Paul Lacroix
Paul Lacroix is a multimedia engineer and artist, specialised in video mapping onto the face and body. After studying science and medicine at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, he moved to Japan where he still resides today. He firstly focused on 3D images applied to cinematographic fiction. He was the creator of the brain images for Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008), the second version of 1995’s cult animated film. In 2014, Paul Lacroix designs Omote, the first real-time face monitoring and video projection system. He has used and improved this technology ever since, through several projects for television and the cinema, as well as collaborations with singers and musicians and with Japanese museums (for ‘Van Gogh Face Projection Mapping’ at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum). In parallel, he conducts research into video projection on the entire body, which will be used for the clips Exisdance directed by Hayato Ando, with Kikky (Missy Elliott) and Parted, directed by Daisuke Hashimoto, with Mari Katayama.
The Lady in the Wood / Real-time Facial Projection Mapping from Paul Lacroix on Vimeo.