《VLES》一个互动灯光投影装置 / Inty++

为了配合莫斯科 M’ars 艺术中心 的开幕，主办方向多家俄罗斯互动与数字艺术机构发出邀请，希望共同打造一系列互动艺术装置。我们创作的作品《VLES》，通过可移动光束的方式，让观众置身于一个“光照即显”的神秘森林之中，探索隐藏的奇幻生物与超现实场景。
To support the opening of the art gallery M’ars in Moscow, we, among other Russian interactive and digital agencies, were asked to contribute an installation. Using movable spotlights, our installation VLES allowed the visitors to dive into a mystical forest full of obscure scenes and fantastic creatures.

Flashlights —— 光束照亮的神秘森林
Flashlights – Mysterious Forest Illuminated by Light Beams

我们的展示空间是一个边长 4.5 米的方形房间。两面墙被用作投影屏，我们在房间中央安装了三盏可自由转动的灯。灯泡被替换为红外灯光，以确保光束不会干扰投影画面。
通过基于摄像头的追踪系统，我们能实时捕捉红外光束的位置——只有灯光照射到墙面的地方，隐藏在黑暗中的森林才会显现。这让观众仿佛拿着手电，在漆黑中探索未知的奇妙世界。全程配合沉浸式音效，让体验更加完整。
Our location was a square room with a wall length of 4.5 meters. We projected our mystical forest onto two walls and installed three flexible lamps in the middle of the room. The bulbs were replaced with infrared light, so that the light beam would not disturb the projection image. We then used a camera-based tracking system to track the infrared beams. Only where the beams hit the wall, would the mystical forest reveal itself, as though the visitors were shining a flashlight into the darkness. A holistic sound concept accompanied the graphical content.

创作过程：剪影式的幻想世界
Creation process: Silhouette style fantasy world

我们为这件装置选择了“剪纸风格”，所有元素都以剪影呈现。但在创作森林时，我们仍投入了大量细节设计：树叶、枝干、动物、怪物……使观众不断期待下一个惊喜。

在这些隐藏的场景中，你能看到：

• 在空中游动的鲸鱼
• 与女孩玩耍的雾气生物
• 安装在树上的监控摄像头

为了让人物角色更真实，我们提前在影棚进行绿幕拍摄，再将这些视频素材嵌入三维场景中。
We chose a papercut style for the installation that showed only silhouettes of the digital assets. Nonetheless, we went into very much detail when we created the forest with all its trees, leaves, and creatures. Our goal was to include the obscure, making it especially interesting for the visitors to search the forest for the next fantastic detail: a whale flying across the sky, a fog creature playing with a girl, a surveillance camera installed on a tree. In order to make the human characters highly realistic, we went into a studio beforehand, filmed ourselves in chromakey and embedded the filmed material into the 3D space.

Creature Friends —— 与生物伙伴合影
Creature Friends – Taking photos with biological partners

展览期间，观众非常喜欢与这片“神秘森林”互动。超过2000位观众 在现场与我们的虚拟生物合影留念。为此，我们在另一面空白墙上设置了一个“交互点”——当观众站入光束中，一个友好的生物就会出现，供他们拍照记录这一刻。
The gallery visitors loved to interact with our forest – so much so, that over 2000 of them took the chance to snap a picture of themselves with one of our creatures. For this purpose, we installed a spot on one of the empty walls. When people stepped into the light, a creature appeared and the guest could take a photo with their new friend.