‘Evolution’

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Alex Glawion wrote:

Hi,

This is a project i have been working on for the past semester. The short film is entirely created with blender (2.49a).

It visualises different stages and shortcomings in the evolution of mankind such as eagerness of power and prosecution of minorities.

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    • rogper

      A master piece :)
      Visually outstanding and heart touching!
      Great concept, use of blender features and story!
      It’s a very beautifully rendered short and the sound fuses very good with image.
      I love it ;)

    • alienkid

      Wow that was cool! Good job Alex.

    • JimmyVolatile

      Wow! Just wow!

      So simple in concept yet so captivating…

      @Alex: What’s the music called?

    • saverio

      good video!!
      visually stunning, but… the concept – imho – it’s not so clear…

    • gullerd

      @Jimmy:
      Sia – Breathe Me
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWtZ54DYBdY

    • sylvain

      really nice! Simple and heart touching. Good job !
      The concept is not so clear in my opinion, but that makes you watch the movie a second time …
      Thanks

    • http://www.geckoanimation.com Laxy

      I like the style, similar to your other work, lots of light and detail, nice depth of field.

    • http://3DTinkerer.blogspot.com 3DTinkerer

      I did not get it.

      But it was visually impressive.

      lol. what was that all about?

    • http://hamsterking.com JoOngle

      There’s something “Elephants Dream” over it….

    • qxfx

      Very good video!!
      The problem is that I’m making a short animation with the same name!!
      Now, I have to change the name :( I’ll call it EVOLUC(T)ION

    • http://digitaldraw.wordpress.com/ aws357

      The realisation is flawless, the movie is really nice.

      The storyline is not so evident though.

      But like ED, it is so nice to look at that people won’t mind I think…

    • Joel F

      I liked this a lot. Very nice style and visuals.

      I do hate, however, to be the one to note that it should probably be ‘persecution’, not ‘prosecution’. It made me cringe at the end that this short was so nice and then had possibly the wrong word.

      Prosecution: legal proceedings against a person.

      Persecution: a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate a people because of their religion, race, or beliefs.

    • http://www.vimeo.com/hhoffren Hannu Hoffrén

      Aside from that this is a beautiful animation, great use of audio & music! I wonder who’s the composer of the song.

    • redbyte

      The visuals combined with the music were amazing. The storyline not so much.

      But I’m sure you already know what to improve on next time ;)

    • Crystalhawk

      Uh… are you sure you’re not aiming for the word “persecution” (oppressing minorities) rather than prosecution (accusing someone of a crime in a court and trying to prove it)?

      Nice movie though, good quality on the animation and cool music.

    • http://www.dustyghost.com dusty

      Very cool effects!!

      Well made! and a moving music score!

    • karoshi

      OMG!! For me its just f?@ing AWESOME!! :>

    • Born

      :)

      Beautiful!

    • http://lasserb.dk Lasphere

      That was f******* FANTASTIC! Great animation, very stylized, and great music comp! A bank in Denmark uses it as title song, but the cool pauses and moments made it different from the version they use. Very well done. ! ! !

    • http://nicknamfx.wordpress.com Nicknamz

      I love it!!

    • TobiasDn

      Fine visuals, and great idea – having the music “evolve”.
      Like some of the poster above, though, I’m not sure about the story…
      The creature is evolving, and is then attacked by the lights, and then the new
      creature comes? I can tell you want to say something about society, and the way
      we treat each other – but what exactly? I think you should have shown a couple
      of more stadiums of the evolution, making it more clear what you are trying to say.

      Then again, it may just be that I’m too stupid to get the movie :-)

    • http://etwas.wolfish.org/ MadHyde

      Fantastic!! I added it in my favorite vid :)

    • Florian

      The score is from Sia, “Breathe Me”.
      The video is incredibly moving.

    • Gryphon

      And… I’m inspired again. Thanks Alex, and thanks Bart!

    • Icono

      It’s not so much a short coming of evolution as it is a short coming of education. There is no such thing as an evolutionary short coming. There only is what is. Are you going to mourn your lack of wings or build a plane?

