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Track: Plastic People by Kraak & Smaak feat. Bobby Nio
(shortened edit for Tasty Visuals promo)
Published by Boogie Angst Music (Chrysalic Music), P&C 2008 Jalapeno Ltd.

Illustrations >> bit.ly/TastyFlickr
Project >> nealcoghlan.co.uk/#560347/Tasty-Visuals
Twitter >> twitter.com/nealcoghlan
Tasty Stickers! >> tastystickers.co.uk - available now!

These visuals all started out from a single illustration (now the animation Tasty Visuals #001, the first loop of the sequence). Whilst creating the illustration I thought about how each bit might animate and so set about turning it into a short ident type visual. It was soon after that I learnt about the Resolume competiton for Kraak & Smaak a Dutch trio of musicians who create some quality funk/breakbeat/electro tunes. As Kraak & Smaak translates to Crunchy & Tasty I thought it'd be too good an opportunity to miss to get a set of food-themed illustrations turned into VJ loops.

The original 3 loops won the competition and the prize was a commission to make 20 more loops plus a copy of the VJ software Resolume. This video shows
17 clips - the original
3 for the competition and 14 others that are built up in a similar way. The final 6 are transitions/backgrounds that can be played over the top or underneath all of these clips to give extra variation.

Before animating any of the parts I chose 3 of Kraak & Smaak's tracks and sliced it so that it was a segment of 16 beats. I then altered the tempo of the segment to 125BPM - as this works well with a 50fps frame rate (and is consequently easily scalable for slower or faster sections should I need to re-render to a certain speed). Within these segments there was enough going on musically that I could animate individual objects to sounds, meaning that you can watch them again and again and still find new bits that sync up to something. The beauty of this is that all these elements can be removed as single pieces and reassembled to create new compositions. The limitations of the grid plus no gradients or transparencies also meant that consistency between the pieces was easy and that they could all be played consecutively and gel.

My next step is to separate the elements in these visuals and use them as separate clips over multiple layer in the VJ software Resolume - allowing me to form new compositions live to music!
See pics of the process here: bit.ly/TVResolume

nealcoghlan.co.uk
resolume.com/
kraaksmaak.com/

**ALSO if you like videos with additional cats: vimeo.com/14321342
  • Sasha Nevolin 1 year ago
    Hi! We are letting you know that we added your wonderful video to our collection at lookva.tv
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Thanks! That's a cool site you've got there!
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  • Robin Bushell 1 year ago
    On top of this video just being awesome I love anything with hotdogs

    Nice one
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  • We've been watching the competition entries and you were our favourite from the start. Well done, great style!

    We've put it on our blog…
    everythingvisual.net/?p=2179
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Cool thanks! Glad you like it! :D Expect to see more ;)
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  • Marcelo Reis plus 1 year ago
    very crazee idea!
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  • Ruairi Twohig 1 year ago
    great!

    what programs were used for the animation?
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Illustrator & After Effects. I tried to keep the process quite simple but pack in the detail!
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  • Matt Downer 1 year ago
    You say you tried to keep it simple but this must still have taken a flipping long time!

    I congratulate you on your patience. And creating an awesome video :D
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    I guess it was simple in terms of what was keyframed, i.e. position and opacity for the most part, but yes it has taken me ages! A lot of long evenings and trying to make the most of any spare time in and out of work!
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  • florian piento 1 year ago
    I really enjoyed watching it. very fresh.
    keep on the good work !
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  • kodomokid 1 year ago
    mmm, now i am hungrrry :)
    great job, nice vid!
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  • Love the song!
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  • Christian Engel 1 year ago
    Really nice! The explosions are totally taken from Worms (the PC Game), or am I wrong? :D
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    I used to LOVE playing worms! That style of outline illustration has definitely been an influence on me!
    I take my hat off to the company that produced such a fine game.
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  • thiagobarcelos 1 year ago
    Very very good! Your job inspirated me a lot! The pics on your flickr must be seen :D flickr.com/photos/nealcoghlan/4708090571/in/set-72157623341009321/
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  • very nice!
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  • TimeSquid plus 1 year ago
    YESSS! very nice!
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  • pixtur 1 year ago
    Hmm, tasty! I lile the 120 degree-grid in the background.
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  • Jason Snell 1 year ago
    Hot Goods! Very Rad!
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  • Xavier Burgin plus 1 year ago
    Kind of reminds me of Cooking Momma

