HOTA, Home Of The Arts Exhibitions

Overview

The HOTA animation projects are a harder one to post about since so much of it is the experience and the technical feat more than a pretty .mp4 export. The below two projects show more process and snippets from these giant exhibition animations, headed by the amazing Dan Rice.

Ken Done Exhibition

The Ken Done exhibition at HOTA needed four of Ken's pieces to be projected across their circular entry space, bringing his work to life as an animated world. I isolated the animated elements from each piece and set them on a journey: from Ken's studio, out to the beach, down beneath the ocean to a sunlit reef, and finally into the deep reef before looping back. The sequence ran across a projection system spanning a mighty 7680 x 480 pixels.

Working with Dan and the HOTA team, we jumped the technical hoops needed to get this mammoth running on their systems. The result: a massive projection that flooded the room in the colours of Ken's work.

Full Video

For the very curious, here is the full length video. The main thing to get from this is the awesome soundscape that was designed and mixed by Hayden Riley.

Highlights

I spent time weaving in tiny, micro-stories within each piece, small details easy to miss on a first watch. The most rewarding moment came from something I almost dismissed as background animation nobody would notice, only to overhear a patron in the space mention it to their partner.

Aka Sorbie: Saltwater Heart

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