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Posted on 28/01/19 1:00:20 PM |
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GKB
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Some time ago I was fooling around with the 'Sound Effector' in Cinema 4D. This allows an animation in response to any sound input. I played with it for a while and then decided to have a bash at creating an animation to a piece of music. I had a couple of pieces in mind; one was a piece called 'Anthem' by Vangelis and the second was an arrangement of Bach's 'Toccata' for the organ re-arranged by a group called 'SKY'. I settled on the latter. SKY had as its members John Williams (classical guitarist), Herbie Flowers, Kevin Peek, Francis Monkman and Tristan Fry. I first heard this arrangement performed in the Albert Hall at the end of the '70s. The animation lasts for 8,600 frames which took an amazing 408 hours of rendering time on a fairly powerful iMAC ... 17 days  In contrast the colour effects took only a couple of hours to do in Hit Film.
I may well have a go with 'Anthem' at some stage using a different style of animation. http://vimeo.com/313779513 _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 28/01/19 8:16:10 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Not quite sure what to say Gordon ........ 
Height = volume, frequency = colour? What the hell did you do with your Mac tied up for 17 days? I could NEVER do that! 
I am tempted to feel that that the result per se does not justify the render times. But the attempt is magnificent! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/01/19 9:16:52 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Happily it’s the graphics card that does all the grunt work. I could still use the iMAC for Photoshop work as that’s working with the processor and RAM. The only real problem was that I couldn’t use Cinema for anything until the render was finished. The original render’s colours were changed by key framing in Hit Film. If I tried to do this in Cinema I would still be at it at the turn of the next century  _________________  |
Posted on 29/01/19 10:57:59 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
That is incredible Gordon. Very well done. Beautiful piece. I can't believe it took so long to render. I would of given up after day 1. When I was working for the TV station, one of the guys worked exclusively on Cinema 4D and when it came time to render, the IT people sorted it out for him, but he could harness the power of all the computers in the department which reduced the render time substantially. Some type of shared render. Im not entirely sure how it was done but it worked well _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 29/01/19 12:06:09 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Your patience is amazing Gordon, excellent! For me, after waiting 5 minutes or so, doubt would have creeped in and I would have shut the whole thing down...
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Posted on 29/01/19 1:45:40 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Network rendering. Most good 3D apps provide for that now. Of course it does depend on the availability of additional machines and I don't think my iPad counts ...........  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/01/19 1:50:47 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Network rendering. Most good 3D apps provide for that now. Of course it does depend on the availability of additional machines and I don't think my iPad counts ........... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/01/19 1:00:14 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Extraordinary. Now try it with jumping sheep. |
Posted on 30/01/19 5:11:29 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
_________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 01/02/19 3:20:23 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
It was Steve - he made me do it
http://vimeo.com/314804735 _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 01/02/19 3:22:10 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
Ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA |
Posted on 01/02/19 5:12:52 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5674 Reply |
Re: Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |