Steinway Player Piano Animation

[gotitans999]

awesome, I just sent you a message

[thunderbirdice]

Amazing!

[gotitans999]

Do you have this video clip available in higher resolution and for sale?

[XxELiTeGLiTcHeRsxX]

best piano makers

[Theyallfloatdownhere]

Great work if I was the company I would consider using something like this as a commercial.

[PowderSpark]

is this digitally animated, or is it a stop play animation?

[Atreju1987]

kann irgendjemand in köln mir dieses stück beibringen?

[ooxcfhxoo]

Did you ever try to do full songs? I bet you could make how-to tutorials with a voiceover.

[Kapomafioso]

Really wonderfully made animation...also beautiful music!

[awesomeallison007]

lol you should make a 3 minute video of E, B, E, B, E, B. you are a great musician and animator. : )

[dylanparker21]

nice melody... i picked up the tune by listening/watching and i could add a ton to this piece! nice work!

[interlinkknight]

You publish the Maya model of this piano?

[MisterMulluc]

Great to know you put all the effort in. I'm not trying to be pedantic but aren't those Sharps 'n' flats a bit thin on the keyboard (or vice versa)?

[thenotoriousadin]

no, its fine

[DJfreak92]

Yes, actually they are a little bit to thin.

But great work, anyway!!

[danedaworld]

yamaha?

[PsyMike3d]

great camera moves! nice :)

[pianoboy9662]

That was awsome can i get a copy of the sheet music ? oh and i love the piano to but i really like yamahas pianos but this one is beautiful sounding

[PianistKid09]

please give me the sheet music for these :(

[Lovebites2014]

write more of this... PLEASE!!!!!

[Lovebites2014]

YOU WROTE THIS!!!!!!!! it's beautiful!!!!

[MouseholesRose]

I absolutely adore steinway pianos, but it is a shame that I can'y afford one and I haven't got room for one. I got to play one at a concert, but I still love my Cramer piano.

[Matticitt]

My favorite pianos. Steinway.

[missy0413]

Totally amazing.

[ssirjohn]

i like it:)

[Juanah92]

Do you have the music sheet? I want it so much...

[surfacere]

yamaha blows...no where near comparison to any steinway

[jopiloot]

beautifull song and good animation compere its a damn good movie ;P good work keep on doing that, and i'll will enjoy it for all time

xxxxx jopiloot

[TeeSav]

wow amazing job how did you learn how to do the whole IBL thing

[mfrederickson]

just practice - this ibl is one of debevec's ('kitchen probe'), with mental ray.

[ChristineCello]

Yamaha is better.

[wFreaky]

Fy! Yamaha is nothing compared to a Steinway & Sons wing!

[Joe15980]

agree !

[jgelhaar]

I love the Yamaha's... At least people can afford them. The action is great, the sounds is great! It's all in personal preference. Many people would say the Steinway is junk and instead the Bosendorfer is much better. It's all personal taste. Don't take it too seriously.... This is a great video, though. Love it.

[bloodl3tt3r]

I've played a Bosendorfer and we have a steinway at home... I prefer the steinway. THe fake keys on the keyboard of the bosendorfer are just too damn annoying.

[lookatmygrlyfont]

Haha yeah right. Steinway is so much better. I bet you never have played one. I can play one pretty much when ever I want since my school has like 30 of them. They are amazing pianos!

[bloodl3tt3r]

Steinway is godly.

But nobody gives a shit about your school.

[Epmonito]

is there sheet music for this piece?

[Joe15980]

I like steinway but my dad can't aford it too bad

[Joe15980]

HORAY FOR STEINWAY

[piotr94]

The most beautiful song have I ever heard!

[elisan693]

This is so beautifully done! I like it so much, that I would like to see more of your work in player piano animation! Do you have more?

[Lockdown42]

Hey dude,

Nice stuff, I did a MIDI driven piano too - check my video's. Next bit for us all will be to get some hands playing those keys eh!

[jcgreliceo]

music?

[MIFFLISH]

Newer music will never be as beautiful as the music of the romantic era.

[TheMadLutist]

Amen to that. However, suppose someone composes Romantic-style music? Ya never know.

[lilpsylov116]

I love the song! It would be nice if the song was longer or you posted the complete song. Nice video too!

[Nemisto89]

Any chance I could get a copy of the midi file?, the piano is amazin.Matt

[mfrederickson]

Thanks a lot Matt. I didn't have a MIDI version of the exact performance used in the animation, so I just played it through Pro Tools quickly and posted it for you. You can find a MIDI with bad sustain here:

mfrederickson . com/piano/In Passing.mid

The MP3 of the original is here: mfrederickson . com/piano/song1.mp3

And an alternate song idea:

mfrederickson . com/piano/song2.mp3

[mfrederickson]

'In Passing'

[sweetpete49]

what is the song called

[cc213t]

Very nice!! The key depressions seem a bit a slow to me, but the modeling is superb. I did a similar project in 1996 (a MIDI-driven procedurally-animated piano) - search YouTube for "Butterflies in the Rain".

[barvazoni]

The piano piece is lovely

[mfrederickson]

Thanks a lot! You're certainly not kidding about the processor demands for this rendering - I distributed this one over 20 Windows machines and it still took over 24 hours for 1100 frames.

[SwannyRiver]

By the way, was the animation driven via midi?

[mfrederickson]

About MIDI: I certainly considered that, and it would really only be a minor extension to add that functionality - in this case I hand specified which key would play at which time and let the physics sim handle the bounce. The rig is set up in such a way that with a simple C++ parser for MIDI I could add that ability in half a day.

[SwannyRiver]

Nice work! Rendering with HDR's is very PC intensive! Can't match the results with synthetic based lighting.

[efrobert]

um freddy please try harder next time k?

[dudeitslibby]

This is pretty baller.