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Chauvet helps LD Systems create visuals for Visit San Antonio

For the US Travel Association’s IPW 23 Visit San Antonio event, LD Systems used large format video and lighting systems at twelve different locations throughout San Antonio, Texas, from the Alamo Plaza to the River Walk.

Five thousand delegates from sixty nations attended IPW 23. LD Systems supported the event with gobos that brought depth to familiar sites and walkways, aerials that animated the sky overhead, and uplighting that colorized the sides of tall buildings.

Playing key roles in the design were Chauvet Professional fixtures from LD Systems’ own inventory. These included twenty-four Colorado 3 Solo units that were positioned close to buildings for lighting columns and under balconies, as wells as six additional Solo Battens that were used on a balcony of one of the sponsor hotels leading up to the closing event.

Also adding atmosphere to the event were fourteen Color Strike M motorized strobes that washed walls, while creating up-and-down flows of light on them, and four Ovation Reve E3 fixtures that lit a river front stage. “We wanted bright and vibrant colors with movement”, says Sean Sargeant, who along with Dave Jackson (both of LD Systems) spearheaded the project. “We gave them a little input about colors, and let the programmers run with it to choose what they saw fit.”

LD Systems began discussing the lighting design for the late-May event with its client, The CE Group, back in November. Load in for the four-day event took place in two phases. Structures for most of the sites went in on May 17th, lighting fixtures were positioned the following two days, and programming was finished on the 20th, a day before the official opening.

“There was a lot of coordinating with several city entities and property managers/owners. Several departments of the City of San Antonio partnered up to help in so many ways and were crucial in making this happen”, says Sargeant. “It was a bit challenging setting up on sidewalks while watching out for traffic a few feet away. We also had to be mindful of pedestrians, as they walked through our work sites.”

“The three storms that came through that week weren’t much help”, he continues. “But we prevailed thanks to the work of our team, which included three programmers working different areas (Dave Jackson, Dan Barrett, and Jacob Jordan), as well as three lighting techs (Brian Ladet, Ernie Guzman, and Martha Galvan), our assistant site coordinator Steve Scranton and video projection designer Travis Crane.”

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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