Light Painting

This Artist Uses Drones To Create Gigantic Long-Exposure Light Paintings in the Sky

By now we’ve all “oohed” and “awed” over footage of thousands of glowing drones used to create elaborate animated light shows in the night sky. But artist Frodo Álvarez has come up with a different approach, using just a handful of pre-programmed drones to create towering long-exposure light paintings. Typically these types of images are…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 20

Watch This Robotic Camera Rig Create 3D Animations With Light

Instead of repeatedly standing in front of a camera and waving an LED bulb to create long-exposure light paintings, Josh Sheldon automated the process with an impressive photography rig that takes orders directly from 3D animation software. The resulting animations, made with precise camera moves and robot-controlled lights, are like nothing you’ve ever seen. But…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 30

Hundreds of Flashlight Paintings Bring This Skeleton’s Night Out to Life

It doesn’t matter what medium you choose, animation is a tedious process requiring you to painstakingly bring every frame to life. But it’s even more challenging when your brush is an LED flashlight, the air is your canvas, and you can’t actually see what you just drew. And yet, artist Darren Pearson managed to create…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 2

Clever short film is made completely with light paintings

Light painting is usually used to snazz up still photographs in an awesome ‘how they do that’ kind of way but this is even cooler. Darren Pearson made this entire video of moving light paintings by hand drawing over 1000 light paintings and capturing them with long exposure at night to create the effect as…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 22

These Light Painting Videos Look Like Classic Video Games On Speed

We’ve seen some amazing light paintings that make the real world look magical and surreal. But what’s even cooler than a static light painting? A whole video, where beings made of pure light burst into existence and run around. Here are the most eye-popping and dazzling light-painting videos on the internet. https://gizmodo.com/light-paintings-that-make-the-real-world-look-like-tron-1524262774 A music video…

io9 Vincze Miklós Jan 30

An Artist Created a Stop-Motion Short Film Using 1139 Light Paintings

Light painting is the process of using light and long exposure photography to create almost electric-looking works of art. This bit of light trickery has been used by artists and hobbyists to create stunning visual works as well as recreating the proton streams from GhostBusters. But Darren Pearson, also known as Darius Twin, instead created…

Tech News Darren Orf Jan 25

Fantastic video recreates Ghostbusters effects using stop-motion

Joey Shanks has a series of videos where he shows how to create Hollywood movie effects using household objects. For this one he created the proton streams from Ghostbusters just using colored lights, long exposure photography, and stop-motion. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Oct 20

Using Light Painting Effects To Recreate the Ghostbusters Proton Streams

When you find yourself in times of trouble, always remember: Don’t cross the streams. Egon’s ghostbusting words of wisdom still hold true today. Joey Shanks at PBS Digital Studios knows that. But he’s risked total protonic reversal to show us how to recreate the glowing effects of everyone’s favorite Slimer-busting backpacks using simple light painting…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Sep 9

This Robot Is the Rembrandt of Painting With Light

The more traditional technique of light painting involves creating freehand designs using a point of light in front of a camera taking a long exposure photo. The results are occasionally recognizable—but most often random—and that’s part of their appeal. Jeff Crossman and Kevyn McPhail take a different approach, though, using a robot arm to create…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 5

An LED-Covered Drone Traced This Neon Light-Graffiti Through the Sky

Light painting is awesome, whether you use your own two hands and a LED glowstick, or leave it up to a roomba-like robot. But the folks at the production studio Fiction decided to take it up a notch by bring a makeshift UFO into the mix. Like any good light painting, the photos are long…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 10

Light Paintings That Make the Real World Look like Tron

You’ll never ride a lightcycle, or compete on the Game Grid. But the most dazzling “light paintings” use slow shutter speeds and other tricks to create light trails, giving the illusion that the real world has become a luminous virtual space. Here are the greatest light paintings of the past and present. The amusement park…

io9 Vincze Miklós Feb 17

Who Needs Fireworks When You’ve Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

Sure, light painting is awesome when you’re doing long exposure shots with a PixelStick or something, but that’s only one way to cover your world in glowing graffiti. Take, for instance, this LED-powered rainbow plane. Whipped up by Instructables user roballoba, the rainbow plane (planebow?) is a pretty involved process, but the results are worth…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 1

