No, instead I went well beyond that and made an entire music-visualisation-extended-sountrack-video out of it! It now has its own title (String Theory), and it can be viewed/heard below. The track is available on Bandcamp (in various formats incl. 24 bit lossless), CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and most other places (not Google Play though unfortunately, as that would cause a conflict with the video).
Note: since YouTube seems to have trouble with thin lines and subtle gradients, I scaled the video up to 4K to reduce compression artefacts. So even though its native resolution is 1080p, it looks better at higher resolutions. If you're using Edge or Firefox and can't access 1440p or 2160p, try the following:
Edge: Type about:flags in the address bar and change "Enable VP9 video format" to "Always On"
Firefox: Type about:config in the address bar and find "media.mediasource.webm.enabled". Double-click on it to change it to "True".
Nice Video.... and very hypnotic.
ReplyDeleteThanks, hopefully it didn't send you to sleep. :)
DeleteDetailed, impressive, beautiful,galactic... What software was used in this animation? I would like to watch this artwork in a lossless video format. Compressed webm insufficient.
ReplyDeleteThank you crayz Chris ^^
Lightwave & Hitfilm Express. Yeah this project is a video encoder's worst nightmare. I wince at every little artefact...
DeleteCouldn't there be a way to download the uncompressed version?
DeleteIf you select 4K it looks virtually indistinguishable from the original - more noticeable artefacts are present in the render itself rather than being caused by compression.
DeleteBeautiful, I love it! :)
ReplyDeleteWill you upload a vfx breakdown or something like that?
Greetings and best regards!
Thanks Alejandro - I had thought about that, but I need to get away from it for a while. If there's enough interest and I'm feeling up to it I might think about it again sometime.
DeleteGreat, I hope so! And thank you for sharing your work, it's really inspiring.
DeleteRevisited your channel the other day and I was hoping you are okay, since there weren't any updates neither on your Youtube channel, nor in here. Great to see you back. Would love for you to make a breakdown, or even sped up timelapse on your rigs. But one cannot be demanding in these matters.
ReplyDeleteAdmire your work.
Cheers.
I did go dark for a while there didn't I. Hopefully I can find ways to generate new material more frequently in future, so there's something to report on (other than "I'm still here") :)
DeleteThis video is so amazing. At the time it only has 880 views, and I dont understand why. I've shared it un twitter cause this need to have the same or more views that Ed. 4 years, glad youre alive. This are the things that I dont forget
ReplyDeleteIt does appear to be a slow mover, but then again the ebb and flow of the internet is a mysterious thing. Maybe it will pick up later. Thanks for helping get it out there though!
DeleteAlso, do you have more things in mind right now? Probably you'll take a breath after this but what will you upload in the future?
DeleteI had some things in mind, but I'm re-evaluating now since this one didn't go too well. Probably some more work on the human, but I have to go back to the drawing board on that first.
DeletePlease don't be discouraged. Sometimes these things take time. Have you uploaded this to Vimeo? This is a shoe-in for a Staff Pick.
DeleteWhat Rick says! I looked for it on Vimeo but had no luck. Please do put it up there. I'm at Weta Digital and am pestering people to watch it as I was totally blown away and... they are reacting the same way :D
DeleteThanks for this inspiring masterpiece!
Oh I can assure you there is interest!
ReplyDeleteA breakdown would be extremely valuable. Thank you for reconsidering.
Great music track, and amazing visual. I love how it's all one long camera shot, and it really feels like it has "scenes" and "events" in it. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteAll the best, Chris!
Thanks Murray!
DeleteAbsolutely awesome. I'm adding this to the playlist I listen to while I write SciFi, perfect fit. Maybe I'll sandwich it between the (Toto) Dune soundtrack and some Devin Townsend Project. Thanks for putting it up on Bandcamp. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Randolph! Dune is one of my favourite soundtracks. :)
DeleteYOU COOL MAN
ReplyDeleteWow just pure genius ... I'm an avid fan ... your art is amazing ... this latest work is gobsmacking ... thank God you're ok, you were gone for so long and congratulations on bending minds yet again in a totally unpredictable way ...
ReplyDeleteInsert adequate words that don't yet exist here... I should very much like to understand how this is done. How does one relate to that type of motion or find reference to create, or imitate it? Is that out of your head, are there formulas? Is it math based and coded, or intuitively animated?
ReplyDeleteIt mainly evolved from a bunch of tricks I developed by experimenting with converting audio into data that can be used in Lightwave 3D. Most of it is based on spectrograms passing through objects as displacement maps, somewhat akin to a pianola roll.
DeleteHello Chris.
ReplyDeleteI’m looking for a fluency in armature, that can make limits in its rotation. And having coordinates + angles labeled. With measurements included.
a human, with constraints
The shape of the feet and hands and the whole body in detail is what I’m looking for.
I would need one that’s pretty detailed in shape. Making sure measurements are right and constraints with the ground and other sports objects
Rendering isn’t so much the issue. It’s more of getting the measurements of the figure right and then the camera has to have a good field of view + focal length
Armatures is like a big thing in this. So any expert in it would be great.
On top of that I would have to integrate code into this
Like an animation software that works well with programming
Will you be able to help me with that.
I've talked to other expert blender artists and they've told me you might be able to help me with this.
I'm not sure I understand what you're after exactly, perhaps if you can explain how you intend to use the human and measurements I might have a better idea about whether I can help (feel free to contact me at the address on the "About" page).
DeleteThis a amazing video! Hi from a schoolboy in Ukraine =P
ReplyDeleteGood night Chris, I'm Brazilian, I wanted to congratulate you on your work because it is so good that it arrived in another country. I don't have a PC and I'm not very experienced, but I really like CGI. I wanted to ask how did you do this job? why the sounds are very synchronized with the images,the lights and those lines, seem to follow the rhythm of the sound, and that makes everything perfect. Hugs Chris, thank you in advance
ReplyDeleteIt's not something that can be easily explained in a comment section, but most of it was made using screen captures of spectrograms applied to ribbed planes as displacement maps, and as a means of affecting object instancing and light intensities (you might need to look some of those things up ;) ).
DeleteI really agree with what you said at the beginning of the comment, I didn't understand anything hahahahah. I thought that video was great, it would be good if I had a PC because I really want to do CGI, even your video aroused my interest in building music, How are they made even though they are so complex? Where do people get a base to create something like that? It fascinates me, it's as if all of that popped up in the person's mind out of nowhere, I can't imagine a totally new soundtrack, without being similar to another one already created, nor using all my neurons. And congratulations man, for the artist you are, it really is admirable
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