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Stop motion form and colour, using light painting techniques.

Lighting: Kim Pimmel
Sound: Tron Legacy trailers

I've been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited together those stop motion sequences, mashed up some audio from the Tron Legacy trailers, and out came Light Drive.

The video is stop motion, so every frame is an individually shot photograph. Each photograph is a long exposure photo, with exposures reaching up to 20 seconds in some cases.

To control the lights, I used an Arduino controlled via bluetooth to drive a stepper motor. The stepper motor controls the movements of the lights remotely from Processing.

The light sources include cold cathode case lights, EL wire, lasers and more.

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Twitter: twitter.com/kpimmel

Light Studies
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  • Darren Cliff 1 year ago
    thats wicked!!!
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  • Asif Khan 1 year ago
    Very Tron - i love it!
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  • Sam Morrill staff 1 year ago
    Cool video, good sound effects too.
  • dalas verdugo plus 1 year ago
    Argh, Sam, I really thought I would be the first Staff member to Like this ;)
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  • nice
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  • Ricky Diaghe 1 year ago
    really cool
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  • Great Job.! :)

    I didn't catch up the technique, this are photos transformed into video ??? or..?? :S Sorry the ignorance :(
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  • Kim Pimmel plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for the feedback!

    Adding explanatin to the vid description
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  • Simon Smith 1 year ago
    Nice kim!
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  • Farkhod 1 year ago
    Realy DRIVE*
    Lovely
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  • felixturner 1 year ago
    great audio syncing.
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  • Per-Olov Jernberg 1 year ago
    i need a turntable
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  • Nate Horstmann 1 year ago
    Seriously badass. Makes me wish I was a photon.
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  • Sophy Wong 1 year ago
    so freakin amazing - watching it over and over again to relive the mind-blowing-ness
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  • Cristian Albarenga 1 year ago
    very cool, and nice idea...
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  • Rza Asgerov 1 year ago
    wooow!!!
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  • fotovideo plus 1 year ago
    Increíble, muy bueno.
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  • James Rickards 1 year ago
    good good!
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  • OPTiONS TV 1 year ago
    Nice work. Kinda like Laserium minus the laser.
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  • Mathieu.L plus 1 year ago
    U beautiful son of a gun.
    So out of the blue.
    So refreshing.
    As many thumbs up as can be.
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  • Henrique Faria plus 1 year ago
    Congratulations my friend.
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  • VITAL plus 1 year ago
    Great! Make it a music video!
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  • lawen waven 1 year ago
    Wonderful, I love experiences on lights. Keep up the good work man!
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  • mpared plus 1 year ago
    very cool !! posted at the curious brain
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  • Alicia Lee Wade 1 year ago
    love it.
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  • A.R. GHANNAM 1 year ago
    Inspiring mate ! Well done!
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  • itison 1 year ago
    illuminating!
    turned out very well.

    :)
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  • Inv Trader 1 year ago
    great video
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  • Lee 1 year ago
    ooooo :) .. wait was that q*bert at the end ? love it !
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  • Oliver Blesken 1 year ago
    WOW! Sound and pictures fit just perfectly Both have this analog feeling. Keep on doing this!
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  • Louis Gruber 1 year ago
    You guys just Tronned my face off!
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  • The Latest Artists 1 year ago
    Great job!
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  • Peter 1 year ago
    I really love this! Awesome editing to match the music!

    Makes me really want to get into arduino and of/processing!
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  • woof 1 year ago
    unbelievably awesome!

    so were all images taken from your arduino/deck setup or were they taken as source images for post proudction animation? or both?!

    thanks,
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  • Dave Holden 1 year ago
    Love it! Looks time consuming...
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  • ameerul affiq 1 year ago
    superb!
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  • Jesse Cole 1 year ago
    so sick....
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  • i think the best colors pops out at 0:54. red and white forming a bowl (?) too bad it only last one second :) overall this is super video. Bravo!
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  • Eugenius 1 year ago
    ahhhhh siiiickneeyiss
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  • X.R. Vanegas pro 1 year ago
    wonderful work; I love that you are doing light studies. I'm inspired!
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  • Very creative and beautiful results! We've put it on our blog…
    everythingvisual.net/?p=2360
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  • Sergio 1 year ago
    Amazing piece of work. This is how Daft Punk's soundtrack video should look.
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  • Dexflu 1 year ago
    audio and visual sync is well done!
    we postet this in our blog on dexflu.eu/blog

