1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the ultimate special-event address, but the venue tends to be booked up at least four years in advance. So the team at Miami-area event-production company Everlast Productions, did the next best thing for one its clients: projection-mapping a remarkably detailed simulacrum of the presidential residence on a three-dimensional stage constructed in the International Ballroom of the Washington DC Hilton hotel for the annual leadership event of Power Home Remodeling Group, the nation’s largest, full-service, exterior home remodeler.
When you’re mapping such a well-known building in the same city it is in—and when one of the speakers at the event is a former American president—the rendition has to be as near perfect as possible. And it was, thanks to Everlast Productions’ use of an Avolites Ai Q3 media server as the mapping engine paired with a Tiger Touch II lighting control console and the manufacturer’s new Synergy software.
“This was a huge projection event—it had to be very detailed, and it had to be built literally overnight,” said Washington Arias, Everlast Productions’ CEO, referencing the large-scale mapping project in which multiple projectors had to apply projection to a three-dimensional set, right down to a credible Oval Office, where keynote speeches, presentations, and an interview with former president George W Bush would take place.