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Handdrawn audio responsive video exploration.

Audio: Amon Tobin - El Cargo
amontobin.com

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Josue Ibañez 1 month ago

nice Gwen!
sugizo1023 1 month ago

cool
panic embryo 1 month ago

fantastic!!!!!
love the look and design of this. Amon Tobin a big fave of mine.
reanimatr 1 month ago

Wow! How did you do it? which soft use?
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

Thnx guys!

@reanimatr
A custom-coded brush (actionscript) is used to draw the imagery. While drawing all data is recorded to be rendered (frame by frame) afterwards.
reanimatr 1 month ago

This is Abobe Flash?
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

Well, Adobe Flash is the software but it's actionscript that does the tricks. This render/drawing system is build from scratch...
Vadim Smakhtin 1 month ago

Love your style. Does it realtime?
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

Yes it does...
However, performance issues make it very sluggish.
Vadim Smakhtin 1 month ago

Hmm, it's pure AS3 or you use Flash IDE? I think flash must done things like this at 25-30 fps .
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

it's pure AS3, based on a drawing system which i use to create 120Megapixel prints...
Beeker 1 month ago

Can you give the as3 script a different audio file, and would it respond differently?

Trying to understand how this could be handdrawn, and actionscripted at the same time, while responding to the audio amplitude/frequencies, like a visualizer.

Seems like it's one or the other.

Either way it's beautiful, and again either way, scripted, handdrawn, it's tremendously organic.
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

Yep, different audio would give a different result, but the general look&feel would be the same.

As for the AS3/handdrawn:
I have a particle system which responds to movement , speed, rotation, mouse gestures, audio frequencies,...

This system, attached to the mouse, is being used as a 'brush'. So i 'draw' the general sense, direction & rotation by hand. The resulting imagery is code reaction to mouse gestures.
Videofronta 1 month ago

I like it!
A Rigged Production 1 month ago

Excellent work dude, almost looked entirely 3D at more than one point.

As a side note, absolutely love that album, was listening to it earlier today.

Great for writing ;)

Cheers!
Josue Ibañez 1 month ago

Oh! I forgot Gwen check out my blog ;) joystickmedia.tumblr.com/
nicely done dude!
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

Thnx Josue!
Jeffrey Hellman 1 month ago

Bravo!!!
Diego Pardo 1 month ago

great! I love it! Why don't you make a lil' tutorial on how to do it and how the code works?
Adam Joy 1 month ago

fantastic work.
John Cozen 1 month ago

plus one dp. Great work Gwen
rpgamer2003 1 month ago

wow, I'm just beginning to get grasp of action script but these things are a long way off...:)
eric alba 1 month ago

very cool.
Don Relyea 1 month ago

really nice!
Ceven Knowles 1 month ago

Really great!
WillBeRain 1 month ago

like the geometric forms and lines changed evert time - interesting. did you ever hear about this guy, Amit Pitaru pitaru.com/ ? check his folio you both work in the same field.
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

yes, i love the collaboration he did with James Paterson:
blip.tv/file/2293226
versa 1 month ago

very nice and clean. love this style!
Alex Smith 1 month ago

fantastic.
Nikolay Vanchev 1 month ago

Impressive — both visually and the way you have achieved the result!
naim alwan 1 month ago

WTF!!! that was awesome, please show us how its done ;)
Dale Hayward 1 month ago

super cool, love to see this flying through a live action city
keef chemistry 1 month ago

very cool animation - i'd like to audition it to other soundtracks as well to see how it changes the mood - good choice using amon tobin
HippieHouse 1 month ago

Incredible work, I loved and watched from beginning to end without boring....

Excelent colors and shapes!

Congratulations from argentina
moyano 1 month ago

amazing!
kid Neutrino 1 month ago

sick! a beautiful work indeed.
Tri trip 1 month ago

adoré
Simon HK Cassels 1 month ago

fresh
TiM 1 month ago

Very Cool! Great choice of music.
Satya Meka 1 month ago

How did you draw, when the realtime performance is sluggish? Or did you have a placeholder when the audio is playing and later on rendered everything based on the data?

Irrespective, very stylish.. and gave me ideas to do something in Processing...
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

When drawing, a low-res version of the final result is shown on screen, optimizing the performance. Afterwards everything gets rendered in hi-res...
DJ Bolender 1 month ago

the audio isn't synced properly... the beats qued in your animation, to late..
Cheng Ka Chun 1 month ago

great art piece~
12FRAMES 1 month ago

very nice! like the stuff oscar fischinger did. and amon is always a good choice:
vimeo.com/1399514
seems like his music inspires people to come up with audio reactive visuals!

anyways, really interesting work you are doing.
ESTHER 1 month ago

So clever and beautiful, love the music :)
jarek sculz 1 month ago

cool.
reminds me of turing, but nicer looking
squigglebooth 1 month ago

Dang!!
Andrew Morev 1 month ago

Great work, Gwen!
Maxette 1 month ago

I was wondering why don't you propose it to apple, for an iTunes visualizer option...
It would be amazing!
Yordi Uytersprot 1 month ago

Hi Gwen!
I'm just amazed with your fabulous work.
Plus it's made in AS3, which is like great stuff!
I'm wondering if you could tell me more on the process of rendering the flash animation (result) frame by frame to a sequence of PNG's / JPG's.. Did you make it yourself, that rendering-system-program-thing? And are you willing to share it with the world? Feel free to let me know ^^.

Kind regards, Yordi
Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago

Hi Yordi,
I use Mark Knol's Image Saver Class to save each frame as a png. I'm sure there are other classes out there, but this one works really nice.

You can find the class + tutorial here:
blog.stroep.nl/2008/08/as3-imagesaver-class-v10

and how you can make video's with it here:
blog.stroep.nl/2008/11/process-rendering-actionscript-to-png-to-video
Mariusz Kornatka 1 month ago

Very cool
makemassair 1 month ago

Stunning.
Jason V 1 month ago

are these visualzation scripts public so we can plug our own music into them?
Trey Ratcliff 1 month ago

You are great and creative! I saw this on Abduzeedo
Daniel Wichers 1 month ago

awesome! fits the song too.
great technique you've made to make these vids. I've been reading some comments on how you accomplished this. kudos!
Chris Bourke 1 month ago

So well done!
takcom™ 1 month ago

So dooope!
Florence Artur 1 month ago

Very interesting!
DeKo 1 month ago

Awesome style/colors
Ralph Windischhofer 28 days ago

cool
DJ DDT 18 days ago

Brilliant!
Rami Schandall 15 days ago

Totally amazing. I would love to do something like this with some of my soundscapes. music.ramidonya.net Posted recordings are getting old but more to come, soon. Using experimental instruments and found sound files, lots of free improvisation. Fits really beautifully with the mood of your work! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Nickolay Shideroff 15 days ago

Utterly amazing.
Love it =]
Robert Meireles 15 days ago

A w e s o m e !
Motion Graphics 6 days ago

Hi Gwen,
Very nice work!
I posted your video on motiongraphics.nu. Hope you're fine with that.
Gwen Vanhee 4 days ago

thnx!