Blender used in a projection mapping in Barcelona

cekuhnen · November 30, 2011

Carlos Padial reported about recent performance art project where Blender was used in 3D content generation for a large scale projection mapping project in Barcelona.

Carlos writes:

I had been working in a projection mapping on the facade of Barcelona City Council during Mercè’ 11 Festival (Festes de la Mercè, September 2011) Blender was used along with 3dMax, Maya and After effects.
All 3d stuff in the video games scene was modeled and animated with blender, also some backgrounds and even some dinamic painting to simulate the wet from the rain (10:30, but hard to appreciate)
You can see liero’s 3d Pix script in action in the videogames scene (the pacman, 7:20)
I also used blender to make some fast compo setups with audio sync for the running painters scene (01:10) before to recompose it in AE (workflow mandatory circumstances ;P)
There is another show where we used blender, a performance of the Swan Lake Ballet, also with projection mapping over a fountain, where at least 3 scenes were made using Blender. Blender was also helpfull managing pointclouds (along with meshlab) and fixing model issues (specially with the Ciutadella Font model)

Here are two other movies the first a zoom shot and the second a wide angle shot of the performance. At 7:30 you can see the 3D part seen from a distance.

http://vimeo.com/30007890

Author cekuhnen

17 responses

Chris

30 November 2011 at 08:39

Very cool.

Zavigny

30 November 2011 at 08:56

WOW! That was truly wonderful! How imaginative and brilliant an idea, brought into actuality with terrific follow through. I am stunned by its beauty, and thankful for the inspiration. Blender is a most powerful artistic tool in the right hands. Thank you!

Sylvain Moisset

30 November 2011 at 10:23

I think this is the best building projection mapping I’ve ever seen.
I would realy like to know how to produce the video that will be projected in relation to the building geometry, the audience place and the projector place, so that the audience can feel this “trompe l’oeil” effect.

EnV

30 November 2011 at 10:26

This is incredibly beautiful and brilliant.

basse

30 November 2011 at 12:28

beautiful. i think these projections work best when doing the deconstruction and reconstruction of the architectual elements, playing with shadows and shapes of the actual building you are projecting on.. that makes it always feel like “whaaaat??”

not so much fan (even though the sheer size must be amazing to watch) of the way how it’s sometimes just used as canvas, and not as building.. for example the splattering of colours etc..

but.. amazing work.

TxRx

30 November 2011 at 12:40

Stunning work and a great example this sort of thing :D You can really see the hard work & fun in this piece. Well done.

Raimon

30 November 2011 at 12:59

Hi Carlos, congratulations!
I’m looking forward to get involved in this kind of Blenderisms ;).
Raimon

Triskelion

30 November 2011 at 13:46

That is really amazing. I would love to know how many artist worked on it? If it was just yourself I am gobsmacked.

double u

30 November 2011 at 16:25

Wish I could have been there. Would have been even more awesome than matching it here. Also, I could have told all those crazy people that flash on their cameras won’t make a picture of a projection look any better.