The unique design, built by LifeFormations, stands over 50 feet tall and is covered with 650 custom RGB LED butterflies, each with pixel mapped wing quadrants. In June of 2019, Dollywood’s Wildwood Grove opened with the mesmerizing Wildwood Tree as the centerpiece. Weigl worked closely with Avolites, providing clear and concise feedback without the pressure of a live performance setting.
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Weigl worked directly with engineers at Avolites and the team at Group One Ltd-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 decided to give it a shot in his upcoming projects, and, as product developers themselves, Weigl knew what it was getting into. Weigl’s installations recently have 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 unique applications Weigl was being challenged with from its customers and partners. Weigl President Mike Blasko met with Avolites Sales Manager Stephen Baird-Smith, who was demonstrating Synergy on the stand-the groundbreaking feature set of Avolites’ Titan and Ai V12 software that integrates lighting and video control together. This shifted at the NAMM show in 2018 when things got a bit more interesting. The story of its collaboration with Avolites starts back 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. Weigl designs and manufactures a range of fascinating software and hardware products for permanent theme park and interactive experience installations.
Together, all involved were able to bring this attraction to life using pioneering lighting and video technologies. Designed and built by LifeFormations, with creative from The Imagination House, the centerpiece of this new land is majestic and unlike any other tree in the world. The Wildwood Tree features lighting and video technologiesĪvolites and Weigl were proud to recently partner on The Wildwood Tree, a unique installation located within Wildwood Grove at Dollywood.