Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Particle-ly

I feel like on a url!spam here. Suddenly there is a surge of sweet, motion memories returning to the small shell which I call head and I had to put everything down here before... before... before I get lazy to blog again hahaahhah

M83 - We Own the Sky from David Altobelli on Vimeo.



I LOVE the band M83, which proves the pinnacle of my closet hipsterhood, but their videos are always, always, always about angsty teenagers in 80's get up. This take on the video (I think m83 had a video competition for this song) was more abstract, modern and has more techno feel to it. I am stunned by the beauty (artistically and technically) of the blanket of light moving gracefully like water, but I am still trying to figure out what the hell are the swinging bulbs and the dude in black about.

Wait for the climax of this song. It was composed so beautifully, like a burst of emotions coming from a person. The visuals even nailed it!

Not much info on David Altobelli (director), or Dan Norton(animator). Altobelli's website explained little of him, perhaps he would prefer his portfolio to reflect him more than explosive Flash or crazy graphics we tend to see on designers' website (cough mine cough). I don't know how hard is to google Dan Norton without getting Ed surface from the results (you irresistable sexy beast Ed Norton you!)-

Okay, I lied. Here's Dan's website. I just needed an excuse to mention Ed anddddd Fight Club after that.

I understood the particles were generated by a plug-in (I lost count from the video) in After Effects, but it looked like there was massive rendering to do! My laptop would have melted on the 'render' button alone!!!


Listen, I've gone through particles before. I had only 3 motion graphics classes during undergrad, and wham! I had this 'brilliant' confidence to resort to that medium for my Senior Thesis. But that was 2 years ago. See my work for proof of Ummi's particle experience:









Yea, um. I hope the video shows up. Don't laugh. I've tried my hand on this, okay?


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