Leandro Vigas took a trip through Europe last spring, with a few days in Berlin where he provided valuable assistance during a MAdmApping workshop Pedro Zaz of United VJs and I hosted. He had already started doing video mapping projects prior to that and it seems that his visit further refined is ideas about the medium. There is a simple efficiency of this installation along with a refined sensibility and variation of the graphical forms he is using to shift between both a compliment of the forms and their augmentation. There is also a very nice balance between the forms and the space.
Vertx Demo Reel
While the demo is from 2010, all of it could have certainly been done within the past year as well. Vertx was one of the first collectives to bedazzle my eyes with… eyes with Modul8 and MadMapper last year with their Spiral VortX:
And they just don’t stop experimenting either. As I was browsing through their Vimeo posts I noticed this clip…
In the past I have seen attempts at projections on organic surfaces, however this is by far the most convincing experience I have witnessed to date. It will be interesting to see how they take this approach further.
Manuals, manuals, manuals
Hello, hello!
Some updates this week in the manual department and other exciting things:
Firstly, this is a quick reminder again that we have released an Online Modules manual that contains step by step information about creating your own modules along with some recipes that will help you customize your control of Modul8.
Also available is an updated version of the printed and PDF manual. The formatting of the PDF version has been modified so you can use it in your iPad. The printed manual can be purchased when you log into yourspace.
French versions of both the printed and PDF versions have been released as well.
Our official partners Opticious have launched their own portal for Modul8 with information and Modul8 related activities can be found in that country.
With our collaborators 1024 architecture, we have just released version 1.1 of MadMapper! Read more about it on the MadMapper 1.1 blog page. If you already own Modul8 you can purchase MadMapper at a discount price. Log into the yourspace page for details.
Fresh & French: NYX goes to Shanghai
A very nice documentation of an installation in Shanghai, China by NYX. Most interesting to readers is likely to be the technical approach to using MadMapper. This is the ‘non-Cowboy’ approach of having carefully created content for a specific, preconceived sculpture where the role of MadMapper is used to warp the content so that it fits as precisely as possible on the sculpture. Being that this warping is shot with a time lapse you can see that doing this does take some time and patience in order to get it right. There is no arguing with the results and Modul8 is used to control the content.
MadMapper + Modul8 pipeline demo
One of the most frequently asked questions I get, be it in a workshop or through any other method people use to contact us, is “how can I send multiple layers of video from Modul8 to MadMapper?”
Frz made a nice clean tutorial for revealing the ’secret’ technique for doing this. But maybe you want to display an even larger variety of layers? Or as I prefer to call them within the context of MadMaPPER, ‘textures.’ Here is pleasant demonstration by DJ K-Tel that expands on this concept.