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2010 Olympic Rings

Nathan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:03:41 +0000

The 40 metre wide Olympic Rings in Vancouver during the 2010 winter Olympics were seen by millions of viewers as a backdrop to the accredited television media.

Urban Visuals was commissioned to create a number of animated sequences to play on the rings during special events and when winning medals were achieved by Canadian athletes.

We used Processing to create the animated sequences and to output them in the proprietary xml format the that lights required.

Watch the official unveiling of the rings, presented by the Premier of BC below:

Benny Benassi and Armin van Buuren

Nathan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:54:35 +0000

Urban Visuals’ latest production at the Vancouver Convention Centre was a big hit. Blueprint Events brought Benny Benassi and Armin van Buuren for a double header DJ show, and we provided Stage Design and visual production for the event.

We were so busy with the show that we didn’t get a chance to document, but we found these clips from a happy attendee.

Armin van Buuren

Benny Benassi

A long shot of the show.

As the first concert to be hosted at the Convention Centre, we had to be sure everything went smoothly and according to plan. The ten video projectors were driven all driven by Modul8 on one Mac Pro and three Macbook Pros. On the LED side, we had 600 nodes of Colorkinetics iflex and 14 CK Colorblaze units all driven by Madrix.

Here are some more photos:

LED Panels for Caprice 7 year

Nathan — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:13:48 +0000

Blue Pencil Productions just uploaded this video that was shot during the 7 year anniversary party for the caprice nightclub in vancouver. It has some great shots of our most recent LED panels, that we rented to the Caprice for their event. The panels are 12 inches by 75 inches with 100 LEDs at 3 inch spacing. They are bendable, flexible and lightweight and can be mounted in any orientation. For this installation we installed the panels as three columns that extended up behind the DJ booth. The six panels are mapped and driven by our Madrix control system.

Check out a spec sheet for the LED panels:

Samsung: Mapped building projection

konstantinos — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:19:44 +0000

We recently completed a project with Samsung and Vancouver’s Brandlive to celebrate the beginning of the Samsung activations at the 2010 Olympic Games. This project involved mapping christmas and winter sports visuals on to the Republic building in Vancouver. For a night the dormant panels of the aluminum facade became animated windows and 3D moving blocks.

Using the architectural details of the facade as part of the narrative implemented Samsung content and created several winter sports scenes. The project involved close work with Samsung and Brandlive staff, 3 days of testing with a 10k projector and a mapping process we created that allowed for the animations to me adjusted to the building surface on the fly. For the final day we used a Barco HD 20k projection system and a macbook pro laptop. The un-usually low contrast projection situation ( a lot of ambient light mixed with building surface material) made full 3D illusion difficult, but possible.