    keep it up!
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  • Rob McDougall 1 year ago
    spectacular work, K-Pim :D
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  • Catarina.dk plus 1 year ago
    Amazing piece of work - lov it. :)
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  • Lloyd Barnes 1 year ago
    Awesome work!
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  • Noche de Luces 1 year ago
    Una técnica genial y sin duda muy creativa y con muchas posibilidades.... Gracias por la muestra !!!!
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  • Pär Larsson 1 year ago
    moderately bloody brilliant
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  • Angel Hernandez 1 year ago
    One word for this: Superb!!!!!
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  • Joshua Gunther 1 year ago
    So awesome!!!!
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  • Keaton J 1 year ago
    I'd love more details about your hardware setup, great work.
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  • Dillon Morris plus 1 year ago
    What exactly is the spiderweb cloudy light texture in the beginning? I can't figure that out.
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  • Gigiem 1 year ago
    Beautiful
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  • Colortrails plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic concept. Really innovative way of doing stop motion.
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  • Kim Heintz 1 year ago
    simply amazing.
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  • Poker Jedi 1 year ago
    Soooooooo SICK!! When is Light Drive 2 coming? More!!!!
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  • Jerome Monnot plus 1 year ago
    beautiful - just like poetry
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  • Robby Cornish 1 year ago
    thats pretty amazing!
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  • I love it! It's been long while I haven't been stound by such visual music experiment!
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  • Kijek / Adamski 1 year ago
    We love when a home production becomes this profesional. congratulations.
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  • Nick Evans 1 year ago
    LOVE IT!!!! NICE JOB!

    Very well done.
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  • pekka plus 1 year ago
    This just WINS! Beautiful, mechanical poetry
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  • nathan walsh 1 year ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Diego Stocco plus 1 year ago
    This is fantastic, I love it!
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  • dogimo 1 year ago
    keep being interested in interesting stuff cuz those xperiments of yours are really interesting. thx for sharing.
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  • Jeremy Stuart plus 1 year ago
    Nicely done
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  • Worsøe 1 year ago
    Amazing!
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  • wow, nice work...
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  • Kyle Lyons plus 1 year ago
    top notch work, gave me goosebumps :)
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  • Ben London 1 year ago
    Hey, Staff Pick! Nice work Kim!
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  • Kim Pimmel plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for all the positive feedback!
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  • chuck pratt 1 year ago
    Very nicely done - not just the colors, but the shapes/forms, too.
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  • Steve Talkowski 1 year ago
    This turned out great! Love the concept.
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  • Joshua Dyer 11 months ago
    The music off Tron?
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  • John-Paul McCarthy 10 months ago
    Wonderful video.
    It's also nice to read about your planning, process of creation.

    Thank-you for sharing :D
    -JP
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  • Elijah Flint 10 months ago
    awesome.
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  • David La Roche plus 10 months ago
    so epic.

    Additionally, this video basically describes why I'm interested in Arduino.
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  • vj_sakara 10 months ago
    only hardware ? wowww......
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  • Hélène Morlaix 10 months ago
    I love you
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  • Teng 10 months ago
    i love lights too!!
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  • ciaran plus 9 months ago
    The workflow sounds fascinating, looking forward to trying out something vaguely similar myself in the near future!
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  • toneburst plus 8 months ago
    Beautiful!

    a|x
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  • Marcus Byrne 8 months ago
    I love it, great to see something really creative! Well done!
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  • Anomalous Visuals plus 8 months ago
    We would love it if you posted this and any other downloadable videos to our AV Live group....
    vimeo.com/groups/avlive
    This one especially would look AWESOME projected large....
    Thanks
    AV
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  • Wolkenhand 8 months ago
    damn, i threw away my turntable.
    great video
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  • Cameron Clark 8 months ago
    Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  • Ken Scott 5 months ago
    wonderful!
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  • John Velazquez 5 months ago
    badass!!!
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  • patrick coan 4 months ago
    Absolutely bad ass!
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  • Hair Pharma 4 months ago
    great!
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  • RGBK 2 months ago
    i like this forms and colors, is short but is good!!!
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