Almost Fractal

This very cool video by Daniel Glebinski uses procedural animation and syncs very nicely to the soundtrack.

Almost Fractal,

As I was exploring the blender modifiers I stumbled over the Array-Modifier and its object offset field. I played around, with a cube and an empty object and found the curly effect kinda weird and kinda interesting. I had so much fun with it and that is my result.

I scaled my HD material up to 4K to preserve details. I’m relay frustrated that HD looks like SD or even worse >.<

Compare it.

(Note Bart: it gets a lot better after the initial 18 seconds)

Some specs:

• no cycles, no blender internal just the view-port render and post-processing
• Rendered Resolution: 1920×1080
• Frames: 7108 per layer
• Total Frames: 21324 frames
• Frame Rate: 30 fps
• Beats per minute:150 bpm
• Scene Render Time ca. 8h
• Workload ca. one week

Used Modifiers:

• Hook-Modifier → to rotate the cube at the beat or not
• Array-Modifier → for more cubes (100 pieces)
• object offset → to achieve a adjustable pointy spiral
• Mirror-Modifier → to make even MORE cubes
• object offset → for extra motion

Sources:

• BeatMarkers script by tumtidum
• Audio visualization script by sirrandalot
• Lens dirt texture by kerast
• Awesome song under creative commons “Pistol & Cutlass” by Wontolla. Released by: Argofox / Release date: 16 July 2016 /P-line: ℗ Argofox