The Immersive Van Gogh multimedia attraction that beckoned visitors to Pier 36 in NYC this year posed unique challenges to the design team, which included Robb Jibson of So Midwest. “We’ve developed a cool workflow for masking elements,” Jibson noted. “In gallery three in New York, there are big S-curve mirrored pieces. We had to trim them all out of the floor projection. I developed a process where I can bring my [Adobe] Illustrator Artboard live via an NDI input into the Mbox server. Then I can use my pen tablet to draw splines and make Bezier curves to knock everything out and put a little bit of a feather on it. Then I export that Artboard, and I’ve got a perfect mask that I could draw live right around the scenery.”
From “Walking Inside a Painting” by Michael S. Eddy, PLSN, July 2021
