1. Clusters with 90,000 multi-colored plastic “grapes”
The installation, created by Canadian architects and designers of the company "Claude Cormier + Associes Inc.", is dedicated to the father of impressionism, the great Monet. Peculiar bunches of grapes different colors, which decorated the passage to the city hall, significantly contributed to improving the mood of the townspeople passing through it.
2. "River Flowing" illuminated books
This installation of 10,000 books, illuminated by light bulbs attached to them, could be seen during the Light in Winter festival, held in Melbourne (Australia) this “winter” - from June 1st to July 1st. At the end of the festival, guests of the event were allowed to take the books they liked with them.
3. Glowing Sumida River in Tokyo 
On May 5th of this year, Tokyo hosted the two-day Hotaru Festival, in honor of which 100,000 LED blue balloons were released along the Sumida River, which flows through the center of the city. The light installation was called “Stars for Prayer,” and the balls themselves represented fireflies, loved and revered by the Japanese. The LED bulbs, according to Panasonic, which provided them, were fully charged sunlight, and their size was large enough that the fish could not swallow them.
4. Glowing leaves flying in the wind
This amazing installation was created by London designer Paul Cocksedge for the Festival of Lights in Lyon (France), held in 2011. A 25-meter-long light composition decorated the courtyard of the Hotel De Ville.
5. Horses running along the river
An installation of life-size horse sculptures made from dead apple trees, created by Richard Morse and installed in the Grand River. According to the author, she personifies the struggle and preservation that should accompany us when we experience difficult situations in life.
6. Multi-colored “umbrella” canopy
The Aguitagueda art festival graced the streets of Portugal this summer. Two of them were decorated with multi-colored canopies made of colorful umbrellas, which not only created a feeling of magic, floating in the air on invisible wires, but also hid residents and guests of the city from the sultry sun.
7. Interactive heart of all lovers
This 3-meter light installation could be seen on February 14 in New York in Times Square. The huge red heart was created by Danish architecture firm BIG using 400 LED clear acrylic tubes. As soon as people standing nearby touched each other, the tubes began to pulsate with scarlet-red light. The fact is that as people gathered in the square, their steps were collected into energy, which turned into light. This is how people helped their hearts burn brighter and brighter. How else can one interpret such an installation on such a holiday? - Love to everyone!
8. Swarovski Dream Cloud
This stunning cloud of 10,000 Swarovski crystals held together with fine wire mesh was created by landscape designers Andy Kao and Xavier Perrault in collaboration with JP Poll of Bodega Architecture. A cloud graces the Arbor Terrace in Georgetown (Washington State, USA).
9. Interactive "Cloud"
An installation under this name, created by Canadian artist Caitling Brown, could be seen for one day in September this year at the Nuit Blanche festival in Calgary. To create "The Cloud" it took more than 6,000 light bulbs - new and burnt-out incandescent light bulbs, as well as fluorescent light bulbs - and strings to pull, turning on one or another light bulb. Anyone could “get caught in the rain” from the ropes, thereby creating the illusion that lightning was flashing in the cloud.
10. LED Cathedral
This magnificent light installation of 55,000 LED bulbs was created for the Ghent Festival of Lights (Belgium). Magic lights at the entrance to the cathedral invited you to stroll along the 27-meter gallery, fabulously flooded with light. This amazing installation, like all those presented here, must be seen at least once to believe that such beauty exists.
Olafur Eliasson is a contemporary Danish-Icelandic artist, known for large-scale art installations that use simple elements and phenomena such as light, water, temperature, and pressure to enhance the effect. The artist works on a number of projects in the field of urbanism in many cities around the world. And in 2003, Olafur Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale.
Olafur Eliasson. Biography
Born in Copenhagen in 1967. His parents moved to Denmark from Iceland. His father worked as a cook, his mother was a seamstress. When Olafuru was 8 years old, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother and stepfather, a stockbroker.
Olafur himself considers breakdancing to be his first creative attempts. In the mid-1980s, he and his school friends created a group called the Harlem Gun Crew. The guys performed in clubs and on dance floors for 4 years and even won the Scandinavian Championship.
Between 1989 and 1995 Olafur Eliasso n studied at the Royal Danish Academy fine arts. In 1990, he received a scholarship from the Academy and went to New York, where he began working as an assistant to artist Christian Eckhart in Brooklyn.
After receiving a degree from the Academy, he opened a studio in Berlin - in an old depot near the Hamburger station. In 2008 the studio Eliasson moved to a former brewery in Prenzlauer Berg.
