I worked closely with Hueman to brainstorm and define animation direction, responding to her vision as the artist to create all custom content to augment her work as a living, augmented artwork. 

Hueman painted this entirely in black & white and the rest of the color was added with light.

To give more depth to the animations, I created a 3D version of the face and mural elements, with which I could render more precise lighting effects down to the details of eyelash shadows. Each scene of content was paired into a custom controller to allow manual triggering of content, while the permanent installation is programmed to automatically turn on & off at the start and end of each day.

Perhaps the most ‘2020’ feat was creating this work entirely remotely. With help from Dr. Mabrie’s team to get measurements, I built the office in 3D and used Disguise One as a pre-visualization tool to simulate the final installation. After printing a scaled-down version of the mural, I built a mirrored set-up in my home studio in Portland for testing and perfecting the animations in person. Once the mural was painted and placed, a local installer mounted the projector and I utilized beta cloud tools in Lightform Creator to scan, deploy content, and publish updates remotely.

Software — Disguise One, Blender 3D, After Effects CC, Illustrator CC, Lightform Creator, TouchOSC, IFTTT

Hardware — Lightform LFC, Epson Pro L1490

Artwork — Hueman

Client — Mabrie Facial Institute