Thanks to NOTCOT's early morning tweet a couple of days ago, I've been made aware of a beautiful music video from Dutch studio Onesize for The American Dollar’s “Anything You Synthesize.” A time lapse video focusing on a changing landscape, from bleak to beautiful, for the band The American Dollar.Unfortunately, in it's full size and glory, it's too large for me to post it here (at 75 megs, you'd lose patience waiting for the movie to download), so be sure to go see the whole, full sized beautiful piece heresome screen grabs for you:As quoted from the production company, Onesize:
Funny thing is, once they were just about done with the piece, they looked at it and decided it worked better in reverse, so now it begins as a decaying landscape that becomes a flourishing one. Either way, it kept me in rapt attention.CREDITS:Audio: The American DollarDirector: Kasper VerweijDesign & Animation: Menno Fokma, Harm van Zon, Reinier Fleas, Heerko Groefsema, Kasper Verweij, Rogier HendriksPost: Rogier HendriksProduction: OnesizeWatch it in it's full size here.
•Seasons, mountains, time-lapsed skies, day, night, drama, decay, cinematic, slow-paced, out of the ordinary… to name a few keywords.
•A simple camera movement traveling from left to right during the song, and while it travels we see the landscape decaying from a beautiful fresh mountain-view-landscape into a dead, flat desert. •Also, during this trip we would see all 4 seasons of one year go by, even day and night. So, it actually is a non-linear and a non-chronological time-lapse of a decaying landscape. •We had split-up the track in 9 pieces, equally in length. Each piece is one loopable landscape, panning from left to right. Then we also cut the song into 4 seasons and in addition, to make it more complex for ourselves, we also needed 3 smooth transitions from day into a short night. •After preparation we started the actual production. Because of the fact that this was a “personal” Onesize project, we had to work on this during our spare time and in between projects. •The idea was to add some live action (in-camera) effects, like rain, snow, lens flares, dust, etc. but we ended up with a fully CG production.
