HOBATION

Concept

This is a music video work for the track "Lifecycle," and my first projection-mapping project for myself, not for any class. I use "water cycle" as a metaphor to describe Lifecycle. The water cycle includes cloud, raining, river, ocean and vapor. As a result, I try to find out video clips about water cycle for the project. Next, I think cups would be nice objects to project for this work, and then I collect all kinds of cups I can get such as paper cups, black paper cups, clear plastic cups and white Styrofoam cups, and put them in front of the projector to decide which one is better for projection. Finally, I figure out the Styrofoam cups is the best choice.

Process

First, I arrange Styrofoam cups in different shape as a "sculpture," and then I project my computer screen on those cups and running Photoshop to make mask for each cup. Next, I import those mask into After Effects to get the raw video footage. Finally, I project the video on the cups.