The Mind's Eye - 09 The Temple (Short Circutz)

[cyyyggnus]

Thanks for sharing this! Unlike some of the commenters I was a bit older -well past high school and college- when I first viewed The Mind's Eye right after its release. I liked all the clips but this little clip (the last one on the VHS) mesmerized me and I watched it over and over...

[SacredEarthPictures]

PLEASE GIVE PROPER CREDIT to the creator of "The Mind's Eye". Yes, Odyssey had a collection of CGI demos, but "The Mind's Eye" was a MIRAMAR production by Emmy Award winning director JAN NICKMAN who spent thousands of hours exquisitely crafting them into a double platinum selling film considered to be a milestone in the field of computer animation. With a score by JAMES REYNOLDS, "The Mind's Eye" reached #12 on Billboard's video hits chart. PLEASE GIVE PROPER CREDIT TO THE ARTISTS.

[roboguy75]

they made this in 1990? Give these guys a thousand medals

[HarunDanyal]

thats a masjid

[MrNashguitar1]

........And yellow moons, green clovers, and blue diamonds.........

[freak49]

There is a certain charm with these early animation clips that' missing from a lot of the big budget stuff you see today. A lot of the current work is impressive, no doubt. But much of the pure imagination is somehow lost,

[TheClayPidgeon]

I knew it! In the future there's only dolphins left! ...and floating... bubble castles...?

[125RTY]

Oh, to be free like a bird in the sky with wondrous manmade islands. To float through the magic rings and chase down giant bubbles. Perhaps this is the dream of the dolphins?

[jadegecko]

As a kid, the temple scene really scared me, albeit in that sort of fascinated-scary way. I love the music for the anemone / dolphin scene.

[125RTY]

I love this. This temple actually is a mosque complete with a dome, minarets ,and a courtyard. You have figures dancing and dog creatures running around. This was created before the PC climate of today.

[lostfan1978]

The temple & love found were and still are my favorites to this day.Thanks for uploading these great memories.I had almost forgotten these shorts.

^_^

PEACE

[SXENedger]

I remember a dream I had as a kid where I had to kung-fu fight these guys. And they were tough as hell to fight because of their individual floating body parts that would dodge everything.

[truartemedia]

The beautiful audio and video work evokes

Places = Temple and

Actions of veneration of the Beyond = Ritual

that can even enchant the mind of young and old.

[cgsilverscreen2020]

holy cow the music sounds like its from a rareware game!

[CleansWithRag]

I noticed that all of these videos are about the art of movement.

[BatKnowItAll]

The Mind's Eye was my inspiration to become an artist. And because of it, I have created strange looking worlds and characters that don't have any NEED to make sense. To this day, The Mind's Eye continues to inspire me. Thank you for uploading this. c':

[rhomis]

I remember this video on VHS. I'd like to see that one with the fish and the bird.

[xDiamondDynamitex]

@rhomis That's the one I'm looking for as well!!

[TalkinXbox]

@xDiamondDynamitex youtube: NYBes8ki3lo

[Neutral1]

OMG!!!!!!!! This is it!!! This is the one that I had been looking for for days! Thank u sir! I mean how do u title it? It was television on coke and everytime I saw it I asked myself "WTF did I just watch?" this vid made me fall in love with the shorts so much so that i watched some shows for these clips which prove how superior Canadian tv programming is to US programming.

[madembalmer2007]

I loved to watch these videos when i was wasted.

[SilverGummiShark]

omg I remember this! How could I forget such an infectious beat? Groovy.

[MisterBIGM0UTH]

...when CGI was an art form!

[Badakhshi1]

maaaan the music

[GiroroG66]

I THINK I remember this one ^^;

[flutefreak35753]

this was always my favorite when we watched this in daycare. (altho it was probably mostly because the guys were naked and the dogs run weird)

[shorty1k]

This always reminded me of Turok or Beasties when I was a kid. Argh, I found two reasons to hunt down a laser disc player.

[poxerz]

I had the VHS of this movie as a very young child. I remember watching it over and over, and how this scene held some sort of intense mystical reverence for me, even as a 5 yr old. Thank you so much for posting this, I have tears in my eyes.

[fredjhenzel]

@poxerz I felt the same way, and I was also 4 or 5 years old. I think that the way these artists were using computer animation and computer music creation technology, they were very idealistic about this technology changing art, and that makes their art so much more powerful. I don't know where one can find that kind of optimism in art today, but I'm sure it's out there in a different form.

[TalkinXbox]

@poxerz I still have the VHS cassette.

[PowerSprinter]

@poxerz same here!

[ilovegnomeland]

@poxerz I had it as a child too and I feel the exact same way. It was a very surreal experience, watching it as a little kid. It thrilled me and scared me a little too.