      And, yes, it’s the wrong word.

      Good animation though, I liked the materials. The flow was nice, as was the musical feeling and sync. That white thing spooked me out, so it was an effective display of negative articles, with a very interpretive suggestion as to what it might be.

    • http://www.revanimus.de Alexander Sawadsky

      Audio-visual impressive and surely a lot of work. But the name fits very well. Intransparent just like the unproven theory of evolution. Hope you don’t identify yourself too much with the theory of evolution, because I don’t want to offend you.

    • Jack RED

      Great effects :D

    • http://azainamart.blogspot.com Azazeo Ainamart

      just awesome…

    • http://www.seanjmacisaac.com SeanJM

      unproven theory of evolution eh… look at a computer from 1969 lately? They sure have evolved–Anyways, visually appealing but the narrative is slow and boring. You need to cut this down big time. And it will be much better. See, break it down to like 30-60 seconds and you’ll have some real gold here.

    • Icono

      Unproven theory.

      This seems like an appropriate place for a debate. Initiate some sort of flame inducing comment here.

    • OboeNerd

      It seems like there was a lot of effort put into timing the events for the music, which made it all slow as a whole.

      But it’s all still quite effective, and it leaves me curious as to what it all means. :)
      Looks amazing.

    • http://www.revanimus.de Alexander Sawadsky

      I don’t want a debate. I just said my opinion and conviction. It’s allowed, isn’t it?

    • http://ramonmirandavisualart.blogspot.com Ramon Miranda

      Just impressive, imho very scener. i like a lot the cackground , scary and dark. and the music is great too. Very subjective ideas but i like it. good job. very good in texturing and lighting fields.

    • ]-[ernán

      Muy parecido al estilo de Pablo Vasquez… Pero verdaderamente muy bueno!

    • chubaso

      Oh man,that was really awesome. I watched it now about 5 times. Music / Sound and Animation fits together perfectly ^^ Especially i like the moment at 2:06 where the music and those small creature explodes. Simply genious!

      chubaso

    • n00bhaxor

      Looks great, don’t get it.

    • http://dawnofthenewage.org.uk/ Phil

      Enjoyed the music and visuals, again story not clear.

    • Brett

      Nice riff on the visual and musical style of the movie: The Fountain.

    • Ajelico

      Very well done. Thought provoking, and inventive. I like how the environment looks like the interior of a cell.

      In this day and age where so many people focus on the wrongs of mankind I would prefer to see something that focused on the good that we have accomplished.

      That being said you have done a very good job. Thanks.

    • qwerty666

      Impressive (with also a well done cut edit), you have my personal congratulation.

      Really.

    • Marbar

      @Alexander-

      So what do *you* think is more likely? There’s something out there with the *resources* to build an entire ecosystem from scratch? Seriously? You should really keep your opinions on issues like evolution off the internet if you don’t want to get flamed into the stone age… After all, it’s a scientific maxim that it is impossible to fully prove anything outside of a mathematical equation, and even those are subject to a lot of uncertainty. So, in the absence of proof, it’s best to go for the theory with the most evidence for it.

    • Gryphon

      @Marbar (and others):
      I know how you feel, but this isn’t the place. Please, just leave it alone. ;)

      OT:
      I simply can’t find words to describe how great this makes me feel. I don’t understand it… it’s just that good. It may be the best thing I’ve seen made in Blender since the video for “Stop” by Kopek. (which everyone should watch again.)

    • TonyM

      Beautiful work.

    • http://free3dmodels.fleshsoft.eu iuli

      nice but strange ..i don’t get the ideea

    • aisbaa

      superb

    • timmeh

      I love this short, it has a real depth to it that lacks in a lot of 3D – and I don’t mean the only the visual themselves, but an overall feeling, visuals/music/pacing that makes it much more powerful. It feels very Darren Aronofsky – it has the same sort of ‘intrigue through abstraction’ that really draws the viewer in and grabs hold of their emotions. I really think that it’s irrelevant that many people don’t understand the story as it’s portrayed, it’s really about how you personally experience it, and I really got the persecution theme you were pushing.

