Projection mapping Arthur’s Seat

Here’s something fun I found while clearing out the hard drives on my old pc—my undergraduate graphics project.  Basically it involved projection mapping photographs of Arthur’s Seat (a big hill in Edinburgh) onto a model created from map contours.  Here’s a couple of videos:

Looks like shit, huh?  But it was a big deal for an undergraduate in 1997 😉

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My first plugin

My first vfx job was with Smoke & Mirrors in London—I use the word ‘job’ in the loosest sense, as they were actually part-sponsoring my doctorate and part of the deal was that they had to employ me for three months over the three years (it was actually more complicated than that, involving a subsidiary that went bust, but that’s a story for another day).

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