http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6JVsivW_g&feature=related
By Tom Walks.
Tom writes:
I had a recall of Nine Inch Nails - "Only" videoclip. I had to try that.
Music : Jimmy Hendrix - Fire. All done in Blender. 2.63, internal render. Also made an image rendered with Cycles. Basically, it's done with dupliverts:
- I used a plane, subdivided a lot, and Uv unwrapped.
- Then modelled a pin and parented it to the plane. In the Object / duplication panel of the plane, I chose "Verts".
- Now there are as much pin as vertices of the plane, and each pin is parented to a vertice.
- Now if you add a displace modifier to the plane, and choose a new texture, or a black and white image, choose UV as the mapping, the displace will draw the image in 3D, so the pins will follow this deformation.
- If you use a black & white video instead of an image, works too, but the perspective may not be right. BE VERY CAREFUL when using a video I don't recommdnd you to play the animation real time in blender (3D view), I experienced strong freeze on my PC. Just change frames from one to another.
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Youtube says: Video not available in Germany 'cause GEMA has not granted the rights :(
There shoud be a mute button to allow viewing the clip in this stonage/analog country Germany. GEMA sucks!
try proxtube https://proxtube.com/
http://video.golem.de/audio-video/5267/nina-paley-gema-sperrt-unrechtmaessig-den-trickfilm-sita-sings-the-blues.html (video in english; headline reads: GEMA unjustly blocks animation film Sita Sings the Blues)
Notably Youtube has put that movie back online after the public complaint ;)
And - a bit more blender centric - together with Sita Sings the blues the Blender Open Movies Elephants Dream, BBB and Sintel made it into a DRM free project competing Blu-Ray:
http://questioncopyright.org/libray_kickstart
Wow, this was really well done! Good work! Impressive use. I've not seen the video by NIN, but now I want to .. just for comparison!
Brings back childhood memories ... most of them previously repressed ..
Great video, and thanks for explaining how it was done. :)
Agreed, very well done and thanks for the explanation.
When I saw the NIN video several years back, I thought to myself "I wonder how easy this would be to do in Blender?" Excellent work!
cool, since I saw this spot by Audi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxUA9oI8zY
I was wondering how to do that in Blender
Nice animation, but best of all the Hendrix track!
Now if only you could get a Hendrix video into the pin animation, that'd be really cool! :)
That's cool! :D
great music, but also the reason why i am not able to watch it in germany...
long life jimmys copyright
Fantastic! I wish someone would build this in real life. it'd be almost like a 3d tv.
Very Very Impressive.
Very smart! Thanks a ton for sharing you method.
Smart and simple technique nice you shared it !! thanks
This is so simple it is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Nice work :)
When I have meaiking something like that some time ago, i Have used praticles for pins :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvo4UlsCSvQ&feature=plcp
How do you get the clean image of the pins moving without the mesh deforming.
I am wondering this also, i have got the pin deformation to work but the plane is stretched. I was wondering if there was a way to stretch the pins instead or however
Tom Walks did it.
Just set the plane so it doesn't render?
I tried this using cycles but am having problems. Seems the Displacement modifier quits working after the first frame. Anyone else have any luck?
I'll keep this in my mind ;) Thank you for it!