Musical & Interactive Projects
ABBA Voyage is the ground breaking virtual concert currently playing at the ABBA Arena in London. It features a digital versions of the ABBA band members. They were recreated using motion capture and digital visual effects techniques. The concert includes live band-members that perform with the ABBAtars recreations. Everything is syncronized with an assortment of lights, lasers, smoke machines, LED string lights and other live venue effects for an experience unlike anything ever experienced before.
Strangely Familiar is conceived and directed by Kuik Swee Boon, founding artistic director of T.H.E Dance Company, and co-created and choreographed in collaboration with a team of artists and designers from Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, and Singapore.
As technology advances at an accelerating pace in a world marked by relentless change, Strangely Familiar invites us to slow down—to hold space, with an unhurried spirit of generosity, and embrace a state of cultural interconnection and co-existence that may feel at once unfamiliar and strangely recognisable.
Turtle Talk with Crush was one of the very first live digital characters created for the Disney theme parks. The attraction is controlled by a single performer using a combination of touch-screens, audio capture to drive the phonemes, pre-canned animation that could be triggered and blended to any other animation, along with an array of CCTV cameras to observe the audience.
Stitch Encounter was the second of three projects that I worked on for Walt Disney Imagineering. Originally developed for Hong Kong Disneyland, it employed the same systems and mechanics as Turtle Talk with Crush. It was received with great fanfare and success. With the release of the new live action Lilo and Stitch film, this has now been deployed at Disneyland Shanghai and also Disneyland Tokyo.
Monster's Laugh Floor was the third collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering. While also using the same technology and process as Turtle Talk and Stitch Encounter, this was the most ambitious project. This venue held 2-3x the number of people as the other two projects. Because of this larger scale, the request was to have two performers running the show. This allowed extra hands to control two additional content screens on either side that showed Mike and Roz and live reactions from audience members. There are also additional lighting effects and a physical energy canister with smoke and lighting effects that are triggered as well.
The music video for Beck's song Girl is a moment locked in time. Released in 2005, it was a time of intense creativity in the music video industry. This video played homage to the fold-ins from the Mad comics created by Al Jaffee.