Near Light Video Animation and Dance by Lampo Leong, Yves Sonolet and Zhihao Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Bronze A' Design Award in Movie, Video and Animation Design Competition Category.
BronzeMovie· 2019
Near Light Video Animation and Dance
by Lampo Leong, Yves Sonolet and Zhihao Li
Client: Centre for Arts and Design, University of Macau, Macao
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Movie Category
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About Near Light Video Animation and Dance
Through capturing imagery of floating lights on street after midnight when the busy city was calming down, this video animation aspires to evoke a nostalgic sensibility for Macao, a tranquil peninsula in southern China near Hong Kong. As a reflection and questioning to the prosperous economic development in a city well-known for tourism industry, this work provokes the audiences into the search of the deeper meaning of life and happiness.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Near Light Video Animation and Dance is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Near Light Video Animation and Dance is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Near Light Video Animation and Dance splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Through capturing imagery of floating lights on streets after midnight when the busy city was calming down, this video animation aspires to evoke a nostalgic sensibility for Macao, a tranquil peninsula in southern China near Hong Kong. As a reflection and questioning to the prosperous economic development in a city well-known for gambling industry, this work provokes the audiences into the search of the meaning of life.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This work could be a video for a show/screening only or could include dance in a multimedia performance with LED panel on stage or within a museum/gallery installation.
- Tags
- art video, music video, video animation, multimedia show, synthesis of video animation and dance
- Production Technology
- Video footages filmed with a Canon 5DSR and edited in Adobe Premiere for the animation. This work could also include dancers in a multimedia performance.
- Design Challenge
- Capturing the floating lights on street and matching images/animation with music to creative the desired mood. The incorporation of dancers in the production is also a big challenge.
- Research
- This work is a multimedia video animation for screening and show, but it could also be part of a multimedia dance performance with a large LED panel on stage or within a gallery/museum installation. Through manipulation of the manual focus function during filming, a dreamy effect is captured to reveal a nostalgic sensation. The video footages will then be edited to match the musical texture. In the performance, dancers added another layer of meaning to the video animation and together created a touching performance on stage.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration of the project came from experiencing the transformation of Macao from a peaceful peninsula to a metropolitan city. As Reinsley Husson wrote in a review of Near Light: "Every life is heading towards an unknown destination - a journey of tragedies and triumphs that ultimately allows us to discover the world, and more importantly, ourselves."
- Project Duration
- 04:35, Lightscape: A Synthesis of Video Animation and Dance,
University of Macau, Macao, 2018 - Operation Flow
- This work could be a video for a show/screening only or could include dance in a multimedia performance with a large LED panel on stage or within a museum/gallery installation.
- Patents
- Lampo Leong, 2018
- Team Members
- Lampo Leong (Directer and Videographer)
Yves Etienne Sonolet (Animation and video)
Ólafur Arnalds (Music)
Zhihou Li (Choreography)
Dance Troupe of the University of Macau (Dancers) - Image Credits
- Image #1: Artistic Director Lampo Leong, Photographer Hengchia Hsu, 2018
Image #2: Artistic Director Lampo Leong, Photographer Tiantian Huan, 2018
Image #3: Artistic Director Lampo Leong, Photographer Tiantian Huan, 2018
Image #4: Artistic Director / Photographer Lampo Leong, 2018
Image #5: Artistic Director / Photographer Lampo Leong, 2018
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