Saturday 24 November 2007

More shadow installations

Big Shadow is a public installation promoting the Xbox game Blue Dragon in which the viewers shadow becomes a dragon during fights.
The promotion of the game using Big Shadow is based on shadow-play:

"We projected magnified shadows of ordinary people in town and created a system whereby they could play with their own shadows. A person’s shadow is projected as a giant shadow image, which can suddenly change into the shape of a dragon. This creates a new and engaging interactive experience.

A shadow can also be manipulated via the Web while viewing a webcam image. We wanted to provide a fresh experience that links the city and the Internet as well as people and shadows."

4 comments:

Claire said...

Just had a thought that mght be of interest to you. One of my favorite designers creates interactive installations, and she did one where text falls on a wall, and the letters rest on your shadow spelling out a poem. Your shadow can pick up shadows of the text and letters like magic. If that sounds interesting to you here it is:

http://www.camilleutterback.com/textrain.html

Kelly Purves said...

really like the shadow stuff you posted. the website me and dan were telling you about is http://setpixel.com/content/?ID=shadowstory

it looks fantastic, hope it helps.

Claire said...

Might be of interest to you(it's about a shdow installation):

http://nathanielstern.com/2000/shadowalk/

Naomi Knight said...

Yo betherina!!! heres a link for some sort of idea on freezing shadows, might be of interest! http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/interactives/launchpad/shadow_trap.aspx