Sydney celebrates Christmas with spectacular video projections

St Mary's Cathedral offers a large projection mapping to recreate the meaning that Christmas has for the city of Sydney, while Martin Place attracts visitors from its iconic building, shaped like a flying saucer, that simulates a carousel where images come to life. Two projects in which TDC has participated with its video projection technology.

TDC (Technical Direction Company) has participated in the Sydney Christmas festivities by providing its video projection technology to St. Mary's Cathedral and the iconic building located in Martin Place.

In the cathedral of Santa María he has turned its façade into a huge stage of 75 meters to make an imaginative representation of Christmas and what it means to the city of Sydney.

With this objective, TDC has created amazing animated images of 17.640.000 pixels using 264.000 lumens of light projected on the facade. To manage images of Full HD content, a power of 2 terabytes for content management, 48 processing cores and 144 gigabytes de RAM.

As Michael Hassett comments, managing director de TDC, The designers have had to create special code and electronics so that this entire 'virtually wired' system can be controlled from an iPad device.

“Remote monitoring is something TDC has been perfecting for several years. Allows quick programming, fix problems remotely in real time, “It uses a closed circuit television camera in the place to see what is happening and allows the programming of the different shows and the operation of each of the events that occur each day”.

Thanks to TDC management technology, Projectors can be turned on or off remotely, even climate control systems can be activated, to turn heating and cooling on or off for all equipment.

This is the sixth year that this event has been organized, denominado Lights of Christmas, in the cathedral of Saint Mary, a show that Payce presents and whose contents, created by the company AGB Event, They revolve around themes such as life and light.

Merry Go Round vuelve a Martin Place

Besides, Merry Go Round show returns to Martín Place for another year, the heart of the city's financial center. An event that has already taken place in 2014 en el Commercial Travellers Association Building.

Using TDC video projection, this iconic circular building, Shaped like a flying saucer, it appears as a large canvas where images come to life and imagination becomes the main protagonist..

The creator of this project is the company Ample Projects that transforms the façade into a large carousel that projects the images and causes an effect that seems as if the building is rotating and a cast of characters comes into action. A show that shows the possibilities offered by architectural projection.