I a few years back saw the very end of Animusic on PBS and fell in love with what I saw. I later looked up more videos and knew that that was something I wanted to do.
This being my capstone idea I have flushed it out a little bit.
1. I was thinking of a water theme, where water drops will fall off something and they will land on drums to play the drums. Also, I may use the same general idea on the xylophone. A guitar will be the center of the piece and will be placed atop a fountain.
2. A different idea along the Animusic line would be to take little chunks of their creations and recreate them, such as the ball animation where things to add would be stray balls on the floor to show that it isn't a perfect machine every time. The animation I love the most is the Resonant Chamber. I would love to create some sort of crazy looking instrument that is a mix of a few but we'll see if it is in my limits later.
3. My third idea for this project was going to be a simple piano only piece. The piano would be a grand piano with the top up so you can see the inside. I would just have the keys be "ghost" played but it would be interesting to animate the string vibration and even get shots of the hammers.
My inspirations are three Animusic pieces.
1. First I ever saw, "Harmonic Voltage" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCTLJDoMGw
2. My favorite animation "Resonant Chamber" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toXNVbvFXyk&feature=relmfu
3. My favorite overall "Future Retro" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahoqR6OGdM&feature=related
Amy King --
ReplyDeleteI really like the last idea with the piano. I think you could do something awesome with all of them, but there's just something about watching a piano being played that's really just mesmerizing. If you could do a knock out animation of a piano being played with all of the working parts that would be simply incredible!
Sharayah Sanders
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ReplyDeleteThese are all great ideas! Honestly I thought the video you showed in class was an actual instrument.
Beth Tankersley
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ReplyDeleteIf you can do your first idea that would be amazing because those videos are awesome.
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ReplyDeleteI love these ideas! I have never heard of anyone doing anything like this for a Capstone. This would be incredibly impressive to do in one semester.
Brian Graham
ReplyDeleteI think the water concept gives you most the room to differentiate from the existing animations. Especially if you take the time to consider the amounts of water that would be necessary to create the sounds you're looking to be creating.
Derek Harlow
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ReplyDeleteI LOVE the first idea personally. Animusic is something anyone can enjoy and an awesome and ambitious idea for a capstone. I can see time being a frustrating issue though.
Thomas Travis
ReplyDeleteThe Animusic idea is really cool. I like what you mentioned about adding details like balls on the floor, and I think details like that could be really interesting in an original piece. It's also an interesting idea just as a capstone since it involves audio work, music composition, modeling, animation, video, etc. Showing your ability in a lot of different fields could be really beneficial.
Thomas Fraley
ReplyDeleteThis would be super cool. I fell in love with these videos when they first came out. I would like to see another interpretation of this type of animation.
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