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1. Light-Paint Piano Player

by Ryan Cashman

4 months ago

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.

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light-painting 33
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piano 1305
san diego 779
night 2025
skyline 232
lowlight 161
HD 13155
stop motion 3161

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Felix 4 months ago

Nice :)
Bevan Goldswain 27 days ago

A true magician
Jason Dettmer 4 months ago

that's really cool.
Ryan Cashman 4 months ago

thanks!
Bevan Goldswain 27 days ago

You are a magician ryan a magician
Bob simmons 4 days ago

"Bravo Ryan!"
James Fearn-Wannan 4 months ago

That's genius !
[ PIXEL VIKING ] 4 months ago

I have a pretty good idea about just how hard that is to pull off, so thumbs up from me :)
Greg Wallis 4 months ago

Great technique.
Tom 3 months ago

How???
Mariusz Kornatka 3 months ago

very cool
Graphicpulsar 3 months 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 months 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.
Graphicpulsar 3 months ago

Thanks Ryan!!!..very informative, really cool man! :D
Tim Montoya 3 months ago

Nice Job! A Little More Motion Would have made it even more amazing though. but i still love it
Michael Dooling 3 months ago

Dude, that is the sh*t.
Robert-Jon Eckhardt 28 days ago

Second that.
Emrah Gunduz 28 days ago

great idea, and a nice shot :D
Tommy Marks 28 days ago

All I can Say is " WOW"!!! Love it.
basara 28 days ago

thumbs up thousand time
melvinswk 28 days ago

This is very impressive! Excellent job mate!
Fariz Hanapiah 28 days ago

simple idea! well executed!
kaspars 28 days ago

:))
Saeed Afshari 28 days ago

Wow! nice light painting skills! WOWW!
zero-13 28 days 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?
Paul Houlihan 28 days ago

\o/
Alex Ellenberg 28 days ago

cool stuff.
Garrett Wesley Gibbons 28 days ago

Impressive!!!
Frances 28 days ago

woweee!
Bevan Goldswain 28 days ago

What made you choose that piece of music?
Kyle Lowe 27 days ago

Brilliant!
Mr. Smith 27 days ago

So cool! What is the name of the song being played?
ReaL J 27 days ago

Awesome!!
I love it!!
I like it!!
I wanna make video like this.
But I dont know how.............n.n

Somebody plz teach me~.
drgb 27 days ago

*thumbs up*

amazing!
B.U.N.K.S. Muzak! 27 days ago

niiiiiiiiiiiiice
Juan Buis 27 days ago

Very, very nice.
Brandon Vaidean 27 days ago

sweeetnesss!
MiXEM 27 days ago

OMG!Incredible!Love it!
Ayz Waraich 27 days ago

umm... wow.
ashfostermediaphoto 27 days ago

Truely Insane!
I love it!
Matthew Hughes 27 days ago

Thank you for doing this.
Henry 27 days ago

Neat!
Joe Kamimura 26 days ago

superb!
Hyo 26 days ago

I like it :)
Rootclip 26 days ago

Beautiful. You should make a tutorial on how you did this, with the timing and all. Well done!
Tim Barrett 26 days 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.
MMascheri 26 days ago

that was awesome
Naboo 26 days ago

incredible!!!!
Todd Blankenship 26 days ago

good stuff man.
mintech 26 days ago

охуенно!!!!!!!
Shagohod Fung 26 days ago

Oh, excellent~ ~
Fernando Cok 25 days ago

lo máximo
Daniele Testa 25 days ago

ahahahha
simply amazing
Moog 25 days ago

hats off!!!!
MILLOT Benoit 25 days ago

merci , c'est magiccc
radek 25 days ago

awesome man
Jessica Vielma 25 days ago

Beautiful....
:3 25 days ago

how do you rate in here, I would rate this perfect
Michael Dunlop 25 days ago

im not going to lie. this is genius!
Daniel Astete 25 days ago

Amazing
Brandon Ostlund 25 days ago

That was very creative. Nice work.
xiaou 25 days ago

很酷嘛
gonz 25 days ago

nice!
michael baca 24 days ago

that was great
Afromenace 24 days ago

*** bravo ***
salvatore marseille13 24 days ago

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?
Joe Reilly 24 days ago

Um???? Doesn't the key tone get lower going the other way""
Joe Reilly 24 days ago

OOPS never mined my bad. HA HA
Pro Bajo Tierra 24 days ago

de puta madre...
asi se dice en español
frensis 24 days ago

Mr Ryan , VERY COOL!
Mariella 24 days ago

very impressive.
aLeXei 24 days ago

woauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu is amazing your animation, the experimental video in stop-motion is wonderful...

congratulations bro!!
Navdeep 24 days ago

just amazing...
jeff hamada 24 days ago

amazing work - great idea!
Angel Song 24 days ago

Wow~ this is amazing! love it!
Anna 24 days ago

Love the PIP effect you used and the lighting on the keyboard looks great!
Aaron Tan 24 days ago

Now that is cool.
yummygreens 23 days ago

ah i want to learn how to do this it's amazing.
Caio Silva 23 days ago

Wow... that's really awesome!
Felipe Ibanez 23 days ago

just magic!
cristis 23 days 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?
Tom Mallan 23 days ago

Incredibly creative, pure, simple.
MiraVen 23 days ago

Cool! Now that's innovative.
Zac Layman 22 days ago

vimeo.com/1447460 that video is cool and a lot like this one.
JJ Kim 22 days ago

I like it.
Amazing.
Cool.
Genius.
RogerB1 22 days 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.
Irynka 22 days ago

Love it!!!
zerozr 21 days ago

very cool
o_OMikeO_o 21 days ago

yeeaah

Genial el efecto

el monito verde esta genial XD
Lim Sim 20 days ago

Nice mash up of the two styles.
Jan Beck 20 days ago

Wow! Love it!
apunktf 20 days ago

great
gabriel lv 20 days ago

heroic!
Gurra Holm 20 days ago

awesome and creative!
tommie mcsweeney 19 days ago

I watched your video and my mind was subsequently blown. AMAZING!
Simon Iddol 19 days ago

amazing, congrats!!!
PATTY MARTINEZ 19 days ago

that was pretty good....
katman 19 days ago

ha ha that was rad!
sylvainman 19 days ago

Very cute.
Wonderful.
GLaDOS 19 days ago

nice stage piano