The Projection Studio creates a videomapping show with Christie projectors

Wolverhampton transforms its iconic buildings with a video mapping extravaganza created by The Projection Studio, using Christie Roadster projectors, on the occasion of the Enchanted City festival.

The Projection Studio creates two spectacular video mapping projections for the opening event of the Enchanted City festival held in Wolverhampton, an attraction that attracted more than 8.000 spectators on the nights of 26 y 27 October.

The renowned artist of large format projections, Ross Ashton, has been in charge of carrying out the mapping project for the English city Wolverhampton (West Midlands-United Kingdom), following his work done for the Enchanted City in Horncastle (Lincolnshire) at the beginning of the year. The projections were made on the facades of the Barclays Bank building in St Peter's Square and at the entrance to the University of Wolverhampton, located on Wulfrana Street.

The Oldest Place was the title chosen for the projections made on the façade of the Barclays Bank whose theme revolved around the history of the monastery, originally consecrated in the year 994 on land given by Lady Wulfrun, which later became St. Peter's Church.

Ashton collaborated with artist Karen Monid who created a soundtrack based on Anglo-Saxon poetry about the Garden of Eden, which was read by an Old English specialist.

The images were inspired by medieval manuscripts along with maps based on the shape and geometry of the building. And they were obtained through a projector Christie Roadster S+20K, Equipped with a short-range lens 1,2-1, which was placed at the top of a tower, specially built for the event. Images were looped every three minutes from a MacBook Pro running Millumin, software that is ideal for this type of shows.

Generator at the University

The second mapping show was created, under the name Generator, to project onto the building located at the entrance to the University of Wolverhampton. The aim was for its theme and creation to contrast with the pastoral tone that had been used in St Peter's Square..

The façade of the building was transformed into an environment where fantasy shined with spinning gears and random objects flying across the surface and representing some of the disciplines taught at the university.. film cameras, music keyboards and even a flying cow could be seen in this mapping show, all with a colorful space background of stars and galaxies.

In this show the same technique was used as in the previous one but the Christie Roadster projector was equipped with a lens 0,7.