Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Act 4 Test
Just using Pblurb, This is just a test =D I messed up right after the block breaks, there's a huge jump in the animation…
Monday, July 26, 2010
Indian Winter whole song live
I made the video public, so you can just go to the vimeo page to download the source file: vimeo page with direct download link (ugh... fixed)
Prack!
http://billsneed.com/ohio.htm
Hahaha, Jees, why does this always happen? The first couple of scenes use similar approaches to our Act 1 and Act 2. We need to do better than this.
Hahaha, Jees, why does this always happen? The first couple of scenes use similar approaches to our Act 1 and Act 2. We need to do better than this.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Act3
lines rain down and slice the gradients while they drop individually
diagonal iso lines come in and slice vertical lines
shapes being pushed in 3d space
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Complex Geometry
I asked my architect friend for some geometry inspiration =D
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo
http://www.olafureliasson.net/works.html
Hahaha and this one
http://lookatthisfuckingtriangle.tumblr.com/
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo
http://www.olafureliasson.net/works.html
Hahaha and this one
http://lookatthisfuckingtriangle.tumblr.com/
Saturday, July 17, 2010
ACT 1 test 01, 01FE, and 02
Act1EuTriTest01 from mtestklok on Vimeo.
act1eutritest01 fe from mtestklok on Vimeo.
act1eutritest02 from mtestklok on Vimeo.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Projector Inspiration
http://thecreatorsproject.com/creators/muti-randolph
Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.
Curious Displays from Julia Tsao on Vimeo.
We should definitely not fill up the whole screen, it seems like the more black we show the bigger the space we create. Also bolder colors and shapes seem to work the best since projectors tend to wash out gradients…
Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.
Curious Displays from Julia Tsao on Vimeo.
We should definitely not fill up the whole screen, it seems like the more black we show the bigger the space we create. Also bolder colors and shapes seem to work the best since projectors tend to wash out gradients…
Saturday, July 10, 2010
PROJECT BREAKDOWN
We have broken the song down in to 7 main sections and used the progression of the music to relate back to the life cycle of a relationship, and then used that as a launching point for developing the actions and visuals we will use to symbolize those feelings and actions on screen.
Description of song
Relationship metaphor
What we see on screen
ACT 1
Song: the intro, elements are slowly building up and stacking on top of each other, a general happy tone
Relationship: first meeting each other
Visual: lines and strips of cleanly cut paper creating random patterns. BLUE
ACT 2
Song: very light and sunny, has a feeling of travelling or going on a road trip, progression
Relationship: discovery. Really getting to know someone, very exciting.
Visual: the random strips begin to assemble in to something we can actually recognize. YELLOW
ACT 3
Song: flattens out a bit, serves as a transition or middle ground between these sunny parts and later darker parts of the song
Relationship: settling in, getting almost too comfortable as things get a bit boring and predictable.
Visual: these assembled elements are stacked and sorted in a very organized and routine way again and again.
ACT 4
Song: a culmination where it is sunny again, and we revisit pieces from all 3 previous acts. A mashup of sorts.
Relationship: rediscovery. You rediscover all the same passion and thrills you had in the beginning of your relationship.
Visual: deconstruction and reformation as different elements are jumbled and reorganized to create new elements from old similar parts
ACT 5
Song: rough and dark with heavy percussion. Short and quick, kind of hard rock.
Relationship: Conflict. Now that you are comfortable and have the same high passion, this can lead to some intense fights where you really throw some low blows.
Visual: violent destruction as ideas are scrapped, paper gets ripped/burned/shredded/crumpled/etc
ACT 6
Song: starts real hard, but has moments of light break through as it builds back up again
Relationship: Forgiveness. Here you get over what got you so angry, and start to realize how ridiculous your fighting had been, as you occasionally start laughing in the middle of a fight.
Visual: beautiful images begin to form from the destroyed scraps. Just as pretty and cohesive as in ACT 2, but this time it’s more rough around the edges and haphazard.