    If you know the game
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  • WereldFramed 1 year ago
    wicked! luv the illustration style.
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  • Mauricio Shiota 1 year ago
    Wow!! Very tasty!! congrats! see ya
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  • fvr 1 year ago
    Sweet.
    probably would nail some nicely paid jobs with that in your folio.
    cheers
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Let's hope so :)
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  • Rami Lob 1 year ago
    wicked
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  • breakfasttomorrow? 1 year ago
    That was delicious.
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  • iva spasojevic 1 year ago
    its a really good video - too bad the music is so bad
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  • Lina Safstrom 1 year ago
    I LOVE this piece!! Funky, kitschy and colorful visuals. You have to promise me you make more stuff like this :)
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  • Joshua Kelly 1 year ago
    Awesome work Neal, posted this over at salacioussound.com
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Nice one! Cheers Joshua!
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  • colors are excellent, totally my taste!

    hris
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  • Oli 1 year ago
    awesome and perfect music match
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  • BenJamin Wigmore 1 year ago
    sweet tasty visuals neal! nice one :D
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  • beeple plus 1 year ago
    ace style bra!
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Cheers man, I've been following some of your anims for a while too, you've got some sick stuff!!
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  • Wonderfull animation, fresh and colorfull for an happy spring ^^
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  • Maranatha Wilson plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic!!!
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  • Melih Bilgil 1 year ago
    Awesome!
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  • Atanas Djibirov plus 1 year ago
    Amazing illustration! I notice something new every time I play it and I love that!
    Were any 3D applications used on this piece at all?
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Nope, 'twas just Illustrator and then After Effects. I'd like to translate them into C4D at some point and make some mad animations that way!
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  • CSTNG-SHDWS plus 1 year ago
    cool stuff man. Loved your BN visuals, too.

    c
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  • Jemma Jose 1 year ago
    love love love love this!
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  • motionNOmotion 1 year ago
    Submitted to motionnomotion.com
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  • kyogen 1 year ago
    very tasty, love your style, if you ever release a loop pack i'd be interested in buying it.
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    That may just be happening sometime in the not too distant future...
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  • Dee Mackey 1 year ago
    MADDD GROOVY. Loved every second of it.
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  • Mel Walker 1 year ago
    Tasty visuals indeed. My eyes want MORE!
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  • Suhail Amar 1 year ago
    Awwwwwesome!!!
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  • Lwin 1 year ago
    yum :)
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  • Carrie Monescalchi plus 1 year ago
    i am sooo in love with this! i'm terribly new to after effects, but i would VERY much love to be able to create adorable, clean-cut work like this! if you could recommend some tutorials, or perhaps give this little noob some basic tips on how you did the animation in this, it would be MUCHH appreciated!

    much love
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  • Kirsten Lepore 1 year ago
    Gorgeous! I'm bloggin' it! :)
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Cool thanks! :)
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  • i just featured this on boxee! me and my cat spoon love this!
  • Neal Coghlan plus 1 year ago
    Thanks man, love the vid of your cat watching it! (added it to the bottom of the description!)
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  • Jonathan Alsop 1 year ago
    I just spent an hour looking at all your work, very impressive stuff. I like that you are able to combine your excellent graphic design with music production using a midi controller, something I've always wanted to do. I hope I can one day produce work of this quality.
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  • SYNK 1 year ago
    WOW !

    Crazy IDEEA :))

    Very nice
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  • Biscuit Lion 1 year ago
    I love It! Welcome to my video blog biscuitlion.blogspot.com
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  • alcinoo plus 8 months ago
    Well done, great results!
    thanks for sharing your experience,
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  • MRfrukta! plus 6 months ago
    great
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  • MOKAPINK.com 1 month ago
    Beautiful! to LOVE!
    Visit Mokapink.com & share it with your friends for a good dose of culinart!
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