The Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival was looking for a creative way to activate a large row of trees next to the Fisher Main Stage of the Seattle Center.
After much brainstorming, and considering many forms of lighting, projection mapping was chosen as a means to bring them into the show.
Any surface that can absorb and reflect light is a possible canvas for projections. It turns out leafy green trees are in that set too!
A whole new light was cast on an otherwise blank slate with visual content of simulated birds flocking from tree to tree during intermissions.
As this was right next to the main stage why not integrate a live video feed from the camera crew so that patrons in the beer garden could still have a prime view? Done.
It was a blast watching artists from Billy Joel to Third Eye Blind join in on the arboreal display over the weekend.
Overall it was a sight to see and blew our minds at how trees as a projection surface were entirely viable.
