As if, from a dream...

Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid".

The tasty cherry color was used on the petals, after chatting with the marvelous musician Hoon, who mentioned his love of that particular candy-like color. The "Fractal Serenity" music, was initially completely computer-generated, then I massaged and re-wrote areas by hand to soften some of the rough edges, and this harsh-and-soft dreamy music will be lengthened and reworked into the soundscape for the full-length music video of the same name.

The computer graphics were hand-coded in the C-like computer text language of the freeware POV-Ray ray-tracer software... I still don't use modelers, but instead type this all up by hand.

And as always, there's a bit of (Russian) wordplay in the title. I hope you enjoy the surreal dreamy ride!

On to the next video... Fractal Serenity

My next video project is "Fractal Serenity"... although I started working on it long before the "Dance of the Technoids" video. It is a much more involved and detailed video, with a bit more of a storyline, although the meanings are twisty and mysteriously shrouded in layers of mist. It started as a dream of a vivid but strange set of landscapes, and a feeling of curiosity and fear.

I have finished the story line, and the pencil sketches for each of the scenes. Lately I have been rendering the sketches as 3D landscapes in POV-Ray (3D computer software), to capture the mystery and intrigue I felt when I visited this place before. I have about 1/2 of these video scenes finished. In the mean time, I have selected a few of the scenes from the video (some are close to complete, some are still early shots with stuff missing), and put together a short trailer, so you can get a glimpse of what's coming. Of course the final product will be crystal-clear DVD quality video and music.

The music you hear was originally computer-generated, then I heavily reworked it into what you hear in the trailer.

The final DVD will likely have a behind-the-scenes extra, where I talk about how I made the music and 3D scenes, show some of the early sketches, and play the original computer-generated seed music, to show how much it has evolved.

Here is the trailer, for your viewing pleasure!


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