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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 4 months ago

Kickass!
Marc Köhlbrugge 4 months ago

impressive!
Inofaith 4 months ago

Great!

The motion design and the soundtrack combine together seamless.

(love Breda's park :)
rawmeyn 4 months ago

yeah yeah!!! he did it again!!! :)
Francky 4 months ago

brilliant
eddy lefter 4 months ago

wow! exciting and inspiring at the same time. a wonderful interpretation of perception. totally love it
Robert Marks 4 months 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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago

He might have put a layer of the "dust" on top and made it semi-transparent.
Tom Geraedts 3 months ago

Yeah that was stock footage, shot by my friend Reinier Flaes!
Geoffrey Gonzales 4 months ago

With studio headphones it sounds amazing.
I also love the widescreen, 16x9 is too square.
YEAH! Films 4 months ago

i envy your patience
Eugen Ahl-Klopsch 4 months ago

absolutely wonderful!
Chris Oliver 4 months ago

Awesome.
Najork 4 months ago

Wow. I think you got 2000 hits in the last 10 hours.
Grant Westhoff 4 months ago

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

Great work!
Mats Lüttenberg 4 months ago

great work! :)
Adriana de Barros 4 months ago

Wow!
Adriana de Barros 4 months ago

Your video will be featured tomorrow at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
Mark Hafley 4 months ago

WOW. That was great.
DERINNEREKREIS 4 months ago

really, really impressive!!!
Sunny Thaper 4 months ago

Awesome video and freaking amazing sound design.
Fleur van Zuilen 4 months ago

Tom rocks!
Rowan Lee Hartsuiker 4 months ago

Yes, Tom! Mooi talent, fucking awesome video!
kobe 4 months ago

sound and video are really impressive. Wow!!
Loup Thévenin 4 months ago

Beautiful !
Rafael Raymundo 4 months ago

Bravo!
Kasraaa.de 4 months ago

Gorgeous Motion design. Congrats.
Sean McDonald 4 months ago

Wow! Great idea and design!!
major addiction 4 months ago

great vision sir!
Fernando Barrientos 4 months ago

Its so beautiful so amazing...truly inspired me!
Amazing job!
Franc L 4 months ago

It's out of this world. Congrats Tom.
Chris Wenting 4 months ago

vet man:P!
rickflick 4 months ago

Well made!!!
Warren Anthony 4 months 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.
Nash Varghese 4 months ago

AMAzing!
Lawrence Digges 4 months ago

Very cool. Well done!
Joe Cronin 4 months ago

Bravo..!!...beautifull story telling..
Gaschka 4 months ago

the piece has its strongest part around 2.00. I like the breakup and reassembling!
mikehedge 4 months ago

genius
Wes Wally 4 months ago

Nice format, I enjoyed the collaged footage effects. The sound was impacting aswell.
BBF 3 months ago

great short!
AlexG 3 months ago

What programs did u use?
Tom Geraedts 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

Fascinating ...
Anneloes Demmers 3 months 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 3 months ago

amazing stuff.
Tom Geraedts 3 months ago

Thanks guys for all the amazing posts!
lara hughes 3 months 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 months ago

Truly amazing xO
arjuno kecil 2 months ago

mooi werk!
Ubik 2 months ago

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

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

SO AMAZING! I think I am going to do a test and try something like that :) inspiring! really!
Jack Nelson 1 month 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