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Handdrawn audio responsive video exploration.

Audio: Amon Tobin - El Cargo
amontobin.com

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  • Josue Ibañez 1 month ago
    nice Gwen!
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  • sugizo1023 1 month ago
    cool
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  • panic embryo 1 month ago
    fantastic!!!!!
    love the look and design of this. Amon Tobin a big fave of mine.
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  • reanimatr 1 month ago
    Wow! How did you do it? which soft use?
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  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    Thnx guys!

    @reanimatr
    A custom-coded brush (actionscript) is used to draw the imagery. While drawing all data is recorded to be rendered (frame by frame) afterwards.
  • reanimatr 1 month ago
    This is Abobe Flash?
  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    Well, Adobe Flash is the software but it's actionscript that does the tricks. This render/drawing system is build from scratch...
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  • Vadim Smakhtin 1 month ago
    Love your style. Does it realtime?
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  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    Yes it does...
    However, performance issues make it very sluggish.
  • Vadim Smakhtin 1 month ago
    Hmm, it's pure AS3 or you use Flash IDE? I think flash must done things like this at 25-30 fps .
  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    it's pure AS3, based on a drawing system which i use to create 120Megapixel prints...
  • Beeker 1 month ago
    Can you give the as3 script a different audio file, and would it respond differently?

    Trying to understand how this could be handdrawn, and actionscripted at the same time, while responding to the audio amplitude/frequencies, like a visualizer.

    Seems like it's one or the other.

    Either way it's beautiful, and again either way, scripted, handdrawn, it's tremendously organic.
  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    Yep, different audio would give a different result, but the general look&feel would be the same.

    As for the AS3/handdrawn:
    I have a particle system which responds to movement , speed, rotation, mouse gestures, audio frequencies,...

    This system, attached to the mouse, is being used as a 'brush'. So i 'draw' the general sense, direction & rotation by hand. The resulting imagery is code reaction to mouse gestures.
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  • Videofronta 1 month ago
    I like it!
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  • A Rigged Production 1 month ago
    Excellent work dude, almost looked entirely 3D at more than one point.

    As a side note, absolutely love that album, was listening to it earlier today.

    Great for writing ;)

    Cheers!
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  • Josue Ibañez 1 month ago
    Oh! I forgot Gwen check out my blog ;) joystickmedia.tumblr.com/
    nicely done dude!
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  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    Thnx Josue!
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  • Jeffrey Hellman plus 1 month ago
    Bravo!!!
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  • Diego Pardo 1 month ago
    great! I love it! Why don't you make a lil' tutorial on how to do it and how the code works?
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  • Adam Joy plus 1 month ago
    fantastic work.
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  • John Cozen 1 month ago
    plus one dp. Great work Gwen
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  • rpgamer2003 1 month ago
    wow, I'm just beginning to get grasp of action script but these things are a long way off...:)
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  • eric alba plus 1 month ago
    very cool.
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  • Don Relyea 1 month ago
    really nice!
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  • Ceven Knowles 1 month ago
    Really great!
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  • WillBeRain 1 month ago
    like the geometric forms and lines changed evert time - interesting. did you ever hear about this guy, Amit Pitaru pitaru.com/ ? check his folio you both work in the same field.
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  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    yes, i love the collaboration he did with James Paterson:
    blip.tv/file/2293226
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  • versa 1 month ago
    very nice and clean. love this style!
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  • Alex Smith 1 month ago
    fantastic.
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  • Nikolay Vanchev 1 month ago
    Impressive — both visually and the way you have achieved the result!
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  • naim alwan 1 month ago
    WTF!!! that was awesome, please show us how its done ;)
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  • Dale Hayward 1 month ago
    super cool, love to see this flying through a live action city
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  • keef chemistry 1 month ago
    very cool animation - i'd like to audition it to other soundtracks as well to see how it changes the mood - good choice using amon tobin
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  • HippieHouse 1 month ago
    Incredible work, I loved and watched from beginning to end without boring....

