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May 24, 2010
Severed Heads: Hot With Fleas
Hat tip to Ben.
This song and the animated video for it were first made in 1987. At that time the animation was done by painting each frame manually in Deluxe Paint and animating them via a UNIX script called "longmovie" onto UMatic tape. It caused quite a stir when first broadcast as it repeatedly goes to black. Various bootlegs of this are on YouTube, but a good quality copy is on a DVD called Palaeolithic.
In 1994 a 3D version was made on an Amiga using Imagine. Since then the video has featured knives and forks travelling through a reflective space. Every few years another version was made for live shows at the time and each slightly improved the rendering quality. This version was made for a live show in Brisbane in 2007 and was rendered in Cinema4D. It's near identical to the version shown in Belgium in 2005 - just recalculated for 720p.
The raytracing here takes a very long time as there are apparently infinite reflections inside the space. Actually there's about 8 bounces - even then each frame took as long as 12 minutes to create.
In 1994 a 3D version was made on an Amiga using Imagine. Since then the video has featured knives and forks travelling through a reflective space. Every few years another version was made for live shows at the time and each slightly improved the rendering quality. This version was made for a live show in Brisbane in 2007 and was rendered in Cinema4D. It's near identical to the version shown in Belgium in 2005 - just recalculated for 720p.
The raytracing here takes a very long time as there are apparently infinite reflections inside the space. Actually there's about 8 bounces - even then each frame took as long as 12 minutes to create.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 24, 2010 10:54 AM