Pixels in progress

SKP - Xian New Year Celebrations 2019-20. An immersive site specific light installation to work in conjunction with two separate classical orchestral performances. A Jason Bruges Studio project.

Project manager : Huajing Liu

Design, content development & implementation: Adam Heslop (Pixels In Progress)

Lighting system engineer : Joel Luther Braun

Rigging and Icon Beam fixtures by PRG

Overview of some of the lighting effects:

Technical Overview

All lighting content designed & developed in Cinema 4D using a custom built python plugin. The plugin facilitates content creation utilising the C4D mograph system. It also allows for controlling the lighting fixtures directly in realtime.

Finished content is exported from C4D using another custom tool which encodes the data for the lighting fixtures into a bitmap sequence. The bitmap sequence can then be played back through a D3 unit in conjunction with a Grand MA2 lighting desk for the overall show control.

Here’s a couple of clips of the C4D viewport visualisation and how that related to the lighting effects

System screenshots

Additional images

Courtesy of Jason Bruges Studio & SKP