Production days: Spardabank Frankfurt

written on Tuesday, 4th November, 2008

Again we are having some working days in Frankfurt to finally set up the illumination of the Spardabank-Hessen e.G. headquarters' facade.

Matthias, David and me are sharing a room in the luxury Mövenpick Hotel next to the Frankfurt Trade Fair and – determining this choice – vis-à-vis with the Spardabank-Hessen e.G.'s headquatres!

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Elevator crammed with equipment

After arriving on last sunday afternoon, we built up our tentative office in the top floors room 737. All together we have five computers, including two notebooks and one PC serving as main render client. This way we are able to keep on working, while our creations get rendered. Our daily routine includes working on AfterEffects-compositions till afternoon, en passant rendering new and final compositions as well as test screens. During todays blue hour we took some footage of the building gaining the hindmost, steelblue sunbeams of this wonderful autumn day.

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David, working

Night is the time to check out how our work takes effect on the facade. From the roof garden of our hotel, we document which parts of our animation need to be altered and which geometric shapes are recognizable or not. Nearly every sequence of moving lines, dots, shapes and colors has to be altered again and again to get this last little dodge, which makes most of the capabilities of the LED-lightened facade. In the end there should exist a looped movie, shown on the facade from dawn till midnight.

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Stay at Frankfurt to finalize the illumination of the Spardabank-Hessen e.G.'s headquatres.

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Stay at Frankfurt to finalize the illumination of the Spardabank-Hessen e.G.'s headquatres.

We have two days left to get some new themes running on the Spardabank's facade. I am looking forward to show you some video footage of the facade, up to now this footage is still waiting to be edited. Maybe this article will see an update with video soon!

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Production Days: Spardabank Frankfurt

By the way we are following the first predictions of the Potus elections, presented by ARD on the giant, muted flatscreen dangling off the wall right beside my workstation! Exciting!