      Well done, brilliant execution of an idea, and someone to keep an eye out for.

    • http://www.revanimus.de Alexander Sawadsky

      @marbar:

      “So, in the absence of proof, it’s best to go for the theory with the most evidence for it.”

      You’re absolutely right. But this is not the place for a deeper discussion.

    • Juan romero

      I like very much the visuals, pace, sound and cinematic vision but I don’t like the story. It’s been stated many times here by many of you that it’s unclear and I agree, but despite being metaphoric or abstract it could be interesting, as some of the most famous pieces of abstract art we know. maybe we don’t fully understand them yet we find them moving or touching, just as the music wich is purely abstract but drives our imagination.
      However, the story for me is weak. Evolution is such a huge subject and can be represented with so many nuances that showing just a couple and then take a fair amount of time for an invasion of tiny particles and an explosion that ends in some kind of akward renovation, is not the best or more interesting way in my opinion to express the concept of evolution.
      But it is a good visual piece and shows a lot of potential that I’m sure will be fulfilled in the future, furthermore it is a brave effort to make a piece for an intelligent and mature audience instead of the typicall disney-esque funny shortfilm (have nothing against those except for they are overdone ad nauseam). congratulations Alex.

      @Alexander Sawadsky,
      It must be difficult for you (who I’m sure believes in some kind of “not proven” religion) to tacitly admit at least to some degree, darwinian evolution as I am pretty sure that if you get badly ill, let’s say a tumor in your brain, you are going to trust in western medicine and accept a lot of procedures and medicaments wich base their effectivenes in the tests made on other mammals and specifically on apes (asuming therefore evolution of species).
      But, hey, if you instead preffer to pray only….

    • http://ceupromed.ucol.mx Rokie

      Wow, few times I see artistic forms like this, it’s outside the common and regular things that we see and still it attracts to the view. Congrats dude! It’s a wonderful piece of art.

    • http://www.fahassani.blogspot.com Fahassani

      Cool!

      Some world to think about…

      The only thing I was wondering is the sound of water drops ( If am right).

      Is there a thread in BA forum?

      5 stars dude ***** .

    • Karthik

      This music is also used in one of the trailers of Prince of Persia (2008) game.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxdHBBwqe8

    • Catu

      Nice ^ω^

    • http://www.revanimus.de Alexander Sawadsky

      @Juan romero

      Quite interesting: though I didn’t want a debate it is given by others.

    • nosubject

      I think the message is political. I don’t think the words “Evolution, revolution, prosecution, solution” have to do with biological evolution. I think they refer to political or psychological evolution.

      “I didn’t want a debate.”

      You brought it up. You are allowed an opinion but you’re not allowed your own facts. Evolution is an historical fact. Natural selection, the mechanism by which evolution works, can be observed in the laboratory. To reject the reality of evolution today is to be placed in the same camp as those who reject Einstein’s theory of relativity or who believe the Earth is 10,000 years old.

    • Alex Blank

      Very impressive…
      Even if you don’t agree with the idea of evolution, I don’t see why that has to detract from the fact that this is stunning animation and a great deal of work to have created. The evolutionary naysayers that are letting personal feelings get in the way are only letting themselves miss out…

    • Leonardo

      Guys, guys, guys…

      We’re taking this whole “evolution” thing too seriously. Instead of spamming up this great post with personal opinions, let’s concentrate on the video itself.

      I’m disappointed that a lot of you expected some sort of complex plot or deep philosophical meaning. Art can be open to interpretation.

      Great video Alex, and wonderful use of music.

      - Leo

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Discussions on the topic of biological evolution are off-topic and will be removed after this message.

    • Realarts3D

      wow! I like it. Your animation is very cool. The music then. Woow

    • http://www.youtube.com/robbielosee Robbie Losee

      When the artistic design is this good (creative use of light, sound, etc…) one can take an unclear meaning as part of the ambiance – the delight – of the film as a piece of art. This is not to say that it is meaningless, just that the film requires (and deserves) deeper thought.

      Instead of figuring this one out in a few minutes, we will all be turning it over in our minds for days and probably watching it several more times. Excellent!