Infinite Orbit is a personal motion design project that was created to celebrate Explosions In The Sky 20-year career. This project consists in a visual interpretation of a song called Infinite Orbit, from the album The Wilderness.
Styleframes
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Process
I envisioned a video clip full of colors, forms, and dynamism. When I started this project I realized that the original song (with a duration of 2:38 minutes) had a wide range of variations and intensities of rhythm, including some overly slow parts. Regarding this, I had to re-edit the track to come up with the right range of intensities that would make my video as I imagined.
Song waveform before edit
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Song waveform after edit
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The shapes that appear in the video were a mix of 2D and 3D. All the 3D modelling and rendering was made inside Cinema 4D.
3D Modelling
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Cinema 4D also has and effector called Sound, which mixed with a Displacer allows to deform any shape to any sound.
I've added the Infinite Orbit edited track to the software to achieve this results.
Sound Deforming
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To create an aestethic that could be more interesting, I felt that adding some imperfections would be really important. That is why I added some grain to the video, chromatic aberration and some distortions such as Pixel Sorting (using AE Pixel Sorter 2 plugin).
Without grain, color correction and chromatic aberration
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With grain, color correction and chromatic aberration
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Without pixel sorting
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With pixel sorting
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I've also used an After Effects feature called Convert Audio to Keyframes in order to make some properties such as scale and opacity react to the music that is playing.
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Credits
Year: 2020
Music: Explosions In The Sky
Concept, Design & Animation: Filipe Cordeiro
Music: Explosions In The Sky
Concept, Design & Animation: Filipe Cordeiro