![]() ![]() This allowed the team to seamlessly interchange between using video content and traditional lighting cues to control the butterflies and create their scenes. Synergy gives users the standard workflow of lighting programming with the flexibility to bring in video into the mix at any time. At night, they twinkle and change colour in perfect synchronisation with the music, moving and traditional lighting fixtures surrounding the tree and video and static image content within the butterfly canvas designed by The Imagination House. The design, built by Life Formations, stands over 50 feet tall and is covered with 650 custom RGB LED butterflies, each with pixel mapped wing quadrants. In June 2019, Wildwood Grove opened with the mesmerising Wildwood Tree as the centerpiece. Weigl worked closely with Avolites, providing clear and concise feedback without the pressure of a live performance setting. Using beta software on projects can be risky and requires a huge amount of support however, it is the perfect opportunity to accelerate development. Weigl worked directly with engineers at Avolites and the team at Group One in US (the exclusive distributor of Avolites in the US) to start integrating Synergy into its Wildwood Grove project at Dollywood. Their workflow also often relied heavily on traditional busking approaches, which was what brought them to Avolites in the first place.Īlthough Synergy was still at its beta stage when it was introduced to Blasko, he gave it a shot in his upcoming projects and as a product developer in its own right, Weigl knew what it was getting into. Weigl’s installations have recently relied more and more on lighting and video at their core and the team had been searching to find the most efficient way to generate DMX streams built partially from traditional lighting cues and partially from video. ![]() As the two began discussing the ins and outs of the software in more depth, Blasko was intrigued to see how it could work for the applications Weigl was being challenged with by customers and partners. This shifted at the NAMM show in 2018 when Mike Blasko, president of Weigl, met Stephen Baird-Smith, sales manager of Avolites, who was demonstrating Synergy which integrates lighting and video control together. The two companies’ collaboration began in the mid-2000s when Weigl used Avolites’ DMX Pearl and Azure consoles to create single universe ‘single pass’ moving light profiles for its animatronics shows. To this day, the ProCommander VX is still the controller being used in the restaurants that still have animatronics.The installations was brought to life in a partnership between Avolites and Weigl, a company which designs and manufactures software and hardware for theme park and interactive experience installations. The ProCommander VX had all the same features in the ProCommander LTC, but was intergraded with Weigl's own video player instead. In 2018 due to the concern of ageing hardware the ProCommander LTC's were replaced with Weigl's off the shelf controller the ProCommander VX. The ProCommander LTC was able to be controlled by Weigl's Embedded Linux Based POE touch panel and Weigl Mobile Commander smart phone app allowing staff to start shows with ease and allowed maintenance to easily put the system in diagnostic or maintenance mode. This was a big upgrade from the cyberstar system. This controller had an intergraded video player that was made by CE labs (this is a separate company not related to CEC Entertainment), controlled Audio, Video, Lighting, and animatronic movements via LTC (Linear Time Code) and used Weigl's pro I/O adapters to be able to control older animatronics. ![]() The first system that was implemented was a custom version of one of Weigl's controllers called the ProCommander LTC. The cyberstar was very outdated and was not very user friendly. Their pro commander series of animatronic controllers was the successor of the Cyberstar system in early 2012.ĭuring CEC's 5th redesign of the animatronic stage, CEC was looking for a more modern way to program and control their animatronics. Weigl Control is a manufacturer of animatronic, lighting and media controls. ![]()
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