The Czech consortium of Tomato Production, their technical partners AV MEDIA and creative company, The Macula, recently produced a video-mapping show on Liverpool's waterfront. 

Using Christie projection, they helped the City's landmark Grade 1-listed Royal Liver Building celebrate its centenary, while marking the opening of the Museum of Liverpool - the largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century.

With both buildings sited at the Pier Head, the event was fittingly entitled Reflection on the Waterfront.

The showstopper on each of the three nights was the pixel-mapping extravaganza, titled The Macula Spectacular. When the tender was issued by City of Liverpool's cultural department The Macula bid successfully after the organisers viewed the consortium's video projection for Prague's 600th Anniversary show, projected onto the city's Astronomical Clock.

The contract required carefully, geometry-aligned projection onto the two buildings - the history of Liverpool onto the Royal Liver Building and a series of modern art projections onto the Museum, which had been opened just days earlier.

For the former, two Christie Solaria CP2230 digital cinema projectors were deployed and for the Museum projection, a further CP2230, with DCI kit, was detailed, along with two HD18Ks. The projectors, owned by AV MEDIA Group, were fitted with either 1.1-1.4:1 or 1.8.-2.6:1 HD zoom lens.

The content was created by The Macula, and while the Museum projection was fed from two coolux media systems the Royal Liver Building show was powered by high powered PCs running Resolume VJ software which triggered the effects.

Manchester-based, dbn, who handled the architectural lighting, also provided a Hippotizer media server, linked into the projection system so they could apply block colour, This was mapped exactly to the projection surface area and filled that space for the warm up period before the video show fired up.

While the Museum offered a three-projection 90m x 20m canvas (in 5760 x 1080 widescreen resolution) the Royal Liver

Building covered a 48m x 50m surface (with a 2048 x 2160 resolution).

Each evening the celebrations started around 8.30pm with a special musical performance from blues diva Connie Lush on the Friday, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Saturday and blues band 6ix Toys on Sunday, with the remainder of the technical reinforcement provided by locally-based PA company Adlib. At the same time throughout each evening giant, beautifully illuminated lanterns representing key points in Liverpool's history were on display at the Pier Head, complete with illuminated fish swimming in the canal.