Psychedelic 3D music video
This video contains six and a half minutes of 3d animation and multimedia compositing. It all started when a friend Evan a.k.a. Tha Fruitbat asked Erica Nelson and I to make a music video for him, almost a year ago.

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The video was created using LightWave, SpeedEdit, FinalCut Pro, Flash and Photoshop. Erica and I worked together to green-screen the chicken and pick out stills for the stop-motion animation. Erica was responsible for visuals generated entirely from waveforms of the audio using a flash template that resembles the oscilloscope in my mp3 player. She processed the waveform readouts with the suite of plugins available in FinalCut. Features like the kaleidoscope plugin that would normally be too experimental to use worked perfect with the style we were going for.

I was responsible for the background video, 3d animation, and final comp. The background video is comprised of Digital Juice animations I own. In order to stray from the generic nature these libraries have in their raw form, I reduced their opacity and keyed them in a process I call “quadding”. This basically consists of me flipping four versions of the video plate so they are symmetrical in all four corners. The whole music video is “quadded” with a few exceptions. The result is a complex image with a  vortex in the center.

I composited Erica’s effects, the awesome chicken, and my animated 3d objects over the background. Objects often appear chameleon-like since the surfacing matches the background videos. Object morphing is controlled by the audio signal of Evan’s track using LightWave’s audio channel envelope modifier. There’s tessellations, dodecahedrons, and oodles of compositing.