Art director Alexander Hennig says: "In most companies laser shows are produced by just one or two persons. In the LOBO Studios the workflow and the logistics of a show are more like a movie production, from musicians, illustrators, digitizers and 3D-animators to beam show programmers .... It took, for example, 18 persons over a period of more than two months, to implement the graphics show ‘7 Wonders’, being awarded by ILDA as best graphics show of the year."
Beside its aesthetic quality, the show ‘7 Wonders’ also impressed technically, thanks to the combination of progressive production methods. Most of the show consists of 3D animations and elaborate hand-drawn cell-animated passages which have been directly programmed on LOBO's flagship LACON-5. Only a few parts were produced on common 3D animation programs for PCs which can generate classic vector-oriented laser animations thanks to the PC-based software tool LFC available to LACON clients free of charge.
The jury also awarded the animation show ‘Mentopolis’ which might be familiar to many visitors of the LOBO fair booth at many major light and sound exhibitions all over the world. The show has been made for LOBO's new TriDome projection technology which allows full-dome projections of laser shows in planetariums at high levels of quality and accuracy. The show consists of a combination of 3D laser animations with video elements displayed with the same laser scanners by means of Scanline Laser Video projection.
Furthermore, the corresponding beam show ‘Cosmonautica’ received a first prize for its exceptional combination of 3-dimensional beam effects and abstract projection effects.
(Lee Baldock)
