Hannah Montana

Ever heard of Hannah Montana? No? She is the new Britney Spears! When she enters the stage, deafening screeching starts, and it doesn't stop for the next two hours.


Disney's 54-date Hannah Montana tour of North America, the 'Best of Both Worlds' Tour, started in October in St. Louis, Missouri and ends January 9, 2008 in Albany, New York. Featuring 15-year old actress Miley Cyrus it is based around the character of Miley Stewart who lives a double life as an normal teenage schoolgirl during the day, transforming into famous pop singer, Hannah Montana, at night.
Four Hippotizers are used to run media through a proprietary Nocturne LED wall system as well as some Barco LED products and a Vista Systems Spider. All are running off of the Timeline and synchronized with Midi Time Code.
It's hard to become famous these days without a Hippotizer.

Nobel Prize for the Hippotizer? Nearly!

Did you know that Hippotizers were used for the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, 2008? Me neither! Only now I just received the information:

Johan of West Lighting (the very same who ran Hippotizers at the Thessalonika Song Contest in Greece in last months HippoWire) augmented the team at Stadshuset in Stockholm where he used several Hippotizers to display Peppe's content for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony:
Two Hippotizer V3 HD networked servers were used to run media on two Barco FLM 18 projectors and some Barco OLite 510 modules. These were used to project clouds and ambient mood effects up in the roof.
The projection up in the roof was heavily keystoned and a bit warped which the Hippotizers handled brilliantly. The projectors were shooting from opposite sides so the images formed a kind of vertical panorama.
Video content was created onsite by the mightily talented Peppe assisted by Lennart Wåhlin and used along with some Beacon Digigobo content. Lighting was designed by Mr Per Sundin.

Johan West, YOU ARE A LEGEND!

Pufferfish partners with Green Hippo

Pufferfish, an Einburgh-based developer of spherical inflatable display systems, announces a new partnership with Green Hippo to user-friendly AV solutions.


Until now, content for the PufferSphere, the company's main product, had to be pre-rendered in AfterFX in order to appear geometrically correct on the display. The Hippotizer essentially operates like a real-time version of AfterFX, with an intuitive GUI. By developing a free "Pufferizer" plug-in, Green Hippo has opened up a second route to spherical content production, allowing for real-time "spherizing" of any type of content, in addition to Green Hippo's existing pre-rendering option.

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