Burning Man - Animation

[kittyburger000]

Burning man = biggest hippie convention on the planet earth.

[blackcatmama]

Wow. Amazing. Clever. Weird. Cool. Awesome!

[party489]

anyone doing anything for BM is better than someone putting anything down involing Burning man. Am i the only one that thought the one in the dessert was a lil sexy? Only anouther 10 months till he burns. Damn thats a long time.

[markcamos]

Nicely done! Even if I DIDN'T like the video, I couldn't imagine Burning Man being so fragile as to be ruined by a piece of video art.

[strollerdos2]

fair enough. looks good evev if the song was a strange choice

[curlyville]

A very good response / defense from the artist. Come on Burners. What are we trying to protect by claiming that this is 'ruining burning man.'

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Nice one mate!

[mayaz00]

Wow - thanks for writing that as its exactly where this video came from:) - giving something to my camp mate to entertain them while we were all working through weekends to make a theme camp for the playa.

Really appreciate what you wrote.

Big Dusty Love,

Maya

[strollerdos2]

technically good etc - but shame to waste your energies on a crap song and a vid that fails to capture anything to do with the BM vibe. Dont get it. sorry.

[mayaz00]

didn't mean for that to "catch the vibe" of BM - this was just a little thing I did that took 3 days as I had the assets to do it. I did it as a joke for my camp mates as a little workshop entertainment when we were making our theme camp in 2004. There is nothing here "to get" - just for fun - which is mainly what BM is all about - doing things just because we can.

[psychedelicbrian]

weird context, but interesting work.

[mwpoole]

WTF

[JamesFletcher3000]

Yikes!!! Thanks for ruining Burning Man.

[elleboogiebrown]

Umm not feelin' it.....I did however like his little runway catwalk! Maybe you can make a video out of "Vogue" and have "the (gay) man" doing some catwalk! FIERCE! I'd watch that over and over and over =) Kudos for filming in SF too!

[markroemer]

Leave the poor Man alone. So he likes shitty music and sings in a crappy rock band. Big deal. With what he has to go through every year you could cut him a little slack. Besides, his ears burned off 20 years ago. Rock on Man, and sing your little wooden heart out. Maybe for an encore you could play some classic shitty music like Heart's Barracuda...or Magic Man. Sigh. At least he's not DJ-ing.

[svenliden]

Eechh. Impressive work, but how could you possibly listen to that terrible song long enough to make a video out of it? I can't even ironically listen to it.

(Especially if you're a fan of shpongle or radiohead?!?)

[mayaz00]

As I explained in my little blurb on this video was that I was working on a whole series of music videos for MTV2 (with really some of the worst songs ever...in my opinion...) and had the assets to work with - this video was a real quick and silly thing I did in 3 days - so really - not meant to be taken seriously at all - just fun.

[svenliden]

Ah. Well, that makes more sense. I respect you even more now - talented animation ability, plus even more impressive - the ability to sit through that song more than once. :)

[loraxpro]

Hey, I thought it was cool. Don't listen to all of those negative people. I'll bet they wish they had the talent to put that video together.

Open Mike :o)

[mayaz00]

Thanks for that - very sweet of you:)

[poje]

I never knew the man was a chick!

[shelilp]

you call that dancing?

someone needs a few good moves.

[Moes1n]

I always knew the Man had a feminine side (like Pete Townshend ;) but I didn't envision those dance moves. I mean, his arms are usually more "McCain in the membrane" than Ally McBeal..if you kno'me sayne (?).

[kenlevens]

Ditto!

[nubinski]

why not singing in the rain?

[frinetik]

So very, very wrong!

[VJRainbowPuddle]

The Man is Gay!

[joel407]

i thought you weren't supposed to mess up anybody else's experience...

[LorenAlbrecht]

Cool!, impressive animation and concept

kinda cheesy, but still awesome ahahah

or maybe its just the song that I dont like.

oooh and good idea using the photo backgrounds and AE composting.. I gotta spend more time learning that program.

there should be some sort of animation camp/festival on the playa!!

[mayaz00]

The whole point of using the song is that its the LAST song you would expect B-Man to be dancing to - but also - the irony - Bring Me Back to Life??!!!

[lulaline2]

ouch, that song is horrible. and it definitely has that creepy Alli McBeal vibe to it.

[MaLaCoiD]

Fun video and animation. I don't like the song though.

[fingerburn50]

Went this year ..brings me back..

Thank you...good vid

[vnesofsc]

burntastic!

[mayaz00]

Yes she is:)

[iamhorus]

Burning man is a woman

[wanderingpixie]

An excellent blend of animation & live action!

[Catwoman69y2k]

I found your animation after I submitted a similiar themed animation. Pretty cool. Did you use Shake for compositing?

[mayaz00]

I used AE for compositing, motion builder and Maya for all the rest.

Thanks for watching:)

[Catwoman69y2k]

Thanks!

[djfetigue]

One of the best I've seen. Keep up the good work!

[louiselangara]

I love it!!!