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Highly fascinated by the perception of blind people, I tried to visualize how one would see something beautiful.

Eros is about a young blind man who always struggled with his inability to imagine the world around him. He just couldn't shape things like color and beauty in his mind. This all changes when he meets a curious girl, someone who will change things for once and for all.

Watch it with speakers turned up please!
Music and Sound design by the talented Jeff Dodson
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-Tom (tom@tri-state.nl)
tomgeraedts.com

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kasper kuijpers 2 years ago

Kickass!
Marc Köhlbrugge 2 years ago

impressive!
Inofaith 2 years ago

Great!

The motion design and the soundtrack combine together seamless.

(love Breda's park :)
Roman Königshofer | rawmeyn 2 years ago

yeah yeah!!! he did it again!!! :)
Francky 2 years ago

brilliant
eddy lefter 2 years ago

wow! exciting and inspiring at the same time. a wonderful interpretation of perception. totally love it
Robert Marks 2 years ago

Crazy talent. I'd be interested to know how much research went into this working with blind people to get a sense of their actual perception or if it was all your own interpretation. Absolutely amazing visuals and sound.
Tom Geraedts 2 years ago

Most of it is own interpretation. I contacted a couple of blind people but they weren't really interested. I just wanted to go free and do my own thing actually. I was afraid if I would talk to blind people too much that would interfere with the vision i had in my mind at the beginning. In a certain way I wanted to make reality better then it really might be..
Thanks for your compliments!
Jonathan Raiman 2 years ago

Amazing Work; bravo! how did you create the little fuzzy things that fly over a black background (a bit like some form of dust)?

Thanks,
J.
Geoffrey Gonzales 2 years ago

He might have put a layer of the "dust" on top and made it semi-transparent.
Tom Geraedts 2 years ago

Yeah that was stock footage, shot by my friend Reinier Flaes!
Geoffrey Gonzales 2 years ago

With studio headphones it sounds amazing.
I also love the widescreen, 16x9 is too square.
Billy Blanks 2 years ago

i envy your patience
A.G. 2 years ago

absolutely wonderful!
Chris Oliver 2 years ago

Awesome.
Najork 2 years ago

Wow. I think you got 2000 hits in the last 10 hours.
Grant Westhoff 2 years ago

Brilliant short! The animations were flawless and the subtle blending of the animation and actual film was amazing.

Great work!
Mats 2 years ago

great work! :)
Adriana de Barros 2 years ago

Wow!
Adriana de Barros 2 years ago

Your video will be featured tomorrow at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
Mark Hafley 2 years ago

WOW. That was great.
Jan Heybowitz 2 years ago

really, really impressive!!!
Sunny Thaper 2 years ago

Awesome video and freaking amazing sound design.
Fleur van Zuilen 2 years ago

Tom rocks!
Rowan Lee Hartsuiker 2 years ago

Yes, Tom! Mooi talent, fucking awesome video!
kobe 2 years ago

sound and video are really impressive. Wow!!
Loup Thévenin 2 years ago

Beautiful !
Rafael Raymundo 2 years ago

Bravo!
Kasra Design 2 years ago

Gorgeous Motion design. Congrats.
Sean McDonald 2 years ago

Wow! Great idea and design!!
major addiction 2 years ago

great vision sir!
Fernando Barrientos 2 years ago

Its so beautiful so amazing...truly inspired me!
Amazing job!
Franc L 2 years ago

It's out of this world. Congrats Tom.
Chris Wenting 2 years ago

vet man:P!
rickflick 2 years ago

Well made!!!
Warren Anthony 2 years ago

Looks like I alone in thinking this looks and sounds nice, but has absolutely nothing interesting to say about the blind's internal perception of the world. A nifty collage revealing a hot chick in the park? I think not.
Lee Medina 5 months ago

You're not alone that's what I was thinking too! So a ball smacks a blind person in the head and now he can see a woman because she is so pretty? >_< Also there seems to be a condescending view of what his life was like without vision.
Nash Varghese 2 years ago

AMAzing!
Lawrence Digges 2 years ago

Very cool. Well done!
Joe Cronin 2 years ago

Bravo..!!...beautifull story telling..
Gaschka 2 years ago

the piece has its strongest part around 2.00. I like the breakup and reassembling!
Mike Hedge 2 years ago

genius
Wes Wally 2 years ago

Nice format, I enjoyed the collaged footage effects. The sound was impacting aswell.
BBF 2 years ago

great short!
AlexG 2 years ago

What programs did u use?
Tom Geraedts 2 years ago

I Filmed the footage with a Sony HC-1 miniDV camera with the twoneill adapter + Nikon 50 mm 1:1.8 Lens.

The 3D is all Cinema4D, and I've played around with those renders in Adobe After effects.

Also alot of preparation in Photoshop.
Aaron Morrell 2 years ago

The flow of the visual strokes- seems to me a perfect representation of the use of a blind persons tactile senses to read their environment.

Wonderful representation.

Beautiful!
Smoky Drop 2 years ago

Fascinating ...
Anneloes Demmers 2 years ago

wauw! Kwam je tegen via nuffic-site..je maakt mooi werk, maar dat heb je aan bovenstaande reacties te zien al veel vaker gehoord :) Bijzonder!
Ayz Waraich 2 years ago

amazing stuff.
Tom Geraedts 2 years ago

Thanks guys for all the amazing posts!
lara hughes 2 years ago

hey tom!
thanks for putting this up! after searching vimeo for something to analyse for its sound and image relationship for uni, i picked yours!
thanks again!
Geso 2 years ago

Truly amazing xO
Jurriën Boogert 2 years ago

mooi werk!
Ubik 2 years ago

nice work
shame 1.0 missed it out last night - this would have been one of the highlights.
Tom Geraedts 2 years ago

Thanks man, means alot to me. It was great to briefly meet you, I'm planning on moving to London soon, so maybe we can keep in touch :)
Ubik 2 years ago

definitely
keep in touch and good luck.
Aaron Sorensen 2 years ago

SO AMAZING! I think I am going to do a test and try something like that :) inspiring! really!
Jack Nelson 2 years ago

narrative give much power to the visual; ironically, it's piece about how the blind (might) see that makes is not so one dimensional . . . sensuality, alas, is the liquor of dreams
shape+colour 2 years ago

incredible.

shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/tom-geraedts-eros/
Luismadrid 2 years ago

I love this video!! now is on my channel Inpiración de Luismadrid
cheers
Matt Pringle 2 years ago

Stunning stuff, such a unique and fascinating vision. Congratulations on producing such a wonderfully original piece of art.
Marta Rubia Ramacciato 1 year ago

really beautiful!
Popazz 1 year ago

Great sensation! Animation really creative and great sound design too!!!
Nem Perez 1 year ago

Hey Tom,
This is still one of my favorite pieces I've seen. How long did it take you to do?? I would love if you submitted this to a film fest we're throwing here in Chicago! Hope all is well!
Tom Geraedts 1 year ago

Thank you mate!! It took me 1.5 month or something I think.. I'd love to submit the piece to the filmfest! Shall I send you a link with the higher quality version?
Adriaan Esterhuizen 1 year ago

Well Done!!!
nybemotion 1 year ago

got me right in my heart, so good.
Michael J. Strathen 1 year ago

Gripping! Adored the compositing! tres bien!
Yug_and_her 10 months ago

Nice work Tom! Love the way you added the layers, edit and the music.
Rickard Bengtsson 10 months ago

Really incredible
dsue 6 months ago

beautiful...I Remember Portishead
Éric Dorchain 1 month ago

Very Beatiful & Creative Vision Tom !

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U're Welcome !

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