Theatre light on curtain effect?

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:36 pm

It seems like all the big shows are doing it: projecting a logo onto the curtain before the performance begins. I'd like to duplicate this effect in moho, especially where the logo "stays put" as the curtains open.

I searched around online for examples of this, and this was the best I could do:

http://pascalroche.free.fr/page_lumiere.htm

If you scroll to the bottom, there is a series of pictures where images are projected onto various objects - a car, sides of a building, walls, a lawn, etc. I'd like to be able to do this projected onto a theatre curtain with moho.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:56 pm

Have you tried using the layer blend modes to do this? If I understand what you are saying correctly then you should be able to just put your logo on a layer and set the blend mode to something like overlay. Please explain further if I misunderstood.

rylleman · Post by **rylleman** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:59 pm

I think you should be able to use the same technique as I have done in thisFishlamp for your curtain, only I got the "logo" moving and the "curtain" stay still.
It's based on LMs Object Warping tutorial.
If you think it would be to any use for you I could send you the work file..

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:11 am

bupaje wrote:Have you tried using the layer blend modes to do this? If I understand what you are saying correctly then you should be able to just put your logo on a layer and set the blend mode to something like overlay. Please explain further if I misunderstood.

Hi,

I think that would work if the curtain were completely flat. However, the curtain has pleats (is that the right word?) like this:

See how the spotlight is irregular on the curtain? That's the effect I'm looking for, except that instead of a round spotlight, I want to put up an arbitrary figure.

Thanks,

jorgy

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:12 am

rylleman wrote:I think you should be able to use the same technique as I have done in thisFishlamp for your curtain, only I got the "logo" moving and the "curtain" stay still.
It's based on LMs Object Warping tutorial.
If you think it would be to any use for you I could send you the work file..

Thanks! That looks like it will work! I'll give it a try.

jorgy

(and I even replied to that tutorial, wondering how I could use that technique... LOL)

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:19 pm

Thanks Rylie, that is going to work great for me! Don't worry, when I get the project done I'll post it here....