GERONIMO!

...Uh, love the lows, I love the lows

'Cause without them there is no high, there is no high

Like bungee jump, like bungee jump

When in the air, nowhere to go, nowhere to run...

Video link: https://youtu.be/asUVS4fEhJw

My portfolio: https://cccollection82.framer.website/animation/geronimo

inspiration

(IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?)

An album produced by DPR LIVE from DREAM PERFECT REGIME in 2020.

THEME: KISS ME (MUSIC VIDEO)

*- Futuristic

*- Outfit: astronaut hat

*- A dreamer of going to the universe

AUDIO CHOSEN: GERONIMO!

*- A word that people will shout when they are excited or being brave, especially when they are leaping from a great height or moving at speed (e.g. bungee jump, skydiving)

*- Similar to say “I can do it!” before taking risky actions

*- Lyrics: No high without lows, bungee jump, nowhere to go in the air

storyboard

MESSAGE: overcome the fear to have infinite possibilities

REPRESENTATION: fall into a black hole to meet the outer space

OPEN ENDING: land on the Sun? hug? die?

Draft:

part 1: fear

To create the similar effect of the reference, metaballs are planned to use.

*- one metaball as the center

*- n metaballs as the splitting parts, translate driven by audio

part 2: fall

Deepness is necessary for the visual effect of falling.

*- straight lines

*- fall in a box(exit: square)/ tube(exit: circle)

part 3: float

The Sun, sunlight and the stars create the space.

*- a sphere, warmness (orange)

*- n torus around the sphere, length change driven by audio

*- straight lines moving towards and spread out (glowing white)

houdini network

OBJ/ nodes used:

*- geometry for testing

*- camera angles for production

*- nodes in final result

1a - black ball

METABALLS:

*- 3 sizes (0.4/0.2/0.1)

*- center: pop out from center (audio driven: pit1)

*- merge OP: sticky effect

(I found that it cannot be achieved by copy and transform OP/copy to points OP, so I duplicated the metaballs and put them in place one by one.)

*- convertmeta OP: add points to metaballs

*- rotate OP: representation of feeling lost (controlled by sin/cos/pit3 by frame)

*- material OP: add material

MAT/ fearmat

*- principled shader OP: adjust material settings

*- specular, reflection: shiny, liquidy effect

1b - background

WALL:

*- a tube colored in white

FLOOR:

*- a torus colored in black (flat platform with a hole for the tunnel)

2a - tunnel

OUTER SHELL:

*- a tube colored in black, smaller radius for the bottom

INNER LIGHT:

*- a grid (10*10 size)

*- copy to points OP: copy tubes (lines) to each point of the grid

*- transform OP: reduce grid size to 1*1, locate at (0,0)

*- creep OP: texture mapping on a tube (smaller than the outer shell), colored in white

*- material OP: add material

MAT/ glowmat

*- principled shader OP: adjust material settings

*- emission: glowing effect

3A - SUN

SPHERE:

*- transform OP (move): move downward continuously by frame

*- colored in black

3b - stars

SPHERE:

*- copy to points OP: copy tubes (lines) to each point of the grid

*- popnet OP: transform tubes into particles growing from the grid

DOP network:

*- point force OP: force.y = 1 (moving upwards)

*- POP source OP: constant birth rate = 30 (number of particles to emit per second)

*- POP collusion detect OP: particles will be deleted (response: die) when they hit the Sun (second context geometry: yellow line that connects the sphere to the second input of popnet OP)

3c - sunlight

SUNRAYS:

*- torus: shape of a sunray

*- copy and transform OP: length of a sunray (number of torus: driven by audio from channel 0/1/2, maximum length (e.g. 50), increase in even number (+2))

*- sphere: sunrays surrounding the Sun

*- normal OP: apply a normal vector to each point of the sphere

*- copy to points OP: copy torus to each point of the sphere

*- transform OP (move): move downward continuously by frame

*- material OP: add material

MAT/ sunmat

*- principled shader OP: adjust material settings

*- transparency: sunray effect

audio

*- delete OP: delete unused channel (chan1)

VOLUME DRIVEN:

*- lag OP: smooth out the audio data (lag: 0, 0.5)

*- resample OP: reduce the number of data in the channel, reduce calculation time (sample rate: 240)

*- envelop OP: lag + resample (sample rate: 240)

*- filter OP: smooth out the envelop data

PITCH VOLUME:

*- pitch OP: analyze pitch of the audio (multiple frequencies: generate multiple channels that each covers a range of frequency, pitch range: interested frequency range, pitch divisions: number of channels to be generated)

*- math OP: rescale the value

*- area OP: accumulate the inputted value

*- null OP: store the audio result