Dance of the Technoids - music video

Bouncy Electropop music with aliens dancing around large lava lamps (suggesting that music is literally "universal".) Reaching into my 1980's musical subconscious, I wrote a catchy "Depeche Mode"-like techno-flamenco tune, and then created a mosh pit of Technoids dancing to the music in a hyper-realistic dance hall called "The Candy Bar". Music written note by note in Harmony Assistant (www.myriad-online.com) and finished/EQed in GarageBand. Live acoustic Spanish guitar performed by Ian Beardsley. Video rendered with POV-Ray Mac (mac.povray.org), and assembled in iMovie. For the technically curious, there are over 1,200 lines of POV-Ray code (all written by hand in the text language, no modelers were harmed...) to create this. The 2.5 minute movie (in final anti-aliased form) took about 14 continuous hours to render all the frames on an old dual 1 Ghz G4 Mac. Free MP3s of this music and others of mine are available at www.schwansongs.com, or www.macjams.com/artist/drakonis. A completely re-rendered high-quality DVD of this video (that also contains a 12 minute "Behind-the-Scenes" interview with me about the making of the music and graphics) was available until recently for $9.95 USD.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• schwansongs
• eduard
• schwan
• drakonis
• garageband
• macjams
• beardsley
• flamenco
• depeche
• 3D
• CGI
• povray
• animation
• alien

[GuitarScorp]

WOW, Drak! Where do you find the time, man? Excellent use of your musical and now your visual talent. Very cool and most enjoyable video. Thanks for the friend request and for this post.

[schwansongs]

Time? What is this TIME you speak of? This took months to do, and there are many months between videos... definitely a hobby, not a career! Glad you are enjoying the videos!

[Venaloid]

That's cool! I clicked on this video because my screenname for everything is "Technoid". (It was already taken on YouTube though)

[schwansongs]

Well then, this video is for you... Hope it got you dancing :-)

ttfn,

Eduard

[organcomposer]

Nice music and really beautifull video. How do you made it ?

[schwansongs]

I am happy to have you check out my music too! The "short" answer to your question (how did I make it) is up on this page, if you click "More Info" next to the video, I wrote a small essay (mentioning Harmony Assistant.) The graphics are written in a 3D text language... lots of work! :-)

ttfn,

Eduard

[ybravura]

Impressive, but too phallic for my taste.

[TonyAzemia]

cool stuff

[antman841]

dude that is honestly reallly cool im trying to re-learn how to use povray for windows. its hard to do it on your own!!

[schwansongs]

Lots of time scribbling on paper, then typing in 3-D coordinates, then having the computer create each frame, then stitch it all together, tedious to create, but a fun result! Took months to build the movie. Thank you for stopping in and enjoying it! Loooove your music :-)