lantern la lumiere

March 14th, 2009

On Friday night we finally got to see our two animations in the ‘Lantern La Lumiere’ project commissioned by Adelaide Fringe 09. Unfortunately the Rundle Lantern crashed soon after the launch of the project – and took 2 weeks to be fixed! But it was a big thrill to see our work on the huge digital canvas.

The ‘Lantern La Lumiere’ project asked 16 local Adelaide animators to create short works (up to 60secs) that attempted to convey narrative using the Rundle Lantern’s 68×21 pixels. This was a huge challenge! We were happy with our efforts (especially given that we had no way to test or fine-tune our work) and we learnt many lessons for future Rundle Lantern projects. Both animations suffered a loss of clarity and color – you can see the original input animation for ‘chase’ below.