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Painting with Light introduces Realites

Painting with Light (PWL) has developed Realites, a real-time virtual lighting design tool for balancing and fine-tuning the lighting of people and 3D objects in relation to digital scenery that is appearing on LED video screens in the background or foreground of the same scene.

It enables the lighting designer/programmer to light both the video content - which will already have a pre-determined ambience - and the actors or set around it, using the show lighting console, and without the video content needing to be re-rendered.

This solution for video-orientated shows creates highly realistic effects as the blend between 2D and 3D elements onstage becomes imperceptible. Additionally, lighting on both the actors and digital backgrounds can be matched or contrasted to achieve the desired effect.

PWL initially developed the technique for Studio 100’s ‘40-45’ spectacle which launched in 2018. The production is still running at the Pop-Up theatre in Puurs, Belgium.

The ‘virtual lights’ are additional lights to those on the actual physical lighting rig in the theatre or performance space. They are built into a 3D model which is loaded in the video server being used on the show and can be called up/accessed via the lighting desk.

Virtual ‘real lights’ can be assigned and selected, then all the standard parameters - position, pan, tilt, intensity, focus, iris, beam shaping, etc. - accessed and applied for the screen content. They can then be recorded into the same cue which is controlling the real lighting of the set, scenery or people in the scene. It functions similar to lighting a 3D model in drawing and visualisation software.

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