Daniel Fine
Wonder Dome
Interactive Architectural Projection Mapping with Live Performance
Director, Executive Producer
Role:
Wonder Dome
March 2014
Tempe, AZ
Principle Investigator (producer, director, system design, content creation) of a cross-university research project between Arizona State University and The Ohio State University. Wonder Dome is a touring performance platform that invites audiences into an interactive, 360-degree immersive dome where narrative can be encountered, explored and told by mixing ancient forms of live performance with cinema, gaming, HCI and cutting edge digital technology. The project raised over $44,000.00 in cash funding and over $250,000.00 of in-kind donations from industry corporate sponsors to date, involved professionals, graduate students and under-graduate students across the artistic disciplines and was premiered at the professional SPARK! Festival of Creativity at The Mesa Arts Center in March, 2014. Learn more at: Wonderdome.co
30' diameter, touring, projection dome. Custom built PC media server running multiple instances of Touch Designer for show control and real-time warping and blending. Fully integrated sound and lighting that were responsive to performers, audience and visuals. Multiple real-time, digital puppets controlled via facial recognition and wii-Motes. Software: Touch Designer, Isadora, Max MSP, QLab, Syphon, Faceshift, Black Syphon, Black Magic, Final Cut Pro, Premeire, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, OSCelator.
Key Creative Team:
Creative Director | Executive Producer: Daniel Fine
Co-Producer | Media Designer: Alex Oliszewski
Co-Producer | Lighting Designer: Adam Vachon
Systems | Touch Designer Programmer: Matthew Ragan
Composer: Istvan Peter B’Racz
Sound Designer: Stephen Christensen
Co-Writer: Carla Stockton
Production Manager: Mollie Flanigan
Stage Manager: Elizabeth Peterson
Puppet Director: Aubrey Grace Watkins
Performer: Julie Rada
Each element (waves, fish, sun, background) was created in Illustrator and animated in real time in Touch Designer.
The video of the Giant was shot on a Cannon 7D, edited in FCP and cartoon effects rendered in After Effects. Leo, the Robot is a real-time, live feed via another computer running Faceshift, a facial recognition software that allows a performer to control the digital avitor.
The box world was created and rendered in real-time in Touch Designer.
The Pig and the Wolf were created in Photoshop, animated in After Effects and live performers controlled the digital avitors via wii-Motes running in Isadora with live-feeds to the media server. A live-feed video camera captured the audience and real time effects were applied in Touch Designer.
The audience blew the cloud coyote apart.
Composite of Pinky the puppet expanding.
Composite of live performer backstage using facial recognition to control a digital avatar in real-time in the dome.
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