So it’s been now one week since I participated in the Mad Mapper workshop that was held by 1024 Architecture‘s François Wunschel and Modul8‘s founder Boris Edelstein. I can’t stop coming up with new ideas for future projects after this so I felt I should enlighten those who don’t know about the software or the new features it packs.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/27253954[/vimeo]

First of all these guys are funny as hell, especially Boris, and also very friendly and helpful. After a presentation of the both companies and their thoughts about mapping we got to see a presentation about Mad Mapper. This software let you output video/images from any Syphon supported application. The idea is very simple but yet very effective. It works in 2D layers that let you adjust the images to basically any form or angle. The program also has a very clever function that let’s you use your projector together with a SLR-camera as a scanner to get a perfect pixel per pixel mask of your projection area. This also let’s you work from home instead of staying for hours on location and setup your show, if you don’t move your projector that is. In the past this kind of setup would take hours if not days to get right. Now it just takes a few pictures and some photoshopping to get a good mask. We did it in less than 15 min. This program is really simple to use!

Here is a short video from the same workshop during the Mapping Festival this year.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/24324217[/vimeo]

Check out the videos of 1024 Architecture on Vimeo to get some inspiration.

Mad Mapper is still coming out with updates that adds new features, their philosophy is that they rather release new things a soon as they come instead of letting their users wait until they got everything sorted. Hence the Madlab which is a bunch of separate programs that adds a few tricks to Mad Mapper.

Modul8‘s new update added the Syphon support which lets you output via Mad Mapper.

Syphon also supports a bunch of other cool software like OpenEmu, see why I can’t stop thinking of ideas…

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I started creating visual material and VJ as a way to vent all the creative and crazy ideas that I couldn’t try at work. I like to perform to different styles of music and I am always interested in learning new things. I also believe that visual art evolves thru teamwork and inspiration from others. I like to entertain people and I think that is why I like using video so much in our sets. Filming and displaying artists on the big screens is also something I think bring a more interesting aspect to a show rather then just displaying graphic material. I used to play the saxophone for a semi professional jazz band and my dream is to somehow incorporate my live music with our visual material and the effect lights of a stage. Sort of creating the ultimate experience of synchronized sound, light and image. I also really like to create visuals for a theatre. I think video visual material could enhance the experience of any play. In the meantime I find inspiration in my new hometown of Brussels and I am learning all I can about their strong tradition in comics and how paneling works. Another great thing about living here is that I can easily and rather cheap be in UK, Netherlands, France, Germany etc in a few hours by train. This makes it possible for me to take the joy of Startsladd’s visuals to a lot more people!