a confined area, rather than outside. I feel like there is more space to project on. I wanted to use colors as my theme, but I didn’t want each composition to have the same color palette. So, I based each image off a certain color scheme; monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous. Each photo uses different generators from MadMapper, but each scene and composition uses a different color palette, but keeping the same color scheme.

Techniques:

The process for each composition is the same. I used the quad mask, in order to project a certain area of my image, and adding a mask to cover up any overlaps on objects in the image. I played around with the different settings for the generators that MadMapper had to offer. It felt repetitive using the generators, but using a predetermined color palette for my compositions made the difference.

Even though the generators remained the same for each photo backdrop, the colors were able to set the tone for the environment. Using a different type of color palette, helped me convey the difference it could make for the atmosphere. It helps emit a different feeling for each composition, despite having the same generators throughout.

 

Interpretations:

Monochromatic

This first project is very simple. I wanted to use an easy image so that I could get familiar with MadMapper. It starts off with a light and softer color, but ends with a very dark and heavy palette, which helps convey how colors affect the atmosphere of the room. 

Complimentary

Complimentary colors are one of my favorite color schemes. I used a lot more generators in this one, and thought about the different places I could project something onto this image. When I saw the paintings on the wall, I knew that I wanted to project onto the background. At first I used many different generators, but decided on using a form of repetition instead to make it seem more organized. 

Analogous

For this last project, I wanted to project onto the columns. It looked like fun, and I thought it would be very cool to see if this were to happen in real life. I also used a circle mask onto the back wall and the floor. The composition looked empty by just doing the columns, and I wanted to use a different kind of mask instead of the quad mask. 

 

 

Abigail George - Leonardo Wash

Concept
After seeing the 50th anniversary logo for Leonardo was a brain I knew I wanted to play off of its form in my design. My aim was to create an environment with an organic feel that resembled neuron pathways. After Melanie and Pablo created the 3D model of the brain logo, I knew it would be an interesting platform to place the reactive focal point.

Technique
I searched for materials that resembled organic cell movement, and I found a bubble like pattern. It had a rainbow spectrum of color. I started to section out the areas of the room that I wanted to be coated in that texture. It became the base for the walls. For the columns and cabinets, I used a tilted moving relay of the Leonardo covers; the pace matched the movement of the bubble texture. There was a door stationed on the right side of the room, so I found a swirling rainbow texture and overlaid it on there to create a bit of a portal vibe. The main piece was the brain. There was an animated line mask paired to the edges of the sculpture that reacted to sound. Underneath that I used a zoomed in animated GIF of a neuron firing as the main skin for it. I had to experiment with different audio reactions in order to make it fire in reaction to the sound in the room. In the end I had the position of the layer move according the amplitude feed and changed the threshold so that it wouldn't look choppy. Also, I duplicated the skin and decreased the opacity so that the brain would still have light when things were stagnant in the room. I felt that making this portion of the composition was the most fun, because I was chasing a visual flow and had the tools to make it happen and truly customize it to my liking.

Interpretation
The best take away for me was hearing about the reactions of the Leonardo staff that came into the room and enjoyed my room wash. It was my first time putting out my work for all sorts of people to see, as opposed to just my family or friends. Some of my close friends and my little brother showed up as well, which meant a lot to me. In the video I took, you can kind of see the way the light shown on people in the room. That to me, added an aesthetic and vibe to the entire room, past just the pretty visuals. Adding reactive components made it fun to turn up the music and enjoy company in the light towards the end of the night. It was truly a night I will remember.