ACT 7
Song: very eclectic as samples from the entire song are brought in and laid on top of each other in new ways, switches from sunny to dark to overlaying both all around.
Relationship: W/R/R. This cycle of ups and downs will continue on and on again forever, with occasional unexpected bits, until ending on a final note of questioning or loneliness.
Visual: everything together at once. Clean images, things being destroyed, rough collages, all of it.
Description of song
Relationship metaphor
What we see on screen
ACT 1
Song: the intro, elements are slowly building up and stacking on top of each other, a general happy tone
Relationship: first meeting each other
Visual: lines and strips of cleanly cut paper creating random patterns. BLUE
ACT 2
Song: very light and sunny, has a feeling of travelling or going on a road trip, progression
Relationship: discovery. Really getting to know someone, very exciting.
Visual: the random strips begin to assemble in to something we can actually recognize. YELLOW
ACT 3
Song: flattens out a bit, serves as a transition or middle ground between these sunny parts and later darker parts of the song
Relationship: settling in, getting almost too comfortable as things get a bit boring and predictable.
Visual: these assembled elements are stacked and sorted in a very organized and routine way again and again.
ACT 4
Song: a culmination where it is sunny again, and we revisit pieces from all 3 previous acts. A mashup of sorts.
Relationship: rediscovery. You rediscover all the same passion and thrills you had in the beginning of your relationship.
Visual: deconstruction and reformation as different elements are jumbled and reorganized to create new elements from old similar parts
ACT 5
Song: rough and dark with heavy percussion. Short and quick, kind of hard rock.
Relationship: Conflict. Now that you are comfortable and have the same high passion, this can lead to some intense fights where you really throw some low blows.
Visual: violent destruction as ideas are scrapped, paper gets ripped/burned/shredded/crumpled/etc
ACT 6
Song: starts real hard, but has moments of light break through as it builds back up again
Relationship: Forgiveness. Here you get over what got you so angry, and start to realize how ridiculous your fighting had been, as you occasionally start laughing in the middle of a fight.
Visual: beautiful images begin to form from the destroyed scraps. Just as pretty and cohesive as in ACT 2, but this time it’s more rough around the edges and haphazard.
ACT 7
Song: very eclectic as samples from the entire song are brought in and laid on top of each other in new ways, switches from sunny to dark to overlaying both all around.
Relationship: W/R/R. This cycle of ups and downs will continue on and on again forever, with occasional unexpected bits, until ending on a final note of questioning or loneliness.
Visual: everything together at once. Clean images, things being destroyed, rough collages, all of it.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Example Journals
Dan Eldon's Journals
A war photographer who was killed at a young age. He kept some really interesting journals.
Blu, of the infamous stop motion spray painting videos, has his website designed around his journals and features some of the pages.
Playing with loops
just because I love fluorescent green poster board.
from these layered files:
3 loopers from mtestklok on Vimeo.
from these layered files:
hoodie no more! from mtestklok on Vimeo.
LEGOS! ZOMG!!! from mtestklok on Vimeo.
PAPER IZ TOURN! from mtestklok on Vimeo.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Impacterview
Impactist interview
Can you talk a little about your process? Both in creating these new films and also in general, how do you work together?
Our process is generally pretty free flowing. Individually, we have our own strengths, but we are both equally capable and comfortable with all aspects of production. It’s kind of nebulous in that we seem to naturally take over certain parts of a project and then the other person fills in or refines what else needs to be tended to. Like water finding its own level. We don’t have job titles between ourselves. When we find the groove of a project, our brains seem to find a way to lump together and a sort of design intuition forms which keeps us pretty darn efficient.
With these specific projects, the album was crafted first. Each track has its own initial inspiration, but as they are worked out, we expand further and further until we feel we’ve found what we’re after.
