Neal Coghlan's Work for the Kraak & Smaak VJ Competition
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 17:04
Neal Coghlan won the Kraak & Smaak VJ competition we organized this summer and here is an update of the clips he eventually created for them. Excellent work!
Neal shares some interesting details about his way of working:
See a Resolume screenshot here: http://www.bit.ly/TVResolume
See stills of the illustrations here: http://www.bit.ly/TastyFlickr
Neal shares some interesting details about his way of working:
Before animating any of the parts I chose 3 of Kraak & Smaak's tracks and sliced it so that it was a segment of 16 beats. I then altered the tempo of the segment to 125BPM - as this works well with a 50fps frame rate (and is consequently easily scalable for slower or faster sections should I need to re-render to a certain speed). Within these segments there was enough going on musically that I could animate individual objects to sounds, meaning that you can watch them again and again and still find new bits that sync up to something. The beauty of this is that all these elements can be removed as single pieces and reassembled to create new compositions. The limitations of the grid plus no gradients or transparencies also meant that consistency between the pieces was easy and that they could all be played consecutively and gel.
My next step is to separate the elements in these visuals and use them as separate clips over multiple layer in the Resolume - allowing me to form new compositions live to music!
See a Resolume screenshot here: http://www.bit.ly/TVResolume
See stills of the illustrations here: http://www.bit.ly/TastyFlickr
