# Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

> Made at BERG for Dentsu London, this film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

- Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/09/making-future-magic/
- Author: Timo Arnall (https://www.elasticspace.com/)
- Section: Films (https://www.elasticspace.com/films/)
- Published: 2010-09-14
- Updated: 2026-07-04
- Tags: Light Painting, Time Lapse, BERG, Slow
- Site map for agents: https://www.elasticspace.com/llms.txt

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Video: [Making Future Magic: iPad light painting](https://vimeo.com/14958082)

Made at [BERG](http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/magic-ipad-light-painting/) for [Dentsu London](http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/), this film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation. [More…](http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/magic-ipad-light-painting/)