These two particular projects have visuals that differ in their execution, but both began the same way with lots of scribbles in paper notebooks. Rough drawings and written notes serve more or less as quick reminders that are easy to glance at and keep us on track. We have stacks of notebooks filled with similar project notes. Tabletop workspaces and the immediate area around our computers witness an ebb and flow of paper tides when we are in the middle of a project. From those ideas, we begin finding materials or shooting footage, ready them for import, and then begin laying down a rough timeline so we know time-wise what we have to work within. From there it’s just getting through the piece, moment by moment, and watching for those unexpected surprises and mistakes that turn into treasures we couldn’t have possibly anticipated, but are fully ready to exploit.
The freedom of noncommissioned work permits us to take these leaps and explore these ideas. In turn, it’s these projects with their varied styles and alternative concepts that has attracted clients to ourselves for project opportunities.
Can you talk a little about your process? Both in creating these new films and also in general, how do you work together?
Our process is generally pretty free flowing. Individually, we have our own strengths, but we are both equally capable and comfortable with all aspects of production. It’s kind of nebulous in that we seem to naturally take over certain parts of a project and then the other person fills in or refines what else needs to be tended to. Like water finding its own level. We don’t have job titles between ourselves. When we find the groove of a project, our brains seem to find a way to lump together and a sort of design intuition forms which keeps us pretty darn efficient.
With these specific projects, the album was crafted first. Each track has its own initial inspiration, but as they are worked out, we expand further and further until we feel we’ve found what we’re after.
These two particular projects have visuals that differ in their execution, but both began the same way with lots of scribbles in paper notebooks. Rough drawings and written notes serve more or less as quick reminders that are easy to glance at and keep us on track. We have stacks of notebooks filled with similar project notes. Tabletop workspaces and the immediate area around our computers witness an ebb and flow of paper tides when we are in the middle of a project. From those ideas, we begin finding materials or shooting footage, ready them for import, and then begin laying down a rough timeline so we know time-wise what we have to work within. From there it’s just getting through the piece, moment by moment, and watching for those unexpected surprises and mistakes that turn into treasures we couldn’t have possibly anticipated, but are fully ready to exploit.
The freedom of noncommissioned work permits us to take these leaps and explore these ideas. In turn, it’s these projects with their varied styles and alternative concepts that has attracted clients to ourselves for project opportunities.
OYFMW Promo "Nerdmask" from impactist on Vimeo.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Impactist
more non-digital looking approach...
OYFMW Promo "Open Your Face and Make Words" from impactist on Vimeo.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
VJing software and equipment
Been looking in to it, and these seem to be the more popular VJ software packages:
Arkaos GrandVJ
Modul8
Resolume
Livid Union
There's also some dedicated VJ hardware like this set by Arkaos, but really any USB djing hardware will work with most any software, and seemingly any midi guitar pedal will work too.
I've gotten those 3 software packages and am taking a look at them. Kind of a lot to wrap my head around at once, but nothing too crazy.
Arkaos GrandVJ
Modul8
Resolume
Livid Union
There's also some dedicated VJ hardware like this set by Arkaos, but really any USB djing hardware will work with most any software, and seemingly any midi guitar pedal will work too.
I've gotten those 3 software packages and am taking a look at them. Kind of a lot to wrap my head around at once, but nothing too crazy.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
BPM
Watch live streaming video from cineversity at livestream.com
Check out 17min
He goes over FPS to BPM and how to make animations go with the beat:
So to get FPB = (60xFPS)/BPM
I can't figure out which one is the right now, I used this widget where I tap and it calculates the BPM, and I came out with the following:
(60X30)/66 = 27.27
(60x30)/132= 13.63
(60x30)/270 = 6.66
UPDATE: I double checked with some BPM software, and it said 133…
I still haven't watched the whole video…
Friday, July 2, 2010
Initial Schedule
WEEK 07
------------
- find band to work with, get permission
- met with band, discussed their desires, realistic possibilities, and what we wanted to produce
- got permission, and they're really open to anything. yay!
- chose song and how the show should progress.
- set up blog
- gather references
- hone in desired theme/style/message
- set up schedule
- rough brainstorming sketches
- develop pitch pdf
WEEK 08
-------------
- go see band live to get feeling for how they perform (SATURDAY NIGHT!)
