"A Digital Man" - Animated Video by Bobby Standridge
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Uploaded by BillConover on Oct 27, 2006
My name is Bobby Standridge and I'm a Rush-a-holic. Seriously, the impetus for creating the YYZ video was twofold. First, the song is simply astounding and deserved a video accompaniment. Second, I needed an excuse to practice my newfound "skills" in the wild and woolly world of computer animation. So, here I am, and here it is. It has been such a thrill for me to share my affection for the band with the fan community. What a devoted bunch!
On a technical note, the video was created with 3D Studio Max R3 and hand keyframed using a video reference of me air-drumming along to the song. Being an older version of the software, the inverse kinematics tended to bog down after a few hundred frames, so I had to break the video down into many (un)manageable pieces. Adobe's Photoshop CS and Premiere Pro played key roles during the compositing and authoring phases.
That's about it.
Congrats again, Neil, for a remarkable career (so far), and many, many thanks to you, Geddy and Alex for expanding our lives!
- Bobby
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the jet and thunder is an amazing touch, are you a composer? and do you tutor 3DMax, mud box etc?
brickceo 3 weeks ago
Neil Peart is so epic he floats on water WHILE he plays and twirls his drum sticks. Rock on Rush!!!
dueypupboy911 4 months ago
Thought this would be an animation to Digital Man, but oh well. By the way, very cool video and very nice work!
planetrob555 5 months ago
this is frigging awesome, especially considering the difficulty of the stickwork. excellent work. i hope the band have seen this!
bcabri1130 10 months ago
Cool envrionment. If you liked this video you may like this one too:
youtube.com/watch?v=_6dFO1lO7is
jackchacal 11 months ago
really and truly amazing, looks like a real human playing the drums! very smooth
bootztap 1 year ago
how much time did it take to create this video? it's amazing!!
kayetto 1 year ago
1st off YYZ is basically THE # 1 rock out in a trance song like...EVER!!! and as much as I would have love the other members rockin out in the vid, well fucking done. I had no idea JUST how fucking hard it was to pull off this song drumming till now....
AMAZING!
mulattomeag 1 year ago
Awesome animation.
Completly perfect.
Great!!
PipArt3dStudio 2 years ago
@brazenhubris All kidding aside, though- this kicks all measure of ass.
brazenhubris 2 years ago