This is my mirrored piece of the latest 3d fractal video.
I put a little bit of mirrors and did nothing more at all. It seemed to me very
interesting so I decided that maybe somebody will like this as well. In fact, in
my personal opinion, this is some sort of combination of a 3D kaleidoscope and 3D
fractal (something in between).
And about music: I’m listening now very optimistic and
good mood generating sounds :D It’s called MODESELEKTOR (the band). And this
soundtrack is just a small fragment of (in my winamp player is written that it
is called like that: ‘RA 173 – Modeselektor (21.09.2009)’ and sounds amazing. a
Very good band. Respect ;)
You might ask: why the main animation is not on full
screen mode? Well, it’s fairly simple to answer :D The main animation was made
of 5300 pictures and the resolution was chosen only 320 by 180. But, despite
this fact, to render all 5300 pictures took almost 15 hours to me. So if would
try to do animation with much better resolution (let’s say 1280 by 720) it
could take maybe two weeks. Why I didn’t like so? Well, mainly because it is my
first steps to “Mandelbulb 3D” and animation wasn’t very impressive because I
do not have good skills of “Mandelbulb 3D” and perhaps I never will.
But, anyway, like for beginner clip went not too bad for
my personal opinion.
For those who are interested of soundtrack. It is a
fragment of Body Language Vol. 8 (Mixed by MODESELEKTOR).
Four month has passed since my
posting and uploading a video. I didn’t have a lot passion to continue to “burn”
them again and again. Yes, indeed, I have made quite a pause, but despite this,
I still decided to create more and in this month I’m presenting to you a third
clip. Let’s talk about it more, if you will let me (oh, thanks for letting me
to talk/post, of course :D).
Let’s make clear about music
first. When my clip was done, I started to look (or to listen I should
say/write) the music, which would fit. I’m now enjoying to listen a band called
“Apparat”, so, I guess, because of that, I chosen that particular band. Sound
serves just as a background and nothing more meaning I didn’t try very much to
choose adequate sound to my clip or even to synchronize it (latter case could
coast for me one week at least in doing so). So music at this particular case
was the easiest part.
Another pretty much easy part
was fractal generation. As almost always, in order to generate 2D fractals, I’m
using very intuitive and simple program, called “Fraqtive”. So I generated some
series of fractals in order to get zooming effects.
Now has left the hardest part:
combining. For this purpose, as always, I’m using “Sony Vegas Pro 10.0”. This
is the hardest and to be honest, the most boring part (with your permission, I
explain why in a few moments :) This task could look interesting, but isn’t at
all. When I’m combining pictures, I have to think where to put this or that
series of fractals and I must to look at the layers and decide which layer type
will be good enough for one series of fractals and which type of layers for
others. Unfortunately, in combining them, I’m very often confronting with
brightness/contrast and with the colours of my fractals (because very often
(because of layering types) you can see very bright (almost white or other
bright colour) or very dark. To change that it looks just easy, but my laptop
and video editing program “thinks otherwise” :D I have to wait some times for
the five minutes just for the slightest change, or in order to open that editing
file, or even if I’m opening another window in front of that editing program,
then in order to activate that must wait (like I said before) 5 min. at least
and “pray” that sony vegas do not get a “system failure” and that happens very
often... So video editing of the fractals is a real war of my nerves :D
Unfortunately I spent one day
just of editing that clip (indeed, I haven’t been sitting just by this program
in front of my laptop, but it took very very long).
But I can say and good news. I
personally like this clip :D it looks pretty much solid (if I can put in that
way :D) and I hopefully hope, that you could also like it. Well, otherwise...
It doesn’t matter to me at all.
So by for those who
will/are/were watch/ing and (or) read/ing.
This is very simple fractal zooming which has been
generated using “Fraqtive” program and these pictures have been assembled with “sony
vegas”.
I wanted to make a clip more interesting to watch, I
wanted to insert a little bit of spec. effects to it, but my laptop couldn’t
handle it (despite the fact that a laptop’s features aren’t bad at all) :D
The clip for some people will be very boring and I
understand why. Because here you can see only fractal zooming without any “synchronization”
or interaction with the beats or other sounds of the music and without any
special effects and is monotonic and even hypnotic, so in conclusion, this clip
is going to look very “poor”.
Here is some kind of test (although I did something very similar
with previous uploaded video) but anyway I have decided, that this “test” pretty
much fits to “my quality” in order to be uploaded to youtube :D and also I
myself have “disappeared” from youtube for quite some time, so here is some
kind of reminder to folks (and not only to the folks of Folk Land :)) that I’m
back :D
Why I’m doing this? I do not really know. This is some
kind of hobby, some kind of “escaping” from the daily stuff “bombardment”. I do
like the process of doing this, but unfortunately I’m rarely satisfied of the
very final result of that – the clip itself :D
I’m hoping to upload more clips in the near future.
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.
