How I did this? 2D fractals have been taken from fraqtive
program. In order to get zooming effect I had to generate from 2000 to 3000 fractal
images for each (I inserted 4 fractals in 2D I guess).
And one (at the beginning was 3D fractal which has been
generated using Mandelbulb 3D). I have to admit, I have much to learn in order
to make something interesting with 3D fractals.
I do see other people amazing work (with Mandelbulb 3D) on
youtube and starting very often wonder, because now I know :) that in order to
make that is needed a lot of time and a lot of patients. And especially when
you already made some 3D fractal animation and just need to wait (for hours or
even days!) in order to get these frames that time is maybe the most disturbing
or impatient. I think that someday I also will make some amazing 3d fractals, but
not in the near future and that is for sure :D
In this particular clip you can hear two soundtracks (soundtracks blends and sounds just like one): 'Luke Abbot - More Room' and another soundtrack is: 'Oval - Legendary'.
I’m presenting a short clip to you. In order to make this
clip, I have been using Mandelbulb3D animation (which have been generated ~
2000 frames). I have combined these frames (and added other usual effects to my
clips) using sony vegas pro 10.
I’m presenting to you my new/old clip, meaning that I
edited old clip. The old clip had just the same classical music: “Antonio
Vivaldi winter Allegro non molto (in F minor)” masterpiece and light effects
(which wasn’t a masterpiece at all :D). When I have made this light effect then
and I decided to upload that on youtube, because I was excited about that and
it looked interesting. But when I watched that a couple of times, I change my
mind and deleted that video, because these effects began to affect my eyes in a
negative way (started to ache).
But, anyway, I haven’t deleted that “test video” from
laptop and when decided to make a clip, I though it would be nice to use that previous
clip as a background with the same music.
So in this clip you are going to see fractals zoom animation
(which have been done using “fraqtive program) and a little bit of images,
which have been created with Mandelbulb3D. And that’s it, pretty much.
Oh, by the way, my clip do not resonates with the name of
the music :D Of course, I’m not showing here any winter leitmotivs. I would
like mention, as well, why I have chosen this classical music. Because I do
like to listen classical music and Antonio Vivaldi winter Allegro non molto (in
F minor) is one of my favourite concerto with violin (if you know what I mean,
my English is terrible, please excuse me for that :D). I really like to listen classical
music which was done by piano (like: “Beethoven – Fur Elise” or “Claude Debusy –
Clair De Lune”.
The core of this video was done first and it (that “core”)
looks like a flower/hexagon. Yes, it does have some similarities to a symbol of
one state’s flag (I do not want to mention that country because it was not my
intention to do that. It just happened so...)
In the further development of this clip I added bit by
bit some pictures or changed them into waves or something :) I don’t know how
to call that because it can’t really fit to fractals or kaleidoscope :D, but,
in fact, it is pretty easy to change these waves (for instance, it appears on
the intervals: 1:59-2:15; 4:29:4:50) into fractals, and, to honest with you, I
have done that: on the interval from 0:15 to 0:30 it is pure fractal (in my
personal opinion). And that core about which I wrote at the beginning resembles
not just like a simple flower or hexagon, but also sometimes it looks like
kaleidoscope (I mean, at some intervals of this clip) :)
So, what about this clip? Why I did it like that? Well at
the beginning, I had absolutely no idea how it could look when it will be done.
Yes, I do have method how to create these videos. From essence I’m on the line
pretty much (meaning I’m following these rules more or less consistently) so
they do look similar. But when I have done majority of this clip, I started to
think (or interpret it) that it (at least for me) resonates with our struggles
in life or/and looking for answer for our questions and maybe we will never
find answers to some questions, but we always will struggle to find it – the ultimate
truth :)
But unfortunately, I can interpret it from other
perspective. In that process of finding the answers of our main questions of life,
we are going in circles, because we are always “hitting into the brick wall”
which is simply a daily routine or material world, where we are belonging. So, in
my opinion, this brick wall, from essence, and is that material world.
Ok, now let’s “talk” a little bit about the music. To find
good music in this particular case, was very hard: I have been listening dozens
and dozens of bands. One barrier was that time interval was a bit too long for
standard interval of songs (many music took about 3 min +- 30 s.) another
barrier was that music which I have been listening have been too much depressing
or had some negativity comparing to the intension of this clip. I have been
listening mainly electronic, techno, house, even dubstep, indie, rock and metal.
One of the best song ever was “Efterklang - Apples”. But it seemed to me a
little bit too melancholic or even depressing namely for this clip and was too
short for the clip. But luckily I found Apparat – fractales. And this version
was too short and luckily I have found another version of this “song” and immediately
added it and finally started to render the clip.
So, in my opinion, this sound although is not synchronized
to the clip, but it resonates with it and the most important thing, it
maintains positivity of all track, which is really good and or this reason, I
can proudly state that I’m a tinny drop, which adds to limitless positive ocean
and that struggle for finding answers is needed and despite this fact that we
are struggling just for that struggle meaning that it sometimes is not easy,
but it is worth :)
