#cube tear

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'

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]