Projects
It all happens while the house is dark.
A show is one night. The year before it is studies, scans, calibration, programming and rehearsal in an empty room. We are in that year, at whichever point you need us: live video for the stage, monumental projection mapping, interactive installation.
- 01Concept & initiation
- 02Objectives & planning
- 03Creation
- 04Operation
01 to 02
Design and engineering
What gets decided in the first weeks decides the rest. This is the cheapest moment to find out that a projector cannot reach, and the most expensive one to skip.
Projection Study
Projector positions and lens types, coverage, brightness and the pixel density that follows from them.
Calibration Study
Which calibration method suits the project, and the markers and cameras it needs, including where they go.
Tracking Study
Camera type, position and lens, and how optical markers get into props and costumes to track inside a defined volume.
Other services
Design Intent · System Schematics · Third-party Design Review
On this one
The projection study, before anything was hung.
Projector cones and a point cloud of the castle facade, resolved on a model while the site was still a parade ground. What the study promised is the frame on the right.
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo · Edinburgh Castle
03
Production
The core of it, and the reason we do this work. Geometry becomes a model, the model becomes a surface, and the surface finally holds an image.
3D acquisition
Scanning
Physical volume scanned to acquire the geometry: the step that decides whether everything after it lands.
UV Mapping
The texture space that lets a model be a projection surface.
Other services
Modeling
Preproduction
Previsualization
The whole show simulated (projection, sets, lighting) as a video file or in a headset.
Other services
Programming · Workshops
Installation
System Integration
Support to the integrator, so the equipment runs the way it was specified.
Other services
Factory Acceptance Testing · Site Acceptance Testing
Show programming
Automated Back-Up
Failsafe programming, so a malfunction does not become a dark stage.
External System Integration
Wired into automation, lighting and whatever else the other departments are running.
Other services
Media Import · Timeline Editing · VFX, Compositing & Grading
Operation and hand-over
Operation
Running a show is a job in itself. Our technicians can do it, or back up your own team.
Hand-over Training
On-site training for your team, so the show leaves with them and not with us.
Other services
System Configuration Guide · Show Operation Guide
On this one
Measuring a castle with light, then telling each projector what it owns.
Every projector assigned its patch, the overlap resolved, the result checked against the point cloud. Nobody in the stands ever sees the left frame, and it is the only reason the right one holds.
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo · Edinburgh Castle
03 to 04
When the product does not go far enough
Some projects need something that is not in the product line yet. Rather than talk you out of it, we build it, and it usually ends up in the next version for everyone.
- Initial analysis
- Proof of concept
- Research & development
- Prototyping
- Final testing
Five steps, always in that order. The last one runs in our lab, at your facility or on site, with you in the room.
04
After opening night
A permanent installation runs for years. Support is not an afterthought to that, it is most of it.
System Upgrade Integration
Support to the integrators during upgrade operations.
Remote Access Support
Our team reaching your servers from the lab.
Remote Electronic Support
A support infrastructure built up over years: a ticket, or a chat with the person who knows.
On this one
Two operators, one show, one of them not in the room.
The same project open on two machines at once, which is how a note from the floor gets answered while somebody else keeps programming.
Learning
So it leaves with you
A project we still have to fly to is a project we did not finish. Training is how the show becomes yours.
On-Site Training
Our team on your site, on your system, on your show.
Other services
Online Tutorials · In-Office Training · Remote Training
Five fields
The same method, at five very different scales.
Permanent installations
Running for years, maintained remotely.Stadium
Screens no codec has touched, and one chance.Touring
The same show, re-calibrated in a new room every week.Theatre
Tracking, automation, and a stage that moves.Architectural
A facade nobody built to be a screen.
Talk to us early
The first conversation is the one that changes the outcome. It is also free.
Why early
Every study on this page is cheaper than the problem it finds. A projection study costs days; a projector that cannot reach costs a truss, a re-hang and a week of the schedule.