"We were looking for some new ideas for our productions - and these were perfect," he said. Seeing how they could be formed into curtains to deliver alluring 3D spatial effects, they invested in 550 strings, each containing seven 34mm Balls, 20 TLD-612 pixel drivers to run it ... and some extension cords.
The 21-year-old company has a versatile work roster, ranging from fashion shows to retail, and they have full turnkey capability, with sound equipment, trussing, video and LED screens. "In fact I was looking for the LED screens when I happened to see the LED Balls - so it was kind of impulse shopping," said Jaakko.
Helping these products to animate the sets has been the company's lighting designer, Teemu Pietiläinen. He was soon creating a 'moving' 9m x 6m LED canvas for a Helsinki fashion house, with the 12cm pixel pitch display.
"This was the largest canvas to date, which was made purely for demo purposes," he said. "We also used the LB-100's at Helsinki Winner International Dog Show in December; that canvas was about 100m wide - but the gap between each string was approximately 1.2 metres." All were controlled off SGM's TLD-612 Touring Pixel Driver via Artnet DMX converters with the content mainly driven from a Green Hippo media server.
(Jim Evans)