- CONCRETE IDEAS ON:
.. elements to loop
.. relationship story we want to tell
.. how to link that story to the pacing of the song
- initial set of style frames
- test animations of select looping patterns
WEEK 09
-------------
- finalized set of styleframes for majority of elements laid out
- test layering looped elements in with each other
- test projecting it
- more tests of loop animations, some of them should be real though
WEEK 10
-------------
- continue creating final loop animations
- start working on final compositing/overlays/transitions for the elements interacting
- start to build an initial really rough cut, see how it flows
WEEK 11
-------------
- rehearse rough cut with band to see how live performance changes things
- adapt from there
- keep building elements/compositing!
- start building rough cut v2, most likely with drastically different feel/flow based on live performance
WEEK 12
-------------
- finalize out rough cut
- have majority of elements rendered/designed/animated
- serious compositing and overlaying done
- rough cut v2 done
WEEK 13
-------------
- rehearse rough cut v2 with band, hopefully it works a lot better
- polish, more animation, etc
WEEK 14
-------------
- DONE!
- lets play it live at a show asap
------------
- find band to work with, get permission
- met with band, discussed their desires, realistic possibilities, and what we wanted to produce
- got permission, and they're really open to anything. yay!
- chose song and how the show should progress.
- set up blog
- gather references
- hone in desired theme/style/message
- set up schedule
- rough brainstorming sketches
- develop pitch pdf
WEEK 08
-------------
- go see band live to get feeling for how they perform (SATURDAY NIGHT!)
- CONCRETE IDEAS ON:
.. elements to loop
.. relationship story we want to tell
.. how to link that story to the pacing of the song
- initial set of style frames
- test animations of select looping patterns
WEEK 09
-------------
- finalized set of styleframes for majority of elements laid out
- test layering looped elements in with each other
- test projecting it
- more tests of loop animations, some of them should be real though
WEEK 10
-------------
- continue creating final loop animations
- start working on final compositing/overlays/transitions for the elements interacting
- start to build an initial really rough cut, see how it flows
WEEK 11
-------------
- rehearse rough cut with band to see how live performance changes things
- adapt from there
- keep building elements/compositing!
- start building rough cut v2, most likely with drastically different feel/flow based on live performance
WEEK 12
-------------
- finalize out rough cut
- have majority of elements rendered/designed/animated
- serious compositing and overlaying done
- rough cut v2 done
WEEK 13
-------------
- rehearse rough cut v2 with band, hopefully it works a lot better
- polish, more animation, etc
WEEK 14
-------------
- DONE!
- lets play it live at a show asap
Interesting Live VJ technique
that also builds on the idea of looping and patterns. It's not embedable, so here's a link
Brainstorm!
Since all their music loops, I was thinking of building on that theme, from water cycles, to the day to day cycle that we go through. And since he told us that this piece is about her girlfriend, how he met her doing winter, maybe the cycle is broken, so we can show the same cycle over and over again, until she comes in.
Or we can do it where the cycle repeats itself, but everytime it does something changes within that cycle, like he's going insane, until something breaks him out of that cycle.
Or it could be a negative cycle, where the person is using drugs, until someone saves him
I think there are a lot of possibilities here, let me know what you think
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Precomps!
Webby Awards 2008 Animated Alphabet from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.
So I really like this idea, where we create small precomps, and put them together to create a complicated animation. It's definitely a time saver
Animated Alphabet from Megan James on Vimeo.
Pure Analogue
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
Check out at 50 Seconds
Lo-fi motion design
I really like lo-fi "special effects" or camera tricks. Things along the lines of a lot of Michel Gondry's work, but also things a lot more simple, like these:
OR
http://vimeo.com/7473243
(embedding not available)
and I think stuff like this is way within our means to pull out to 3 minutes, and fits with the tone of the music/theme of looping
OR
http://vimeo.com/7473243
(embedding not available)
and I think stuff like this is way within our means to pull out to 3 minutes, and fits with the tone of the music/theme of looping
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