Mephisto Waltz

Student animation in the vein of Oskar Fischinger. This animated short is visually synchronized to the music of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 1 which was provided by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and performed by Cecile Licad.
Animated by Eric Lindell.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• student
• animation
• oskar
• fischinger
• niu
• eric
• lindell
• art
• experimental
• short
• film
• abstract
• watercolor
• isgm
• the concert

[sterlingtaste01]

What made you decide to choose this particular music and this particular pianist?

[EricNilsHarald]

When I started out I knew I wanted a piano piece, but I couldn't afford to pay for a license to use copyrighted material, so I went to archive dot org and listened to a lot of classical music. There I found "The Concert Podcast" series from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. I already liked Lizst so when I heard Licad's virtuoso of the Mephisto Waltz I knew I would be using that. Luckily the people at ISGM are really cool, after contacting them they let me use that piece.

[fmahitz88]

wow, that is fantastic! what program did you use and how long did it take you to animate that?

[EricNilsHarald]

Thanks fmahitz88, I used After Effects to composite most of it and magpie to create a dopesheet of the notes. Over-all it took about a month.

[shilloshillos]

This is quite a rare version of the piece. Interesting, very interesting!

[GraemeRuneckles]

Epic. Really top drawer animation, so precisely synchronized. Visual style and ideas complements the music beautifully. The best I've seen so far...

[labruixamaduixa]

oléé!! està molt currat!!!

ara a veure si trobo algun video que realment sigui del Oskar Fischinger!! ;P

[adlozi]

this is not Waltz

[makopolok]

very nice

[avecus]

Wonderful! You eat the screen.

[Fisherdec]

Damn perfect timeing and everything. Awesome work.

[storrisi45]

i've since tons and tons of classic visual music and this is a FANTASTIC modernization of the ideas.

[jenzeppelin]

this is an interesting piece, well done!