Introduction to visual mapping.

Visual mapping became very popular in the VJing / Video Art domain in the past 2 years, but this technique is still quite unknown by the general public.

The idea of visual mapping is quite simple: forget about usual rectangular projections on screen, point a video projector at ANY object/surface, and turn it into a custom display !

As a visual artist, I have been experimenting a lot around the mapping technique, on various surfaces (2D and 3D) and on different scales, from small origamis to 160m wide building facades.Here are a few examples of recent projects, based on the mapping technique:

AntiVJ presents: Light Sculpture from AntiVJ / Joanie on Vimeo.

AntiVJ & Crea Composite: Nuit Blanche Bruxelles from AntiVJ / Joanie on Vimeo.

Since I started doing mapping I tried many different techniques and I've been playing around with dozens of softwares to find out which would be the best for mapping projects. As none of these softwares would have all the functionnalities, I still use a combination of them: Flash, After effects, cinema4D, photoshop, Arkaos.

The idea of the media sandbox project is to create a software dedicated to mapping, to make the mapping process easy and quick, and provide artists a simple and effective tool to express themself in a new way, using projections on 2D or 3D space.I will post some more details about visual mapping quite regularly on this page, and also updates and pre-versions of the software.