The Eye would continue to turn and we wheeled a dolly into each pod. He explains, “Because the London Eye is a tourist attraction and is used every single day, we mounted the Excaliburs and a strobe unit on wheeled dollies and waited until the tourists cleared out each night, sometime around 7pm.
It was an arduous task that Routledge and his team met resourcefully. The designer, who had seen the IP-rated Proteus Excalibur at the Prolight+Sound show last May and demoed the unit in September, positioned the units inside each of the London Eye’s 32 pods. Routledge took on the project nearly a year ago, first assisting show producers Identity with the tender process and then working with them throughout the year to create a truly exceptional show that included 12,000 fireworks, 400 drones and over 300 high-power lights supplied by Neg Earth Lights. “It’s hard to punch through the amount of smoke that the fireworks generate,” the designer says, “but we managed to get past that with high-output lighting that was very much visible throughout the show.” The Proteus Excalibur’s enormous output-the beam light generates up to 7,500 lux at 100 meters-in combination with a 260-millimeter lens and 0.8° beam competes with xenon searchlights and sky trackers.
“It was very much about getting the chunkiest beam we could.” “We wanted something that could cut through so you could see the beams and create more architecture with light,” Routledge said of his decision to use the Excaliburs.
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