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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.