New Louisiana Civil Rights Museum exhibit culminates in an immersive environment created using projection mapping and motion detection, where visitors step into and experience the Civil Rights journey that shaped the country.
The new Louisiana Civil Rights Museum launched its inaugural exhibition, inviting visitors to enter history and live through the harrowing Civil Rights journeys that shaped our nation. The exhibit concludes with the state-of-the-art “Dream Cube,” an immersive environment designed by Local Projects, led by experiential studio Solomon Group, and implemented by creative studio The-Artery using projection mapping and motion detection.
In the Dream Cube, visitors experience the longest civil rights march and join the first Black students to enter desegregated elementary schools amidst fierce protest and disapproval.
The-Artery used ZED 2 Stereo cameras to combine advanced depth sensing with spatial AI to track body movements that activate stories from the protestors behind fiery demonstrations or those students, teachers, and U.S. Marshals who braved crowds during an elementary school’s desegregation. Each immersive film pairs with original audio interviews from central figures and original music by Antfood.
The creative studio also handled the transition of the still photographs, first encountered by audiences, into realistic and immersive video, using tools including Unreal Engine, Blender, Zbrush, Maya, and Autodesk 3ds Max. To achieve this seamless look, the team expanded the environment of each photograph with video assets as an alternative to stretching the picture itself, retaining the photo subjects front-and-center and keeping them the point of focus, even as animated crowds of people envelop each visitor.
Source: The-Artery
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.
