Computer animated student film from 1997 featuring procedural animation of an upright piano driven by a MIDI file derived from a player piano roll arranged by Frank Milne in the 1930s.

Based on a concept by Brad Winemiller, it was produced by Kirk Bowers, Mark Fontana and Steve May at The Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). Additional modeling support (piano harp and strings) was provided by Phil Massimi. Software used was emacs (text editor) for modeling, Steve May's Scheme-based Animation Language ("AL") for animation, GIMP for texture maps, Pixar's RenderMan for rendering, and Side Effects' Houdini for compositing.

An early version of this film was originally created for a procedural animation class taught in 1996 by Rick Parent at Ohio State's CIS (now CSE) department. Additional contributors in that class included Bret McGee and Jeremy Loomis (early butterfly models). (less info)