Opening Night at The Guggenheim

It was with exhausted relief that Mark Schmitz from ZD Studios, Arkadiusz Zarzycki from Arch.Studio.3D and a handful of students from Madison Area Technical College attended the pre-opening of the Guggenheim Museum’s latest exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. Mark and Archi dedicated over 500 hours of animation, modeling and “passion” time creating “There Must Be A Natural House” a 10 minute animated film featuring Wrights home Taliesin. The film takes you through a virtual tour of the entire space as it existed on April 9th, 1959, the day Wright died. Combining historical photographs, current condition photographs and high definition 3D modeling software, the short film walks you through the front gates, into the sacred drafting rooms, garden terraces and living spaces of Taliesin originally built in 1911. Mr. Wright’s words describing his thought process of designing Taliesin flow throughout the beautifully designed piece.

Said Guggenheim Curator David Van Der Leer,

“I wanted to express my thanks for all of your great work, and enthusiasm. The audience seems to enjoy the animation a great deal. There are always groups of people standing in front of the monitor.”

The show moves to The Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain on August 23rd 2009.
Get to New York and see it before it sails!