AssistiveLightPainting

Using SVG drawings to make light paintings using a custom large RGB light based non-orthongal plotter.

Do you want to make videos like this ???

But physically moving a light quickly is difficult for you?

We are building a system to help. It will allow you to animate on your laptop and have a mechansism do the physical moving of the lights.

This uses the following technologies:-

• Raspberry Pi
• Adafruit Stepper Motor HAT https://www.adafruit.com/product/2348
• SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
• http://anigen.org/versions/0_8_1/
• https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/mote
• Out version of vPiP https://github.com/EduMake/vPiP

System Layout

You will prepare the animation and at shooting time set up a frame (we are prototyping with a 2.5m x 4m Chromakey background frame). Attach our vPlotter mounts, beaded cord and lights.

Our custon vPlotter Mount

Currently in Development.

The Proposed Process

• Install our software and hardware on a raspberry pi
• Use SVG editing software to draw your characters
  • inkscape
  • SVG Edit
  • Vector Paint
  • Drawing SVG
• Use inkscape etc. to layout your scenes
• Use Anigen to animate those scenes http://anigen.org/versions/0_8_1/
  • Line colours and widths should be picked up by the lights on the vplotter
• Export the animation as zip file of indvidual frames
• Set up our custom, large format light v-plotter, using our parts and a frame.
• Set up camera and raspberry pi control box
• Run through setup procedure in software
• Using your laptop / tablet / phone you will then trigger each frame to be lightpainted whilst the camera takes the shot
• The images are then compiled into a movie file.