PING PONG POOL
South Beach, Miami
Optical Animal was invited by the Mondrian South Beach to design an interactive video experience to be shared at a string of parties the hotel was hosting during the week of Art Basel.
We were drawn to the hotel's 90-foot rainbow shaped pool as a potential projection mapping surface, if only there were some way to transform the water into a surface that could be illuminated.
250,000 ping pongs, 4 projectors, and 60 minutes of fresh 3D animated content later, we were thrilled to bring Ping Pong Pool to the Mondrian.
A video recap of the installation went viral, gaining 60M+ views (and counting!) across various platforms. All of the ping pong balls were collected and put into storage, and continue to periodically find their way out into the world for various happenings, events, summer pool parties, and re-imaginings of the project.
