well time to take 5 , some of them need to recharge...and cool off

I think we'll do better running some diagnostics on that poor fried brain of hers...

Worked at the local TV station and in theater. Can confirm that lights love to ignite anything and everything.

I'm assembling 800 watts of LED lighting for my high-speed camera currently. Heat management is a significant concern, but not enough for me to spend money on it. Found a bunch of Slot 1 Celeron heat sinks at work and the boss said I could take them.

Those old fashion lights do tend to be rather good at burning stuff. Standing in them is also not exactly a pleasure... And CPU heatsinks usually take the cake, so you've made a good choice there. But don't forget to regulate airflow and add a heat sensor to it, as you'd be wanting to keep a close eye on how hot those LED's are gonna get. Amazing that you require 800 watts of them though... Does it require that much light for it to function properly? And how do you solve the 60 Hz issue? Those LED's either need to be in DC or at a bloody high frequency to not have you flash the recorded image.
Also, what did you think of the actual work I made? :P It's a first for you to not comment on it at all. No problem and I love discussing LED's, but it stood out to me.

Oh geese, I completely forgot to comment on the art. how rude of me.

It looks great. Love the expression of all the characters. The confused look on Orion's face, the annoyed look on Syri's. Lizzy looks like she's blankly staring off into space, which is typical when you are staring into several kilowatts of stage light.

You did a great job of making the characters detailed and fit into the background. It's only when you stop looking at the characters that you see how "simplified" the lights and other background elements are compared to the characters. Even when you look at and notice it, it doesn't detract from the picture and keeps you from having to spend a bunch of time on background. If anything it draws your eyes to the characters themselves.

Back to the lighting: The issue I potentially see with these heatinks is that these are Slot 1 Celeron heatsinks, which had a TDP of about 27 watts. These LED modules consume 100 watts each, but I am not completely sure how much of that energy is converted to light and how much to heat. I left one plugged in for 5 minutes with the fan running and it became hot, but not painfully hot. I will add additional fans that will blow across the array for additional cooling. I will also have the fans on a separate power supply/switch so I can turn the lights off between shots and have the fans catch up with the heat.

As for temperature monitoring, I have a handheld IR thermometer I can use to check the temps of individual modules.

The 800 watts is a starting point. I have a Chronos 1.4 high speed camera. When you are shooting video at 17,000 frames per second, even direct sunlight sometimes isn't bright enough for the lens settings you want to use. This lighting will be for fill lighting when in direct sunlight and for indoor filming, where I will have to shoot at a slower frame rate.

The LEDs I am using use a constant current driver, so no flicker. I WISH I could use some of the off-the-shelf flood light modules, but they tend to use cheaper pulse width modulation drivers, which look like strobe lights when filmed with a high-speed camera. Sometimes even a regular speed camera will see the flicker.

I'll PM you a link to some of the work I have done thus far with it.

Thank you very much for pointing those things out to me! Feedback on my work is always appreciated. Glad I managed to get give the characters the attention they require in this piece. It took some puzzling to get that somewhat right. But I'm getting there. n_n

Oh jeez. Hate it when that happens! (and that happens a lot to me...)

Awesome work! The expressions are perfect, and the perspective is great too.

.....(it's also slightly hot because i'm a degenerate)

Most certainly unfortunate! Thank you very much for the compliments, they are very appreciated! Keep an eye out for part three then. ;)
And not to generalize, but aren't we all? (in one way or another) :3

Hee, for sure. Nothing wrong with being weird!

And I shall! Hopefully Lizzy gets some repairs for those fried circuits of hers. *snicker*

If not for "us weirdo's" the world would just be bland as f**k. :D And you'll see soon enough. ;)

Heeee, I wouldn't worry about it unless the set behind her bursts into flames lol

Not a good showing there.

Yeah... I guess we'll be running diagnostics for a while by the looks of it.

Yes indeed.