animusic idea for AM

[johnl3d]

My brother dropped off the two DVD's of Animusic..(check google video's if you are not familiar). Anyway after watchin them for awhile I thought a version of this could be done with AM to some degree if we set up an instrument to act the same way a character is set up to talk and use a dope sheet to play the notes. This was just an idea and I threw this slient idea using just simple on-off poses (no dope sheet) to demo how a very simple version might animate

 

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John

 

 

PS went to my 40th high school reunion yesterday evening ...had trouble figuring out who all the old people were that showed up

 

 

simple.mov

[Dhar]

A stroke of genius!

 

Now that is a super, duper, great idea!

 

Bravo John!

[NancyGormezano]

Love it..Most excellent, Your Royal Oldness!

 

(I guess you're lucky you even found the reunion. Did they think you were one of the teachers?)

[Bendytoons]

with the midi controller in this thread you could do what the Animusic people did and have the same midi sequence drive both music and animation

[yoda64]

Times ago I had written such a plugin :-)

MidiFile samples page

[ddustin]

Animusic did some stuff for Kansas (rock band, not the state), that was awesome.

 

David

[case]

ahh ok needs sound put i love it looks like the inside of the paino

[steve392]

John ,could you use Amplitude with that? just an idea

[cuboos]

i cant get it to play any help?

[johnl3d]

amplitude might work to some extend but not the control to really get the effect...I have posted some amplitudes examples before...what I am thinking is typing in a series of "words" that would correspond on what part of the instrument was striking its sound in a song ..this in a dope sheet like you would have mouth movement for voice sync

 

 

Not sure why you can't play it since its just sorenson3 qt

[Chrury Sanson]

I did a project like that. Used the midi-motion plugin. It's a piano playing Fur Elise. Took maybe 2 weeks to model, animate, light, and finish.

 

The hardest part was finding a GOOD midi to wav converter as AM doesn't allow midis in the chor and the plug-in needs a .mid >_>

 

I can render a smaller version if you would like a look.

[Caroline]

Thanks, John - coincidentally I had just finished my Flower for TAOA:M Exercise 9, and I was looking at the petals thinking Wouldn't it be neat to press a petal and play a note.

 

Then you pointed out that I could use a Dope Sheet. I used 2 dope sheets, one for the high notes and one for the lower notes, for Daisy, posted here:

 

Daisy.mov (1.27mb)

 

(I hope I've linked that properly - it's under Newbie Ex 9 if I haven't!)

 

I could not yet work out how to assign a made up word eg. noteA1 to a particular phoneme, so for the words I typed in dd bb gg etc and manually assigned "a single phoneme" to each word. Great fun.

 

Chrury, you're probably looking for better sound quality, but I used Noteworthy to create the midi, then used Wavepad to record the midi to wav. I couldn't find a converter that would work.

[Chrury Sanson]

Great flower, Caroline! modeled, textured and moving! Thumbs up!

 

I found and used jetAudio. (scroll to the bottom) The basic download did the conversion and did it correctly. (I can't count how many I found that would play the midi from the internal speaker and record from that )

[steve392]

Hehe I like that ,work's well

[johnl3d]

Caroline ..great job...glad I threw this idea out to the forum..you did a great job of using it.

 

John