In 1996, the artist began collaborating with Einar Thorstein, an expert in architecture and geometry. First them general product became a stainless steel dome, more than 9 meters wide and 2 meters high. It was placed as if it were growing out of the ground, being part of something much larger, hidden from view underground.
In 2009-2014 he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. During this period, he opened the Institute of Spatial Experiments in his studio. And since 2014, he has been a professor at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Ababa.
Olafur Eliasson. Famous works
Project "Weather" at Tate Modern in London
The project was installed in 2003 as part of the famous “Unilevel” series. Using a mixture of water and sugar, as well as humidifiers and hundreds of monochrome light bulbs that emitted yellow light, Eliasson created a kind of fog in one of the gallery halls. At the same time, the ceiling was mirrored, and visitors could see themselves - small figures in the fog. Running for 6 months, the exhibition attracted 2 million visitors, many repeat visitors.
Project "Weather"
Light installations
The work “Room of the same color” (1998) represents a corridor illuminated by yellow mono-frequency pipes. Walking through it, the visitor sees all the surrounding objects in black and white. By the way, this installation was once presented at the PinchukArtCentre along with other works Olafur Eliasson.
The work “Your Blind Passenger” (2010), commissioned by the museum contemporary art Arkena is a 90-meter tunnel filled with thick fog, along which the visitor should move, I rely rather on my sixth sense.
Project "Green River"
Having discovered in 1998 the existence of readily available non-toxic uranine powder, which is used to track leaks in water supply systems, he began to actively use it in his installations. The fact is that uranine colors water with an acidic fluorescent green color. First Eliasson used it in 1998 at the Berlin Biennale, pouring a handful of powder into the Spree River near Museum Island. Later experiments with the safe dye were carried out in Norway, Bremen, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Tokyo - and always without prior notice.
Project "Green River"
Icelandic photos
Periodically presents grids of various color photographs taken exclusively in Iceland. Each group focuses on a specific subject: volcanoes, hot springs, authentic huts. In its first episode Eliasson tried to remove all the bridges in Iceland. He often takes his photographs from the air, on a rented plane.
Icelandic photos
"Your mobile expectations"- general project Olafur Eliasson and the BMW company, in which the artist transformed the 16th art car of this company by applying layers of ice to the car body by spraying 530 liters of water onto special rods and meshes. The created sculpture glowed from within. In 2007-2008, the project “Your Mobile Expectations” was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco in a special temperature-controlled room, and in 2008 at the Pinakothek of Contemporary Art in Munich. Let us remind you that racing cars BMW has already painted such famous contemporary artists, like , Jeff Koons and others.
Project "Your Mobile Expectations"
"New York Falls"- created Olafur Eliasson commissioned by the Public Art Fund for four artificial waterfalls in New York Harbor, namely at the Pier, under the Brooklyn Bridge, at the Brooklyn Pier and on Governors Islands. The installation was in effect from June 26 to October 13, 2008. Its creation cost $15.5 million and, according to opinion, became Eliasson, the perfect way pay attention to strength and potential natural resources. After sunset, each waterfall was illuminated, creating a stunning impression.
New York Falls Project on the Brooklyn Bridge
"Parliament of Reality"- permanent work housed at Bard College in New York. The installation is based on the form of the original Icelandic parliament - one of the earliest democratic forums. The artist conceived this project as a place where students can relax, discuss ideas, or just chat. The Parliament of Reality emphasizes that negotiation must be at the core of any educational scheme. The project is an artificial island surrounded by a lake, trees and wild grasses.
"Your Rainbow Panorama"- Job Olafur Eliasson, which is a round 150-meter corridor with a diameter of 52 meters, made of glass in all colors of the rainbow and placed on the roof of the Art Museum in Aarhus in 2011. Visitors, walking along the corridor, can admire the city panorama. The production of Your Rainbow Panorama cost DKK 60 million and was financed by the Realdania Foundation.
Project "Your Rainbow Panorama".
"Contact"- exhibition of works Olafur Eliasson, opened at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris on December 17, 2015. Moving from room to room, visitors became part of a choreography of darkness, light, geometry and reflection. You can see many photos from the Contact exhibition.
Exhibition "Contact" in Paris
Olafur Eliasson. Exhibitions and collections
Participant of more than 60 solo exhibitions, his works are currently presented at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and others.
