For Big Gigantic’s show at Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver last fall, the band turned to 3D Live for a variety of 3D video effects. To ensure that his lighting design would complement, rather than conflict with those visuals, lighting and video designer Ben Dalgleish opted against unleashing maximum lumens from the lighting side. “During what we refer to as ‘negative-z content’, the 3D video goes out into the audience,” he notes. “We had to keep the light beams out of the way of the 3D view, or there was a chance the audience could experience motion sickness. Because the eye can only focus on one plane of depth at a time, it would make the crowd seasick if lights intersected with the video. But in the positive-z scenes, when the video is playing behind the band, we had no issue projecting standard beams of light.”
-Ben Dalgleish, Big Gigantic lighting and video designer, from “Big Gigantic’s Rowdytown 7,” PLSN, Jan. 2019, page 68
