The Art of Light, a Netherlands-based creative light designing, programming and operating company, used wysiwyg version R33 to pre-visualise lighting design and effects for DJ Armin van Buuren and his ‘Armin Only – Intense’ tour.
“A completely original lighting design was designed by Marc Heinz. The Art of Light was in charge for all the programming and used wysiwyg R33 to pre-visualise the tour,” says Andre Beekmans, founder of The Art of Light.
“Because the design includes 388 moving lights, 67 strobes, 100 LED fixtures and some conventional lighting, we needed to pre-program the lighting design in our studio before we started the rehearsals. The six hour show includes 25 timecode tracks including live performances and dancers.
“wysiwyg is realistic and reliable. When used in combination with all paperwork and drawings, it proved to be a really powerful pre-visualisation tool for Armin Only – Intense,’ enthuses Beekmans.
The Art of Light was established by Beekmans in 2011. Today, a highly skilled design and engineering team works on the biggest, brightest and technically complex high profile events around the world. Their scope includes a number of world firsts including all shows for Hardwell, Afrojack and Armin van Buuren. Festivals such as Dance Valley, Tomorrowland, Amsterdam Music Festival and tours including A State of Trance, Revealed and Fusion Cube.
“The projects that we work on are inspired by creativity and we are always pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with lighting. In saying this, we rely on wysiwyg pre-visualisation to see, to tweak, to test, to cue as well as to provide to clients and the contractors, technicians and musicians we work with.’
