Ghostly 3D Holograms Hit the Diesel Catwalk; Future of VJ Projection?
Diesel’s latest fashion show featured some 3D holographic projection that is just beyond cool.
Creative Review has the scoop and spoke with a mysterious tech who hinted at some of the inner workings:
“The visuals are projected through a series of ‘foils’ into mid air, so you see the images in mid-air. The models can then interact with them and walk through them. We used plastic foils placed at 45 degree angles so that the projected light from the ceiling goes onto a foil, is reflected on to another and then into the air.
Creative Review has some more information regarding the setup, but the short of it is, 2 HD projectors, pre rendered CGI footage at HD resolution projected down from the ceiling, and a stunned audience (well, they had better be).
An interesting comment at Creative Review suggests that the effect is an updated “Peppers Ghost” setup, which means in theory, some enterprising VJ could set this up today. Either way, it looks incredible.
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phl
yeah, it won’t get boring the next years
:)
July 10, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
ElPat0
These ghosts are very close to the Hironobu Sakaguchi´s designs.
I supose nobody had his eyes in the clothes..
Amazing!!
July 11, 2007 @ 5:20 am
midievil
um, what track is the one that is playing as the video opens? it is way cool..
July 11, 2007 @ 6:27 am
Agustin Maria Rodriguez
Well done!! The technology it´s not that new, it´s been used by Eventology and Vizoo for years but the application to the show it´s excellent! Cheers
July 11, 2007 @ 7:38 am
mxmai
cool stuff. same way they get the Gorillaz to play “live”. i think you can dig up a clip of them playing at the MTV some-crap-or-other awards a couple of years back…
July 13, 2007 @ 1:09 am
Agustin Maria Rodriguez
http://www.musion.co.uk/
Musion, that´s them. They use the EyeLiner 3D foil.
July 14, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
Juan B
Agus ,pudiste armar una holoscreen ?
July 22, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
mmy
does anyone know the production house which actually did the diesel show?
August 24, 2007 @ 5:42 am
greg
This is NOT a hologram. They are totally misusing the term. a hologram is an interference pattern that holds much more information, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologram
February 5, 2008 @ 1:55 am
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