Contested Spaces Project -  final animation test with shadows, reflections and refraction all rendered out.

Following the initial ideas phase for Contested Spaces, we reckoned this sculpture should be more about obscuring the forgotten architecture.

So we’ve removed lots of the river rubbish/detritus and the original robotic like structure from the final tests and explored the idea of a smoke and smoke masking the structure, which will move to surround and hide the weir.

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A lot of detailed work on camera tracking was needed with this sculpture and location to really lock the sculpture to the ground. The blades needed to grow and shrink through the the grass, so we front projected the live footage onto a flat 3d object and set the blades model on top of it. This also allowed us to map shadows accurately.

We initially animated the blades to rear up and follow passing cars, but as there were so many cars, this movement became repetitive. Instead, the blade tips rove around as though protecting the space from all sides.

With the editing and camera tracking process complete, we’re now into the final stages of animating the sculptures themselves. The Tomb Street sculpture concept has been developed so we’re now looking at more organic, wrangling forms and substances that wrestle with each other to own the space. So far we’ve built up models and surfaces for the river form, and the iron ring.

Resolved iron ring shape

Deformed / 'wrangled' iron

Over the past month we have been moving each of the sculptures forward – playing around with grading and getting the feel right for each of the locations. We have begun the process of running the footage through the tracking software.

These are some tests of the models etc.

Tracktest footage – with object.

Tracktest footage – with object & shadows

From this – Connie has being reworking the concept, and is placing more emphasis on grass, and the protection of the grass itself – not just the space.

The light while filming the Custom House Square location wasn’t great – so we have been trying to work the footage. Just finished final edit, with production of the sculpture underway.

Hirzberger Events – Digital Wallpaper from Gregor Hofbauer on Vimeo.

Moment Factory – La Vitrine – Permanent Interactive LED wall from Moment Factory on Vimeo.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

To the left of the Custom House is a large patch of grass, that is legally protected from any development which once was home to one of the first watering troughs in the city. Connie’s concept is based on the idea of that patch of grass being untouchable. She plans on exploring the void, and the reaction of objects as they come into contact with it.

Ideas:

Water Splashes:

Between from Via Grafik on Vimeo.

Slow motion:

Maybe one Morning from mario brioschi on Vimeo.

Bob Burnquist and Ty Evans: Aero Feel The Bubbles Ad from Bubbles Man on Vimeo.

E4 Sting –

Serail Cut, popup –

Rough Visuals –

The sculpture will sit just beneath the superstructure of the flyover and will be formed out of a parabola of mirrored steel within which a number of lifebelt-like rubber rings roll back and forth – recalling the movement of skaters in a half-pipe. The movements will fall in and out of synchronous pattern at times holding a pendulum formation and sometimes recalling the rolling of waves.