You can make man made rainbows with this giant LED glow stick

Rainbows are visual desserts, you’re always happier after you see them. But we don’t see them enough! Not with a Pixelstick though. It’s a giant stick that has 198 LEDs that can be programmed to display colorful rainbows, 3D cubes, pulsating magic carpets and so on in your light paintings. Basically wave, set your camera…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 30

A Giant Tube of LEDs Can Turn Anyone Into a Glowing Graffiti Artist

Light painting is rad: a long exposure, a dark background, and a flashlight all come together to make an eerie, sci-fi effect. High-tech, LED-powered light painting is even cooler, but so far it’s been a fringe hobby for die-hard DIYers. Pixelstick, with a newly-launched Kickstarter campaign, wants to put crazy nighttime picture and GIF-making powers…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Oct 30

This Font Was Created Using Light Streaks From an iPhone

This font, called Phone Streak, might not be the most practical typeface in the world, but it was probably the most fun to create—because it was put together by capturing long exposures of an iPhone being swept through the air. Created by Marcus Byrne—a motion graphics designer—the font was created using a technique known as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 4

A Glowing Light Painting of The Simpsons‘ Kang and Kodos

We’ve seen lots of amazing light paintings, but it’s rare to see someone attempt fan art with LEDs. Light painter Darren Pearson, also known as Darius Twin, draws The Simpsons’ alien invaders in glowing lines. Pearson has many, many more light paintings on his website, and includes a handful of videos showing how he draws…

io9 Lauren Davis Jun 23

Geometric Light Paintings Drawn by Roombas

The Roomba can keep your floors clean, but with a little setup, they can also make art across your living room. Some Roomba owners have use their robot vacuum cleaners, LEDs, and a camera set to take long-exposure photos to create robot-made light paintings. If you dip your toe into the Roomba Art Flickr Pool,…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 13

The Perfect Shot

When is light painting so much more than light painting? How about when it’s the perfect (golf) shot—an incredible composition by Dan Durakovich? My partner and I failed to find sparklers in time for our shoot so we fell back on old steel wool. Hopefully that doesn’t DQ us, especially since sparklers would have made…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 12

Shooting Challenge: Dual Sparkler Exposures

We’ve done long exposures. And many of you have blown things up with fireworks. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re combining the ideas in a technique that looks hard but anyone can pull off. The Challenge Take a dual-exposure photo with a sparkler implying motion. The Technique So here’s how it works. Long exposures are…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 6

This incredible photograph illustrates the movements of a violinist’s bow

This photograph represents the meeting of two great 20th-century artists. Famed violinist Jascha Heifetz was known for his incredible technical precision, which made him the perfect subject for a series of light paintings by the photographer Gjon Mili. Mili is probably best known for his 1949 series of photographs in which he encouraged Pablo Picasso…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 12

Light Painting

This Artist Uses Drones To Create Gigantic Long-Exposure Light Paintings in the Sky

Watch This Robotic Camera Rig Create 3D Animations With Light

Hundreds of Flashlight Paintings Bring This Skeleton’s Night Out to Life

Clever short film is made completely with light paintings

These Light Painting Videos Look Like Classic Video Games On Speed

An Artist Created a Stop-Motion Short Film Using 1139 Light Paintings

Fantastic video recreates Ghostbusters effects using stop-motion

Using Light Painting Effects To Recreate the Ghostbusters Proton Streams

This Robot Is the Rembrandt of Painting With Light

An LED-Covered Drone Traced This Neon Light-Graffiti Through the Sky

Light Paintings That Make the Real World Look like Tron

Who Needs Fireworks When You’ve Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

You can make man made rainbows with this giant LED glow stick

A Giant Tube of LEDs Can Turn Anyone Into a Glowing Graffiti Artist

This Font Was Created Using Light Streaks From an iPhone

A Glowing Light Painting of The Simpsons‘ Kang and Kodos

Geometric Light Paintings Drawn by Roombas

The Perfect Shot

Shooting Challenge: Dual Sparkler Exposures

This incredible photograph illustrates the movements of a violinist’s bow

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