Skullmapping returns with an innovative mapping project: Gallery Invasion

For execution, this Belgian studio has used a Panasonic PT-VZ570 projector in combination with a special mirror of the Dynamic Projection mounted in front of the projector lens. Programmable and motorized, the mirror can rotate 270 Degrees, as well as up and down, which allows you to project images throughout the room located in the gallery of Antoon in Leuven.

Gallery Invasion is the new project of the Belgian studio Skullmapping, formed by Filip Sterckx and Antoon Verbeeck, which again shows an innovative initiative after the realization of Le Petit Chef of which he already informed Digital AV Magazine and that has gotten five million views on YouTube

For this new job, that has allowed them to move from the world of food to the world of art, a PT-VZ570 projector has been used Panasonic, in combination with a special mirror of Dynamic Projection Institute mounted in front of the projector lens. Programmable and motorized, the mirror can rotate 270 Degrees, as well as up and down, which allows you to project images throughout the room.

This projector has been used because it incorporates WUXGA resolution (1929×1200) and the amount of lumens of suitable output for this space and this type of project (4.800). In addition, considered that the levels of black in projected images are close enough to the actual black.

Gallery Invasion is screened in Antoon's own gallery in Leuven (Belgium). On walls with pictures, the space is used to show his work as an artist. The installation includes a monkey as the protagonist, next to a small miniature character who paints a graffiti on the monkey's picture before shooting out of the room with the monkey behind. Jumping from frame to frame, characters travel all over space.

The PT-VZ570 projector has a compact size and offers a maintenance-free service life of 7.000 hours. The horizontal correction function, vertical and trapezoidal allows the angle projections essential for the Gallery Invasion project, with the equipment mounted vertically against the wall.

“For us this is first and foremost a research and development project with which we want to show what this technique allows. In this case, video is more important to us than live experience, and our intention is to recreate such large-scale initiatives for a larger audience”, explains Filip Sterckx.

The basic function for daylight environments of the PT-VZ570 allows to guarantee the brightness, the clarity and sharpness of images projected even in the bright areas of the gallery, where the works of art receive the illumination of the spotlights.

“Technically I was a challenge, because I had never worked with a mirror. This project is also an advance on what has been done with mirrors, since until now they had been used to project movements around graphics and video, not for a complex animation with characters who need to be at very specific points at very specific times. We have become accustomed to seeing mapping projects projected on all kinds of objects, but see characters moving freely on various walls, ceilings or even floors with a single projector and a discreet installation is quite magical”, adds Filip.

Filip used dynamic projection institute's MDC-X media server to program the mirror, so that it replicates the prepared motion in the animation.

Skullmapping also integrated audio into the story, for which they asked the sound designers of the agency Roundhouse create sound effects and distribute sound throughout the room when the action moves from left to right. Placing speakers on either side of the room, the sound can move around the gallery along with the animation to complete the experience.

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