Technical Direction Company has brought its large-format video projection technology to two Sydney, Australia, landmarks to celebrate the Christmas season with the Lights of Christmas at St. Mary’s Cathedral and Merry Go Round Christmas projections at Martin Place.
For the sixth annual St. Mary’s Cathedral Lights of Christmas 2015 show, TDC turned the building’s façade into a 75-meter backdrop of an imaginative representation of Christmas and what it means to Sydney. TDC created 17,640,000 pixel-animated images using 264,000 lumens of projected light to illuminate the facade.
To manage the full HD content images, TDC used 2 terabytes of content management, 48 cores of processing and 144 gigabytes of RAM. TDC projection video designers created special code and electronics so the entire system is virtually wired and controllable using an iPad.
Photos: Stunning Christmas Projections Light Up Sydney
“Remote monitoring…allows for rapid programming, fixes issues remotely in real-time, uses a CCTV camera on-site to see what’s happening and allows scheduling of different shows and operation of each days events,” says Michael Hassett, managing director at TDC.
Event content, original content and production was by AGB Events. The animations for Lights of Christmas 2015 have three themes, each based around life and light, says Anthony Bastic, director at AGB Events.
In another part of the city, Merry Go Round returns to the landmark Commercial Travellers Association Building in Martin Place. Using video projection from TDC, the curved concrete façade “takes shoppers and local workers on a journey,” according to the announcement.
Thanks to the work of Ample Projects, the building appears to spin and pop as the cast of dancing robots and singing mechanical animals swing into action, before the building packs itself up and blasts off into space as a flying saucer with Christmas lights.
“This show presented new design challenges, and we are so proud of the result,” says Nicholas Tory, creative director at Ample Projects.
