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nanoanimal.com/journal/2011/9/7/light-painting-experiments.html

Animated light paintings of a little piano player performing. Filmed at night with the lovely I-5 and San Diego skyline in the background. I would like to thank everyone for the fantastic feedback I have received lately. To answer a few questions, I wrote the music and recorded it first. The frames were photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. I used a small green LED keychain light to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed they were strung together and synchronized to the music in After Effects.

Featured in Shutterbug magazine web profiles March 2009!

Part of Pictoplasma Berlin Festival 2010. Characters in Motion 3. berlin.festival.pictoplasma.com/

Credits:
Ryan Cashman:
Creator, Director, Animator, Editor

Sean Fau-Burnitz:
Director of Photography, Camera Operator

Credits

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  • Felix 3 years ago
    Nice :)
  • Bevan Goldswain 3 years ago
    A true magician
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  • Jason Dettmer 3 years ago
    that's really cool.
  • Ryan Cashman 3 years ago
    thanks!
  • Bevan Goldswain 3 years ago
    You are a magician ryan a magician
  • Bob simmons 3 years ago
    "Bravo Ryan!"
  • Henry Dittrich 1 year ago
    lol basic but cool
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  • James Fearn-Wannan 3 years ago
    That's genius !
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  • [ PIXEL VIKING ] plus 3 years ago
    I have a pretty good idea about just how hard that is to pull off, so thumbs up from me :)
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  • Greg Wallis 3 years ago
    Great technique.
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  • Tom Lowe pro 3 years ago
    How???
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  • Mariusz Kornatka 3 years ago
    very cool
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  • Graphicpulsar 3 years ago
    AHHAHAH!!!...lovely!!!...how fast do you have to film this in order to "hide" yourself from the camera?. Nice technique buddy! :D
  • Ryan Cashman 3 years ago
    Thanks! They were all shot at 20 second exposure time. The drawing took about 10 seconds to do each time, then I'd step out of the way and let myself disappear.
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  • Graphicpulsar 3 years ago
    Thanks Ryan!!!..very informative, really cool man! :D
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  • Tim Montoya 3 years ago
    Nice Job! A Little More Motion Would have made it even more amazing though. but i still love it
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  • Michael Dooling 3 years ago
    Dude, that is the sh*t.
  • Robert-Jon Eckhardt 3 years ago
    Second that.
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  • Emrah Gunduz plus 3 years ago
    great idea, and a nice shot :D
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  • Tom Markz plus 3 years ago
    All I can Say is " WOW"!!! Love it.
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  • basara 3 years ago
    thumbs up thousand time
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  • melvinswk 3 years ago
    This is very impressive! Excellent job mate!
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  • Fariz Hanapiah 3 years ago
    simple idea! well executed!
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  • kaspars 3 years ago
    :))
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  • Saeed Afshari 3 years ago
    Wow! nice light painting skills! WOWW!
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  • zero-13 plus 3 years ago
    Very cool! How did you go about keeping the previous frame position strait after stepping away each time, I imagine it’s either some great eye-balling or did you use the keyboard keys as your reference point?
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  • Paul 3 years ago
    \o/
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  • Alex Ellenberg 3 years ago
    cool stuff.
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  • Impressive!!!
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  • Frances 3 years ago
    woweee!
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  • Bevan Goldswain 3 years ago
    What made you choose that piece of music?
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  • Kyle Lowe plus 3 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Mr. Smith 3 years ago
    So cool! What is the name of the song being played?
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  • drgb 3 years ago
    *thumbs up*

