Liquid Skin / Surface Tension

4D fountain installation for Best Kept Secret Festival.

For the vividly coloured grounds of Best Kept Secret, we summoned a goddess of the water. A 4D fountain experience in which the animation’s movement quite literally bursts out of the screen. When the goddess strikes the water’s surface, a second fountain responds with a powerful jet skyward. The animation was created through motion capture. Every movement performed by a real human, transformed into fluid, radiant energy.

Visitors paused, sat down, and let themselves be carried away. Some watched for minutes, as if time dissolved. The fountain became a meditative spectacle: a ritual of colour, water, and light that evoked wonder and quiet reflection amidst the festival’s vibrant energy.

CONCEPT, DIRECTION & DESIGN

Beeldjutters:
Julian van Buul
Vincent Vriens

3D ANIMATION

Donald van de Zande

LIQUID SLIDE TEXTURES

LSDIA / Niels Krupers

MOTION CAPTURE

Sebastiaan Schoonen
Donald van de Zande

MOCAP DANCE MOVEMENTS

Anastasia Bubulică

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION

Niels Krupers
Sebastiaan Schoonen

SPECIAL THANKS

Best Kept Secret festival
Fontys Academy of the Arts