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Re: Computer art

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Post by nopassrecover » Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 2:36 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

Talk about a hyperbolic title. How is this even remotely "realistic"? It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?

Heh I think it looks like paint explosions kind of like the Sony ad.

Re: Computer art

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Post by mhansen » Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 2:56 AM UTC

The author has already separated the strings and piano intruments into different tracks, So this wouldn't work as an itunes/milkdrop plugin, where you only have one flattened track.

Re: Computer art

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Post by gwern » Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 2:59 AM UTC

dreish wrote: post #3

I would love to see a version with the motivational fortune cookies removed.

There's nothing wrong with grabbing random snippets from the Oblique Strategies list. :(

Re: Computer art

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Post by kentosi » Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 4:00 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #6

swombat wrote: post #4

Talk about a hyperbolic title. How is this even remotely "realistic"? It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?

Agreed, I was a bit perplexed by that too. I do like it (because I hobby in After Effects myself) but it didn't strike me as especially realistic. I presume the TNW writer was referring to the pretty degradation of the colored smoke, but I couldn't help noticing the heavy use of blur and particle systems, especially as the material got more complex on screen. It's a very fine piece of work; maybe the blog author just…

If you're worked on (or have seen) anything better, care to post a link?

Note: I'm not doubting you - I actually thought the video clip looked beautiful so I want to know what you mean when you imply it could have been done better.