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Animation Audio : Optic Bands / Quartz Pool / Cube Tear

Due to the nature of each of the clips they needed the audio for each one created in a slightly different way.

This first image is a screenshot from Optic Bands Ableton session, the sound for this loop was mostly ambience without any real synchronous point other than the faint buzz/hum in the background that I automated in whenever the bands intersect.

The 2nd is the audio for Quartz Pool, I made the audio last about 8 loops of the scene. I had a background sound of a flowing cave stream and some glass being dragged across an object to get that clink you would hear from a shard of glass, similar to how the light cracks and reflect in the QP loop.

The last picture is the audio for Cube Tear. I made audio for the loop using an audio recording of icy leaves falling to the ground. The other foley in the audio is the noise of paper turning, a handful of leaves being gathered and dropped and the movement of the cube is accompanied by the sound of a curling stone sliding past a microphone.

Pretty much all of my samples were gathered using ' BBC Sound Effects' & 'SoundSnap'

Quartz Pool [5]

The left is what the material planes look like stacked up with the adjusted material nodes.

Quartz Pool [4]

This is a screenshot of the camera placement for the scene, I wanted to find a part of the loop where it would appear as if the the material was wrapping around the camera.

Quartz Pool [3]

The first image is the chain of the object collection from post 1 (in solid view).

The second image is the camera view (in Rendered Preview) showing the chain of material emission planes extending towards the back of the scene.

The cube at the very front of the 2nd image is hidden currently, each of the cubes have an emission shader and are emitting a small amount of black light (essentially emitting some darkness)

Quartz Pool [2]

The first image is the output for the black and white material nodes (which are the top row of shader nodes in the 2nd image.) This is the material that will then have colour applied to it.

(The voronoi node is disconnected currently to demonstrate how it looked at the time, as I added this node later in the project)

The wave texture has a Phase Offset parameter that makes the 3D material on move along its z-axis, displaying a narrow slice of on the plane. I animated this until it looped.

The bottom nodes map a 3D gradient into the scene. Texture coordinate and mapping node determine where the gradient is positioned in the scene (I only changed the scale slightly to strech the colour across the scene more.)

New Project: Quartz pool (Aka Cyber Waves)

Its hard to see but the highlighted section in the middle of 3D viewport is my basic scene (in wireframe), theres two landscape 2D planes attached to a cube. One on the face and one parallel to that in the centre of the cube.

Cube Tear [10]

On the right you can see Empty.001 is selected, this is an empty axis that I parented both the inner and outer cube to so they can move in unison without having to animate them individually.

Empty.001 rotates 360 degrees from frame 25 (when most of the leaves have appeared) to frame 160 (just as the leaves are falling out of the scene). I added the spin to stop some of the leaves from getting stuck on the top of the cube so I could make a seamless loop.

You can see the rotation XYZ are highlighted in green on the right, indicating they are keyframed/animated. Y and Z are actually static, from 0° to 0°. But X goes 0° to 360° before stopping prior to the end of the scene. (I wanted it to stop before the end so I had some slack at the end of the animation to put the final render into a video editor and do a cross-fade to loop back to the start of the render.

Cube Tear [9]

The timeline panel in the middle ('Dope Sheet') displays all the keyframes for the animated properties of the scene.

'Empty' is animated downwards from frame 1-35 making the cube breakdown and the 'leaves' appear.

In the outliner on the right you can see 'Wind', I placed this physics object underneath my scene pointing up to make the leaves float off the yellow inner cube.

I added a turbulence physics object as well, this just adds some random velocity to the wind, it helps the leaves move around more organically.

Cube Tear [8]

This is a screenshot (in Rendered-Preview mode) of the cloth physics being animated onto the outer cube.

If you look at the vertex weight proximity (VWP) settings you can see how the animation is done.

The target object for VWP is set to empty and the lowest/highest settings under Proximity mode: Geometry let me determine how large an area this empty will effect at once.

Cube Tear [7]

Under the outliner on the right there are the settings that control the cloth physics of the outer cube when it splits up.

All the settings are greyed out as when you create physics simulations you need to 'bake' the animation each time you change a parameter in order to let the computer generate the individual paths for each physics object.

Cube Tear [6]

There isn't a lot going on in this picture, the first picture show the scene in 'Solid View' (a mode where objects are rendered but materials and textures are not)

Underneath the 'Outliner' (which is in the top left corner) you can see the the physics panel displaying the collision settings used on the inner cube.

Cube Tear [5]

This is my general scene setup with some of the physics in action.

Cube Tear [4]

Cube Tear [3]

I've highlighted the outer cube in wireframe view here.

The shader node panel on the right is for the material that is on the outer cube (purple when in material preview) and the background.

The modifiers for the outer cube can be seen on the right side of the screen and I'll run through what each of them do:

Particle System: generates particles for physics simulations and world modifiers.

Explode: separate object at any intersecting or touching vertexes/faces.

Vertex Weight Proximity: allow you to active modifiers by proximity of another object (I used a moving empty to animate the cloth pieces springing into life)

Cloth: generate cloth based physics parameters for object(s)

Subdivision: split the cube shape into many equal sized pieces

Cube Tear [2]

The first image is a wireframe model of the Inner and Outer Cube.

The part highlighted in yellow is the inner cube and the grey lines covering the outside is the outer cube, which has been split into many tiny pieces so I can animate them floating off.

Project Start : Cube Tear

This is the initial scene setup for my animation, I have a 2D plane acting as a background and a rotated cube as my centre-piece. The panel on the right. The yellow cube in the centre is the inner cube in the tear scene.

The shading node editor window on the right is for the background and outer cube material (which isnt visible in here). It is a translucent BSDF and a Principled BSDF both plugged into a mix shader. For now I have the Voronoi and Musgrave texture unplugged from the principled BSDF so you can see the plain purple colour on the background without the texture I added later.