I may have gone too far...

[soundlight]

Here it is - my last huzzah for the Dept. of Theatre and Dance Open House. (Make sure to watch in high quality, it's ever so much better!) There will be other light shows this semester, but none of this scale. I realized halfway through building this rig how big it was, how much copper it would take to cable it, and how much weight I had to throw (let me tell ya, I got a good work out from this!), and how long it was going to take to program the four-hundred-and-eighty-some cues I had planned during my epic timecoding session.

This rig is made up primarily of interlocking triangles. There're two triangles of Seachanger Washes, the center triangle of the Intellabeams, the 4 triangles of S4 Pars with scrollers up top, the v-shapes that the mini-floods make, the v-shapes that the S4 Pars in the mid levels make when lit, etc. Just a lot of triangles.

We got some ETC IONs recently, so I programmed the show on one of those. Made things so much faster than the Obsession. And I was able to use follow times because the follow times go down to two decimal places. The console still hiccuped a little bit at times because of how much I was telling it to do (over 2 cues a second). All told, the show has almost 500 cues in under 3 minutes.

I love the seachanger washes. I zoomed them all the way down, and was able to do so much with them. The intellabeams, as usual, are the core of the show; but the Seachangers provided me with so much versatility. I also used the crap out of the mini floods and pinspots. Those things are awesome when sequenced right.

My favorite part in this show is the red and tungsten/halogen section. Wall of red with punch lights of various sorts coming through. I love it.

The video does not do this rig justice - it was huge! I spent far too much time on it and would never spend that much time on a light show rig again, but man it was a nice rig.

Also, the RP screen was an amazing effect live - it was in until the first full rainbow, as you see. Amazing effect.

I will admit that I did try to set the standard so astronomically high that it won't be met for a few years. There is a rather ambitious sophomore though who will be around for a few years to try to top me, though...

Creative criticism accepted, appreciated, and encouraged!

[Soxred93]

When I see the title "I may have gone too far", I know I'm in for a good treat. I'm glad to say I wasn't disappointed.

[chris325]

I could see a show like this destroying the poor Ion GO button.

Amazing performance. You have certainly set the standard for years to come.

[gafftapegreenia]

Dawg, You crazy.

[Corbettlight]

I must say - that was incredible.

[jonliles]

Dude! Way Cool!

Wish I had those toys when I was begining to learn my craft!

[Dionysus]

...I've NEVER had free reign over toys like THAT... I WISH.
Lucky bugger... lol.
It was very good, certainly worth watching, and entertaining to watch on it's own.
A great "last hurrah"

[Esoteric]

You mean that was not Midi triggered? Wow. Reminds me of our first semester moving light project (we had to use LCD controllers), LOT of button pushing. Everything I do like that now is always Midi triggered.

Intellebeams eh? We had 4-6 of those in our rig in college. Little buggars were hard as heck to keep working. But I liked them. They were my second favorite moving mirror (next to the Technobeams) though. They were some of the most used units until we got to moving heads in the second semester.

Mike

[soundlight]

It was followed, not MIDI-triggered - I didn't have the time to enter all of the points in to Q-lab and get that fully functional. But it wasn't button-pushing live, it was followed (hurray for two decimal places on the follow time in the ION!).

So the GO button escaped relatively unscathed.

And yeah, I really like the intellabeams, actually. The color, gobo, pan, and tilt are so fast that you can do some crazy fake-outs with them. Have them look like they're moving to one place but end up somewhere else entirely without any punch lighting to hide the move. The color and gobo wheels snap on a true zero-count, and I love that. Yes, VL3000s are awesome, but I for what they are, the Ibeams are quite nice fixtures, especially at their age.

[NickJones]

Wow that was cool! Must have taken ages to set up. I'm off to check out your other videos now, instead of doing paperwork that needs doing.