Showing posts with label Max Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max Cooper. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Chaotisch Serie



This is the final video for Max Cooper's 'Serie's. Its loosely based around the emergence of life from mathematics through chaos. The track is carries Max's trademark grandeur and i tried to reflect this in the video, basically by going a bit balls out, if you excuse the colloquialism. I think it reflects a clear progression over the last year and a half since the first video, really getting to grips at working with particles as well as little tricks for making the whole thing look good which where otherwise lost to me when i first started this trilogy. My research into fractals and natural patterns for this video led me to discover the mandlebulb, which i assure you is incredible - a 3d mandlebrot fractal in essence. Here, http://www.subblue.com/blog/2009/12/13/mandelbulb, you can read and see abit more about it. I just wish i had more time to use it better, the sheer processing required to use it with After Effects meant it was very difficult to control or work with the cameras effectively. Apparently one should use a GSLS shader, but i really wouldn't know where to begin. Finally, i do think the final render above became a little over-saturated but i can live with that.

Anyway, i'm pleased with the outcome and already we are looking at a good deal of online coverage as well as the possibility of it being showed on German TV....

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie


Released in January 2009 this is my first piece of commercial work for an artist; Max Cooper (Traum) Its a dark and brooding kind of affair and like so much of Max's work, it maintains a kind of musicality that to many might seem a long way from what is traditionally considered techno. We spent a long time throwing ideas about, and soon found a common ground in our intrigue for the invisible connections science and maths have with our world - not only the world of art and music but also that with we live in day to day. It was this unspoken beauty in the mundane that i tried to get across here.
I felt i was unable to fully realise this idea as i had hoped, however as i intend to be able to present a final version - if only for my own satisfaction - in the near future.
Mr Cooper and i continue to collaborate..