SAN DIEGO, –Nautilus Entertainment Design is proud to have been a part of the team awarded the Gold Winner for the “Best Stage Experience” at the 2018 Experience Design & Technology Awards. The winning project was the 2018 CES Keynote, produced by Clarity Creative Group and John Halloran + Associates for their client Intel. These awards recognize the best use of design, social media and event technology to enhance live experiences.
More details from NED (www.n-e-d.com):
Nautilus Entertainment Design (NED), a 28 year old design company located in San Diego, was charged with not only the design and programing of the production lighting, but also with coordinating the installation of the wireless data points that created a virtual GPS network inside the theatre.
The theme of the show was “Experience the Power of Data.” Data drove not only lights and video, but also many of the “moving parts” of the show from a mini-drone show, a self-driving car, to a drone helicopter, and 248 Tait Nano Winches with custom LED fixtures. Twenty-four of those fixtures also were tracked laser targets and four of them had laser emitters. The center part of the 200 foot wide stage floor was a 72’ x 46’ LED video screen, which seamlessly joined an LED wall that functioned as the primary background. Nautilus Principal Jim Tetlow said, “Because of a very short installation time, John Halloran booked the Cow Palace in San Francisco for two weeks in December, so that all of the technology could be tested and rehearsed.”
Additional gear was used to augment the house lighting inventory, in total over 100 moving lights were used, including 63 Vari*Lite 4k Spots, 26 VL3500 Wash F/X, and 19 VL3500 Spots. 2 Full Size GrandMA2’s running 30 universes on 3 NPUs with 4 Gigabit fiber switches created the system backbone. Lighting Director and Programmer Kurt Doemelt said “We used ArtNet and sACN into and out of the console to drive the entire system including the scenic RGBW scenic elements, lasers, and Nano Winch Grid.”
For the finale of the presentation, Intel matched a Guinness World Records title for Most UAVs airborne simultaneously from a single computer indoors when it flew 100 Intel Shooting Star Minis around the stage.
Photo credit: Brian Ach
