Workshop: All You Need To Know About Projection Mapping
The workshop began with Fariz – the co-founder of Filamen sharing his journey in projection mapping where he had no prior knowledge of it. His first success story was to experiment with placing the projector on a four wheel drive, which music video will be shown on the buildings when vehicles drove by. The projector was powered by a car battery which he had to revved up a few times!
Both Fariz and Abdul were hugely interested in the creative potential of light projection with motion graphics, as lights are non-destructive and it is a sustainable option of giving a different personality to the concrete-built environment. For example, Filamen re-imagined the plain sight of the white facade of Town Hall of Penang and Francis Light’s residence Suffolk House with not only illuminated artworks but also with a narration.
As Abdul reminded us how projection mapping – it is a technique used to deliver your story. “If your content is not interesting, it will only look flat on the video.” Hence, Filamen always tries to engage its audiences by incorporating interactive activities in their videos.
Among the many tips and tricks they shared with students and members of the public, they emphasised that it is crucial to understand the canvas and scale of work when doing projection mapping. They even went to the extent of measuring the buildings to have a better gauge with angle and design. Although they did reveal the simplest way to play around with projection mapping is through lights and shadows.
During the session, both founders of Filamen also shared several technical considerations such as projector selection, hardware setups, LED content management and also the softwares used to bring the designs to life including Cinema 4D, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop before cleaning up on Premiere Pro and giving its 3D element on Resolume arena or Madmapper.
There was also a very exciting demonstration where Fariz and Abdul guided the participants step-by-step for projecting onto a mock-up building, spurring the audience to have more discussions and questions on the design process. The audience were indeed inspired that imagining the impossible isn’t as far from being achievable as we think sometimes!
What to learn more about exploring the possibilities of new media, join our upcoming workshop on 5 October 2019 where Jun Ong will be giving a talk on “From Lines to Lights”. For RSVP, go to .
ABOUT FILAMEN
Filamen is a new media art collective committed to sharing the practice, knowledge and passion for visual arts and technology. It is a community created for projection mapping to gather artists, designers, technical crews and other collaborators alike to be part of its movement to create cutting edge art projects in new mediums that engages with the public.