Fun fact: The guy who created this, Wayne Lytle, wrote custom software that allows you to rig up the 3D instruments and plug in notation in the form of a MIDI file. The instruments would then animate themselves according to the notes written in the file. That means every note is 100% accurate and the instruments are not being animated to the music, but rather the music is animating the instruments.
@Meme_Cave unfortunately it is also told that he is a perfectionist and could not meet his own high standards. At one point he suggested that he would make the software available for people willing to pay for it but never actually released it because it didn't match what he wanted it to. Maybe someday someone could work to bring that project out of the grave 😔
All l want to know is, is it live or animated? l've been watching this for years. The first description l read was that it was mostly made out of Deer John parts, so please, someone, enlighten me!
Every now and again, animusic pops back into my head and seeing it look so clear and clean is truly like seeing it again for the first time in kindergarten music class, it's wonderful!
I remember stuff like this. IMAGINE...all the hours of design...all the hours of encoding the animation. Just the CONCEPT...the layout...the level of imagination it took to do something like this...WOW !!!
@@Maximum_W All the old API calls are still there for compatibility. If I can run the original unreal tournament on my computer, you should be able to run this tech demo.
Elementary school? I was in high school when this originally came out. I remember buying my old ATi Radeon 9800XT video card for OG Far Cry and this came as a demo with the GPU driver disc. I am pretty sure I wore that disc out watching this so many times.
Whoever did this will forever be a legend. This is pioneering 3D physics and the fact every single hit and note follows the pattern 100% perfectly and realistically is beyond unreal. Honestly? I think one day this will remembered as one of the greatest creations of our time. This is the Mona Lisa of 3D animation. Edit : the music itself is remarkably interesting as well!
Even better, it's procedural animation driven by a midi file. You feed it a different song, and it'll play it. Like, there's a note at X time, so I need to start the animation Y seconds ago and does the whole song like that. Of course camera and lighting needs to be redone. They made a Pipe Dream 2 to demonstrate all this.
What i really love aside from the music is the specific visual of the scuff marks where the marbles have hit the percussion instruments. They only hit one place and its marked like that permanently
Could have AI upscaled the original DVDs. Or used a modified version of the demo that came out for the ATI 9700pro. You could change resolutions in the config file up to a certain point.
@@Spazilton1 no, i dont think ai could upscale motion blur, that doesn't make much sense for it's progress so far, and also im not entirely sure if that ai was meant for CGI or real life, because it isn't really meant just to be messed around with. edit: nvm lmao
This is one of the best things ive ever randomly stumbled upon on YT. Not only did it bring back a deep memory of the original Animusic, i'm beyond impressed at how accurately you recreated the animation AND musical arrangement style of the original.
Amazing as it was several years ago when I first heard it. I bought the music then and am still amazed!! I am a great-grandmother with 7 grands. I share unusual music with the parents to share with the young ones. I have discovered RU-vid and love it!!!
Wow this is throwback to my childhood! I used to love this, and upon stumbling upon it again I remember why. Something really satisfying about it, especially after finding out all the notes were actually accurately paired to the animation via MIDI. The whole thing is really impressive, especially given the age of it now
That's how u know the song is "complete;" I do not remember what that is actually called, but every single song (that I know of) follows that "rule" (last note of a song is the same PITCH as the first)
Oh, the physics and the timing! I love this so much! And the tune is already great all by itself, but seeing it like this is just so wonderful. This is what I was thinking when I was bouncing a ball in a gym and then on the wall. I just thought, I wish I had more arms and balls!
first time i saw it on PBS, i was blown away. seeing it in 4k, and able to see the small detail such as small indents where the marbles have hit on the symbols, or the markings on the xylophone where they hit.
Thank you, so so much! I am glad to see others haven't just forgotten animusic or aren't just still watching but are actively making content and nee stuff off of this old beautiful gem. Thank you P. S. You are really really good at this!!
Music classes, 4th grade, teacher would roll out that ancient CRT screen that had a bit of fading to it, the DVD reader sounded like a jet engine at full tilt, the speakers were old and occasionally crackled, she'd slide a DVD into the reader, it had this wacky design of what looked like some bendy sticks on it, you wouldn't think much of it until your ears were graced with the sounds and your eyes were graced with the visuals of *Animusic.*
This video is, I believe, from 2001. So from the ancient times, when we were downloading stuff from the internet with an ADSL modem. With internet speeds up to 2 Mb/s (but no one could afford such fast lines, mere mortals had 256 kb/s, 512 kb/s lines). And we were burning that downloaded stuff on a CD (if one was lucky to have a CD-ROM with a burner. And then we would carry the precious CD over to friends to share music, funny videos and pics with them. Alternatively, we would use an HDD in a carry tray ...risking dropping it and destroying the drive. And the precious content, that took hours and days to download.
I remember seeing this in music class as a kid and being inspired to make something like this in real life. All it took was a lot of marbles, a chair, a pool noodle, a basket and a toy drum.
Yes! Finally HD! This is great! Also, this is still better than the real life one they tried to make. Good effort for them, but OG Animusic gets the groove going
I've been looking for these for years but searching animusic usually just pulled up AMVs. Thank you for not only uploading these, but upscaling them as well.
I hate to be that guy, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to resemble a vibraphone. Similar to the xylophone, but made of metal, warmer sound, and more sustain. The vibraphone is a very interesting instrument so I recommend looking into them!
@@connorself Very well put. No use faking being an ignorant, just to avoid being called a smart**s. It stalls progress, which would be into the right direction: distributing knowledge. Yes it's of course a vibraphone.
This is wild to see this again! I watched this over 10 years ago, back when I was first on RU-vid, but the video disappeared a long time ago! I’m glad it came up in recommended!
i actually didn't know about Animusic until very recently through a YT Short, and i can thoroughly say with how Animusic was made was very impressive and probably one of the best works of Digital music ever made.
Years when we downloaded and archived the videos on the computer :) When it was first published, many people thought it was real. It's still beautiful and now my son is watching it too.
Why is it that actors get paid millions of dollars and people who create wondrous things such as this don't. Our society has such ludicrous notions on assigning value and worth to something. This is fantastic!
@MaximumW don't know how brash it is, but Martin mentioned it in at least one of videos. I don't recall which one and don't care enough to look for it.
Who ever made this, he, or she is very, VERY talented and creative! This is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard in my whole life! And every parts that connects are also very good and very interesting.
Does anyone else notice that the beginning kinda sounds like the beginning of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9) by Pink Floyd? I notice that there's a wind sound effect, and the buildup from just one note into a full song, just like Shine On You Crazy Diamond! I find that kind of neat. Edit: Now that I think about it, Pipe Dream 2 is even more similar! The buildup is more similar to SOYCD, and pretty much everything reminds me of SOYCD! Until it gets to the glockenspiel part, from there it starts to differ a bit more. You really should listen to Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9), it is a masterpiece and definitely should be listened to more often! Parts 6-9 are better than Parts 1-5 lol