Work on the art market Olafur Eliasson represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Koyanaji Gallery in Tokyo, PKM Gallery in Seoul and Neugarriemschneider Gallery in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson. Personal life
He is married to Marienne Krogh Jensen, an art historian whom he met when she curated the Danish Pavilion at the 1997 São Paulo Biennale in Portugal. They adopted two children, a boy in 2003 and a girl in 2006, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The family lives in a house designed by architect Andreas Laurits Clemensen in Hellerup near Copenhagen.
Acrylic in architecture
Plexiglas and light are the ideal combination for creating decorative compositions that surprise with their novelty and creativity. Light radiation acquires a magical shine when reflected in glossy or matte acrylic glass. Light has the ability to penetrate the structure of acrylic, merge with it, forming a completely new “element” that can be admired forever. The technique of combining acrylic and light is used by many modern innovative designers who create extraordinary lamps from plexiglass.
Light geometry: plexiglass lamps from Carlo Bernardini
Italian artist Carlo Bernardini became famous for his light masterpieces created using fiber optic cables. In some works, the artist uses angular blanks of transparent acrylic glass. To see the clear shape of the light geometric shapes, you need to choose a strictly defined point of view. Otherwise, the fiber optic threads look like a chaotic glowing labyrinth. The sculptures are extremely popular all over the world and are considered an example of an innovative approach to creating design compositions.
Art installation Fish Bellies: exclusive plexiglass lamps
American designers Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock created an extraordinary lighting composition, each element of which has a ring shape and consists of several layers of matte acrylic. Multi-colored acrylic elements look like glowing fish. The structure frame is made of steel, LED lamps are used for lighting. Lighting modes can be changed using the touch control system. To place their masterpiece, the authors of the project chose the park of the University of San Marcos, Texas, USA.
According to the designers, the plexiglass lamps contain symbolic meaning: The installation demonstrates the similarity of the richness of biological processes occurring in the nearby San Marcos River and the diversity of the student community. Students enjoy spending time near the Fish Bellies, climbing to the upper levels of the structure, relaxing inside the rings, and perhaps reflecting on the unity of humanity with nature. Being in a kind of niche, the student maintains his individual space without moving away from society - this is how Joe OConnell and Blessing Hancock see the installation. Today, the composition is not only a symbol of the college town in San Marcos, but a world-famous sculpture.
A labyrinth of rainbow plexiglass lamps in China
In the city of Hainan (China), a unique LED installation with plexiglass lamps “YǓZHÒU” was created. The project was implemented for the exhibition “Luneng Sanya Bay Light and Art Festival”. The 2.5-meter-high structure looks like a labyrinth, consisting of acrylic panels covered with self-adhesive film of various colors. Due to the presence of this film, a bright rainbow glow appears. The colors change as participants move through the maze.
The panels are also decorated with milled patterns in the form of circles. LED radiation illuminates these elements. Numerous shining circles have a visual resemblance to soap bubbles. Ribbon light sources are located at the base of plexiglass lamps. Acrylic panels located around the perimeter of the installation are covered with a mirror reflective film, creating the effect of infinite space.
Mirror surfaces, rainbow colors, light from plexiglass lamps with changing shades - all this forms an amazing, mesmerizing picture and makes the installation truly unique.
Exclusive lamps made of plexiglass to order
In addition to the world-famous designer light installations presented above, there is great amount other modifications of lamps that cause delight and deserve your attention. Let's take a closer look at the review of creative plexiglass lamps. Our company is ready to bring any of these ideas to life.
Wave-shaped lamps made of molded plexiglass
The visual impression is created that the lamps are made of a thin luminous canvas fluttering in the wind. But this is not frozen fabric, but thin plexiglass processed by thermal molding. For the manufacture of asymmetrical lamps, manual thermoforming is used: the workpiece is heated in an oven, becomes plastic - in this state it can be given any shape. Working with thin plexiglass is not easy, one wrong move can lead to defects, but our specialists have extensive experience in performing such operations. Thanks to the professionalism of our company’s craftsmen, we can produce wave-shaped lamps with unique, complex shapes.
Block lamps
Such lamps are dominated by strict lines and shapes. The main structural elements are rectangular blocks made of transparent or colored plexiglass. There are many design options: the blocks can be single or combined with each other into one design composition. From rectangular blocks you can make a night light, table lamp, floor lamp, sconce or chandelier. A pattern or texture can be engraved on the surface of the plexiglass - such decor shines softly in the rays of LED lighting.
