Electronic music artists, The Chemical Brothers, recently released a music video for one of the songs off their new album Born in the Echoes. The video makes impressive use of 3-D visual effects and motion capture technology by replacing the main actors body with 3-D printed constructions while she dances. The video was also taken in a single take and lasts just over four minutes.
So before I say anything, I want to say that this is SO COOL! As a dancer for 13 years, watching this video makes me want to dance to something with this projection system. The project is called Pixel and it was performed in 2014 in France. I loved how not only were the dancers choreographed, but the animation was as well. Both elements of the performance were in balance with each other, playing off one another. (1:16 in the clip at the top of the page blew my mind right out of the water)
Hopefully wherever you find yourself on this day of thanks and giving you are with people you love or at the very least tolerate and are enjoying some time away from school. Yet, its hard to forget that its already thursday and there is in fact school next week so while my body and soul just want to sink into the couch and watch TV, my brain has kept some semblance of order and subconsciously led me to a very cool video showing the creative power that comes with an understanding of AfterEffects.
There really is nothing like watching a guy who used to work for the KGB and invaded Ukraine this year dancing like he just don't care. Which to be honest he probably doesn't because, like I mentioned, he decided to invade Ukraine and annex Crimea like this was 1914 not 2014. But I digress, what I found most interesting about this technique is that just by turning the parts of Putin's body into independent objects, this amount of life-like animation was possible. After almost a semester of this class i'm pretty confident we are capable of this which I this is very cool.
Once again, hope everyone's enjoying their Turkey Day!
