Ghosts Are Dancing: Animated Music Video

The music video for the song Ghosts Are Dancing by Home and Dry is exactly the kind of multimedia art and originality that gets me excited. Essentially a series of animated portraits, this animation done by the Teresuac group was created in the program Houdini. Obviously a mix of hand-created media and computer animation, the project is beautiful and creative, very inspiring for the direction I am heading in with my work!

Multimedia Programming

I have been pretty interested in multimedia programming for a while now and I really like the idea of interactive animation. One of the most creative and innovative music videos I have ever seen is the Arcade Fire music video for The Wilderness Down.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

It uses a lot of really interesting techniques. The personalization of providing an address is really creative and makes the experience feel like it is meant for you. I am distracted by the multiple pop-ups but I still think that it is really creative. It is also unfortunate that there are a lot of technical restrictions on what will work with this website because there are only certain attributes that HTML5 supports.

I think a lot of the Multimedia Programming course in the CS Department is a good segway between producing animations and coding them. I think that the potential interactivity of animation is the future of media!