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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Music Band, Animated: Wondrous Projection Mapping Makes Instruments Canvas

Music Band, Animated: Wondrous Projection Mapping Makes Instruments Canvas:re-blog from Create Digital Motion



Instrument Mapping from Chris Staring on Vimeo.


Beyond the immediate, and fleeting, novelty of seeing images fitted perfectly to three-dimensional objects, you need something to actually watch. Here, new work from Melbourne-based artist Chris Staring is splendidly fanciful: a band of assembled musical instruments is immersed in animation, a bit like walking into Toontown in Roger Rabbit. In fact, speaking of Disney, the abstract musical animations that erupt are reminiscent of the jazzy modern concoctions of mid-Century animators, imagining for the first time how you might put music into motion.

One reason the results look so good: these are instruments constructed to be a canvas, each built and painted entirely in white.

Lots more info (watch those links; their server is acting a bit funky – but hopefully you can get through for some nice images of the work in progress):

Instrument Mapping is an experimental projection mapping project developed by Skare Media. The project incorporates musical instruments as the projection surface for a series of animations.

Music:

00:00 to 03:32 – edit;erase: soundcloud.com/​editerase

03:33 to 06:30 – Maartez: humanworkshop.com

I have used a combination of Projection Mapping, 3D animation, 2D animation, And particle effects to create the visuals.

The programs used:

* After Effects

* Photoshop

* Illustrator

* Cinema 4D

* Particle Illusion

* Ableton Live (to merge music tracks and added sound elements)

This movie was filmed using my Canon 60D.

Visit the Instrument Mapping minisite at: instrumentmapping.skaremedia.com/​index.html

Visit the Instrument Mapping production page at: skaremedia.com/​instrumentmappingproduction

Visit the Skare Media Homepage at: skaremedia.com



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