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50. Spheres
3 months ago
Finally up is my own little space opera : a mesmerizing choregraphy evoking atoms, DNA, seeds, spirals, fractals, etc... inspired by Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. philosophy.gr/presocratics/anaxagoras.htm

The first draft screened in 2008 as a backdrop for the robotic and live music performance by URBAN ORCHESTRA at the city council new year celebration meeting critical acclaim.

This is the final director's cut with updated soundtrack and tighter edits to my original vision : 42000 HD frames at 50p running for 14 minutes.

***converted to 720p 25fps & DivX download enabled***
  • Jesse Larson 3 months ago
    Epic. Shame its too big to upload.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you Jesse.
    yes my upload rate is pretty lame and i couldn't get acceptable HD quality under 5gb so better off with SD...
  • CS 3 months ago
    Can I purchase a DVD of this?
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    well now you can download a DIVX for free :)
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  • genoma 0110010 3 months ago
    Wow!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    cheers!
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  • David Berry plus 3 months ago
    Well, it's freeking beautiful, many thanks.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thx david for the kind words
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  • John H. King 3 months ago
    Just Huge ! thanks to share and congratulations for your work ! This is brillant ! Need to see it in HD ;)
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thx! looking for ways to deal with that.
    at the moment it's hijacking a 40gb harddrive in glorious 50p (PAL doublerate) and not sure how bluray compression will handle that.
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  • Peder Norrby plus 3 months ago
    awesome stuff, man!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you Peder! glad you liked it.
    i'm delighted with your inspirational software
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  • Matthew Rowley 3 months ago
    Beautiful. I feel like I was drifting in a sea of serenity watching orbs of quicksilver consciously dance together. Great experience.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thank you for your kind words Matthew
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  • Pierre 3 months ago
    Just fantastic Regis! Tout beau.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you Pierre ! glad you enjoyed it
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  • Ian Clemmer 3 months ago
    maybe in live it was better, here it kinda bores me :( sorry
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    lol nope it was obviously even worse with the lousy performance
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  • Loren Lewis 3 months ago
    Absolutely incredible!
    I wish I were a fly on your wall when you created this.
    If you ever get this down to DVD size, I'd also like to buy it.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thx, there is now a link to download the file !
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  • Steven Geogerian 3 months ago
    that was a great experience, how long did it take you to make that and what did you use?
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thanks you!. took about 3 weeks from meeting the musicians to final render. software used is listed in tags.
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  • James Lewin 3 months ago
    Gorgeous - brings to my mind the work of Ron Fricke and Micheal Stearns.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you so much James, i love Baraka !
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  • Candlegravity 3 months ago
    Excellent work, thanks so much. Must have taken you forever to make this!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thx! just about a month actually :)
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  • Emilia 3 months ago
    Stunning... meditative... YES!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    glad you enjoyed it Emilia
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  • Nuno Vidal 3 months ago
    Maybe a bit too long for me, but the concept and technique is great. Congratulations!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thx! and yes it's long but works a treat for a chill-out room
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  • spyvspy 3 months ago
    impressive footage, did u work it on AF (balls fx's)?
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    not sure what you mean with AF? post is (mostly) done in AE AfterEffects with few plugs such as trapcode shine, starglow etc...
  • spyvspy 3 months ago
    yeah, AE I mean (miss typed) ;) great post processing
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  • Lee Harless 3 months ago
    complete inspiration. no words.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thx Lee for the kind comment
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  • kai @8pixels 3 months ago
    very very impressive! I like the order after chaos. And the orbs are kinda freaky yet beautifully engaging that i din realise it was a 14min video!
    major like!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    your kind words are the best award, thx !
  • kai @8pixels 3 months ago
    :D btw any idea where can i get or buy this particular piece or similar music from?
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    you can now download it for free...
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  • Richard Lainhart 3 months ago
    Very beautifully done - thank you!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thx Richard
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  • Mitchell Jean 3 months ago
    love it
    i posted it on my blog
    brainiacnyc.com/2009/09/spheres.html
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you very much for spreading the word about it !
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  • SmartJoint 3 months ago
    This is the most wonderful thing i saw for a long time. It's not just great, it's amazing, it's... I just don't have words for this... Thanks a lot!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Very happy that you enjoyed it... it's been forever before i could post it and share with the world
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  • VITA BREVIS plus 3 months ago
    oh nice! the itunes visualizer captured and then placed on vimeo!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    dang! those mac users ruin the show everytime lol...
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  • Adam P 3 months ago
    This is truly spectacular, it takes me to a calm place, a place where I seldom go, and I love it. The music is perfect, its really moving to me, Is there any way I can get a copy of this track?

