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Storm composite: Winner of the Domefest 2005 Innovation Award
In 2004 I was introduced to storm photographer Nick Djordjevich through Neoroscientist Stuart Bunt from the local SIGGRAPH chapter. Nick and I talked about the possibilities of creating content for a live play INSIDE the new full dome planetarium Horizons in Perth. Soon, the production was underway and a bizzare, stimulating collaboration between a playwright, photographer, play house, neuroscientist, planetarium, sound designers, technical consultants and myself was born.
Production Photography by Jon Green
Creating the pre-rendered 3d thunderstorm for the penultimate scene to the play was challenging for me to say the least- rendering and compositing in an Angular Fisheye format, at truly massive resolutions (up to 3200x3200 @ 30fps) was technically the most difficult task I'd ever undertaken. Thankfully I managed to secure sponsorship from Sun Microsystems, who lent me a ridiculously fast workstation to complete the composite and render elements.
Combined with live actors and 20,000 Watts of speaker power, it was an incredible production and featured as a juried finalist in the Domefest 2005 competition in Albequerque New Mexico, winning the innovation award.
Production Photography by Jon Green
Special thanks go to Nick Djordjevic for his amazing photography, David Buchanan for the script and context of the production, Richard Giles and Tom Shaw from Sun, Ollie Loweth and Fboy for the audio, Brendan Ragan and the DLF for shader help, and Horizons Planetarium for the dometime to run tests.