I came across the work of Photon while surfing the net for inspiration a few weeks ago. I was immediately drawn to the light writing illustrations he was doing of Nike shoes. I had a tough time figuring out if it was photoshop’d or if he somehow traced the image of  the shoe perfectly for multiple illustrations of the shoe. I hit him up to see if he would be willing to tell us  more about his process. Photon is an artist out of Mexico City. Check out more of his work HERE.
Light writing was all the rage a couple years ago when Sprint launched their huge ad campaign. Your experimenting with light writing is inspiring on a different level. Are you doing this via Photoshop or with real light writing?
I really like working with analog and digital light, both have their advantages and disadvantages. What I like about analog stuff is its unpredictable nature and results. Yes, you can save a lot of time with digital stuff but… I just love analog lightpainting.
Walk us through your process. Are you creating a stencil by drawing it in Illustrator first. Then cutting it out by hand? What is your process for creating these stencils?
First I sketch my idea, then I scan and trace in Illustrator and make some minor changes. Then you can hand-cut and save $ with cardboard and exacto, if you have $ and you’re in a hurry, you can go the router way with wood or PVC.
Once the stencil is made, what is the next step? Using a light to trace in and around your stencil?
Exactly; I use a camera, a tripod, and some color leds. I found out that some colors doesn’ t react so well, you can solve this by using white leds and coloring in post-production.
When you are using photoshop for some of the work, do you have any tips for making it look so convincing? Usually Photoshop’d light streaks are easy to spot. Your images are excellent and convincing.
Light must feel organic, that’s it. Technical stuff: Liquify.
Any other plans for these types of projects? What is in the works?
I’d like to do more complex stuff, get involved with animation. I’m looking for someone interested in making a collab with this piece, I guess it would be a nice to animate and compose it with live action footage, kinda’ like the Magic Flashlights video.
Here is a russian group that does animation http://www.freezelight.ru/
and here is a a group from Germany http://www.lichtfaktor.eu/blog/?page_id=2
They both look like groups that would be cool to collaborate with.
Here is some amazing calligraphy with light. http://kaalam.free.fr/
and here is a link to my humble attempts at light painting, and experiments with light both analog, and that captured image manipulated in PS.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75227299@N00/sets/72...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75227299@N00/sets/17...
Your light painting rocks. Keep up the great work.
Wow! Those are killer Richard. Very good work.
Kalaam is awesome!
Thanx for the interview
Yeah. I've not see Kalaam's work. Very cool
Does Kalaam start w/ analog work and do some manipulation in post? Cause his stuff is fantastic!
But so is Photon's work. The poster he did w/ the transformer looking robot was sick.
His logo work he did for himself was pretty cool looking as well.
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