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Painting with Light delivers lighting design and video content for K3

Painting with Light delivers lighting design and video content for K3
Painting with Light delivers lighting design and video content for K3

K3, the most successful girl band in the history of Benelux, have finished a 122-date sold-out concert tour that ended at Antwerp’s Lotto Arena, with lighting design and video content delivered by Belgian visual design practice, Painting with Light, led by Luc Peumans.

 

Karen Damen, Kristel Verbeke and Josje Huisman - ‘the old K3’ - double headlined the show with ‘the new K3’ - Marthe De Pillecyn, Hanne Verbuggen and Klaasje Meijer - who were selected by a national TV competition in Belgium in late 2015 to ensure that the K3 concept, managed by production company Studio 100, continues.

 

Luc Peumans and his team have been involved in the visual presentation of K3’s live shows for around twelve years. The set for the “K3 presents K3” tour was designed by Stefaan Haudenhuyse from Studio 100 and took K3’s heart-shaped branding as a starting point, with a massive scenic heart onstage, which at Peumans’ suggestion, was developed into a light box.

 

Built by Amsterdam based Invent Design, multiple pixel controlled LED strips were fitted inside making it versatile and able to change colour, texture and appearance. With this being a tour, Peumans also made sure that it was practical to build, break-down and transport.

 

"K3 play a lot of live shows, so it was important to keep all scenic and technical aspects of the current design straightforward, quick and easy to rig and move and also fit expediently into the truck," explains Peumans. Lighting and video equipment was supplied by PRG and all of the production including set, sound, staging, wardrobe, etc. travelled in six trucks.

 

Upstage of the heart-shaped light box was a large 10 mm LED video screen which opened in the middle for entrances and exits. In front of the heart was a set of steps down onto the stage, fitted with custom medium resolution architectural LED strips, and for the larger shows on the tour - including the Lotto Arena - two side IMAG screens were added.

 

Being a farewell tour, a lot of playback video on the screen highlighted K3’s career highs including excerpts from their movies and TV show. All of the historical footage and special new custom motion graphics and material created by Jos Claesen for Painting with Light for the tour was stored on one of Painting with Light’s Coolux Pandora’s Box media servers and programmed/operated by Katleen Selleslagh and Jeroen Opsteyn.

 

Lighting was designed by Luc Peumans and directed on the road by Niels Huybrechts. Around 90 moving lights - a mix of PRG Best Boys, Clay Paky Sharpy Washes and VariLite VL3500 Q-Spots - were installed on a series of overhead trusses. Twenty-four SGM Q7 RGBW LED strobes and 25 Chauvet Strike-4 LED blinders were dotted around in the roof for audience illumination. “The Strikes replaced my traditional blinder fixtures,” says Peumans.

 

Two Concept Vi-Count hazers were also run by Niels Huybrechts via his GrandMA2 Full Size console, supplied to the production by Painting with Light. The lighting picture was completed with three Robert Juliat Victor 1800W follow spots located in the house positions.

 

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Painting with Light delivers lighting design and video content for K3Painting with Light delivers lighting design and video content for K3

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