2001 ILDA Awards

Judges
Marc Gringas
Steve Heminover
Greg Hughes

1st (tie): "Lasershow Converter Max", Pangolin Laser Systems

A “plug-in” that works seamlessly with 3D Studio Max to render laser frames that are faithful to the images created in the computer graphics program. Complex camera movements, character animations, and inverse kinematics—elements rarely found in laser shows but common in computer graphics—are captured by LCMax and instantly rendered in laser light.

1st (tie): "Schneider Showlaser", Audio Visual Imagineering and Schneider Laser Technologies

A solid-state, full-color laser that produces 10 watts of white-light power yet runs off a standard 220 volt outlet. The system’s high laser power is combined with other features: long lifetime, low power consumption and minimal cooling requirements. The Showlaser is the first high-powered solid-state laser to feature red, green and blue wavelengths and to offer a modulated, color-balanced palette designed for display purposes

2nd: "ScanMaster2 Laser Projector Control Board", Dirk Apitz

The ScanMaster2 connects an entire laser projection system to a client computer via standard Ethernet using TCP/IP. The board itself can be mounted in a projector, a standalone adapter box, or a recording/playback system. It comes with fully implemented ISP inputs, outputs and inputs for galvo positioning and monitoring, 8 color outputs and several I/Os connected to a 100MHz DSP with open source firmware. The system is powerful enough to do real-time interpolation of vectors and curves, geometric and color space processing, galvo safety monitoring and zone control.

3rd: "Lacon-5 Multimedia Workstation", LOBO electronic

The second-generation Lacon-5 multimedia laser workstation and show controller is ten times faster than its predecessor. The new Lacon-5 is based on a modular hardware structure that avoids data bottlenecks and allows for almost unlimited expansion. LOBO’s new high-resolution Scanline laser video feature can directly import video MPEG files (as well as all common bitmap file formats) and display rasterized laser output four times higher in resolution than other systems.

Honorable Mention: "LaserMAME", lasers.org

The LaserMAME technology takes its cue from the freeware MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) software that allows modern PC’s to accurately reproduce vector-based arcade games popular in the early 1980s. But instead of playing these games on a computer monitor, LaserMAME allows the games to be played and projected in full-color laser light.

Honorable Mention: "Beam Brush - Dynamic Filtering Projection Technique", Laser Fantasy International

A small galvo-mounted filter that can be inserted fully or partially into the path of a laser beam. The filter gives an otherwise sharp beam a soft, more diffuse look, with the degree of softness varied by how far the filter is inserted into the beam path. Because filter insertion is controlled by a rapidly moving galvo, vector points within a laser graphic can be softened on an individual basis.

There are three 2001 ILDA Awards videos at YouTube. Below is a listing of the start time of each winner.

ISP BEAM MODULE
00:01 - 1st - “Movement”, LOBO electronic GmbH
04:16 - 2nd - “The Bongo Show”, LaserAnimation Sollinger GmbH
08:15 - 3rd - “Operation Blade”, LaserAnimation Sollinger GmbH

ISP CEL ANIMATION (note: no audio for these)
12:12 - 1st - “Franky’s Night Out”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc.
13:06 - 2nd - “Indian Dance”, Laser Force, Inc.
14:27 - 3rd - “Dolphin”, LOBO electronic GmbH
14:53 - Hon. Mention - “Pegasus Morphs into a Jet”, Laser Force, Inc.

ISP COMPUTER ANIMATION (no audio)
15:18 - 1st - “Wolf Head”, Strictly FX
15:55 - 2nd - “Homero”, Lightspeed Design Group
18:27 - 3rd - “Pangolin ID”, Pangolin Laser Systems
18:50 - Hon. Mention - “Metamorphosis”, LaserAnimation Sollinger GmbH
19:29 - Hon. Mention - “Sea World”, Lightspeed Design Group

ISP GRAPHIC MODULE
20:05 - 1st - “La Vida Loca”, Strictly FX
23:51 - 2nd - “Belle Nuit”, LaserAnimation Sollinger GmbH
27:33 - 3rd (tie) - “Dead Man’s Party”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc,.
30:18 - 3rd (tie) - “One More Time”, Strictly FX
34:20 - Hon. Mention - “Rhapsody in Balloon”, Laser Force, Inc.

ISP GRAPHIC AND BEAM MODULE
38:22 - 1st - “Carol of the Bells”, Strictly FX
40:59 - 2nd - “Digital Get Down”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc.
43:56 - 3rd - “Music”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc. (no audio due to YouTube copyright claim)
47:04 - Hon. Mention - “Micro Maniac”, Laser Spectacles, Inc.

BEAMS/ATMOSPHERICS
51:12 - 1st - “Living Drums”, LOBO electronic GmbH
55:07 - 2nd (tie) - “Classglass”, LDS Light Design GmbH
(end of part 1 video)

BEAMS/ATMOSPHERICS
00:01 - 2nd (tie) - “Aurora”, LOBO electronic GmbH

ABSTRACT
03:51 - 1st - “Fight Song”, Laser Fantasy International
06:48 - 2nd- “New Year’s Day”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc.

GRAPHIC MODULE
10:57 - 1st - “LOBO 2001”, LOBO electronic GmbH
15:04 - 2nd - “The Sunshine Show”, LaserAnimation Sollinger GmbH
18:32 - 3rd - “Love at First Kiss”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc.
20:47 - Hon. Mention - “Spain - Rockin’ Gypsies”, Laser Fantasy International
23:49 - Hon. Mention - “Help”, Laser Force, Inc.
26:18 - Hon. Mention - “Fatal Destiny”, Laser Force, Inc.

INDOOR SHOW
30:18 - 1st - “Ostwürttemberg-Show”, LOBO electronic GmbH
34:33 - 2nd - “Proxi”, HB Laserkomponenten GmbH
38:07 - 3rd - “Citroën C5 Presentation”, Laser Entertainment S.R.L.

OUTDOOR SHOW
42:06 - 1st - “Nam June Paik’s Laser Art at Seoul Olympic Park”, Sam Laser Display (no audio)
45:52 - 2nd - “Mattel Pre-Toy Fair 2000”, Laser Force, Inc.

SPECIAL APPLICATION
49:51 - 1st - “Pacless”, LaserAnimation Sollinger GmbH

FENNING AWARD FOR TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
00:01 - 1st (tie) - “Lasershow Converter MAX”, Pangolin Laser Systems
03:51 - 1st (tie) - “Schneider Showlaser”, Audio Visual Imagineering, Inc. and Schneider Laser Technologies AG
07:51 - 2nd - “ScanMaster2”, Dirk Apitz (no video)
08:00 - 3rd - “LACON-5”, LOBO electronic GmbH
11:54 - Hon. Mention - “LaserMAME”, lasers.org
16:00 - Hon. Mention - “Dynamic Image Filtering Utilizing ‘Beam Brush’”, Laser Fantasy International (no video)