    amazing!
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  • Juan Buis 3 years ago
    Very, very nice.
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  • Brandon Vaidean 3 years ago
    sweeetnesss!
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  • MiXEM 3 years ago
    OMG!Incredible!Love it!
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  • Ayz Waraich plus 3 years ago
    umm... wow.
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  • ashfostermediaphoto 3 years ago
    Truely Insane!
    I love it!
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  • Matt Hughes 3 years ago
    Thank you for doing this.
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  • Henry 3 years ago
    Neat!
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  • JO KAMI 3 years ago
    superb!
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  • Jerry 3 years ago
    I like it :)
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  • Rootclip 3 years ago
    Beautiful. You should make a tutorial on how you did this, with the timing and all. Well done!
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  • Tim Barrett plus 3 years ago
    This is amazing. Inspiring. I would love to hear or see how you did it - how did you get it to sync to the music? how did you match the shape each frame, because I presume you drew each one with a light each time? Great job.
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  • Dome3D 3 years ago
    that was awesome
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  • Naboo 3 years ago
    incredible!!!!
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  • Todd Blankenship 3 years ago
    good stuff man.
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  • mintech 3 years ago
    охуенно!!!!!!!
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  • Fernando Cok 3 years ago
    lo máximo
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  • Daniele Testa 3 years ago
    ahahahha
    simply amazing
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  • Moog 3 years ago
    hats off!!!!
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  • Benoit MILLOT plus 3 years ago
    merci , c'est magiccc
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  • radek 3 years ago
    awesome man
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  • Jessica Vielma 3 years ago
    Beautiful....
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  • :3 3 years ago
    how do you rate in here, I would rate this perfect
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  • Michael Dunlop 3 years ago
    im not going to lie. this is genius!
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  • Daniel Astete 3 years ago
    Amazing
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  • Brandon Ostlund 3 years ago
    That was very creative. Nice work.
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  • xiaou 3 years ago
    很酷嘛
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  • Gonzalo Tello 3 years ago
    nice!
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  • michael baca 3 years ago
    that was great
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  • Vraiment réussi !!
    La musique suit le mouvement (ou l'inverse)
    le final est top avec cette ligne blanche
    Comment tu fais?
    Really succeeded!!
    The music follows the movement (or the reverse) the final one is great with yhe white line.
    How do you do this?
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  • Joe Reilly 3 years ago
    Um???? Doesn't the key tone get lower going the other way""
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  • Joe Reilly 3 years ago
    OOPS never mined my bad. HA HA
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  • Mr Ryan , VERY COOL!
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  • Jennifer Ruiz 3 years ago
    very impressive.
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  • aLeXei 3 years ago
    woauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu is amazing your animation, the experimental video in stop-motion is wonderful...

    congratulations bro!!
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  • Navdeep 3 years ago
    just amazing...
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  • jeff hamada plus 3 years ago
    amazing work - great idea!
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  • Angel Song 3 years ago
    Wow~ this is amazing! love it!
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  • Anna 3 years ago
    Love the PIP effect you used and the lighting on the keyboard looks great!
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  • aaronactive 3 years ago
    Now that is cool.
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  • yummygreens 3 years ago
    ah i want to learn how to do this it's amazing.
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  • Caio Porciuncula 3 years ago
    Wow... that's really awesome!
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  • Felipe Ibanez 3 years ago
    just magic!
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  • cristis 3 years ago
    Hey man,amazing stuff.Pretty impressive.Do you have had lights attached by your fingers,like a ring or something, or you simply have it in your hands?
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  • Tom Mallan 3 years ago
    Incredibly creative, pure, simple.
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  • MiraVen 3 years ago
    Cool! Now that's innovative.
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  • Zac Layman 3 years ago
    vimeo.com/1447460 that video is cool and a lot like this one.
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  • JJ Kim 3 years ago
    I like it.
    Amazing.
    Cool.
    Genius.
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  • RogerB1 plus 3 years ago
    You are a real craftsmen. I love your work. I need to see all of it. I would love to try some of the things you do.
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  • Irynka 3 years ago
    Love it!!!
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  • zerozr 3 years ago
    very cool
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  • o_OMikeO_o 3 years ago
    yeeaah

    Genial el efecto

    el monito verde esta genial XD
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  • Lim Sim 3 years ago
    Nice mash up of the two styles.
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  • Jan Beck 3 years ago
    Wow! Love it!
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  • AndreasF 3 years ago
    great
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  • gabriel lv 3 years ago
    heroic!
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  • Gustaf Holm 3 years ago
    awesome and creative!
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  • tommie mcsweeney pro 3 years ago
    I watched your video and my mind was subsequently blown. AMAZING!
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  • Simon Iddol 3 years ago
    amazing, congrats!!!
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  • katman 3 years ago
    ha ha that was rad!
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  • Sylvain Thomin plus 3 years ago
    Very cute.
    Wonderful.
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  • GLaDOS 3 years ago
    nice stage piano
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  • Nowawes plus 3 years ago
    EXCELLENT!!! You are very talented!
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  • Daniel Markham 3 years ago
    Incredible
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  • adog317 3 years ago
    looks kinda like one of those sprint ads, but cool none the less
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  • James Kanka 3 years ago
    bravo
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  • bcgood 3 years ago
    Super cool, luv it. Gr8 work!

    I would love to read more details about how you made this.

    Thnx
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