LITTLE WINTER
Grandpa's model railroad crashes into the digital age. Five hand-built dioramas are brought to life in a large-scale film and music installation at The Cosmopolitan. The project is centered in the hotel's lobby: a massive digital/physical experience, and one of the most sophisticated video display systems in the world. The project also spans several hundred other digital displays across the resort including elevators and outdoor marquee. The winter storybook scenes depict a nordic ice fishing adventure at daybreak, an alpine ski day, a sunset ice-skating outing, a twilight hot tub celebration, and a moonlit deep woods quest. Filled with hidden stories, the frozen scenes are brought to life with animated figures and environmental effects. An original music score accompanies each scene as a winter’s day passes from dawn to the deep of night.
Credit-> Client: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas | Concept, Design and Direction: YONDER | Scenic Fabrication: Nix & Gerber Studio | Animation and Effects: Ntropic, Simon Mowbray, Creative Director | Executive Producer for Yonder: Jennifer Senkler
Las Vegas, 2011
Little Winter is a large-scale film and music installation created by Plains Of Yonder that plays seasonally in the lobby of The Cosmopolitan Hotel. Five storybook scenes unfold from a daybreak ice fishing scene to a moonlit deep woods quest. To accompany the non-sequiter characters and scenes in this wonderland, I composed an orchestral score drawing inspiration from classic holiday motifs and sounds.
