Vampire Empire Burning Man Projection Mapping

Vampire Empire was a Burning Man camp built around a custom Romanian-inspired cathedral: a gothic, theatrical structure with tall window surfaces that asked for content to feel embedded in the architecture rather than projected over it.

MELT created a custom projection mapping package for the cathedral, treating the windows like stained glass coming alive after dark. The visual system combined glass textures, alpha mattes, glow transitions, cracked-window studies, bat-burst moments, and long-form atmospheric loops designed for the camp's nighttime environment.

The work was built around the custom geometry of the cathedral, using window mattes and transparent deliverables so each look could sit inside the facade. The result gave Vampire Empire a flexible mapped language for mood, transformation, and ritual-scale spectacle in the playa dust.

ClientVampire Empire
EventBurning Man
EnvironmentCustom Romanian-inspired cathedral
ScopeProjection mapping content, glass treatments, window mattes, atmospheric loops

projection mappingburning manimmersive campcathedral visualsstained glassenvironmental media

Mapped gothic windows with glass texture for Vampire Empire — Mapped gothic window system with layered glass treatment

Glass effect motion test for the cathedral window language

Vampire Empire window projection mapping frame without glass texture — Window layout before glass texture

Vampire Empire normal window study for projection mapping — Window study and facade alignment

Vampire Empire alpha matte for cathedral windows — Alpha matte for the mapped windows

Vampire Empire long-form projection sequence frame — Long-form atmospheric sequence frame for the cathedral interior language

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