Yeah, Gratz Graf was what I thought of too... do you know the production team that made that video?

Alex Rutterford

yes i know his works ... lostinspace ..

sofware ...render the area lights ray tracing dose a good job..

thanks Kyle. That's exactly what we tried to imply in Tractor. To play with visual and audio contrasts and somehow come up with the unexpected ...thanks for the way you depicted the narrative :)

hi Andrew,

This is how we worked: Martin had a couple visual concepts (10-15 secs animations) with different things going on there. I mean, colors, movements, deformations and so on). I worked a few ideas on each one of them and the actual look and feel of Tractor u see here became the one where I actually felt the right one to go for. from that point i developed the a sound concept for the middle part of tractor - the crazy bit :) - and sent it to martin so he could have a play and work on the motion side. While he was doing that I was creating the intro sound for tractor and martin was feeding though some work in progress for me to have a feeling and make some adjustments. At this stage I communicated a few ideas to martin on what mood and animation style would suit the audio I was doing for the intro so he could work on this part well. Once finished I sent him the sound so he could build the animation around the audio narrative. Soon Martin provided not only with the beginning of tractor (adding to the middle part we had before) but a conclusive end to it. All i can say is it totally blown my mind to see how well he portrayed what was going on in my mind for this. So now we had the whole movie and just the end audio missing. This was the last stage where I kept working and adjusting stuff along the tractor and building all the audiovisual syncing for it.

So, I mean we didn't work totally one thing before the other. It was a constructive and adaptive work method we had to carry along a couple months working on and off, producing bits that would stay there and some bits that would be scraped out. There was no real deadline for this and our main goal was "Let's push pixels and stretch frequencies to the limit" and make something mechanic with organic lookalike behavior. It's not everyday you find someone exactly in the same mind frame as you but I guess I was lucky enough to find martin inspired by the same values :)

Ooppsss, I think this might be enough. Sorry for this long explanation but once I had some emails flying around asking more details on the project I thought I would be a good idea to finally talk a bit more.

Thanks for all comments guys. Nice one!

Impressive! That's a great way of collaboration!

ping pong is coll :)