everyone has those memories of
walking through a forest as a young kid
and it feels so magical
we try to recreate the sensation of a
magical experience
for adults
the playfulness is a very important part
of it so you're not just there
robotically trying to interact with the
system but it actually
feels somehow natural
we're marshmallows feast we've been
working together for
i guess over the last 10 years really on
different projects
we all come from different backgrounds
but we all
kind of had at one point the same goal
which is i think filmmaking because
ultimately we want to achieve a certain
thing which encompasses lots of
different disciplines we're in this
slightly new offshoot of that which is
interactive experiences
or real-time experiences
we're creating our own custom tools that
allow the creative process of either
content creation or
development
to be real-time
we're all sort of animators at heart and
i think that relationship between sound
and movement and shape is always sort of
at the heart of it
we kind of wanted to make a an organ out
of light beams and a part of that was
how to cap light beams so that we can
kind of represent the audio
the laser forest that was recently shown
for the first time in eindhoven at the
stripe festival
it
is a big musical instrument essentially
it has a series of rods
and at the end of each rod
when
it's tapped or when it's strummed
a laser beam
comes out at the top and creates a
cone
one thing that we've found in our work
there's an emotional human side to the
tech
that we try and
try and bring out of each project so for
instance with the quadrotors
what on paper looks like quite
a mechanical and cold affair
was actually quite an intimate and warm
experience um despite using these drones
we were looking into all sorts of ways
of breaking the barrier between the
stage and the audience the initial
brainstorm is how can we take a light
show bounce light to envelop the whole
audience so it becomes less about the
stage more about this immersive
experience
it led to this quadrotor tech which was
perfect
we wanted to create floating
wireframe meshes of light hang on a
minute there are these things which are
flying around
if we mount laser beams on them we can
create these
light meshes that we wanted to create
generally we have the ideas first of
what we want to achieve and then when we
see a piece of technology we say hang on
a minute yeah we can use that we can
hijack it to do this
or for example when we see a robot and
we'll say hang on a minute if we put a
camera on one of these and the screen on
the other and as that moves with it on
the thresher photo we can create a light
painting
we weren't allowed to show the car
because it was in the lead up to the um
the launch of the paris motor show so
essentially the brief was
draws create some attention that's
talking about the airflow of the car so
it's all about downforce it was quite
logical to be exploring airflow data
this technology element went in line
with our kind of approach because we
were looking to
sort of customizing existing
technologies to create this light
painting machine
it's funny how
something that's on screen takes what a
minute
it took us a good couple of days to
shoot
and it was quite a laborious process
with a colossal amount of
frames that were rendered
we're visual artists so we we don't want
to just tell a story the visual
aesthetic is a very important part of it
and what we've been doing for the past
couple of years is
still following that trying to create
something with visual aesthetics but
break away from a simple screen so
create a new canvas and i think all the
projects we're doing
even though they look quite different is
just again continuations of
exploring new canvases whether it be
using quad rotors to
you know bounce light around
whether it be projection mapping a
living room
and camera tracking
or if it's light painting for mclaren
again we're thinking of it as a new
canvas for ourselves
so every project is
it has that thread running through it i
think exploring new canvases
upon which we can create
our works
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