Music video for "China, My China" by The Diving Bell
(Kindly view in HD and Fullscreen if possible)
Andy Davenhall, voices
Christian Fulghum, guitar
Dan Leary, bass
Josh Schusterman, drums
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95% of content developed in Studio Artist 4, 5% in Apple's Motion 5, Composited & edited in Final Cut Pro X
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schlichtweg begeisternd: großartig! (great)
感谢您亲切的字。(thanks)
Really cool Victor! Love what you did the with text paints with chinese symbols and the swimming scene is really beautiful. Great composition.
Thanks Candice.
The Chinese characters are a translation of the title of the song as well as one of the lyric phrases of the song "Cheery Blossom Snow". I made a text movie brush from jpgs I made from a font. Some are randomly applied (like the color early sequence) some more rigid and applied along the line of a region brush. I also wanted the straight line text to be a bit twitchy as it was applied. So I used the changing luminance of a specially made source movie to modulate the width and length of the brush. The net effect is a non-static line of text that has energy in it. It's funny I had to make and remake the luminance source movie 4 times to get it so it would twitch the text brush just enough but not enough to be distracting.
The swimming sequence was hard to work with. I was using a very low quality source video... and I worked long and hard to come up with an edge quality that worked for me. I had a lot of spurious paths flying off the edges of the figure. Since it was taking too much time to figure out how to paint it right the first time, I simply loaded my 1st pass render into a movie layer and hand cleaned up the frames with a black brush and some cloning. Then I took a few different incarnations of the footage and layer composited them in FCPX adding blur to some and adjusting saturation and exposure on others. I like the way she winds up feeling like a kind angel as she flies over the bustling urban neon night scene.
~v
Outstanding! Amazing what this software can do with a little creative thought behind it.
Great piece, Victor from start to finish!
Thanks Paul... truly appreciated
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