Sphere and hemisphere lamps
Using plexiglass blowing technology, we can produce spherical and hemispherical lamps of any color and size. We blow not only regular shapes, but also hemispheres in the form of flat lenses, egg-shaped structures, hemispheres with an oval or rectangular base, etc. By gluing two halves, we produce spherical lamps of various types.
Exclusive lamps of original shapes
Plexiglas lamps can have the most unexpected shapes. Our capabilities allow us to implement bold design solutions. In our work we use modern technologies processing of plexiglass on CNC machines - milling, engraving, chemical gluing, thermoforming in an oven on dies, vacuum forming, blowing, bending, polishing.
We work with both transparent and colored plexiglass from leading European manufacturers. Therefore, if you are looking for a responsible contractor for the manufacture of a lamp unusual shape, contact us!
The AkrilChic company produces original custom-made plexiglass lamps of any complexity. Our talented designers generate amazing ideas, the implementation of which is carried out in our own manufacturing plant companies. To become a co-author and participant in the exciting process of giving birth to an acrylic masterpiece, just call us. We will make your dream come true!
Date of creation: 31 JAN 2016 Author "Akrilshik"Implemented works
Transparent chandeliers for exhibition
Transparent chandeliers for the exhibition “Smells. The invisible beauty of St. Petersburg"
Illustration: Polina Breeva
Starts on September 26 in Moscow international festival"Circle of Light" As the organizers promise, during the event, lighting designers and professionals in the field of 2D and 3D graphics will show multimedia and light installations in the architectural space of Moscow. Let's figure out how this grand show works. Let's start in order.
Lighting design is the development and design of lighting and light environment for a specific space or object, taking into account the aesthetic perception of the object (for example, if a building stands out with its beautiful bas-relief, it must be emphasized with the help of light and shadow), its ergonomic aspect (lighting functionality, the ability of light to influence on comfort, performance and general condition of a person) and energy efficiency (are there any over-lit areas, is the lighting standard exceeded according to the documents, etc.).
Many people love to walk around Moscow at night - it becomes very beautiful and spectacular. This is mainly due to the lighting designers. To illuminate the Bolshoi Theater so that it looks even more beautiful, to create a cozy soft light in the alleys of Gorky Park - this is all their task.
2D and 3D graphics are two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics, respectively. The letter D comes from the English dimensions – measurement, that is, literally “2 dimensions” and “3 dimensions”. This computer graphics, that is, computers create and synthesize an image, and then process the visual and visual information, obtained from real world. That is, the way St. Basil's Cathedral is destroyed and built right before your eyes is simulated on a computer, using the real architecture of the cathedral.
Lighting designers and graphic artists create light installations - a key element of the festival. A light installation is a spatial composition created from various light elements and representing a single whole. Lamps, spotlights, projectors, lasers - this is what the technical part of the light installation consists of.
The entire composition “comes to life” thanks to video mapping (3D mapping) – 3D projection onto a physical object environment taking into account its geometry and location in space.
Video mapping requires a 3D computer model of the object onto which the projection is planned. It is created by engineers visiting the site. They photograph it and take measurements. If the object is relatively simple, then photographs and measurements are sufficient; if not, specialists are needed to conduct a full laser scan of the building.
The resulting model is then subjected to the changes planned in the script on a computer. Based on the measurements obtained, the number of projectors required in the installation is also calculated. For example, the façade of the main pavilion at VDNKh requires 18 projectors. By the way, video mapping requires extremely powerful technology. For comparison - Street light this is 210 lumens, and a projector in a light installation starts from 20,000 lumens.
Another important stage work - bringing the picture into one whole. Each projector shows part of the image, they overlap each other and need to be adjusted according to indicators - brightness, saturation.
But why do all these images seem real to us? First of all, you need to remember the trick: 3D video mapping can be seen without special glasses, but only from a certain position. If a person moves, his angle of view changes and the effect disappears.
In general, the mechanism is as follows - instead of simultaneously viewing the image, the video signal is split into two color channels (usually red and blue). A dynamic flat color monocular image is processed in such a way that a constant video signal is supplied to one eye (for example, the red channel), and a signal with a short time delay from the changed dynamic scene is supplied to the second (blue channel). Due to the movement of objects in the scene, human brain gets a “volumetric image” (but only if the foreground objects are either shifted or rotated - a smooth change of position allows you to maintain the connection between the images and their position in space, without changing the time interval).
