Do you remember the 3D animation during Jamala's performance at the Eurovision song contest in 2016? It was created by the Ukrainian studio of innovative audiovisual (AV) technologies Front Pictures. But on-stage super effects are only part of the company's business. In addition, it does installations, dome systems, 3D mapping as well as projects for film and television industries. If you enter the largest planetarium in the UK or Korea, you will encounter Front Pictures technology there.

The company was founded in 2003 by former Leo Burnett advertising agency employees Yurii Kostenko, Vitalii Sliusarenko and Maksym Zaitsev… Very quickly the company moved to 3D visualization and immersive multimedia solutions. It was on their interactive media table (i.m.table) that Yevhen Filatov (The Maneken) created his music in 2008.

Since 2010, Front Pictures has been creating 3D mapping shows and installing its digital Fulldome systems. The company combines digital content and technology in its work. Its Screenberry media server is able to “stitch” parts of a video in order to seamlessly project it on a spherical surface.

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Freckled Sky’s one-of-a-kind water-projection performance "Another World" was announced by Billboard as one of the Best America's Got Talent Golden Buzzer Auditions Ever. The Golden Buzzer was introduced during season 9 of the show, with each judge only getting to press it once per season. If you're put through with the Golden Buzzer, you advance straight to the live shows.

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This projection act was like virtual reality on a grand scale. Dancer Konstantin Tomilchenko appeared on stage in the midst of what could be movie scenes or video game levels. The act made it to the Semifinals of Season 13 as a wildcard, and finished the competition with an epic outer space scene.

A glass bridge in the center of the spherical construction hosts up to 45 spectators and allows them to enjoy the best view of what is happening around them. High-resolution projectors create an immersive environment that allows visitors to dive into a virtual world without the need for VR headsets. This was made possible by visual solutions experts from Ukrainian company Front Pictures.

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Kiev-based company, Front Pictures – a leading manufacturer of projection domes for mobile and permanent installations – worked in collaboration with the NSC technical team on the system design, audio-visual engineering, and system integration.
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Tasked with delivering on Melody Makers’ ambitions, New Media Creative Technology Studio (Madrid, Spain) and Front Pictures (Kiev, Ukraine) provided the projection system that illuminates the hotel. Between them, the two projection mapping specialists boast more than 30 years of combined experience.
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This theater takes VR to a whole new level. Space 360 is a spherical projection theater. It creates a small universe around viewers. This eliminates the need for VR headsets.
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Nowadays, you won’t surprise anyone with virtual reality glasses that allow to watch 360 video. But Ukrainians have proposed something more interesting. In June 2017, they have installed a projection system at South Korea’s first full spherical projection theater. When visitors step inside the sphere which has 12 meters in diameter, they find themselves on a transparent glass observation bridge and see a video projection around, above, and below them.
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In October this year, Max Barskih delivered a grand concert with the presentation of his Tumany program at the Kyiv Palace of Sports. This concert marked a milestone not only in the musician’s career but in the entire Ukrainian show business industry as well. For the first time, an “animated” 6,5-meter skull was used onstage.

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One of the latest immersive 360 spherical theatres helping transform the audience experience has been built in South Korea, with Front Pictures engineering and installing the projection system and software. Space 360 – which is 12 metres in diameter – is located next to Lucerium National Science Museum in Gwangju.
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Ukraine's 2+2 Channel features innovative technology studio Front Pictures on its Doing Business program, which focuses on success stories of Ukrainian business people abroad.
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Front Pictures has created Presenter360, a powerful immersive presentation and slideshow tool for fulldome theaters. This innovative product makes the process of designing a fulldome immersive slide show as easy as using a traditional slide- presentation tool.

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Datapath technology proved central to a highly creative, multimedia launch event for the new Mercedes-Benz Travego at the company’s Turkish dealership in Istanbul. Two Datapath x4 display controllers were deployed in the set-up by regional system integrator, Front Pictures Studio, in order to output signals to a large number of projectors from a single server.

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Frankly, I never liked to interfere in the connict between physicists and lyricists, techies and humanists. That it is why I am happy to meet a man, in whom these mindsets absolutely do not interfere with each other, and for whom new technologies are a means of the artistic expression and the art is an opportunity to develop new technologies.
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Frankly, I never liked to interfere in the connict between physicists and lyricists, techies and humanists. That it is why I am happy to meet a man, in whom these mindsets absolutely do not interfere with each other, and for whom new technologies are a means of the artistic expression and the art is an opportunity to develop new technologies.

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This projection act was like virtual reality on a grand scale. Dancer Konstantin Tomilchenko appeared on stage in the midst of what could be movie scenes or video game levels. The act made it to the Semifinals of Season 13 as a wildcard, and finished the competition with an epic outer space scene.

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