The Animusic series was created using Animusic|Studio, software that takes the completed MIDI file and automatically generates corresponding animation based on hand animated or motion captured primitives for each instrument. Essentially it's all automatic blending between a comparatively small amount of manual animation work. That's not to say it looks bad or even that it's lazy. It's the only reason any of this was viable as a product in the first place
Wowww after years of listening to all this, I just realized that at 3:00 he's actually hitting his stick on the rim of the mechanism! That's so awesome, I thought this was exclusively drum
The Animusic series was created using Animusic|Studio, software that takes the completed MIDI file and automatically generates corresponding animation based on hand animated or motion captured primitives for each instrument. Essentially it's all automatic blending between a comparatively small amount of manual animation work. That's not to say it looks bad or even that it's lazy. It's the only reason any of this was viable as a product in the first place. One of the biggest reasons Animusic 3 stalled out was that Studio wasn't capable of managing the extra moving parts and fine details in a consistent manner. It either had to be rebuilt from the ground up, or the music would have to be written to only focus on its strengths. They went with the second option, the limitations combined with inconveniently timed health and personal issues slowed composer Wayne Lytle's output to such a degree that the whole company fell apart.
I'm not sure what that is but if you mean the whole gyro part, drummers have been doing drum solos in spinning cages since the 80s. Look up the drum cage from motley crue
It's astonishing, the creativity and intelligence with which God has imbued some minds, to be able to come up with such fantastic and wonderful concepts as this, and then put them into action.
Julian Lachniet Gyro Drums is a Gyroscope Shaped Drum set (w/ like 171 pieces) played by 3 Robotic Drummers. I guess Gyroscope Shaped Drum set is how Gyro Drums got its name.
Whenever one of those four gongs at the top are hit, I have to remind myself that it's one of the drummers making the sound, and not just background noise.
i think this is the only animusic animation to fully depict china cymbals (in drum machine, the high pitched gong had the sound of a china cymbal despite the fact it's not a china cymbal)
The world knows about the ancient artifact that was the Temple of Heavy Light. But what society didn't know was that - to process the light that would power the Harmonic Voltage project - they would need a system to use the light, test it and send it off. The Gyro Drum Gang sit at the centre of the massive temple itself, and as forementioned, uses the light, tests it, and sends it to the project - drifting among space. These automatons wouldn't miss a prehistoric beat. No, not once. All that remains lies elsewhere...
When these CGI animations were made it was not easy, it took considerable time to do this computers and GPU's were a fraction of the power modern computers have.
this video completely nerdsniped me on time signatures so here are all the time signatures in the video (i think and hope they're correct) 0:17-0:52 time signature: 4/4 0:52-1:14 time signature: 5/4 1:15-1:36 time signature: 4/4 + 4/4 + 3/4 + 4/4 + 4/4 + 2/4 (probably) 1:36-2:24 time signature: 4/4 2:26-2:42 time signature: 4/4 + 4/4 + 3/4 2:42-4:05 time signature: 4/4
