Have you ever heard a song that it instantly gives you an inspiration ? When the first time I heard the song by Kitten - Kill The Light, it kinda transported me into another place (nope, I wasn't high or anything, maybe it was too many vitamin c), where the walls are made of exposed bricks, with very raw feeling about the place. I tried to find some photos from Google but couldn't find anything close.
So the only way to get the exact place that I "visited" would be to model it myself. Using Google Sketchup, I built the model. Extra such as crowds, tables and chairs were downloaded from 3D Warehouse.
The 3Ds file were then exported to Capture Polar lighting visualization suite. This is where the fun begins, programming on the Chamsys with Capture Polar.
For screen recording, Camstudio was used. Final video editing was done on Trakax.
Here is the complete equipments used for the lighting and truss :
Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy creating it !
The LED wristbands, glowbands were also simulated which were on the audience area. The quantity of the glowbands were minimal as to not weight down the frame rate.
The lighting is programmed on a grandMA on PC 6.6, visualized on the grandMA 3D software. Graphic video is from Resolume Arena 4.
Lighting equipment list :
1) Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1500 x 6
2) Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1200 x 10
3) Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 x 4
4) ETC Source Four 19 degree x 4
5) Large Film Lighting x 4
(Trying something like this http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/pa/71_stagesetup.jpg )
6) Glowbands
Enjoy !
Enjoy this light show, the lights were all Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300 HPE, which my company have one in the showroom, incredible brightness with incredible speed. Hopefully, one day I'll get a chance to program incredible light show like this.
In the midst of the exam season, I managed to deviate my attention and playing around with the virtual light controller. I realised that the last time I was daydreaming when I made a light show for Coldplay - Yellow and I expect they will hire me to become their lighting designer for their next world tour.. who are you kidding lawrence ?
Anyway, this time I put my attention into something local, nearer, and realistic than Coldplay. This time, I made the light show for Jason Lo with his song, "Operator the line is dead". I hope Jason Lo will start making music again, and do some tour or concert, and he can hire me as his concert lighting designer. Hehe.. Oh yeah, here's the video, enjoy!
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On another note, I found an indonesian band which got me hooked now, the band is called Alexa. This is one of their song, called Jangan Kau Lepas. The music video is quite amazing I have to say (compared to those of Malaysian artists,ugrh..), and quite touching near the end where the old man was playing violin to the photo of his wife. That just makes you go "ohh.."
Let's say if someday Chris Martin tells his band members, "hey, we gotta try the nasi lemak at Kuala Lumpur (pronounced with heavy British accent), and we can do a concert there to cover our flight tickets and the nasi lemaks by charging them ticket ranging from RM 150 to RM 600. Heck, I think the money is even enough for us to buy some Bentley. So, what do you guys think ?"
Well, if Coldplay decided to have a concert at Malaysia, and you can't afford the astronomical ticket price, then you are lucky that you are reading The L-oh-rama, because you still can enjoy the concert (NO, I'm not giving away any free tickets) by watching the light show that I created. If all things go well, I might even be the lighting engineer for their ACTUAL concert. Haha. Anyway, here's the light show, Yellow from Coldplay.
"There's no excuse not to watch this video, please you know, if you watch this video I'll buy you an ice cream."
Here come my second light show. Song by Fall Out Boy - Sophomore Slump or comeback of the year. Video length is only 1 min 18 sec. Video is quite laggy. I personally think that this light show is comparable to those light show during Coldplay's concert (if not better) especially on the latter part of the video.
Time spent creating light show : 3 hours 30 minutes
Time spent editing video and sound : 30 minutes
Satisfaction watching MY OWN designed light show : PRICELESS
Ok, here you go my first light show using the Daslight Virtual Controller 2. The hard part about making this is actually NOT about making the lightshow, but it's finding the proper software to capture the video. Anyway, the light show looks great on my computer, but in the video, it looks laggy and slow, I'm gonna keep looking for a better video capture program, but for the mean time, I'll just settle for this one.
Song : Jack's Mannequin - The Mixed Tape
For the last few days, I've been keeping myself busy with this software which is better than The Sims 2 or The Sims or whatever version they have. Like in The Sims, this software have 3D objects. But this software is a real thing, I mean professionals use it everywhere. Behold, the Daslight Virtual Controller 2.
When I went to concert that have loads of lighting rig, I was always amazed and intrigued with it. And I always wonder how they did it. But now, I can even create concert with amazing lighting in my own PC. How cool is that ?
It might looks complicated, but it's not once you get hold of it
After get hold of the software for a few days, I managed to create a little light show, but currently I only have a few screenshots to share. Once I got the video for my light show, I'll upload it here.
This was created with 16 LED Par64, and 9 moving heads. (I sound like a total geek here)
You can download the demo version of the software here. Demo version means you can do everything except connecting the REAL lighting rig to the PC.
