A conceptual project that started with a simple concept of a primitive sculpture emerging from the water surface, unveiling an unexpected audiovisual fountain show.

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A revised version sees the fountain and light components squeezed into a much more compact form factor, featuring an embedded LED matrix, speakers, multiple fountain fixtures, LED strips and underwater lights.

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I decided to create a rough version of the famous HK skyline and made an approximate volume of our working area which sits within the Avenue of Stars.

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In this project I created my own highly inefficient RenderTarget based pixel lookup to emulate a DMX workflow. The result of the SceneCapture2D RT gets piped into both a UMG as well as a blueprint that holds all of the DMX based fixtures. The population of the fixture relied on accurate placement created in Maya, which then gets brought into UE4 as sockets. The blueprint then populates the respective fixtures and handles the light and fountain controls according to its real DMX channels.

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With the help of another UE4 dev, Neil Van Vuuren ( who wrote his own UE4 DMX Artnet I/O implementation in C++ and ended up finishing this entire project all on his own ), I managed to hook up one of the DMX outputs from UE4 into a moving head light and control its properties via TouchOSC to set up an office party light.

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Project Date : 2017

Production Company : Artists In Motion

Components : realtime visualizer, DMX prototype

Info : Unreal Engine, Autodesk Maya

Hardware : GTX1080, i7 6800k

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