Natalya Zhabina, Child Center scientific discoveries"InnoPark"
About "City Physics"
Every day, when we wake up in the morning, we are immersed in a city full of textures, sounds and colors. While we go to work and walk in the park, a million questions come to our minds about how everything around us works in this huge metropolis. Why under us when a metro train passes under us? And can it happen in Moscow? What are people from outer space like?
Without the installations of the Sila Sveta studio it is difficult to imagine not only the nightlife, but also the general cultural life of Moscow: large-scale parties of the Arma17 promo group, the Outline festival, mapping on the building Bolshoi Theater, the main building of Moscow State University, the arch of Gorky Park and wherever else. These same people are the authors of the permanent installation in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War and light show for Polina Gagarina at Eurovision. Not long ago, the company opened an office in Los Angeles, and with it came participation in the America’s Got Talent show and the Coachella festival. One of the founders of the studio, Alexander Us, spoke about the history of “Force of Light”, the role of “Russian rave” in its destiny, classics, rock and his best installations.
How I got into business
I never thought that I would be fascinated by light. I was a journalist: I wrote about cars and drove them. At the same time, I dreamed of making a movie and came up with various scenarios for myself. At one of the parties in 2005, I met businessman Dima Antonov. He brought the first lighting device to Moscow - a giant slide projector. That fateful evening, when I saw the huge projection on the house, I was stunned by its capabilities and power. We sold them for 700 thousand rubles.
I came up with the name Sila Sveta, which seemed very pretentious to me at the time, but we were sure that we needed a memorable phrase.
Director Lev Levinson found us and taught us how to make a show. When we had 14 devices, I came up with the name “Sila Sveta”, which seemed very pretentious to me at the time, but we were sure that we needed a memorable phrase. At first it seemed to me that soon all this would collapse at some point. Doubts were fueled by people from the industry with the words “yes, your mapping is a story for a maximum of a year.” Very important event for Sila Sveta it was the appearance of a partner in the person of Alexey Rozov. He is responsible for production and finance. Nine years have passed, and we continue to grow and develop, and it seems that this will last for a long time. The main thing is to ask yourself more often why you are doing all this. If the answer is “Money,” then you’re screwed. This is about something else.
About the first projects
Our first project - in 2008 we illuminated the Ostankino TV tower. The crisis began, there were no orders. I left everything and went to India, where my child was born. City Day has arrived in Moscow. We have again ordered a projection on the Ostankino Tower and another Poklonnaya Gora. I returned to Moscow, we revived all the projectors, paid off debts for the fee and earned money for new equipment. And the Circle of Light festival came.
We hired two video designers and made Rapping Mapping, for which we received the Grand Prix. The playpen was talking to itself in the voice of Vladi from “Casta” - the house was rapping. And after that the orders went well.
Also a very important event was that the “Power of Light” had a partner Alexey Rozov. He is now in charge of production and finance.
The second powerful stage was the collaboration with Stereotactic. We did a Christmas tree mapping in Armagh in 2011, and it worked really well.
9 years have passed, and we continue to grow and develop and it looks like this will last for a long time
How much does it cost
If you want to make an installation, you need to make friends in the lighting and rental businesses. If you have shown your creativity to distributors who have equipment, they will give it to you. If you go straight ahead, it is very expensive. What we do at Outline, in Arma, directly according to the estimates of the Power of Light, would sometimes cost tens of millions of rubles. We did this for other amounts.
About technotheater and the cancellation of Outline
Choreographer Oleg Glushkov had a project on the theme of dance and puppets. I suggested placing a huge puppet on the main dance floor of the failed Outline festival, and he agreed to choreograph it. I have long wanted to make a technotheater, with a stage and actors. It took a very long time to choose what kind of puppet it should be. There were different ideas, but we wanted to take a blank so that it would not take on anything other than the shape. Then we started studying puppeteering. It turned out to be a separate world - how to make everything move, they began to study mechanisms.
I remember I didn’t believe that the festival was cancelled. I was at home then, went to the site, climbed over the fence past the police to get there.
We wanted her to go on the dance floor, but it turned out to be too expensive. I remember I didn’t believe that the festival was cancelled. I was at home then, went to the site, climbed over the fence past the police to get there. The guys and I locked ourselves in the hangar and filmed a reporting video. This was the most important thing for us at that time - the opportunity to capture. We launched the entire installation while the police walked around the plant.
