MAD: LEGEND OF THE LIGHT

INFINITYZM is an aerial dance performance piece featuring champion flyers from all around the world. This eight-episode production would be the first of its kind featuring captivating flying dancers and spectacular interactive visuals.

Founder of MAD and wind tunnel sports enthusiast László Laki contacted László Bordos, a Hungary-based 3D artist and specialist in 3D mapping and projection, explaining the project and his aspirations for it. He would produce an aerial dance piece featuring dancers on the ground and in the air. He envisioned projections that would interact with the aerial performers and knew that Bordos had the knowledge to make this happen. Bordos knew that the project would be technically challenging and took it on exactly for that reason.

During a two month pre-production period, Bordos worked with András Nagy and Árpád Szrnka to create custom content. However, the heavy lifting began two weeks ahead of the production, on location at the Madrid Flying Center.

Creating projections which would project onto and interact with the aerial dancers proved technically challenging. Bordos and his friends tried several body mapping techniques: “We tried a whole range of other solutions,” but none were giving the level of sensitivity they needed to keep up with the movements of the aerial dancers. "Finally, we tried Notch. Using Notch with an SDI input card and camera, we tested mapping our animations onto the aerial dancers. The results were unbelievable. Notch was incredibly fast in creating complex-looking content with exceptionally low latency."