The toughest job in this build has to be getting a projection map to sit perfectly on a two-story house, where every window, gutter line and siding panel is a different shape. Phillips' Projections handles it by building custom facade artwork and animation scenes made specifically for this house, and the result reads as fitted precisely to the architecture rather than a flat image thrown at a wall.
The setup itself is refreshingly simple on the hardware side: one outdoor projector system in a Luxedo housing does all the work, driven by projection mapping software. The light show is timed to music, with custom 2D animated graphics, window cutouts and lighting effects all synchronized to the song's rhythm and narrative. Around the projection, the yard gets a post with multicolor lantern-style lights, and roofline string lights trace the gutters.
The scene list is what sells the party feel the maker was after: cartoon monsters, gears, laboratory pipes and giant speaker cones, plus jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, dancing skeletons and zombies. There is a band performing, Dracula shows up, and animated lips sing along. The audio is a recording of Monster Mash, and the visuals track the lyrics about the scientist, the graveyard party and Dracula's reaction, which makes the whole facade feel like one continuous story. The goal was a giant animated Halloween party rather than the usual creepy house, and the bright, lively, kid-appropriate, always-moving style comes through.
The one trade-off in my view is that everything rides on a single projector covering the full facade, so alignment has to stay perfect across two stories. That is a bold commitment, and from what is shown it pays off.
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