How installations are made
Abel (Arma17 co-founder Natasha Abel - Ed.) told me about the closure of Arma six months in advance and asked me to come up with an installation. We started thinking about the image. They decided that “Arma” is made by people, so they need to hang their heads big time. I really like the 1927 film Metropolis. There was a metal robotic woman whose head we used as a prototype. Some kind of androgyne - either a woman, or a man, or a robot, or not. I decided that the object should be huge, five meters, so that the audience would be amazed.
After we did everything, the technical director of “Arma” said to me: “Sanya, you missed, I don’t understand how to insert it here, it’s too big.” And we spent a lot of money. I come, we somehow stuff it in. Our engineer was afraid that his head would fall. He was paranoid and had to be sent home. Naturally, he couldn’t sleep, he called constantly. We answered: “Everything is fine, my head is in the right place.”
Initially, however, there was a different concept. I wanted to completely destroy the wall at the back of the Armagh, build a prop room and slowly destroy it during the party so that light would start leaking in. What was needed was the effect of gradual destruction and the end of the world. We were not allowed, and we began to think about what image would be best to make.
About Mumiy Troll and Bekmambetov
I always want to work on a large scale; this doesn’t work in clubs. Now we are doing a concert with the Mumiy Troll group, and this is an outlet. There was a strange chain of connections with him. I have a friend Yura Kolokolnikov, an actor. As a person who talks about what he loves, he talked about Sila Sveta at a cinema party. This, in my opinion, reached Bekmambetov, and he already recommended us to Lagutenko. Ilya divided his album “Morskaya” into three parts according to semantic blocks that are completely unknown to me. We wanted this scene to look three different times. You come to a concert, first you look at one thing, then with the help of kinetics or light you get another picture, then - again - a third. But still, the main object became the circle as a symbol of the East and the album cover. And also a circle - such a shape that whatever you write into it will look good.
About the tasks of the director
First, you need to come up with main idea, as well as imagine how the show would look and work. Next, do not give in to provocations and carry the original idea to the end. Already during work, my task as a director is to connect everything together. You, as a conductor, control each of the services: lighting, video, actors or musicians, depending on the task. It is dangerous to constantly go to meetings. You become a manager and it annoys me, you can get a lot of orders and then the creative part of your brain shuts down. I feel this from time to time. Creativity is a muscle that needs to be trained, so, of course, I like doing projects with my hands more. You start working with the material, you become a practitioner.
For the most part, we are artisans; over time, we just found a beauty formula and work according to it. But when we work in clubs and festivals, we get our artist. It's always an experiment where the ending is unknown.
About the time of implementation of the idea
An idea can take six months to form. Sometimes it happens quickly, and sometimes it takes time for it to ripen. The installations at Arma took three months to mature. With Mumiy Troll it turned out differently: I have a notebook with ideas, which I use if possible. So, I have long wanted to work with a projection circle. When you create it directly, things go faster. You have bones, you need them to be covered with meat. Accordingly, painting pictures and creating images themselves takes about a month. The third stage is production, when designers draw all the details and bring the entire project to completion. It all depends on the size of the show, but if it’s an hour-long concert, it takes about a month and a half. As a result, from three months to six months, but this is extended over time.
Programs you need to know
If you're a one-man band, you need to know Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, where the first sketches are created. Then you need to master a 3D package, the most advanced graphics program is Houdini. You must be able to model and animate. Plus Adobe After Effects, in which you do the coloring.
In addition, you must be able to use mapping programs.
We used 80 projectors on the façade of the Ukraina Hotel in honor of its 60th anniversary. They need to be positioned correctly, the lenses must be known, and the brightness must be calculated using measuring instruments. All this can be done in the program, and then physically. But this may not be enough; you need to know the light remote control with which you program the light.
It's dangerous to go to meetings all the time. You become a manager and it annoys me, you can get a lot of orders and then the creative part of your brain shuts down
About the required skills
Designers come to this art direction and make mistakes. In our business, we need to think not in terms of the screen, but in volume, taking everything into account, including the weather and the mood of the public. In addition to graphics, it is important to understand the substance of the show. You can screw up 3D graphics as much as you like, but the effect is zero. You need to have directing and theater skills.
About the cost and features of the site
If you want to make an installation, you need to make friends in the lighting and rental businesses. If you have shown your creativity to distributors who have equipment, they will give it to you. If you go straight ahead, it is very expensive. What we do at Outline, in Arma, according to Sila Sveta’s estimates, would sometimes cost tens of millions of rubles. We did this for other amounts.
Due to the fact that each site is different (and this is one of the features of this business), it is impossible to create a price list or develop a ready-made scheme. Each site has its own characteristics, from the location to the materials of the house.