I will never tire of listening to and seeing Aquaharp. I believe this is truly one of the world’s musical treasures as are all of the pieces those two men created years ago when there was even less computer graphics capabilities than today!
I have such nostalgia for Animusic. I remember I would watch both 1 and 2 all the time as a kid and this one was always my favorite. It's just such a calming song and the visuals and atmosphere are so captivating.
I’ve known “Aqua Harp” twenty years already. But I never fully realized how beautiful it is to me until tonight. I shared it to a very many contacts and I’m looping it like an OCD patient !!!
I started to listen when the eight or nine head guitar first play, if it was on tape I’d would have wore it out. The men and women who worked on this are a credit to their job. Today I still love the sounds, and light with the vibrations of the music. Thanks
animusic was a big part of my childhood. im 20 (now 21. i still come back to this lmao) and stumbled across these remasters through my recommendations. hell, i sleep with aqua harp in the background sometimes. you definitely earned a sub from me for remastering these edit: i know no one has said anything about this, but i just want to make sure no one thinks i meant it like this: "You definitely earned a sub from me" as in im so important lmao (and now 22. ok im done now😂)
yooo its the same for me... my dad showed animusic dvd's on our old home theater when i was younger. this is a masterpiece for sure, it gave me goosebumps.
Funny you say that, there was a restaurant I'd go to sometimes and the celing looked just like the celing in this video. I always called it the Aqua Harp room.
This is such a great song. I know that this is mainly showing off computer animations back then. Coming back to it these string instrument ones are definitely my favorite. Specifically Aqua Harp, Pogo sticks, and Resonant Chamber. But all time favorite is Pipe Dream.
i wanna know how they rig the strings for animation because i can tell its not physics based but is instead based on curves ... i wanna see about making this in blender lol
@@W4t3rf1r3 yes but the rigs that drive the animations need to be setup properly it does not just do what you want you have to tell the rig which thing does what and add key frames between notes so it appears fluid i wanna know how they rigged the strings specifically
I believe something to do with having some sine multiplied onto each segment in the string, like having a static string being multiple 0, and a fully sine at multiple 1, and then doing something like sine(time*3600)*intensity for the actual wave bit, when the string is hit, set time to 0 and intensity to the hit intensity, decrease intensity until 0 through some curve, or maybe its some mathematically calculated string, or maybe its something completely different because the strings on the far sides appear to almost be a point sliding across the moving instrument with two strings
@@samuels1123 im aware of the sinewaves bits but thats not the issue ... the issue is how would one rig up a workable system in blender to do this properly
@@Ponlets I'm far from an expert but I'm sure a Python script could do it. Throw a thin cylinder onto a path(?) and deform the path with it. Edit: Oh yeah you might also be able to use geometry nodes, forgot those were a thing now lol
An interesting part of this is that the harp strings are vibrating in a way that suggests a dominant 3rd harmonic contributes strongly to their tone. Not being a harpist, I can't speak to whether that is true or not for the real-life instrument. But it certainly seems it could be possible.
I remember watching these s a kid in music class. I always think bout them now again and ws always captivated me. The visus, the sounds. Just everything was so fun.
I used to have my teacher in my old middle school play these videos. It was a good time but I got bullied alought. It was a very bad time for me. But otherwise this helped me become strong.
True OG’s would recognize how the ending of Stick Figures and beginning of Aqua Harp fit in perfectly together. That’s cause it went in that order, Stick Figures them Aqua Harp then I don’t remember the rest.
i thought of lyrics: Lying on the sand ground, In the beautiful sea Fish start swimming around. The clear water is free No restrictions or sound. Bubbles pop with much glee There was a harp that I found. I'll play it, guaranteed. I might get hurt by the strings. I don't care about that. I just wanted to play. Here comes the note g flat The harp's sound is stunning. It has beautiful matte. When It comes to music, I'll make sure to act... The ocean goes dark (Sleep the night away) The oceans grows cold (Freezing in dismay) Lying on the sand ground, In the beautiful sea Fish start swimming around. The clear water is free No restrictions or sound. Bubbles pop with much glee There was a harp that I found. I'll play it, guaranteed. (Here I am, listen to me) I might get hurt by the strings. I don't care about that. I just wanted to play. Here comes the note g flat The harp's sound is stunning. It has beautiful matte. When It comes to music, I'll make sure to act... The ocean goes dark (Sleep the night away) The oceans grows cold (Freezing in dismay) Lying on the sand ground, In the beautiful sea (Beautiful Sea) Fish start swimming around. The clear water is free (Here I am, listen to me) No restrictions or sound. Bubbles pop with much glee (so gracefully) There was a harp that I found. I'll play it, guaranteed. (Here I am, listen to me) I might get hurt by the strings. I don't care about that. (Care about that) I just wanted to play. Here comes the note g flat (Here I am, listen to me) The harp's sound is stunning. It has beautiful matte. (so gracefully) When It comes to music, I'll make sure to act... (Here I am, listen to me) The ocean goes dark (Sleep the night away) The oceans grows cold (Freezing in dismay)
I have always loved Animusic and the creative genius behind it. I now challenge all to listen to Alone in Kyoto from Lost in Translation soundtrack and tell me there are not similarities!
this song to me reminds me of the area of Elpis from FFXIV Endwalker. a place where the world was yet unsundered and perfect. yet the undertone of sorrow hints at darker days ahead
once upon a time i watched this animation as a young-un at a really low quality, thought the harp was fully submerged underwater, and thus mistook the harp picks for fish
So sad these guys didn't get to do more. Their attention to detail has yet to be matched. Not even close. Notice that the vibrating strings have nodes. The little knobs doing vibrato. Stuff like that.
Anyone else find it weird how the strings are always resonating at the third harmonic? The plucking position is right for that, but it's also correct for the fundamental frequency...
Using interpolation to increase framerate is not remastering. True remastering would involve using the source files to rerender the whole thing in a higher framerate.
