This is an artist who's video I came across and very much was drawn to for a number of reasons.
1) The camera movement through a space is done in a way that was smooth and seductive.
2) The time-lapse element and light treatment + focus + motion (screen projection) stands out for being unique.
3) The music and slow build-up is stunning once you see the whole thing through.
This short film is really the essence of that "something extra" I've been looking for. It's this technique that gives rise to ideas to come for what I'm continually working on. The fact that this is all possible without thousands of dollars and special effects is pretty amazing to me. A way to combine the real with the unreal, a way of creating possibilities.
More shorts and some commercial work of his can be seen at http://www.lestelecreateurs.com/directors/xavier-chassaing/
As the website MOTIONOGRAPHER writes about Xavier:
What looks like film is in fact 35,000 photographs with a mix of 3d mapped projections. Being a young director, Xavier doesn’t have the facilities and financial backing that a commercial piece will grant. Instead he had to work under what he calls “the classic dogma which is ‘What can you do with what you have…’” I think this sums up Xavier’s process pretty well. Here is what he had to say to me about his technical process for Scintillation:
What I have was an apartment, a small DSLR camera, a small computer and a small videoprojector. I also made a contraption who looks like a motion control but with the particularity of moving extremely slow who allowed me to take sequences of pictures with long exposure. (1frame per second, with 1 second of exposure). Even the best camera can not compete with this kind of sensitivity if they shoot at normal speed. So, I did everything myself from the 3d animation that I project on object, building the machine, the editing etc..
1) The camera movement through a space is done in a way that was smooth and seductive.
2) The time-lapse element and light treatment + focus + motion (screen projection) stands out for being unique.
3) The music and slow build-up is stunning once you see the whole thing through.
This short film is really the essence of that "something extra" I've been looking for. It's this technique that gives rise to ideas to come for what I'm continually working on. The fact that this is all possible without thousands of dollars and special effects is pretty amazing to me. A way to combine the real with the unreal, a way of creating possibilities.
More shorts and some commercial work of his can be seen at http://www.lestelecreateurs.com/directors/xavier-chassaing/
As the website MOTIONOGRAPHER writes about Xavier:
What looks like film is in fact 35,000 photographs with a mix of 3d mapped projections. Being a young director, Xavier doesn’t have the facilities and financial backing that a commercial piece will grant. Instead he had to work under what he calls “the classic dogma which is ‘What can you do with what you have…’” I think this sums up Xavier’s process pretty well. Here is what he had to say to me about his technical process for Scintillation:
What I have was an apartment, a small DSLR camera, a small computer and a small videoprojector. I also made a contraption who looks like a motion control but with the particularity of moving extremely slow who allowed me to take sequences of pictures with long exposure. (1frame per second, with 1 second of exposure). Even the best camera can not compete with this kind of sensitivity if they shoot at normal speed. So, I did everything myself from the 3d animation that I project on object, building the machine, the editing etc..
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