Hellenic Film Awards

The Hellenic Film Academy commissioned us to design an alternative film awards ceremony.

We created 23 short, animated stories that would interact with each winner and provide a dynamic experience to both live and television audience.

Each film award category’s characteristic tool was then incorporated into each interactive environment:

• A film editor’s scissors were turned into a school of fish that was following and interacting spontaneously with the winner.

• A documentary film-maker’s cameras were turned into playful monkeys on giant palm trees constantly observing the winner as he walked to receive his award.

• The typed letters of a film manuscript doubled as a waterfall bathing the winner as he passes through it.

Consistent with an appetite for humour and playfulness, simple shapes, solid colors, a restricted color palette and a pop aesthetic was selected throughout.

We used a tracking engine developed in-house along with industrial grade infrared cameras in order to track all the action on stage. To separate and track each actor we implemented a decision mechanism, allowing us to deliver targeted interactions on a populous stage. We used technologies and algorithms such as particle systems, physics engines, autonomous agents, animation engines and much more, in order to simulate natural forces and behaviours in each scene

Technology: openCV // FLIR Flea3 camera // openFrameworks // Box2D physics engine // particle systems // autonomous agents // generative algorithms

Client: The Hellenic Film Academy