• Case Studies
    • Commercial
    • Digital Signage
    • Education
    • Events
    • Government
    • Hospitality
    • House of Worship
    • Museum & Display
    • Live Streaming
    • Venues
  • Projects
    • Commercial
    • Digital Signage
    • Education
    • Events
    • Government
    • Hospitality
    • House of Worship
    • Live Streaming
    • Museum & Display
    • Venues
  • Technology
  • Industry
    • Companies
    • Opinion
  • Reviews
  • Product News
  • Jobs
  • Latest Issues
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
Online
Issue 11
0 SHARE
Read Next: Review: Williams AV Digi-Wave 400
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • TDC Powers Vivid Tech

TDC Powers Vivid Tech

TDC kicks off The Technology That Powers Vivid Sydney 2022.

By AV Technology

2 June 2022

It’s fun to walk past the amazing sites along the 8km Vivid Sydney Light Walk and view the spectacle of culture and art. Ever wondered what it’s like to work behind the scenes to bring these amazing animations to life?

Now in its 12th year, Vivid Sydney will transform the Harbour City into an illuminating fusion of creativity, innovation, and technology from Friday, 27 May to Saturday, 18 June, with more than 200+ events celebrating the essence of Sydney’s soul including its diversity, beauty, resilience, First Nations culture, and vibrant creative community.

Providing insightful access into what exactly goes on is TDC — Technical Direction Company, a super-organised team of project managers, creative technologists, designers and engineers. 

“After 12 months of planning, our team is so excited to be back working on Vivid Sydney again. The project is a huge logistical and technical rollout for us. It is going to be bigger and brighter than ever. Vivid Sydney will showcase the largest projection mapping display at any single event ever in Australia,” enthused Alex Rendell, technical project manager at TDC.

TDC is illuminating buildings and performance stages with the latest technical advances in LED and projection design and mapping. TDC provides backbone technology for signage systems for new immersive experiences on the Vivid Sydney Light Walk. TDC LiveView technology will be in action with over 72 real-time digital way finders. TDC LiveView will guide the audience through the Vivid Sydney Light Walk based on real-time information from traffic management, police and emergency services to ensure a great audience experience.

“”

We rely on the most experienced technical collaborators such as TDC to make Vivid Sydney a unique visual spectacular

TDC deployed 110 HD Projectors across 27 sites for 23 nights of the Sydney festival.

Newly appointed Vivid Sydney Festival Director, Gill Minervini, officially kicked off the technology delivery for Sydney’s signature cultural event when the first trucks arrived. Gill Minervini said: “Each year we are working to revitalise and give Vivid Sydney a new energy, made possible with the world’s best technology and innovation. We rely on the most experienced technical collaborators such as TDC to make Vivid Sydney a unique visual spectacular. We can’t wait to show everyone the results of all the hard work from our entire team working behind-the-scenes.”

“The Australian events industry in particular was hard hit by Covid and it’s great to see it start up again with new exciting technical achievements only to be seen at this year’s Vivid Sydney. We are now seeing a trend where technology is shaping the future of Festivals in using brighter, extreme-scale visuals, combined with mind-blowing content. This is pushing artists and content creators to think beyond the traditional canvas to communicate, imagine and share experiences,” said Michael Hassett, founder and managing director at TDC.

TDC Tech Tips: Vivid Sydney Firsts

Understanding the manpower, knowledge and technology isn’t always easy so TDC has provided the most important facts and numbers:

  • Biggest ever projector deployment: over 110 HD Projectors across 27 sites for 23-nights.
  • 200 total hours of projection including testing and line up: equivalent to screening every movie that has ever won an Academy Award for Best Picture including Top Gun (1986).
  • 30 crew work a year in advance starting with pre-production and planning. Over 1,000 design, administration and production hours and 3858 technical delivery hours.
  • Brighter than ever: over 2.5 million lumens of light is produced each evening.
  • Australian owned and operated, TDC is hiring and training staff. TDC is an attractive proposition for up-and-coming young designers.
  • Every Pixel is Everything to Us: Overall, 230,000,000 pixels is displayed each evening.
  • Custom-built media servers are being used for the first time this year. These can achieve many looks and interactive elements with unique hidden features. 
  • All sites are remotely monitored with real-time ‘TDC Live View’ remote reporting 24/7.

www.tdc.com.au
www.vividsydney.com

RESPONSES

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

More for you

Filter by
Post Page
Projects Product News Industry Companies
Sort by

TDC Celebrates Summer At Sydney Festival

19

TDC AT THE INVICTUS GAMES SYDNEY 2018

19

TDC AT VIVID SYDNEY

19

ASHBY SERIES ELEVATES MEYER SOUND INTELLIGENTDC

19

technical direction company vivid sydney

TDC AT VIVID SYDNEY 2017

19

TDC DAZZLES AT VIVID SYDNEY

19

TDC GOES ALL OUT AT VIVID SYDNEY

19

white night melbourne 2016 tdc

TDC IMMERSES WHITE NIGHT 2016 IN PROJECTION

19

TDC’S FIRST OUTSIDE BROADCAST VEHICLE HITS THE ROAD

19

TDC TOOLED UP FOR BIGGER VIVID

19

TDC LANDMARK LIGHT UP

19

Poised For Another Major Revelation At ISE 2023

10

preview
preview

Free! Get AV Technology magazine sent straight to your inbox every month



This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

preview
  • Case Studies
  • Projects
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Reviews
  • Product News
  • Jobs
  • Latest Issues
© 2020 AV Technology