Modern Stage Services calls on Pixera for India’s largest ever projection mapping

India:

AV Stumpfl’s PIXERA media server platform headed to the front lines for Beating Retreat, the military ceremony at the heart of India’s Republic Day celebrations. This year the event transformed New Delhi with a cutting-edge projection-mapping experience synchronised with a large drone display. Modern Stage Services won the tender to provide the projection mapping, calling on the PIXERA platform to bring the projections to life.

“This is the biggest projection-mapping project to date in India, as well as the first event in India where projection mapping and a drone show were in sync,” confirmed Pratik Wadhwa, CEO of Delhi-based Modern Stage Services. The show celebrated both the past 75 years of Indian history and the present and future development of the country.

Fourteen PIXERA systems, including one PIXERA Director licence, bolstered a Beating Retreat setup that included 61 Christie 20k-lumen laser projectors, a further eight 40W RGB laser projectors, and lighting comprising of 96 moving heads and 180 LED PAR lights. “We have been using PIXERA for all our projects since 2021,” Wadhwa added, “and we are very satisfied with the stability of the software. Features like 3D previsualisation, live input preview and dynamic soft edge make the job much easier for us.”

Wadhwa was additionally full of praise for AV Stumpfl’s Florian Eder and Horst Damoser, with whom the Modern Stage Services team had detailed discussions about the project during the planning stage. The projection show was scripted and directed by Atul Tiwari, while the content was created by Knownsense Studios. The ceremony was attended by India’s president, Droupadi Murmu, and prime minister, Narendra Modi, as well as Csaba Kőrösi, president of the United Nations General Assembly.