    Excelent colors and shapes!

    Congratulations from argentina
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  • moyano plus 1 month ago
    amazing!
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  • kid Neutrino plus 1 month ago
    sick! a beautiful work indeed.
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  • Tri trip 1 month ago
    adoré
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  • Simon HK Cassels 1 month ago
    fresh
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  • TiM 1 month ago
    Very Cool! Great choice of music.
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  • Satya Meka plus 1 month ago
    How did you draw, when the realtime performance is sluggish? Or did you have a placeholder when the audio is playing and later on rendered everything based on the data?

    Irrespective, very stylish.. and gave me ideas to do something in Processing...
  • Gwen Vanhee 1 month ago
    When drawing, a low-res version of the final result is shown on screen, optimizing the performance. Afterwards everything gets rendered in hi-res...
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  • DJ Bolender plus 1 month ago
    the audio isn't synced properly... the beats qued in your animation, to late..
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  • Cheng Ka Chun plus 1 month ago
    great art piece~
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  • 12FRAMES 1 month ago
    very nice! like the stuff oscar fischinger did. and amon is always a good choice:
    vimeo.com/1399514
    seems like his music inspires people to come up with audio reactive visuals!

    anyways, really interesting work you are doing.
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  • ESTHER 1 month ago
    So clever and beautiful, love the music :)
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  • jarek sculz 1 month ago
    cool.
    reminds me of turing, but nicer looking
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  • squigglebooth 30 days ago
    Dang!!
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  • Andrew Morev 30 days ago
    Great work, Gwen!
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  • Maxette 30 days ago
    I was wondering why don't you propose it to apple, for an iTunes visualizer option...
    It would be amazing!
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  • Yordi Uytersprot 29 days ago
    Hi Gwen!
    I'm just amazed with your fabulous work.
    Plus it's made in AS3, which is like great stuff!
    I'm wondering if you could tell me more on the process of rendering the flash animation (result) frame by frame to a sequence of PNG's / JPG's.. Did you make it yourself, that rendering-system-program-thing? And are you willing to share it with the world? Feel free to let me know ^^.

    Kind regards, Yordi
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  • Gwen Vanhee 29 days ago
    Hi Yordi,
    I use Mark Knol's Image Saver Class to save each frame as a png. I'm sure there are other classes out there, but this one works really nice.

    You can find the class + tutorial here:
    blog.stroep.nl/2008/08/as3-imagesaver-class-v10

    and how you can make video's with it here:
    blog.stroep.nl/2008/11/process-rendering-actionscript-to-png-to-video
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  • Mariusz Kornatka 29 days ago
    Very cool
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  • makemassair 28 days ago
    Stunning.
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  • Jason V 28 days ago
    are these visualzation scripts public so we can plug our own music into them?
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  • Trey Ratcliff plus 27 days ago
    You are great and creative! I saw this on Abduzeedo
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  • Daniel Wichers 27 days ago
    awesome! fits the song too.
    great technique you've made to make these vids. I've been reading some comments on how you accomplished this. kudos!
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  • Chris Bourke 27 days ago
    So well done!
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  • takcom™ 27 days ago
    So dooope!
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  • Florence Artur 26 days ago
    Very interesting!
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  • DeKo plus 23 days ago
    Awesome style/colors
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  • Ralph Windischhofer 18 days ago
    cool
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  • DJ DDT 8 days ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Rami Schandall 5 days ago
    Totally amazing. I would love to do something like this with some of my soundscapes. music.ramidonya.net Posted recordings are getting old but more to come, soon. Using experimental instruments and found sound files, lots of free improvisation. Fits really beautifully with the mood of your work! Thanks for the inspiration!!
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  • Nickolay Shideroff 5 days ago
    Utterly amazing.
    Love it =]
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  • Robert Meireles 5 days ago
    A w e s o m e !
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