MELBOURNE NEW YEAR'S EVE DRONE SHOW 21/22

Celestial Labs asked me to design and direct the City of Melbourne New Year’s Eve Drone Show. We commissioned Australian Poetry Slam Champion Ren Alessandra to write a poem marking Melbourne’s emergence from the world’s longest lockdown. Ren’s words were then illustrated by Mandy Nicholson, an aboriginal artist. Once Mandy’s illustrations were in place, the dance of the drones was animated in previs software, whilst Jerry Lane and Andrew Lancaster provided a musical score. Finally, the show was programmed into 350 drones, which flew every night for two weeks over the Melbourne docklands, operated by a crew of some 50 technicians.