    The whole feel reminds me of the movie Sunshine...brilliant work! I don't see any download link anywhere btw.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thank you Adam. link is just under statistics on the right column (must be logged in)
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  • Suvil 3 months ago
    a beauty!!!
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  • Suvil 3 months ago
    any idea on how you did this?? used after effects because it pretty much looked likr you used form somewhere??. can you just tell me how to do this because i am just a novice on AE!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    yes the amazing trapcode form plugin could give you similar results in a much more user friendly workflow than the bunch of manual hacks and convoluted techniques i used to compute this one.
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  • VIO Producciones 3 months ago
    Amazing

    check our videoart called INVOLUTION if you want ;)

    vimeo.com/6389494

    Best Luck !
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thx, going to see it...
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  • 孙明之 3 months ago
    it's like God's work....
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you for the kind words !
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  • bermondsey boy 3 months ago
    Works great with the soundtrack. The music reminded me of Us and Them from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
    If they were still making albums today you would be just the chap to create their visuals. This work would look great in HD. Have you tried to see if Futurescope in Poiters could use your work in one of their huge cinemas? Look forward to your next one except a shorter version that plays better on my mac.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    hey thx, yes the floyds would be an amazing inspiration indeed
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  • Mitchell Jean 3 months ago
    yeah, no problem. Keep me in touch on your new work
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  • Joachim Bengtsson 3 months ago
    Stunningly beautiful! I love the structures that form and how you keep them stable for just long enough. Are they designed or evolved? As in, did you make each structure and animate between them, or are they rather from chance and algorithms, and you picked ones that looked good? Some of those transitions are so intricate I just can't imagine a human designing them... Then again, maybe it's "just" the symmetry that makes it look that way?

    Would love to see elaborations on some of the structures. I'm a game programmer/designer so can't help but think in such terms, but some of those structures had an amazing alien beauty and purpose to them, really feel there is a potential for... something in there.

    Thank you for sharing! Both visuals and music are fantastic; feels like you must've competed to create the most beautiful component ;)
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you for your interest Joachim.
    it's is simply tedious manual work over simple algorithms involved in the many steps of the transformation. i scripted simple fourrier analysis and random calculations over the soundtrack to generate various seeds and drive keyframes for the more advanced moves and altered them until it looked right.
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  • Gill R 3 months ago
    Simply stunning.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thx Gill glad you enjoyed it !
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  • Ilya Malov 3 months ago
    Beautiful! I cant find different word for that!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    exactly ! such state of mind i often experience when gazing at the beauty of nature.
    very happy to share that with you
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  • godino 3 months ago
    Amazing! thanks for sharing!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you for spreading the word about it :)
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  • Adriana de Barros 3 months ago
    Beautiful! unfortunately it takes too long to load.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    thx yeah i know, takes ages and i can't compress it any further because quality is already pretty bad compared to the original here
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  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    lol
    are you like posting this to every vimeo page by any chance ?
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  • ße ωell ;-) plus 3 months ago
    simply beautiful, this must have took forever to render! How long did this take to produce?

    Amazing work Regis!!!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    Thank you my friend !
    yes it was quite the challenge to finish for the concert.
    i worked about 3 weeks on the whole animation with 11 days of rendering on 2 overclocked core2duo computers.
  • ße ωell ;-) plus 3 months ago
    wow, you did very well!!!
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  • Christopher Pearless 3 months ago
    This combines the epic nature of computer art and the sheer beauty of life. This brought me to tears I loved it so much. Incredible work.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    than you very much for the kind words Christopher. i'm happy that you felt a strong experience watching it.
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  • Daniel Newman 3 months ago
    I didn't know anyone else used groboto. Nice work. My only critique is that you used the spheres for the whole video, I feel it limited the morphing capabilities of the program. Still a nice piece, I look forward to seeing you push it even further. Oh duh it's called spheres that's what I get for staying up all night on the internet. um carry on then.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    lol thx Daniel. it is a marvelous piece of software indeed. i hope the dev bring enhancements in future updates to the animation section because it is quite limited at the moment to say the least so i had to use scripting voodo and dirty tricks to get what i wanted
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  • Manguito M 3 months ago
    Mmmh, very inspirative video :)
    I don't understand, where I download it from?
  • Regis Hervagault plus 3 months ago
    you must be logged in, it's under photos & statistics in the right column
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  • KubF 2 months ago
    Впечетляет))))
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    haha can't find in my dictionary but thx anyways
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  • Ozan Akinci 2 months ago
    Ingenius!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    cheers mate !
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  • iF 2 months ago
    gr8 vid, love this mix of music & visual art
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    :) glad you enjoyed the mix
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  • silmaril 2 months ago
    Thank you so much for this. Pink Floyd would have been happy to have it along with their performances. It goes very deep.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    cool comment ! i'd love to do such thing and actually listening to the floyd not so long ago
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  • Laurent Scorrano 2 months ago
    Great work.
    It reminds me the glorious time of DemoMakers on Commodore Amiga

    In much better way !
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    haha yes i miss my amiga too ! i started working on such projects thanks to the demoscene indeed... oh! the memories...
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  • Great work!!!
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    Thx Alexandros. loved your vids
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  • Gerald Penilla 2 months ago
    Thank you! :)
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  • Gerald Penilla 2 months ago
    Hey man, this poem came to me after watching this video, hope you like it! :D

    To seek that which cannot be sought,
    To see that which is unseen,
    To know that which cannot be known.

    To look is not to find,
    for what we seek,
    is not to be found
    but known.

    The Awareness but a leaf
    dancing,
    with itself,
    in infinite union.

    A dreamer's dream dreamt in the dreams of the Dreamer.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    thx glad that it inspired you such words.
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  • Dominic Sotirescu plus 2 months ago
    Amazing! You must have used some sort of 3D rendering package.
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    thx dominic, a bunch of them actually.
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  • mpared 2 months ago
    very cool posted @ the curious brain
  • Regis Hervagault plus 2 months ago
    Thank you!
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  • ohana_safo 2 months ago
    From what you cities? Very much it was pleasant to me your opera!
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